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German Pop at Schirn
Schirn in Frankfurt presents a large-scale exhibition on German Pop Art from the 1960s and 70s. Unlike Anglo-American pop art, German pop art was more overt political and focused on banalities of everyday life. > MORE German Pop Features: Hermann Albert, Konrad Klapheck, Reinhold Heller, Vettina von Arnim, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Florian Köhler, […]

Studio Talks
Contemporary painting theory will not make better paintings, one of the particpants says, but it will help discussions about paintings among the painters. By creating a common language it might even help the non-painters to understand the medium. “Studio Talks” explores new narratives. Through commissioned texts, conversations and studio visits: This new volume is an […]

Dreamy and Posturing: Florine Stettheimer
Fashionable, eccentric, multi-artistic and a poet to boot: Florine Stettheimer was an early modernist painter and set designer. Her works were highly idiosyncratic and portrayed urban life. Although during Florine Stettheimer’s lifetime she was little known outside the circle of New York modernists of which she and her sisters were a part, Stettheimer’s achievements in […]

Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden
“The Image as Burden” is the title of the touring Marlene Dumas exhibition (Stedelijk and Tate Modern) 2014-15. The title is derived from the work The Image as Burden (1993), which refers to the conflict between the painterly gesture and the illusion of the painted image. It is a restrospective and includes paintings as well […]

A Giant: Cy Twombly
He mastered sculpture, painting, drawing as well as photography – here’s a fantastic survey on the diverse and singular practice of Cy Twombly. Perhaps best know for his gestural brushworks. A must-have in every home – really! Cy Twombly (1928–2011) was born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia. He studied at the School of the Museum […]

Playful Interactions: Lygia Clark
Participatory and off-beat. The spatial and sensorial art by the late Brazilian artist Lygia Clark finds new audiences. This MoMA exhibition catalogue encompasses works from her entire career spanning from 1948 to 1988. Lygia Clark (1920–1988) trained in Rio de Janeiro and Paris from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Clark was at the forefront […]

Dreamscapes: Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington is known for her figurative dreamscapes filled with complex narratives informed by her rich interest in mythology, alchemy, fairy tales and the occult. > MORE Leonora Carrington Editor: Sean Kissane Text by: Dawn Ades, Giulia Ingarao, Alyce Mahon, Gabriel Weisz Foreword by: Sarah Glennie ISBN: 9781938922206 Publisher: IMMA/DAP Publ. year: 2013 Language: English […]

Mira Schendel – Brazilian Modernism
Discover one of the greatest Latin American artists. This new catalogue accompanies large touring retrospective now showing at Tate Modern. > MORE Mira Schendel Editors: Tanya Barson, Taisa Palhares ISBN: 9781849760904 Publisher: Tate Publishing Publ. year: 2013 Language: English Pages: 260 Illustrations: 265 colour Width x height: 210 x 270 (mm) Binding: softcover Weight: 910 […]

Displacement: Rene Magritte
This new book and exhibition, ” The Mystery of the Ordinary”, is the first to focus solely on the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte – the period between 1926 to 1938. It is now showing at MoMA. > MORE Rene Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 Editor: Anne Umland Essays by: Stephanie D’Alessandro, […]

Turning Point – Eva Hesse
1965 marked a turning point in Eva Hesse’s life and artistic practice. It was during a residency in Düsseldort that things started to change. This was the year she gave up painting for drawing and became a sculptor. > MORE Eva Hesse – 1965 Editor: Barry Rosen Text by: Jo Applin, Todd Alden, Kirsten Swenson […]