Michael Darling

FORTHCOMING & NEW RELEASES

GEORGE NELSON: ARCHITECT, WRITER, DESIGNER, TEACHER
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM
ISBN: 9783931936822 | US $95.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2013
Forthcoming

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SKYSCRAPER
Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Michael Darling, Joanna Szupinska, Owen Hatherley.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
ISBN: 9780933856943 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 8/30/2012
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THE LANGUAGE OF LESS, THEN AND NOW
Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Michael Darling, David Raskin.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
ISBN: 9780933856912 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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HOW SOON NOW
RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION
ISBN: 9780982119532 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 7/31/2011
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AARON CURRY & THOMAS HOUSEAGO: TWO FACE
Text by Michael Darling.
BALLROOM MARFA
ISBN: 9780981758640 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2010
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TARGET PRACTICE: PAINTING UNDER ATTACK 1949-78
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780932216649 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2009
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RED EYE
Introduction by Jason Rubell. Text by Mark Coetzee, Michael Darling, Michael Holte.
RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION
ISBN: 9780978988876 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 7/1/2008
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ROY MCMAKIN
Artwork by Roy McMakin. Edited by Lisa Mark. Text by Michael Darling.
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES
ISBN: 9780914357841 | US $24.00
Pub Date: 6/2/2003
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PAINTING IN TONGUES
Essay by Michael Darling.
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES
ISBN: 9780914357940 | US $28.00
Pub Date: 11/15/2006
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SAM DURANT
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775791205 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 3/2/2003
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Michael Darling

George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher

Edited by Jochen Eisenbrand, Alexander von Vegesack. Text by Stanley Abercrombie, Jochen Eisenbrand, Michael Darling, Barbara Fitton Hauss, Mathias Remmele.
Published by Vitra Design Museum

2008 marked the 100th birthday of George Nelson (1908-1986), one of the most influential figures in American design during the second half of the twentieth century. Nelson was not only a leading designer and notable architect, but also a prominent author, editor, lecturer, exhibition designer and a passionate photographer. This catalogue accompanied the first comprehensive retrospective of George Nelson's work. With eight essays by German and American design historians, the publication explores all aspects of Nelson's oeuvre, many of which are presented here for the first time. The catalogue also includes an illustrated list of works. The majority of illustrations, previously unpublished, come from the Nelson Estate in the Vitra Design Museum Archive.

Skyscraper

Art and Architecture Against Gravity

Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Michael Darling, Joanna Szupinska, Owen Hatherley.
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Gathering a wide range of art from around the world, Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity explores the enduring human desire to build farther and farther into the sky. Examined here are themes such as verticality, personification, urban critique, improvisation and the vulnerability of landmark buildings. Skyscraper features the work of about 50 artists, including Francis Alÿs, Ziad Antar, Fikret Atay, Erica Bohm, Jennifer Bolande, Marie Bovo, Roe Ethridge, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Cyprien Gaillard, Jakob Kolding, Vera Lutter, Claes Oldenburg, Gabriel Orozco, Thomas Ruff, Andy Warhol, Peter Wegner, Wesley Willis, Catherine Yass, Yin Xiuzhen and Shizuka Yokomizo. Skyscraper also features documentation of artist Monika Sosnowska’s process of creating new work commissioned for the exhibition this catalogue accompanies.

The Language of Less, Then and Now

Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Michael Darling, David Raskin.
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Language of Less (Then and Now) accompanies an exhibition at MCA Chicago inspired by the museum’s rich holdings of Minimalist and post-Minimalist art of the 60s and 70s. These are complemented by works from a younger generation of artists, such as Leonor Antunes, Carole Bove, Jason Dodge, Gedi Sibony and Oscar Tuazon.

How Soon Now

Edited by Juan Roselione-Valadez. Foreword by the Rubell family. Text by Michael Darling, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Rene Morales, Catherine Taft, Ali Subotnick.
Published by Rubell Family Collection

How Soon Now catalogues additions to the collection of the Rubell Family as well as older works by artists such as John Baldessari, Cecily Brown, Thea Djordjadze, Matthew Day Jackson, Huan Yong Ping, Analia Saban, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson and David Wojnarowicz.

Aaron Curry & Thomas Houseago: Two Face

Text by Michael Darling.
Published by Ballroom Marfa

Two Face is an exhibition by Ballroom Marfa artists-in-residence Aaron Curry (born 1972) and Thomas Houseago (born 1972). Based in Los Angeles, Curry and Houseago are sculptors who adopt a Janus-faced approach to form and process, simultaneously looking to the past and the future. Their Marfa exhibition is the culmination of a joint residency that nurtured the intense dialogue the artists have established.

Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78

Painting Under Attack 1949-78

Edited by Michael Darling. Text by Graham Bader, Michael Darling, Elizabeth Mangini, Mika Yoshitake.
Published by Seattle Art Museum

Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78 is an international historical survey of the "attacks" that painting endured (and survived) in the years following World War II. For the artists discussed here, coming after Abstract Expressionism, painting had arrived at an impasse, and they devised ways to overcome its existing conventions. This phenomenon occurred all over the world, and Target Practice documents how and why artists felt compelled to shoot, rip, tear, burn, erase, nail, unzip and deconstruct painting in order to usher in new ways of thinking about their art. It shows that such ideas were of concern to well-known artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, and also introduces lesser-known peers who were making equally challenging work.

Red Eye

L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection

Introduction by Jason Rubell. Text by Mark Coetzee, Michael Darling, Michael Holte.
Published by Rubell Family Collection

The inspiration for this book began at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art with Paul Schimmel's seminal 1992 exhibition Helter Skelter, which introduced to the world the wide-ranging, dissident influence of Los Angeles art. Upon seeing that show, Miami's Rubell family began to collect important L.A. artists of the 1980s and 90s. Recently, the Rubells added a new group of Los Angeles artists to their storied collection. This volume examines juxtapositions and interrelationships between the two generations, with work by Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Brian Calvin, Mark Grotjahn, Evan Holloway, Mike Kelley, Barbara Kruger, Paul McCarthy, Jason Meadows, Catherine Opie, Kaz Oshiro, Laura Owens, Raymond Pettibon, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Jim Shaw, Yutaka Sone and Ricky Swallow, among others.

Painting In Tongues

Essay by Michael Darling.
Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

This is an in-depth examination of the work of seven international emerging artists who have embraced a novel and challenging approach to painting. By employing a varied mix of painterly styles, modes, sources and materials, as well as working against a single recognizable "hand," the featured artists have each crafted a complex and rich practice that offers innumerable avenues for exploration and growth. The artists Kai Althoff, Gillian Carnegie, Mark Grotjahn, Lucy McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Ivan Morley and Anselm Reyle are guided by a variety of individual motivations and conceptual frameworks rather than the outward appearances of their canvases. Th book includes an essay by MOCA Assistant Curator Michael Darling.

Sam Durant

Artwork by Sam Durant. Contributions by Rita Kersting. Text by Kevin Young, Michael Darling, Georg Kulenkampff, Jeremy Strick.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Saucy and ironic, Sam Durant's works address utopias and their failures, crossing events from the recent American past to create relationships between the art historical, pop cultural, and political phenomena that have come to define popular culture over the past 35 years. Conceptually conceived, multimedia in practice, Durant's installations refer to such guiding figures as Robert Smithson, Mick Jagger, Neil Young, and Black Panther cofounder Huey Newton.

Roy Mcmakin

A Door Meant as Adornment

Artwork by Roy McMakin. Edited by Lisa Mark. Text by Michael Darling.
Published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

A crafty master craftsman with the heart of a conceptualist, Roy McMakin makes furniture that pokes fun at itself and renovates historic houses to challenge archetypes. A sculptor, conceptual artist, and furniture maker, his clients have ranged from Lisa Eisner and Tommy Lee Jones to the Getty Museum's Los Angeles offices. This first monograph on the artist, published on the occasion of the first museum exhibition of his work, traces how his creations have evolved over the years, from the nonfunctional yet allusive sculptural works of the early 1980s, moving through the production furniture made for his Los Angeles-based company, Domestic Furniture Co., and culminating in the “hillbilly modernist” sensibility of his present pieces. It considers his approach to materials, which ranges from the art-like, constructivist plywood furniture of his “classic” domestic period to the exotic hardwoods he currently employs. An interesting hybrid of artist and designer, McMakin makes magic, and it's all there behind A Door Meant as Adornment.