It’s rare that an art monograph attains the status of a work of art in its own right. Francis Upritchard’s Human Problems might be just such a book. It’s not a doorstopper and it’s not full of pontificating essays. It doesn’t even offer a biography of the artist. Instead, Human Problems is an exceptionally unified production in which the designer and the author have matched and magnified the quirks of the artist.

The exhibition “Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict” at M–Museum Leuven (2014) moves from a cultural-historical perspective, focusing on five thematic clusters that recur throughout history in representations of crimes against culture: ravaged cities, ruins, targeted heritage, propaganda, and art theft.

Featuring Matthew Ames, Carmen Munoz, Patrik Ervell, Bonnie Cashin, Isaia, and Charles Kleibacker

And contributors Lori Goldstein, Zoe Ghertner, Cynthia Leung, Paul Kopkau, Alex John Beck, and Maria Chavez.

Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, research and training opportunities for curators and diverse audiences around the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in New York, ICI is a hub that connects emerging and established curators, artists, and art spaces, forging international networks and generating new forms of collaborations. ICI provides access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.

Palm Tree Antenna, Artist book with photographs of Palmtrees and other fake trees or objects concealing telecommunication service equipment.

Wiesje Peels and Steffen Maas transformed the Van Gogh House resident studio into their own photo studio to portray local people from Zundert.

While the typical cookbook format gives you a recipe for obvious success it does not take into account the many ways in which its execution can fail due to the cook's lack of experience. Based on Aleksandra's personal history of cooking disasters, the project invites 1000 people from all

Jonathan Monk’s work is grounded in repetition, appropriation, and conceptual displacement.

The book follows the major tracks of Sabine Kacunko's artistic development which commenced with analogue b/w photography, slide photography and photographic installations and led to interactive light and closed circuit video installations, media performances and permanent installations.

Published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel (June–August 2012), this publication includes interviews and images of the work of the Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema (Quelle: Verlag).

This publication was printed with a risograph.

In 1970, Trasov assumed the identity of Mr. Peanut, donning a handmade paper mâché replica of the mascot of the Planters Peanut Company.

»Seven Films« versammelt sieben Filme von Clemens von Wedemeyer, die von 2001 bis 2008 entstanden sind – zwei davon gemeinsam mit Maya Schweizer [268] (Metropolis, Report from China und Rien du tout).

40 Colorful Riso Pages by Paul Riedmüller.

Reflection
Response
La Critique

Initiated in 1994, the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre aims to offer young curators a condensed package of experiences and skills that can be seen as instruments to enhance the development of their professional career.

The ten-month long Curatorial Programme exists in its current form since 2006, with a reshaped curriculum and an extended tutorial team. It encompasses a dense array of seminars, workshops, excursions (including a three-week research trip to a destination outside Western Europe), practice-related assignments and encounters with artists and art professionals.

The programme pays attention to the history of exhibition-making, diverse curatorial practices, institution building and project management. The programme is characterised by a specific focus on ´curating in the expanded field´, which is investigated through the polarity between ‘freelance ’ and ‘institutional’ curating and the notion ‘context-responsive’ curating.

Edited by Bettina A.W. Funcke, Continuous Project #8 is the final "issue" within the series, also with #8 "Continuous Project" will become know as "Consultants."

What role do visual arts and museums play in our society, and what role might they play

The topic featured in this issue of Landscape is test sites. It emerged from our work in the High Desert of California where time seems to lose meaning. Geologists refer to it as the stratified landscape of deep time, exposing human experience amd interaction as comparatively short lived and fast paced.

The Exhibitionist is a journal focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. Its objectives are to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns, encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating.

Reflection
Response
La Critique

Film Works with Merce Cunningham dokumentiert Tacita Deans (*1965) zwei Arbeiten mit und über den Tänzer und Choreografen Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), die sie im Rahmen ihrer Kurt-Schwitters-Preis-Ausstellung im Sprengel Museum präsentierte.

The book “Watercolors” is documenting a one and a half year long correspondence in form of watercolors sent via email between Natalie Häusler and David Horvitz.

"Architectural Composition" is both a theoretical and visual analysis which clearly illustrates the creative process.

Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations.

Das Buch untersucht die historische „In-Betweenness“ der jugoslawischen Moderne und die verschiedenen Strategien, die Architekten einsetzten, um ihre eigenen Positionen inmitten der unterschiedlichen ... Konzepte von Leben, Kultur, Praxis und Zeit zu definieren.

The Cybermohalla project takes on the meaning of the Hindi word mohalla (neighborhood) in its sense of alleys and corners, relatedness and concreteness, as a means for talking about one’s “place” in the city.

Andy Boot Künstlerbuch mit Texten von Michele D’Aurizio und Chris Sharp. "The title of this book purports to present three distinct parts of seeing, three distinct zones or planes integral to the organization of an image."

Published as the official Bahraini contribution to the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, 2013.

(English/Arabic)

Anlässlich ihrer Einzelausstellung im project space der Kunsthalle Wien konzipierte Weisz dieses experimentell angelegte Künstlerbuch mit separatem Textbeileger.

Fünf Jahre lang arbeitete die Ungarische Künstlerin Lilla Szász mit Frauen in Notunterkünften. Sie fotografierte ältere Frauen, junge kriminelle Mädchen und obdachlose Mütter.
(Engl.)

Beardophile or pogonophobic? Most women are one or the other – a beard-lover or suffering from beard-fear: What is it about the beard that causes such strong reactions? Asks Clare Pollard in this magazine. (Engl.)

Long Hair: Gentlemen, you either have it or you don´t. (Engl.)

For men, the Alpha Bitch is a source of fascination. Even in our supposedly postgendered era, she is conspicuously unique in boardrooms and political cabinets. It is she who sucks up the air, the attention, and the adulation, in a sea of dull suits. (Engl.)

Focusing on Leonilson's production as a mature artist, this volume features nearly 50 paintings, drawings and embroideries made between the mid-1980s until 1993, when the artist died of AIDS. In this short yet prolific period, Leonilson fully developed a unique artistic language in dialogue with other contemporary art practices, Brazilian vernacular traditions and global issues prompted by the AIDS crisis.

What is an educational establishment today?

Martin Beck’s exhibition “Program” at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts comprised a sequence of interventions, installations, events, and displays that drew on the exhibition histories and academic pursuits of the famed 1963 Le Corbusier building at Harvard University.

Diango Hernandez‘ „Museum of Capitalism“ ist ein Projekt für, mit und über das Internet. Gibt man www.museumofcapitalism.com ein, gelangt man auf eine Seite, die der Startseite der Suchmaschine Google nachempfunden ist, genau gesagt der US-amerikanischen Google-Seite. Dort hat

When I was traveling throughout Germany, I met a lot of German people whose ancestors had emigrated to the Baltic or Caucasus region. And so, I become interested in the roots of German culture and how it has spread to other countries. Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, was the center that connected European, Russian, Middle Eastern and Asian cultures. In fact I have personally found a lot of traces and evidence of these cultures in Georgia.

Tokyo based illustrator Kei Sekikawa describes her work as "lots of pastel colour with hints of spice and sense of mystery".

Featured artists in this issue:
Meleko Mokgosi, Hernan Paganini, Andrew Miksys, Joseph Hart, Ryota Kyoshima, Erik Olson, Linn Pedersen

Over the last sixty years and more Swiss sculptor Cesare Ferronato has developed a unique vocabulary of stone, ranging from playfully articulated body forms to spatially compley, abstract figures and double-sided “Ambilvaneces”.

The Mayor Gallery presents on the occasion of the exhibition: Wally Hedrick & William T. Wiley, 8 June - 29 July 2011

On little Ghost Knigi’s birthnight he got a
book from his Aunt Abel. All she said when
she handed it to him was, ‘I hope you enjoy
reading this!’

"Cameron Jamie" on the occasion of the exhibition JO by Cameron Jamie, which was held at the Künstlerhaus Graz from October 10 to November 24, 2004.

After an extensive period of reconstruction and modification, the 20er Haus finally reopens its doors as the 21er Haus.

Magazine, comes apart to reveal a 70" x 32" poster of Joey.

Magazine, comes apart to reveal a 70" x 32" poster of Jos.

No artist, ever since the beginning of the century, has introduced a fruitful restlessness to the Turkish contemporary art scene as comprehensively as Halil Altindere did.
(Turkish/English)

Lin's book narrates her experience of being run over by a truck while biking and the subsequent recuperation, blending clinical descriptions with personal accounts.

Published on occasion of the 5th International Mobile Music Workshop, May 13 - 15, 2008, University of Applied Arts Vienna

»Ape Culture« traces the long cultural and scientific obsession with humanity’s closest relatives.

BAGHDAD CALLING is an exceptional photography book. Photojournalist Geert van Kesteren shows how Iraqi refugees are living in Jordan, Syria and Turkey.

For Colombian architect Simon Vélez, botany has been inextricable from architecture.

The publication by Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson on the occasion of the exhibition at the Icelandic pavilion at Venice Biennale 2011 is conceived as a first comprehensive overview / in depth analysis of more than ten years of their artistic practice—leading up to their most current works.
(Engl.)

Mit Texten von Mark von Schlegell, Margaret Stevenson, Frances Stark, Anna Pavord and Henry David Thoreau.

Gentlemen & Arseholes ist ein Nachdruck der von Lene Berg annotierten ersten Ausgabe des Kulturmagazins Encounter aus dem Jahr 1953, der durch zusätzliches zwischen die Originalseiten eingelegtes Material ergänzt wird.
(Engl.)

Limited Edition.

Gentlemen & Arseholes is a reprint of an inscribed first issue of the cultural journal Encounter from 1953, along with a series of supplementary materials that are inserted between the original pages.
(Engl.)

Lise Harlev has long explored personal identity in relation to the public realm. Using the aesthetics of advertising, public information signage and political slogans, her text pieces are often too ambiguous to fit into any of those categories.

Crooked Fagazine is an independent print magazine for shameless confessional storytelling. It is written by and for gays and is based out of Montreal, Canada.