Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book. "Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'" -Lucy R. Lippard,

The Curves of the Needle is the title of an artist book (BAWAG FOUNDATION EDITION, vol. 5) and a slideshow which was in the center of the exhibition 299.792,458 km/s by Cerith Wyn Evans at the BAWAG FOUNDATION from 10 March to 7 May 2005.

Artists & Writers: Bili Bidjocka; Rut Blees Luxemburg; Guy Brett; Ery Camara; Andrew Cross; Clémentine Deliss;

Viennese Actionism is the most important Austrian contribution to international avantgarde developments in the Sixties that extended the definition of art.

A series of short essays by Payam Sharifi exploring the clash of civilizations between the US and Iran across such cultural phenomena as the monobrow, soft drugs, and men’s ties. Excerpts from a forthcoming book.

Primary Information-Reprint of George F. Maciunas text for issue nr. 3 of the Swedish magazine Kalejdoskop, released in 1979.

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production.

Vincent Fecteau edited and rearranged magazine pages, which he had primarily colleced for inspirational purposes, for an art project.

Masters of Reality brings together the first collection of texts by Steve Rushton. Second in a series of publications on contemporary art inaugurated by the Piet Zwart Institute, the book explores the interrelations between art, anthropology, social sciences, psychology, media, politics, and economy. (engl.)

Daniel Richter gehört einer Generation an, die neben Punk und New Romanticism auch dei sich bei Kritikern und Kollegen allmählich festsetzende Vorstellung erbte, dass die Malerei als künstlerisches Medium ein Ding der Vergangenheit sei.

Mit THE INNER VOICE hat Asta Gröting einen Werkkomplex vorgelegt, der unsere Vorstellung von der klar definierten menschlichen Persönlichkeit in Frage stellt und damit einen künstlerischen Beitrag zur Erklärung von Persönlichkeitsstrukturen anbietet.

Vija Celmins ist seit den 1970er-Jahren für ihre eingängigen Sujets – Meere, Wüsten, Nachthimmel und Spinnennetze –, die sie in diversen Medien umsetzt, bekannt. In ihrer ersten Einzelausstellung in Österreich zeigt die Künstlerin über 70 Arbeiten aus ihrem druckgrafischen Oeuvre.

Das neu gegründete BRUSEUM der Neuen Galerie Graz betont mit dieser Publikation die internationale Bedeutung des Wiener Aktionisten Günter Brus (*1938 in der Steiermark) anhand von Arbeiten aus verschiedenen Schaffensbereichen und -phasen des Künstlers

Amar Kanwar's The Torn First Pages is an ode to the thousands engaged in the struggle for democracy in Burma. It is published in honor of the bookshop owner Ko Than Htay, who was imprisoned for removing the first pages of all books and journals that contained ideological propaganda from the military regime.

Das Kollektiv Slavs and Tatars versteht sich als "eine Faktion der Polemik und Intimität, die sich mit dem als Eurasien bekannten Gebiet östlich der ehemaligen Berliner Mauer und westlich der Chinesischen Mauer beschäftigt".

Dedicated to his friend and mentor Peter Hujar, Salters Cottages is an artist’s book of stills from a short film Schneider made in 1981 at Salters Cottages, a summer seaside cottage community on Long Island, New York.

Rare Earth is an attempt to define the spirit of an age. Exploring how today’s myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology—through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table—Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.

San Rocco was the product of the collaboration of two young architects. San Rocco did not contribute to the later fame of its two designers. It is neither “standard Grassi” nor “standard Rossi”. (Engl.)

Gespräch zwischen Jutta Koether und Diedrich Diederichsen.

'The spirit of Gemini is best captured by the word 'collaboration.' It's about artists and printers working hand in hand to create works of art. This same spirit prevails when I take photos. There's a trust extended by the artists, allowing me to share so many special moments with them.' -Sidney Felsen

Drafting Defeat republishes a collection of Al Istakhri’s highly stylized 10th century maps of the Middle East, printed with the legends that accompanied them in a 1933 Soviet edition of Persian bureaucrat Nasser Khosrow’s Safarnameh (Book of Travels).

Versuch einer photographischen Bestandsaufnahme unter Einbeziehung des Klimas, der Landschaft, der Orte, der Städte

Wie häufig in seinem Werk behandelt und hinterfragt Heimo Zobernig auch in dieser Ausstellung gängige, institutionell bedingte Präsentationsmechanismen sowie überhaupt das Zurschaustellen von (Kunst-) Objekten an sich. (Germ./Engl.)

Die Fotografien, die Annette Kelm innerhalb einer großen Bandbreite von Erscheinungsformen im Laufe der letzten fünfzehn Jahre geschaffen hat, gehören zu den faszinierendsten und bedeutendsten Beiträgen der jüngsten zeitgenössischen Kunst.

Contemporary art museums are building. In recent decades art museums and public galleries have extensively renovated, rebuilt and added structures to their premises. New museums have been commissioned and erected by private collectors and companies; existing public museums and art institutions have expanded through the opening of new ‘branches’ and franchises. But what should take place within these new premises?

On the occasion of the exhibition Die fünfte Säule [The fifth column], curated by Moritz Küng, Joëlle Tuerlinckx presents the lecture-performance Les moments d?espace ? lecture for YouTube in 591 panels (version 17.11.11) and the publication Moments d?espace. On 591 PowerPoint pages the artist describes her subjective and partially autobiographical thoughts concerning the paradox of space in the form of ?textimages? in French with English subtitles. While these are projected uncommented, Tuerlinckx improvises a musicalpiece on a first-generation Casio synthesizer.

The new issue features 23 artistic positions focusing on erotic contemporary drawing.

Ulay - Life-Sized He describes himself self-deprecatingly as the “most famous unknown artist”: Frank Uwe Laysiepen aka Ulay.

Die eindrucksvolle, in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Sugimoto von Martina Goldner gestaltete Publikation enthält Texte von Thomas Kellein, Eckhard Schneider und Hiroshi Sugimoto.

This small publication is an edited reprint of the essay ‘The Book in Intermediary Form’ written by Kasper Andreasen. It was originally published in 2011 by Wintertuin, Nijmegen as part of a compilation about the future of the book. The essay argues for a possible scenario leading up to a hypothesis about an audio­visual book. How can artists’ books be audio­visual objects?

This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today’s power law–based economies.

Maurizio Cattelan's now-defunct Permanent Food is a magazine about other magazines. The 12th issue deconstructs 1970's celebrity culture with appearances by Donyale Luna, Veruschka, Marlon Brando and more.

Published in relation to the exhibition “Stray Warmings” at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, this new monograph brings together writing and reproductions that extend beyond this particular context.

Texts by Binna Choi, Lizzy van Leeuwen, Nuraini Juliastuti, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Soewardi Soeryaningrat/Ki Hajar Dewantara (Engl./Dutch/Indonesian Bahasa)

There is plenty of bad architecture all over the place. Stupid, wrong architecture. Architecture that failed, and failed miserably. Architecture that is full of mistakes. (English)