Edited by Kai Althoff. With contributions by Rita Kersting, DovBer Naiditch, Yair Oelbaum, Constantin Rothkopf, Robert Storr, and Rein Wolfs. Interview by Laura Hoptman Kai Althoff (German, born 1966) is one of the most consummate—and unpredictable—artists of his generation. A painter and a draftsman, he has experimented since the mid-1990s with combinations of unconventional…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Luis Pérez-Oramas. With contributions by Alexander Alberro, Sergio Chejfec, Estrella de Diego, and Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães Joaquín Torres-García is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters of the first half of the twentieth century, whose work opened up transformational paths for modern art…
Edited by Kynaston McShine. With contributions by Lucy Lippard and others In the summer of 1970, The Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of Conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show…
To look inside this book, click here. By Ana Janevski and Thomas J. Lax. With contributions by Giampaolo Bianconi, Harry CH Choi, Vivian A. Crockett, Danielle Goldman, Elizabeth Gollnick, Adrian Heathfield, Ana Janevski, Martha Joseph, Thomas J. Lax, Victor “Viv” Liu, Jenny Harris, Sharon Hayes, Malik Gaines, Benjamin Piekut, Kristin Poor, Julia Robinson, and…
By Cornelia Butler. Interview with the artist by Bruce Hainley Paul Sietsema is an artist deeply engaged in the act of looking. For his third and newest project, Figure 3 (2008), Sietsema takes as inspiration the ethnographic objects that he has collected from various locations, including Africa, Indo-Asia, and the South Pacific region of…
To look inside this book, click here. Chosen by the New York Times as one of the Best Art Books of 2018 By Michelle Elligott René d’Harnoncourt, the director of The Museum of Modern Art from 1949 to 1968, revolutionized the way art exhibitions are conceived and mounted. His genius for installation…
By Philip Yenawine This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art. Parents and teachers play a key role in this learning process, encouraging careful, thoughtful looking. In People, author Philip Yenawine, longtime…
By Ron Magliozzi and Edwin Carels, With contributions by the Quay Brothers The Quay Brothers are internationally renowned moving-image artists and designers who, for over thirty years, have been at the vanguard of stop-motion puppet animation and live-action movie making, working in the Eastern European tradition of filmmakers such as Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Švankmajer,…
Edited by Leah Dickerman and Achim Borchardt-Hume. With contributions byYve-Alain Bois, Andrianna Campbell, Hal Foster, Mark Godfrey, Hiroko Ikegami, Branden Joseph, Ed Krcma, Michelle Kuo, Pamela Lee, Emily Liebert, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Kate Nesin, Sarah Roberts, and Catherine Wood Published to accompany a major international retrospective that opened at the Tate Modern, London,…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Martino Stierli and David Brownlee. With contributions by Jean-Louis Cohen, Lee Ann Custer, Peter Fröhlicher, Diane Harris, Andrew Leach, Mary McLeod, Stanislaus von Moos, Joan Ockman, Emmanuel Petit, Martino Stierli, Sam Jacob, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, Michael Meredith, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Deborah Berke. Interviews…
Edited by Roxana Marcoci. With contributions by Roxana Marcoci and Terry Eagleton Published in conjunction with the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Sanja Ivekovic in the United States, this is the most comprehensive survey on the artist available in English. A feminist, activist and video and performance pioneer, Ivekovic came of…
Featured in the Society of Illustrators’ The Original Art 2021 exhibition By Shahzia Sikander and Amy Novesky. Illustrated by Hanna Barczyk Growing up in Lahore, Pakistan, Shahzia flew kites, ate fruit from jamun trees, and devoured Russian fairy tales, American Westerns, and Bollywood films. She also read poetry in Urdu, her own language, and learned…
Edited by Inés Katzenstein and María Amalia García with Karen Grimson and Michaëla de Lacaze. With contributions by Inés Katzenstein, María Amalia García, Mónica Amor, Irene V. Small. Interview with Luis Pérez-Oramas, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and Glenn D. Lowry Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction explores the abstract and Concrete art movements that flourished…
By Michelle Millar Fisher. Illustrated by Kat Kuang Today the Rainbow Flag is a familiar sight, at the Pride Parade and around the world. But it is not only a universal symbol; it is also a brilliant object of design that is part of the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, in New…
To look inside this book, click here. By Quentin Bajac. With contributions by Sarah Hermanson Meister This richly illustrated book explores sixty remarkable photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, all acquired with the support of Robert B. Menschel and meticulously selected for the book by Quentin Bajac, the former…
To look inside this book, click here. By Maira Kalman, and Daniel Handler Weather, Weather, the third volume in a series of collaborations between the artist Maira Kalman, the writer Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), and The Museum of Modern Art, is an evocative exploration of physical environments and their metaphoric implications. From the…