A transdisciplinary history of exhibitions.

Catalogue.

Igor Grubić's project for the 58th Venice Biennale, Traces of Disappearing in Three Acts (2006–19).

Stafan Kalmár and Lia Gangitano on Lutz Bacher; Melissa Anderson on Lily Tomlin; Annie Godfrey Larmon on Beverly Pepper; Institute of Queer Ecology; 40 Fall 2019 exhibitions previews; Simmon Denny; Anthony Byrt; Sam McKinniss; Zarina; Diébédo Francis Kéré...

Bringing together art, science, and humanities, and focusing on environmental phenomena that directly influence our lives, the project for the 58th Venice Biennale by Ane Graff, Ingela Ihrman, and artist duo Nabbteeri is themed around the complex and varied relations between the human and nonhuman, in an age when climate change and mass extinction are threatening the future of life on Earth.

Post-empire in the new Middle Kingdom: what once was America is now China. After his Insert Coins project (2016) about the decline of Las Vegas, Swiss photographer Christian Lutz set off to explore the world's new gambling capital, Macao, where everything revolves likewise around money, luxury, surfaces.

Interdisciplinary and cross-border collaboration between Belgian architect Inessa Hansch and German artist Susanne Kühn: a work that combines architecture and painting, around space and its representation, which questions the idea of the inside and the outside.

Fanzine / artist's book.

This publication brings together the work of five anthropologists and five artists/collectives researching and responding to the dramatic rise and fall of Mongolia's mineral economy. Drawing from ongoing fieldwork in Mongolia, the contributors conceptualise crisis as a space for the emergence of new possibilities.

In this brilliant intergenerational dialogue curator Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña, one of the most intriguing Indoamerican artists of our times, converse about mestizaje/miscenegation, ecological disaster, eroticism and decolonization in their multilingual, subversive and irreverent humorous slang.

This Summer Artforum reflects on Stonewall at 50: to celebrate the occasion, Artforum invited 24 gorgeous artists and writers to share an early or particularly vivid memory of a gay bar. Plus 5 artists and curators consider the legacy of Okwui Enzor, William E. Jones on the art of James Bidgood, Derek McCormack on Thierry Mugler, Molly Warnock on Gilles Aillaud's Rhinocéros, eau et rochers, exhibition reviews from Paris, Berlin, Athens, Tirana, and much more.

Yvan Etienne's new sound composition (Serge Modular, field recording).

Yvan Etienne's new sound composition (Serge Modular, field recording).

One year in the art world: Art Basel's official annual publication captures and documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays about contemporary art, and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors, and museum directors.

This book traces the career of Kara Walker (born in 1969), the most internationally recognized African-American artist since Jean-Michel Basquiat, and explores the history of the reception of a work that faces the limits of representation, challenging the question of the figuration of the black body.

A DVD documenting a commissioned work for which Jean-Michel Othoniel redesigned spaces housing the sacred treasures of the Angoulême Cathedral.

Two texts by New York artist Zoe Beloff, pioneer in the field of “media archeology”, whose works are at the crossroads of avant-garde art, popular cultures and critical theory.

A conversation, accompanied by an introduction by Andrea Soto Calderón, to better understand the crucial role that images occupy in Jacques Rancière's work, and how images are the site of imaginative and reconfiguring operations.

James Quandt on Claire Denis's High Life, Raf Simons shares his Top Ten, J. Hoberman on Věra Chytilová's Sedmikrásky (Daisies), Johanna Fateman on the art of Nicole Eisenman, plus exhibition reviews from Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Vilnius, Buenos Aires, and more.

Special dossier devoted to Simone Fattal; Marina Fokidis; Peter Halley; Yto Barrada; Ghislaine Leung; Laure Prouvost...

The book “Fragments”, designed by Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet as an installation, coupled with a performance, is inspired by a family legend about Tabet's great-grand-father. The book accompanies an exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg.

John Also Bennett's first solo album.

First monograph dedicated to French artist, videographer, performer and poet Julien Creuzet.

During Spring 2015, Eamon Sprod (Tarab) and Eric La Casa spent one week to record on waste grounds, at the north east of Paris, and along the canal Ourcq. Spaces which are somehow both inside yet apart from the city; waiting spaces from which to listen to the threshold of the city.

Catalogue raisonné of paintings realized by Peter Halley between 1980 and 1989.

Catherine Taft on Matthew Barney's new work, Melissa Anderson on the films of Christian Petzold, Kate Sutton on Gabriele Beverage, a special project from artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya, plus exhibition reviews from Paris, Milan, Berlin, Istanbul, Madrid, and more.

A collective reflection on Paul McCarthy's polemical sculpture Tree installed at Place Vendôme in Paris in 2014, presenting a map of the city's intellectual debates.

A panorama of the different cultures that have succeeded each other on the territory of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from prehistory to the edge of the modern world.

A set of pieces written by sound artist William Engelen for a 18th century organ, exploring and pushing the sonic boundaries and possibilities of the instrument.

The second title in a series of publications dedicated to artists' residencies at Maison Bernard, a masterpiece of organic architecture carried out in the 1970s by Antti Lovag in association with Pierre Bernard. The book documents a site-specific project by Emma Dusong, an artist who works with her own voice.

This first monograph on Aslan Gaisumov borrows its title from a video work focusing on the traumatic aftermaths of post-World War II for the Chechen people under Soviet control. The publication documents in text and images this both historical and intimate project.

This collective publication, bringing together texts and images by artists and theoreticians, proposes to turn away from the inexorable question, so often reiterated, “What is painting?”, to question the ways in which the painting is made and thought today, with or without the pictorial medium, in or out of the canvas, with or sometimes without the painters themselves.

A study by Elisabeth Lebovici on the late contemporary artist and IFP co-founder Philippe Thomas. Lebovici's essay examines Thomas's strategy to cede and fictionalize authorship through the multiple lenses of gender, reproduction, subjects' multiplicity, and the artist's tragic disappearance.

The publication presents a series of works and two critical texts stemming from Bertrand Lamarche's project on the occult figure of Baphomet.

This catalogue focuses on an immersive one-year project in Portugal, centered around questions of global ecology and tourism. Kawamata's large scale installation integrates both plastic residues and abandoned boats collected on Portugal's shores during beach cleaning campaigns. The publication features a text by the artist, exhibition views, and a section documenting related projects made by Kawamata throughout his career.

Varia issue: Italo disco; French singer Olivia Ruiz; DIY punk fanzines in Russia; the political dimension of Ornette Coleman's music; Pop hits and new media strategy; interview with David Novak on Japanese noise; interview with Simon Frith on progressive rock. Illustrated with a selection of concert flyers.

Since 2003, Thomas Hirschhorn has produced large drawings of about three by four by himself, or with the philosopher Marcus Steinweg, which he calls "Maps", in which he interacts with colored images, fragments of texts and his own comments. This volume focuses on this particular aspect of his practice.

This November in Artforum we ask: repair or revolt? We invited Charles Gaines, Ed Ruscha, Jim Shaw, and Sue Williams to create projects on politics. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth reflects on the art of Eugène Delacroix, Rachel Churner on the art of Maren Hassinger, Ian Volner on the Venice Architecture Biennale, Melissa Anderson on Luca Guadagino's Suspiria, plus exhibition reviews from Paris, Vienna, Ho Chi Minh City, Johannesburg, and more.

This issue turns its attention to deception and censorship, violence and consumption, enjoyment and norm, to the techniques of taming and the economies of morality; it measures the distance between art and non-art, follows the beast of freedom in the aporias of form, searches out lucid angles of wild reflection, moments of anarchic seeing, new means of emancipation.

Reissue of the CD released on the label Chloë (USA) in 2002, recorded in July 2001 in the Paris metro station, during the last two hours of service. A reference, between site-specific improvisation and sound art.

The most important monograph to date on Stéphane Blanquet: designed by the artist, the publication gathers ancient works and new ones, created for his exhibition at Auberive Abbey in France. Drawings, terracotta, tapestries, lithographs, photographs… This monograph provides a broad look at Blanquet's erotic and nightmarish universe.

The films of Ana Mendieta.

Artforum invited Ken Okiishi, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Paul McCarthy to reflect on the work of Bruce Nauman in honor of his first comprehensive retrospective in 25 years; Sam McKinniss on the art of John Waters; Alejandro Segade on queer Chicanx zines; Lynne Cook on Anni Albers; Madeleine Schwartz on the 10th Berlin Biennale; plus reviews from Paris, Riga, Milan, Zurich, and more.

This catalogue stems from the artist's eponymous video project dedicated to Argentine pianist Margarita Fernández. The publication reproduces two texts from seminars given by Fernández, in which she gives an analysis of the filmic and musical writing taking the example of Robert Bresson's use of Franz Schubert's Sonata in A major.

Recording of a sound performance executed in October 2016 in the exhibition space of Berlin record store Rumpsti Pumsti. Using sanding machines and a hammer, the Mexican artist destroyed one copy of each publication ever released by Tochnit Aleph label. Without an audience present, the action was documented with two dynamic microphones.

Fully documenting Koki Tanaka's latest video & photo project, this publication focuses on a pressing issue from the artist's native country—the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese—to plead for vigilance when it comes to racism and discrimination.

3 vinyl LP edition presenting solely unreleased recordings of Panhuysen's famous long string installations. It documents the period 1982-2012, and includes a posthumous track from 2017. With liner notes by Rolf Sachsse and Stephan Wunderlich, and richly illustrated inner sleeves.

In a rapidly changing Beirut, neglected dwellings are condemned to disappear as a result of land speculation. This multi-layered transdisciplinary project aims at examining the transformations that these obsolete architectures undergo. The study, carried on site, based on archives, testimonies and oral history, also proposes new artistic perspectives towards the city.

In a rapidly changing Beirut, neglected dwellings are condemned to disappear as a result of land speculation. This multi-layered transdisciplinary project aims at examining the transformations that these obsolete architectures undergo. The study, carried on site, based on archives, testimonies and oral history, also proposes new artistic perspectives towards the city.

Pauline Oliveros's early and rare electronic works in a strictly limited edition on silver vinyl—with no reprint.