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In January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art the design concept for his most monumental work, a 2,715-square-foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and fourteen black-andwhite marble panels. Titled Austin, following the artist's tradition of naming particular works after the places for which they are destined, the structure is the only building the artist designed. Envisioned by Kelly as a site for joy and contemplation, Austin is a cornerstone of the Blanton's permanent collection and a new icon for the city in which it stands. This comprehensive book provides a thorough look at the project, from its inception to its current position as one of the artist's most important and enduring works. An incisive, thorough essay by Carter E. Foster includes archival material, drawings, historic photographs, and nearly all related works Kelly created as he developed the building's design. --Publisher's website.

Mystikken og myterne omkring kunstneren Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) lever i bedste velgående. Hyldet som en af den tidlige modernismes mest betydningsfulde figurer, men samtidig fordømt for sit arbejde og sin karakter.00Bogen sætter fokus på Gauguins virke og et eftermæle, der forbliver tvetydigt. Diskussionen om hans kunst og person er ikke blevet mindre relevant i en tid, hvor #MeToo sætter nyt fokus på Gauguins forhold til mindreårige piger og hans andel i kolonialismen i Fransk Polynesien. Alligevel sælges hans malerier stadig for astronomiske beløb og kæmpeudstillinger præger museer verden over ? Gauguins status som berømt geni er uanfægtet. Det er på tide at betragte mesteren og monsteret som uadskillelige størrelser. Med Flemming Friborgs fascinerende bog anskues Gauguins metode og moral som uløseligt forbundne i et omhyggeligt plejet, personligt brand. Men moderniteten havde store omkostninger, kunstnerisk og personligt.

Catalog that accompanied the Bezalel Exhibition, a traveling exhibition that Bezalel Academy founder, Professor Boris Schatz, presented during his visit to the United States. Includes tributes to Schatz and the Academy, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 1926, by Professor Joseph Klausner, Saul Raskin, and others.

• Foreword / Rebecca Rabinow and Adam D. Weinberg
• Acknowledgments / Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp
• Preface / Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp
• "Your hand is already flowing": Ruth Asawa's daily practice of drawing / Kim Conaty
• Drawn together: Ruth Asawa and community / Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
• The pedagogical value of paper / Jordan Troeller
• Instinct and inquiry: Ruth Asawa's use of drawing materials and techniques / Edouard Kopp
• Eight themes. Learning to see
• Found and transformed
• Forms within forms
• In and out
• Rhythms and waves
• Growth patterns
• Curiosity and control
• Life lines
• Works in the exhibition.

"The practice of drawing is a unifying thread in the art of Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). Known as a sculptor, which she described as "almost like drawing in space", Asawa drew daily and likened it to playing scales for musicians. Ruth Asawa Through LIne reveals her wonderfully varied output from the late 1940s to the 1990s. The art of drawing was Ruth Asawa's way to see and understand the world" -- Back cover.

The first book to dive exclusively into Ai Weiwei's approach to design and collecting, shedding light on the value we ascribe to everyday objects. Artist, film-maker, architect, activist, collector - whatever mode Ai Weiwei is in, he is trying to tell us something about the state of the world. This book presents Ai's work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values. Confronted by the rapid pace of change in his country, Ai became fascinated by Chinese antiquities. His vast collections of historical artefacts, from Stone Age tools to broken teapot spouts, attest to the way the language of objects speaks across the ages. Is this a classic tale of technical progress, or have we lost crucial qualities with the march of time? Ai invites us to make sense of these objects as he explores the tensions between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction. Exhibition: Design Museum, London, UK (07.04. - 30.07.2023).

Deploying science fiction, material feminism, eco-anarchism, queer theory and technoscience, New York-based artist A.K. Burns (born 1975) explores the fraught relationships between humanity and nature in an epic multimedia work, Negative Space (2015-23). This nonlinear allegory provokes questions about marginalized bodies, environmental fragility and technology. Developed as a cycle of four video installations, Negative Space imagines new relationships to the spaces we occupy and the impact of our bodies in these spaces through imagery, research and critical and creative writings. Set in a speculative present, the tetralogy envisions a new materialist cosmology wherein hierarchical relations are transformed.Exhibition: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA (11.02-09.07.2023).

• The Collage Activists: Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, and Marybeth Nelson Frame the Feminist Sex Wars
• The Comics Visionaries: Lee Marrs's and Roberta Gregory's Underground Feminism
• The Newspaper Cartoonist: Alison Bechdel's Queer Grassroots Networks
• The Editor and Pedagogue: Gloria E. Anzaldúa's Public Drawing
• The Photographer and Curator: Nan Goldin's Witness to HIV/AIDS.

"Exploring a number of feminist and cultural touchstones-the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks-In Visible Archives examines how visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword and acknowledgments / Kaywin Feldman
• Once the world was perfect / Joy Harjo
• Sky as place, land as body, landscape as spiritual compass / heather ahtone
• Land/Landbase/Landscape / Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
• The dust on our feet / Shana Bushyhead Condill
• Works of art
• Artist biographies
• Works in the exhibition.

"Curated by artist  Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this exhibition brings together works by an intergenerational group of nearly 50 living Native artists practicing across the United States. Their powerful expressions reflect the diversity of Native American individual, regional, and cultural identities. At the same time, these works share a worldview informed by thousands of years of reverence, study, and concern for the land. Through a variety of practices--including weaving, beadwork, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, performance, and video--these artists visualize Indigenous knowledge of land, landbase. landscape. Together, the works in The Land Carries Our Ancestors underscore the self-determination, survivance, and right to self-representation of Indigenous peoples."--from the museum's website.

• Director's foreword / Pauline Forlenza
• President's foreword / Eric Pryor
• Pretty pictures and the (re)framing of America / Christian Ayne Crouch
• Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Anna O. Marley and Michèle Wije
• "Women in art" : women's artistic networks in Philadelphia / Anna O. Marley
• "Those who went before" : Black art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Dana E. Byrd
• Homosexual art before homosexuals / Jonathan D. Katz
• Portraiture
• History
• Still life
• Genre Painting
• Landscape.

"Traversing two hundred years of creativity and change, Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776-1976 probes what it meant to be an American artist when the first art school and museum in the United States was founded and what it meant to be one by the late twentieth century. Leading scholars explore understudied histories of Black, women, and LGBTQ+ artists in essays that contribute to an expanded picture of the nation and its artistic heritage."-- Back cover.