Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda.This incredible collection of prints dating from the 1950s to the twenty-first century is the only one of its kind in or outside North Korea.

Die erste umfangreiche Präsentation von Andreas Slominskis gleichnamiger Werkgruppe von Fußballplakaten, die aus Anlass der Fußball EM 2024 in Essen präsentiert wird.Andreas Slominskis umfangreichste Fußball-Arbeit ist die Plakatserie "Wohnorte gegen Geburtsorte" (1986-1988).

This remarkable project started on the initiative of four collectors from Vienna, who went through their own holdings to curate an intimate Franz West exhibition in a former gallery in the heart of Vienna. Featuring more than 400 works from all the artist's work groups

Fernando Botero's distinctive exaggerated forms perfectly complement the exaggerated atmosphere of the circus. The esteemed artist uses bright colors and unexpected movement to artfully manifest the poetry of the circus, inviting the viewer to participate in a circus with Botero as the artful ringmaster.

See Hear Yoko captures the rich complexity of Yoko Ono-woman, artist, activist, wife and mother-from her days with John Lennon through the present, with intimate portraits by the legendary rock-and-roll photographer Bob Gruen, and words by Ono herself, edited from conversations with Jody Denberg, rock radio's "Voice of Austin, Texas." Conceived expressly for Yoko Ono as a gift between friends on the occasion of her eightieth birthday,

Cindy Sherman is among the most influential artists of her generation. Using herself as a model in a range of costumes in invented situations, she plays with images created and popularized by mass media, popular culture, and fine art. Television, advertising, magazines, fashion, and Old Master paintings--they are all fair game.

Artists from the kingdom of Kongo—a vast swath of Central Africa that today encompasses the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola—were responsible for outstanding creative achievements. With the influx of Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants, missionaries, and explorers, Kongo developed a

Illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold's little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern graphic design through the artists, ideas, and texts from the Bauhaus that most influenced him. Tschichold (1902-1974), a prolific designer, writer, and theorist,

With the intention to inspire, the clear instructions and hand-drawn illustrations make it wonderfully easy to assemble items like this Flying Shelf by Matteo Thun." -Absolutely City & Angel "Ever wanted to actually use the drill your aunt bought you three Christmases ago? Try one of these 50 DIY builds from the world's most lauded artists and designers...

Lighthouse is packed with extraordinary stories of human innovation, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues. Through more than 350 gorgeous vintage images and historic details, Lighthouse brings the golden age of seafaring alive.

1958 auf der Werkkunstschule in Offenbach entwickelte Franz Erhard Walther eine eigene Typographie, die ohne Diagonalen auskommt. Im vorliegenden Künstlerbuch bildet er mit ihnen so genannte »Werksätze« – auf jeder Seite ein Buchstabe, jeweils einer Szene aus seinem Leben aus den Jahren 1954 bis 1973 gegenübergestellt, beispielsweise einer

Walker Evans’s Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of a family of white sharecroppers.

In seiner neuen Publikation Signal variiert Christian Hutzinger drei „Formcontainer“, die aus seinen früheren visuellen Experimenten abgeleitet zu sein scheinen, mit Farben aus jeweils drei Paletten und ergänzt diese mit der Abbildung einer Wandarbeit aus der gleichnamigen Ausstellung in der

The perfect gift for Hockney fans and dog lovers everywhere, "David Hockney's Dog Days", now in a gift edition, is an album devoted to two of the artist's closest friends, his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie.

Now into its 50th edition, after its historical beginnings as Kunstmarkt Köln '67, Art Cologne is still one of the most important art fairs in the world. And it still has its roots in Kunstmarkt Köln '67, as a fair for

While the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century diminished the role of the craftsperson in the manufacturing process, the digital revolution has had a less devastating effect. Today’s digital technologies have given rise to entirely new working methods, skill sets, and consumer products that don’t eliminate, but enrich traditional hand techniques.

An examination of a work that captures the spirit of the 1980s—commodification, seduction, and political inactivity.In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floats in the center of a glass tank that stands on a four-legged black metal structure. It has been called one of the defining works of the 1980s—

Between 2003 and 2005, artists Lina Kim and Michael Wesely scoured public and private archives in an ambitious effort to survey, catalog and restore photographs of the construction of Brasilia, many of which were inaccessible to the public and at risk of disappearing. The two carried out a monumental job of researching and

Dia Art Foundation commissioned Thomas Hirschhorn to build Gramsci Monument, an excessive outdoor sculpture that measured 8,000 square feet and was located on the grounds of Forest Houses,in New York (Bronx). On display for 77 days, with daily and weekly events organized by the artist, Gramsci Monument concluded Hirschhorn’s series of “monuments” dedicated to philosophers, which began in 1999.

Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half a million visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly established her place in art history. She has also been the subject of documentary films and biographies. In 2013, Iris Müller-Westermann organized the first retrospective exhibition of af Klint s work.