ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2021 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveDATE 10/31/2022 Celebrate Halloween with Christopher Frayling on 'Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years'DATE 10/25/2022 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chris Floyd and Catriona Ni Aolain on 'Not Just Pictures'DATE 10/1/2022 Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Betony Vernon signing 'Paradise Found: An Erotic Treasury for Sybarites'DATE 9/27/2022 Isolde Brielmaier in conversation with Aruna D’Souza on 'I Am Sparkling'DATE 9/26/2022 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Baldwin Lee in conversation with Imani PerryDATE 9/22/2022 New Museum presents the launch of 'El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture'DATE 9/22/2022 'Temperature's Rising' — a new oral history of Galaxie 500DATE 9/22/2022 On view now at Howard Greenberg Gallery, 'Baldwin Lee' is a revelationDATE 9/19/2022 In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage MonthDATE 9/19/2022 Featuring a pull-off poster cover, 'Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight' is a New Release this week!DATE 9/17/2022 Museum Store of the Month: MFA Boston ShopDATE 9/17/2022 Peter Fetterman Gallery presents Roger A. Deakins exhibition and 'Byways' signingDATE 9/16/2022 'Julie Blackmon: Midwest Materials' is NEW from Radius Books | ARTBOOK FEATURED IMAGE ARCHIVE DATE 4/22/2022 Celebrate Earth Day with 'A Bestiary of the Anthropocene'!Featured spreads are from A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens, edited by Nicolas Nova and DISNOVATION.ORG and published by our friends at Onomatopee Projects. Printed in striking silver-on-black with flush, pure black edges, this beautifully designed and remarkably well-written and researched international field handbook gathers notes on the evolving hybrid flora and fauna of the “post-natural” world we now inhabit as members of the Anthropocene era. Rock speakers, plastic-eating caterpillars, square watermelons, artificial turf, radioactive mushrooms and contrails are all addressed, alongside observations on bestiaries, artificiality, planetary indigestion, ferality and much more—all over the course of 256 pages and 90 duotone illustrations by Polish graphic designer Maria Roszkowska. “This bestiary of the Anthropocene aims at helping us observe, navigate and orientate into the increasingly artificial fabric of the world,” Nova writes. “It aims at encouraging us to pay attention, to perceive the nuances and the assemblage of a dark ecology that arose in the last decades.” DATE 4/20/2022 Celebrate Earth Day with the hyperreal feel of 'Landscape Painting Now'Makiko Kudo’s “Burning Red” (2012) is reproduced from Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, our best-selling 2019 survey edited by Todd Bradway and the genesis for Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes, the show Bradway has curated for Aquavella Galleries in Palm Springs and New York City right now. “The wide-eyed girls who populate Makiko Kudo’s landscapes are the witnesses more than protagonists of stories that might take place within them,” Barry Schwabsky writes; “we see the verdant scene as though from their point of view: a double consciousness of a familiar place where, she says, ‘the scenery is shining in my eyes… burned into my brain.’ It is a hyperreality enjoined by feeling rather than by minute attention to details; what ties it to Pop is not the banality of the everyday but quite the opposite, a childlike wonder at even the most ordinary things (which, for instance, Warhol projected onto the Campbell’s soup his mother gave him for lunch every day as a kid).” DATE 9/16/2021 In honor of Yom Kippur, the art of 'Modern Mystic' Hyman Bloom"Spiritual life cannot be delegated; true spiritual experience can only come from within, and it is only through individual effort to deepen the process that a state of grace can be achieved. Certain kinds of knowledge can only be earned, sometimes through effort, and other times through suffering." So said Hyman Bloom, the influential but overlooked painter whose work is collected in this essential monograph. Despite Bloom's European Jewish heritage, his lifelong interest in mysticism ultimately transcended any one religion, philosophy or point of view. Featured image is "The Stone" (1947). |
