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The Quick and the Dead
by Peter Eleey
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Artists have always used their imaginations to see beyond visible matter--to posit other physics, other energies, new ways of conceiving the visible and new models for art--but the past century has seen an explosion of such investigations. In the fashion... ( read more)
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Younger Than Jesus: The Reader
by Lauren (edt) Cornell
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Jesus died at the age of 33. This publication, which accompanies the first New Museum triennial, Younger Than Jesus, focuses on artists born after 1975. Departing from popular assertions about the group, which the media has dubbed the Millennials, or... ( read more)
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Hi-Fructose: Collected Edition 1
by Hi Fructose
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Hi-Fructose magazine showcases an eclectic mix of underground artists, pop surrealists, emerging and rediscovered countercultures, and awe-inspiring spectacles from around the world. For the first time, this critically acclaimed arts magazine is... ( read more)
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Art Now
by Uta Grosenick
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This is the spanking-new Art Now, in which you'll find the most recent work and updated biographical information for our revised selection of today's 150 most influential artists. Art Now also includes a completely new section — a sort of 'service... ( read more)
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Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection
by Amy Miller Dehan
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One of the premier private collections of contemporary craft, the Nancy and David Wolf Collection features outstanding creations by the foremost artists working in craft media today, including Howard Ben Tré, Dale Chihuly, William Morris, Wendell... ( read more)
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The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life
by Nato Thompson
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Art made to attach to buildings or to be given away? Wearable art for street demonstrations or art that sets up a booth at a trade show? This is the art of the interventionists, who trespass into the everyday world to raise our awareness of injustice and... ( read more)
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Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
by Nato Thompson
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A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu's notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. An artificial reef fabricated from 500 tons of industrial... ( read more)
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Plasticland
by Frank Kozik
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The man credited with single-handedly reviving the concept of rock posters as an art form, Kozik was first exposed to the counterculture world of "designer art toys" on a trip to Japan in 1996. His collecting hobby soon mutated into a new profession, and... ( read more)
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Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
by Denise Markonish
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The artist's relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New Topographics movement... ( read more)
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Truth Will Measure: The Art of Jesse Reno
by Jesse Reno
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Over 100 full-color works from one of today's most prolific outsider artists, Jesse Reno. Self-taught, Reno's distinctive style has emerged through sheer creative will. Reaching deep into his subconscious and the wisdom of our ancestors, Reno has created... ( read more)
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Back to Black: Black in Current Painting
by Kehrer Verlag
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With twenty-one international contemporary artists, Back to Blackexamines the significance of black in recent painting. Black as a color in its own right only came into acceptance again in the twentieth century amongst artists such as Matisse and, later,... ( read more)
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MOMA Highlights Since 1980
by Rebecca Roberts
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At the core of The Museum of Modern Art's new building in midtown Manhattan are dramatic and expansive new galleries designed to showcase the Museum's world-famous collection of international contemporary art. Contemporary Highlights presents this... ( read more)
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Titian
by Charles Hope
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An authoritative new account of Titian's remarkable rise to fame and sustained pre... ( read more)
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Art Now, Vol. 3: A Cutting-Edge Selection of Today's Most Exciting Artists
by Hans Werner (edt) Holzwarth
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Want a head start on the things you'll be seeing in art institutions a decade down the road? It's all in here, the very latest of the very best and so fresh you can feel its pulse. A to Z magazine-style entries include short biographies, exhibition... ( read more)
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Art at the Turn of the Millennium
by Uta Grosenick
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A virtual gallery, a massive trawl through the international art world at the turn of the Millennium
The Millennium might be coming to an end, but art is only just beginning to reflect the great diversity of humanity's dreams and realities at... ( read more)
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The Beat of Urban Art: The Art of Justin Bua
by Justin Bua
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Justin Bua creates cool art. His wiggly-armed D.J. intently scratches vinyl on a turntable, head and shoulder wedging in place a set of headphones that he is too cool to wear, while surrounded by the tools of his trade. In another painting, two bald... ( read more)
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2006
by Art Basel
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Switzerland's Art Basel is widely considered to be the world's most important art fair, and its sister event, Art Basel Miami Beach, is fast on its heels. This winter, Art Basel Miami Beach's exclusive roster of fewer than 200 leading galleries from... ( read more)
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The Ganzfeld #3
by Daniel Nadel
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Tucked inside issue number 3 of The Ganzfeld, for your reading and looking pleasure, are humorous picture stories on color theory, milk, where we go when we die, and the lost genre of blank books. And that's just the usual. Bringing together a unique... ( read more)
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The Pop Art Tradition: Celebration or Reaction Against Mass-Culture
by Eric Shanes
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Pop Art, an abbreviation of Popular Art, is a movement that found its origins in England in the 1950s but realised its full potential in New York in the 60s. The name referred to the interest of a number of artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg (born 1925)... ( read more)
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Rockers Island Olbricht Collection: Museum Folkwang
by Thomas Olbricht
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The ever-growing Olbricht collection, located in Essen, Germany, has become one of the world's largest stockpiles of contemporary work--and, given its size, one of the least known. Rockers Island presents a representative selection of the works that... ( read more)
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