Copublished with the National Pavilion UAE, Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia accompanies Abdullah Al Saadi’s (born 1967) solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates’ pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. One of the country’s leading conceptual artists, Al Saadi is a wanderer, chronicler, cartographer and storyteller. He has traveled widely, from Asia to South America to Antarctica. His eight artworks featured in the pavilion document these voyages—meticulously recorded through drawings, paintings and diaries—and the natural or artificial objects he encounters, which he also incorporates into his practice. This catalog documents the Biennale pavilion and includes contributions from Sultan Sooud . . . .go to book page >>

American artist Andy Warhol (1928–87) was a devoted Byzantine Catholic who regularly attended church, especially following a near-fatal assassination attempt at the hands of writer Valerie Solanas in 1968 and after his mother’s death in 1972. Vanitas explores the artist’s preoccupation with temporality, spirituality and astrology, and highlights a lesser-known part of his oeuvre, consisting of paintings and drawings of skulls and self-portraits, reminiscent of the 17th-century vanitas genre. Spiritual subjects such as impermanence and time are explored through multimedia art and archival material from Warhol’s largest collecting project, Time Capsules, in which he saved source materials for his work . . . .go to book page >>

This is the latest installment in the interview series from Swiss curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968). Invader: In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist presents a unique exploration of the enigmatic French street artist Invader (born 1969), renowned for his iconic ceramic tile mosaics inspired by the pixelated 8-bit video game art of the 1970s and 80s.
The first section of the book features an expansive, in-depth interview conducted by Obrist, guiding readers through the artist’s recent exhibition in Paris, Invader Space Station. In the second section we are guided through his studio, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into . . . .go to book page >>

Jack Whitten offered the world a new way to see. Over nearly six decades, he dared to invent new forms of abstraction, constantly transforming both perception and our understanding of art in society. This gorgeously illustrated volume, with pathbreaking new perspectives and revelatory technical analyses of his innovative materials and processes, explores Whitten's wide-ranging and game-changing practice.
Raised in the segregated Jim Crow South in the 1940s, Whitten undertook an extraordinary journey in becoming an artist, convinced that by changing form, he could help change the world. Despite pressure from peers to create figurative art, he was a key proponent of . . . .go to book page >>

This volume documents the first major Italian retrospective since his death of the work of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–91), one of the 20th century’s greatest exponents of kinetic art. At the center of his work lies research into the functioning and intrinsic poetry of machines. Tinguely was among the first artists to use found objects that he then welded together, creating noisy and cacophonous machines whose movements were driven by motors. This monograph analyzes Tinguely’s practice, providing detailed descriptions of the works in the exhibition, accompanied by an ample selection of contemporary and archival images. The volume also includes . . . .go to book page >>