The companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, "Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art" explores the role of the meal in contemporary art. Feast offers the first survey of the artist-orchestrat...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Headlands" is Czech artist Frantisek Skala's (born 1956) homage to the Headlands of Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he lived in the 1990s. It contains his journal entries and reproduces his sculptural heads mad...

Not for sale in Estonia! Heir to the postwar Surrealist traditions of his native Czechoslovakia, Frantisek Skala (born 1956) has made remarkable objects, installations and paintings since the early 1980s, while also working in children's illustrati...

Since its founding in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop has become an internationally recognized centre for printmaking and a vital part of the Philadelphia community. In 2009 the workshop donated one hundred prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in m...

What happens when you invite such luminary fashion designers as Stephen Jones or Hussein Chalayan to collaborate with important contemporary artists such as Cerith Wyn Evans or Gavin Turk and ask them to think about the Olympic values of speed, stren...

Now available again, this bestselling book reveals the story of two creative geniuses, their important contributions to twentieth-century art, and their tumultuous romance. This captivating book delves into the forces that shaped Frida Kahlo and Die...

In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists – video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in mo...

"For Reasons of State" examines how our ability to function as a democracy is compromised by governmental secrecy. Looking at contemporary art, the book explores notions of institutional concealment through the work of such artists as the Bureau of I...

From the screaming heads and snarling chimpanzees of the late 1940s to the anonymous figures trapped in tortured isolation some ten years later, British artist Francis Bacon during one crucial decade created many of the most central and memorable ima...

This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolourist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of colour, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art....