This series of 27 ceramic heads from German artist Thomas Schütte (born 1954) conjures the characters from Samuel Beckett’s final play, What Where, portraying the bulbous, sagging faces of old men with such exaggeration that they verge on caricatured surrealism.

Launched in 1994, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection is a vast but focused collection of work by leading contemporary international and Greek artists. The art included focuses on the human body as a source of creativity and the vessel of existential, social and ideological struggle. The collection gives prominence to large-scale installations and sculptures, as well as drawing, collage, film and video. This volume surveys these works.
Artists include: Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Paul Chan, Bruce Conner, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Jannis Kounellis, Stathis Logothetis, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Steve McQueen, Ana Mendieta, . . . .go to book page >>

In this book, the internationally celebrated Brazilian painter Maxwell Alexandre (born 1990) presents his new series, Delivery. In this new body of work, he moves away from deploying the brown craft paper that has been the signature support for his Pardo Papel series, to painting directly onto doors. As the name suggests, at the center of this series are the (mostly) men and women who provide the food delivery services that have become ubiquitous worldwide.
Formerly a professional roller skater born and raised in Rochina (a favela of Rio de Janeiro), Alexandre populates his work with references to his local visual . . . .go to book page >>

This issue of Cahiers d’Art reviews the past 30 years of installations from French artist Philippe Parreno (born 1964) through documentation of the devices he has used to collect data that informs his process, from weather stations to computer programs and other types of sensors.

This handsome volume celebrates Alexander Calder’s fascination with the game of chess. It comprises two parts: the first features scholarly and experimental texts exploring such topics as Calder’s relationship with Marcel Duchamp (who was famously obsessed with chess) and his involvement in the 1944 exhibition The Imagery of Chess at Julien Levy Gallery. Archival documentation, ephemera and reproductions of Calder’s chess sets—including photographs of each chess piece and related works on paper—are also featured. The second part of the book presents The Knightmares Portfolio, an approximation of an unrealized publication conceived in 1944 but never published. It comprises 46 chess . . . .go to book page >>