Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, December 15 2007 - March 30, 2008. Traveled to Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany, May 31 - September 14, 2008 ; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, February 6 - April 20, 2009. ... [details]
DVD version of 1989-90 video starring artist Mike Kelley and musician Mike Watt. "Sir Drone chronicles the trials and tribulations of two nascent punk rockers in late-70s Los Angeles as they struggle to not be posers. ... [details]
"A DVD collection of videos and live performance footage, Doug and Mike’s “Adult Entertainment” began as a childish version of an adult nightclub act -- with piano, cocktails, bawdy jokes, and hand puppets -- and gradually became more narrative, as the puppet characters took on more life. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, October 20, 2008 - February 3, 2009. Texts by Douglas Fogle, Jade Dellinger, Matthew Barney, Tom Eccles. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium, April 12 - July 27, 2008. Traveled to Museion, Bolzano, Italy, January 16 - April 19, 2009. ... [details]
Artists' book edited by James Hoff -- a recompilation of Artforum magazine's monthly Top Ten column written by a rotating cast of artists, scholars, actors and other superstars from 1998 to 2008. Comprised of direct copies of the author's pages from the magazine coupled with black boxes representing the supporting images. ... [details]
A large-scale artists' book documenting Kelley's installation "Day Is Done," which was shown at Gagosian Gallery, New York, November 11 - December 17, 2005. Includes 2 Audio CDs. "Mike Kelley’s burlesque masterpiece, Day Is Done, is a work in progress conceived in three hundred and sixty-five separate chapters. ... [details]
Do you miss the special love that a Little Friend can give? I bet you do! If you're like most of us, there's a Little Friend from your past whose voice haunts you across space and time. Little Friend is the specter of your childhood, when you stood at puberty's door. ... [details]
"With Do It in hand, you will be able to make a work of (someone else's) art yourself. Since 1993 Do It has provided its public with how-to pages of instructions written by 168 of the most important artists and writers working today. ... [details]
Second volume of Mike Kelley's collected writings. "Minor Histories organizes Kelley's writings into five sections. 'Statements' consists of twenty pieces produced between 1984 and 2002 (most of which were written to accompany exhibitions), including "Ajax," which draws on Homer, Colgate- Palmolive, and Longinus to present its eponymous hero; 'Some Aesthetic High Points,' an exercise in autobiography that counters the standard artist bio included in catalogs and press releases; and a sequence of "creative writings" that use mass cultural tropes in concert with high art mannerisms—approximating in prose the visual styles that characterize Kelley's artwork. ... [details]