"Stephen Willats'' major essay ''The Artist as an Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour'' is re-issued for the first time by Occasional Papers. Published in 1973 by Gallery House, London – where Willats was Director of the Centre for Behavioural Art – and long out of print, the paper includes rigorous analyses of social forms of artistic production and descriptions of a number of projects by the artist. ... [details]
![The Xeroxed Book [aka : Untitled -- aka : The Xerox Book, aka : Andre / Barry / Huebler / Kosuth / LeWitt / Morris / Weiner]](/objects/images/s16944.jpg "The Xeroxed Book [aka : Untitled -- aka : The Xerox Book, aka : Andre / Barry / Huebler / Kosuth / LeWitt / Morris / Weiner]")
A remake of the classic artists' publication originally published as the "Xerox Book," by dealers Siegelaub and Wendler. "The Xeroxed Book is based on Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner - an artists book published by Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler in 1969 that is more commonly known as The Xerox Book. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 21, 2010 - January 9, 2011. Traveling to Carnegie Museeum of Art, Pittsburg, February 5 - May 1, 2011 ; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May 22 - September 4, 2011. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held March 4, 2010 — March 27, 2010. Essay by Kathy Grayson. [details]
An examination of the work of Michael Asher by Kirsi Peltomäki. "In 'Situation Aesthetics,' Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other museum staff members). ... [details]
Winter 2009 issue of Fillip. "Fillip is a publication of art, culture, and ideas issued three times a year by the Projectile Publishing Society and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Crossing academic, artistic, and related practices, Fillip acts as a forum for critical discussion in the contemporary arts and situates itself as a complement to and stimulus for contemporary art practices and discourses. ... [details]
DVD of "Citizen Tania : As Told to Raymond Pettibon," a reissue of a 1989-1990 video by Pettibon. "'Citizen Tania: As Told to Raymond Pettibon' deals with Patty Hearst and her Symbionese Liberation Army alias 'Tania. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Deitch Projects, New York, May 2 - 30, 2009. Essay by Derek Walcott. [details]
"Hanne Darboven's Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983) (1980-1983) is an overwhelming and encyclopedic installation consisting of 1,590 works on paper and 19 sculptural objects. The work weaves together cultural, social, and historical references with autobiographical documents, postcards, pinups of film and rock stars, documentary references to the first and second world wars, geometric diagrams for textile weaving, a sampling of New York doorways, illustrated covers from news magazines, the contents of an exhibition catalogue devoted to postwar European and American art, a kitschy literary calendar, and extracts from some of Darboven's earlier works. ... [details]
"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]
