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R. Crumb: Existential Comics,Selected Stories, 1979–2004

David Zwirner Books: Spring 2025

Portrait of Toba Khedoori, 1995. Photo by Rachel Khedoori.

Edited with text by Moritz Wesseler. Text by Mark Godfrey and Anna Lovatt.



Meticulously drawn objects against blank backgrounds form liminal spaces devoid of human presence or context



Following the artist’s internationally acclaimed first solo exhibition at Fridericianum in Germany in 2022, this title offers a focused look at Khedoori’s singular visual language, grounded in objecthood and natural forms, and articulated through extraordinary precision. Australian-born artist Toba Khedoori’s (born 1964) oeuvre incorporates both drawing and painting. She arranges large sheets of paper worked with wax to form monumental image carriers on which she produces precise drawings using graphite and oil paint, which captivate with their execution and fine detail.

Toba Khedoori

Christopher Williams: Radio Play, Corbett vs. Dempsey

Produced and directed by Christopher Williams. Executive production by John Corbett & Jim Dempsey

 is a play written by Bavarian playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz.

It is part of a trilogy of radio plays from 1971 titled Trilogie Münchener Lebens. The play was first broadcast as a radio play in former West Germany on Südwestfunk in 1972. A second version was broadcast in former East Germany on Rundfunk der DDR in 1974. The West and East German broadcasts are the basis for two radio play adaptations by artist Christopher Williams. Both adaptations are recorded in German using the same technology used to produce the original broadcasts of 1972 and 1974.

Recorded at Studio Nadel Eins, Berlin, Germany; 2-3 October 2023

Broadcast from Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM, Chicago, USA; 25 February 2024, 5pm

Mastered by: Alex Inglizian, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago

Christopher Williams: Radio Play

By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter

Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures

David Zwirner Books: Spring 2024

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

Feint of Heart: Art Writings, 1982–2002

That Still Moment: Poetry and Essays on Dance

David Zwirner Books: Fall 2024

A painting by Giorgio Morandi titled Natura morta (Still Life), dated 1956.

Giorgio Morandi: Time Suspended, Skira, 2024

On Morandi’s exquisitely serene art as a distillation of the tumultuous 20th century

This volume positions Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) as a paradigmatic 20th-century figure: a man who lived through two world wars and experienced the full impact of the era’s disillusionments. Against this bleak backdrop, he sought stringent order and formal harmony, while leaving room for uncertainty and surprise. This clothbound volume spotlights the artist’s paintings and works on paper from the 1920s to the 1960s, as well as a wealth of unpublished documents and photographs recently excavated from the Morandi family archives. Marilena Pasquali, an art historian and leading Morandi expert, interprets these materials, connecting them with the arc of his career. Alongside writings by other art historians, Pasquali casts Morandi’s art as an ongoing response to the tumultuous, dispiriting times in which he lived.

Giorgio Morandi: Time Suspended

A detail from a painting by Oscar Murillo, titled manifestation, dated 2019.

Oscar Murillo in his studio, 2022. Photo by Jason Schmidt

Mark Godfrey

Book Cover, Oscar Murillo: Aesthetic Structures

Conversation between Oscar Murillo and Mark Godfrey

Looking back at Oscar’s practice for the last 10 years, specifically, the progression of the themes of blackness/void, games and failure, the book is a non-linear journey, finding moments of convergence between shows and artworks that have informed Murillo’s new series. Throughout the book runs in parallel relevant works and a conversation between Oscar Murillo and Mark Godfrey which delves into the details of Murillo’s process and influences.

Inspired by the 1950s Brazilian neo-concrete movement, the photographic editing of the shows and artworks seeks to spark a poetic feeling in contrast to the rigidness of the design.

Shows highlighted in the book include Venice Biennale (2015), Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2021), South London Gallery (2013), Carlos/Ishikawa (2012) and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2024) in between others.

Oscar Murillo: Aesthetic Structures

Sasha Gordon, 2024. Photo by Jason Schmidt

Texts by Liz Munsell and Kristina Parsons. Contributions by Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Sasha Gordon, Sara Issakharian, Chella Man, Ilana Savdie, Austin Martin White, and Rosha Yaghmai. Photography by Mary Kang and Abby Ross.



An investigation of seven emerging artists who use supernatural color and uncanny luminescence to challenge the boundaries of traditional figuration.



Color is flexible and amorphous. It lends itself to infinite perceptions and refuses to be definitive. 

Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration

 discusses new work by seven emerging artists who use supernatural color and uncanny luminescence to unsettle the figure. In painting, sculpture, and installation they push at and spill over the outermost limits of realism. Their high-key palettes and disorienting glow defamiliarize human and anthropomorphic forms, highlighting the figure’s manipulability and continual metamorphosis. These artists refute any fixed notions of the self and thwart reductive interpretations, generating space for resilient, transgressive, and exuberant bodies that cannot be placed or contained.

In their work the artists take in and take on the oversaturation of our contemporary moment. They invoke surreal slippages between everyday horrors and their unbound imaginations. This multiethnic, multiracial, and multifaceted group of makers leverage palettes that reflect their cross-cultural allegiances and lived experiences—whether nodding to their respective heritages, to pop culture and digital immersion, or spaces of youthful and queer liberation. Modern and contemporary artists have long offered a counterpoint to strongholds within Western art history that have insisted on a muted palette as an indicator of purity, seriousness, and whiteness—since the Renaissance’s focus on linear perspective and recasting of classical sculpture in white. At a time of deep reconsideration of canons and institutions, this presentation reflects on how color has been othered—perceived as emotional, subjective, and secondary to line in importance. The artists in 

 embrace color to push against such hierarchies. Taken together, their works convey today’s zeitgeist of frenzied too-muchness and all-at-onceness, in-betweenness and expansiveness, ultimately showing interlinked experiences across many spectrums.

A detail from a painting by Portia Zvavahera, titled This is where I travelled [3], dated 2020.

Portia Zvavahera, Ndirikukuona (I can see you), 2021

Text by Sinazo Chiya, Tandazani Dhlakama, Tamar Garb, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Fiona Bradley, Andrew Nairne

This new publication accompanies a major exhibition, curated by Tamar Garb, which will include reproductions of brand new works created on the occasion of this exhibition alongside a selection of recent and older paintings which reveal the depth and richness of Zvavahera’s practice. The focus will be on the theme of dreams, fantasy and figuration, and large details will highlight Zvavahera’s innovative amalgamation of printmaking and painting techniques that build rich surfaces to create her private cosmology of creatures and contexts.

The book will feature a significant new essay from curator Tamar Garb and will centre around an extensive conversation between Garb, Sinazo Chiya, Tandazani Dhlakama and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela discussing Zvavahera’s engagement with eros, intimacy and female-centred experience.

The book will open up how Zvavahera’s works emerge from dreams; being figurative without being illustrative, registering a world of feminine experience and fantasy.

Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa

Dan Flavin, New York, 1970.  Photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni. © Maya Gorgoni

Edited with text by Josef Helfenstein and Olga Osadtschy. Text by Aden Kumler, Simon Baier, Elena Degen, Jules Pelta Feldman, Aden Kumler, Daniel Kurjakovic, Han Lo, and Mechtild Widrich



Flavin’s “gaseous images” illuminate the landscape of the Kunstmuseum Basel

Legendary minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933–96) began working with fluorescent light tubes in the early 1960s. Arranged in “situations,” he would then further develop them into series and large-scale installations. His pieces often included dedications, making reference in their titles to concrete events, such as wartime atrocities or police violence, or to other artists. The colors and dimensions of the materials he used were prescribed by industrial production. Flooded in light, viewers themselves become part of the works. The space, along with the objects within it, are set in relation to each other and thus become immersive experiences of art, triggering sensual, almost spiritual experiences. Flavin liberated color from the two-dimensionality of painting. This catalog looks at Flavin’s oeuvre in a less familiar setting: the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Dan Flavin: Dedications in Lights

César Aira

Michael Glover

David Levi Strauss

Alexander Nemerov

Donald Shambroom

Cynthia Zarin

ekphrasis

Presenting a dynamic collection of newly commissioned texts, this bundle explores our belief in the photographic image, the categorization of contemporary art, the streets of Venice, Duchamp’s activities the day before his death, and more. From innovative interpretations of historical events to contemporary critiques, these books invite readers to engage with art in fresh and unexpected ways, challenging conventional narratives and inspiring deeper reflection.

Included in this bundle: 


Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art

New Texts (ekphrasis), Aira, Glover, Levi Strauss, Nemerov, Shambroom, Zarin

Aira, Glover, Levi Strauss, Nemerov, Shambroom, Zarin

New Texts (ekphrasis)

A still from a film by Francis Alys, titled Children’s Game #26: Kisolo, Tabacongo, DR Congo, dated 2021.

This immersive publication explores the artistic journey of one of today's most prominent conceptual artists, with a specific focus on his groundbreaking series, “Children’s Games.”



Whether he's moving a sand dune in Peru or pushing an enormous ice block through the streets of Mexico City, Francis Alÿs is constantly seeking to decipher complex social, political, and cultural issues in ways that are simultaneously affecting, imaginative and provocative. 

Highlighting rarely seen source material, this richly illustrated book delves into the impulses behind Alÿs's influential works. Celebrating the breadth and importance of the artist’s work, a series of essays by leading scholars and writers look at his studio practice and influences across art, history, and literature, revealing new perspectives on his prolific career and ongoing preoccupations.

It also examines the most recent iteration of his critically acclaimed series 

, in which he documents children's games from various cultures around the world. From whimsical explorations of everyday life to his engagement with cross-cultural contexts from Latin America to North Africa and the Middle East, Alÿs’s work serves as a platform for navigating the world, inviting viewers to engage with the poetic and transformative potential of artistic expression.

Francis Alÿs: Ricochets

 was published on the occasion of Christopher Williams’s exhibition Radio/Rauhfaser/Television at Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago. It focuses on Williams’s research into a broadcast of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s 1972 stage play Upper Austria and an accompanying panel discussion—consisting of Franz Xaver Kroetz, Dieter Braun, Ludwig Hannover, Dieter Schnabel, and Hans-Georg Frieser—that was cancelled by West German public television broadcaster ZDF in 1973 due to Kroetz’s communist party affiliations. This book publishes, for the first time, a complete transcript of the panel discussion along with contemporaneous newspaper articles, opinion pieces, and open letters written in the wake of the cancellation, and an introduction by Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete. 

Christopher Williams, Theatre in Review: Upper Austria, 2024

Christopher Williams. Theatre in Review: Upper Austria

Edited with interview by Alessandro Rabottini. Text by Mark Godfrey, Eleanor Nairne, Gabi Ngcobo. Conversation with Oscar Murillo.

Canvases decorated by schoolchildren across the globe offer humor, hope and joy

This book brings together the archive of 

, a global participatory project initiated by artist Oscar Murillo (born 1986). For over a decade, members of Murillo’s team have visited schools around the globe and invited students to freely write and draw on raw canvas. The elegant volume features a lay-flat binding, dust jacket and richly produced slipcase.

Cover of a book titled Oscar Murillo: Frequencies, published by Hatje Cantz in 2024.

Oscar Murillo: Frequencies

A portrait of Gerhard Richter by Werner Bartsch.

Cover of a book titled Gerhard Richter (Special Edition), published by David Zwirner Books in 2024.

A special edition signed by the artist and featuring a slipcase is available in a limited run of 100 copies.

Tiered pricing:
$200 editions 100–56
$250 editions 55–26
$300 editions 25–11
$350 editions 10–1

Gerhard Richter’s newest facsimile-like artist’s book is focused on a single work comprising twenty-six drawings



“[Richter’s drawings] are of stringent individuality and recognizably by Richter’s hand, not based on their signature style but rather because they make their theme the act of drawing itself, gauging the conditions of drawing.” —Dieter Schwarz

In this new work, Richter combines various elements from a limited set of forms and techniques—meandering lines, broad tonal planes applied with angled strokes of graphite, and passages of smudging, hatching, and erasure—thereby uniting choice and chance in an infinitely generative process. The suite of works on paper from 2023 encapsulates and refines the fundamental principles that have consistently defined Richter’s artistic journey. Reproduced at actual size, the drawings encourage in-depth observation and inspire a compelling reimagining of abstraction. 

Interior spread from a book titled Gerhard Richter (Special Edition), published by David Zwirner Books in 2024.

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Gerhard Richter: Foricano (Special Edition)

By Robert Storr. Edited with text by Francesca Pietropaolo

A scholarly meditation on Reinhardt’s work, bringing together his abstract painting, comics and slide lecture series

 takes as its subject the work of American artist Ad Reinhardt (1913–67). An American abstract painter, he worked in New York alongside artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Renowned art critic and historian Robert Storr curated the award-winning 2013 exhibition of Reinhardt’s work at David Zwirner gallery. This book brings together, for the first time, Storr’s writings on Reinhardt’s abstract painting—for which the artist became hugely influential on the younger generations of Minimal and Conceptual practitioners—his satirical cartoons addressing political and social issues and advocating for abstract art, and his famous slide lecture series. With introductory texts by Storr and art historian Francesca Pietropaolo, this book features an essay previously published in 

 (2013) and a companion text, also written in 2013, that appears in print for the first time.

Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt

Edited with text by Brigitte Kölle. Text by Juliane Au, Hubertus Butin, Johanna Hornauer, Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter

Contemplating perception and representation with two titans of photorealism

This publication brings together for the first time the work of New York–based artist Vija Celmins (born 1938) and Colgone-based painter Gerhard Richter (born 1932) in a transatlantic dialogue that reveals surprising connections. Their works have been paired together at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in an exhibition spanning over 60 paintings, drawings, prints and objects. This study offers comparisons between some of the artists’ most notable works, including Celmins’ 

. In addition to their thematic similarities and the fact that both have worked with photographic models throughout their careers, Celmins and Richter share an interest in the most elementary conditions of representation. This revelatory pairing invokes questions of reality, visibility and the nature of perception itself.

Vija Celmins & Gerhard Richter: Double Vision

Edited by Glenn Adamson, Dakin Hart and Kate Wiener. Contributions by Ai Fukunaga, Nonie Gadsden, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Laura Kina, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Margo Machida, Laura Mott and Katy Siegel

An expansive look at the multifaceted American artist Toshiko Takaezu within the history of postwar artmaking

Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was an American artist whose multidisciplinary work in ceramics, painting, sculpture, weaving, and installation innovatively drew from the natural world, combining expressionist energies with influences from East Asia. The closed ceramic forms for which she is best known are effectively abstract paintings in the round. Her reputation as a ceramic artist, however, has obscured the breadth of her output in other mediums and her role within the larger art movements of the twentieth century. This book provides the first retrospective assessment of Takaezu’s art and life, representing her diverse oeuvre, which spanned six decades, and her hybrid identity as an Asian American woman, artist, and teacher. 

This ambitious volume features essays exploring Takaezu’s biography, her background as a Hawai‘i-born artist of Okinawan heritage, the relationship between her abstract work and that of her contemporaries, the role of cultural exchange in her art, her impact as an educator, and more. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 300 images of artworks and archival photographs, and including an updated chronology, exhibition history, and recollections from the artist’s former apprentices, the book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of this singular artist’s career.

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

An installation view of Rirkrit Tiravanija's work, Untitled 1992 (Free), dated 1992-2007, at David Zwirner New York, in 2007.

Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2021. Photo by Daniel Dorsa

Rirkrit Tiravanija: Fear Eats the Soul, Glenstone Museum, 2024

Edited with text by Emily Wei Rales, Nora Severson Cafritz, Daniel Mauro. Text by Molly Nesbit, Okwui Enwezor, Gavin Brown

Vividly illustrated documentation of the artist’s participatory dining installation at Glenstone

For more than 30 years, community has been central to the work of artist Rirkrit Tiravanija (born 1961). With a keen focus on collective activities and rituals, Tiravanija frequently incorporates elements such as cooking, conversation and art-making into the experiences offered by his practice. This book commemorates Tiravanija’s 2019–20 titular installation at Glenstone Museum. The participatory exhibition featured the serving of fresh soup, an active T-shirt printing factory and an evolving presentation of graffiti that unfolded across the reconfigured architecture of the museum’s Charles Gwathmey–designed building.

Anchoring this volume are texts from Molly Nesbit, Okwui Enwezor and Gavin Brown, offering perspectives that illuminate the artist’s conceptual grounding. The fully illustrated publication also features reflections from staff involved in the exhibition’s presentation, recipes of the soups served and extensive photography of the graffiti rendered throughout the run of the show.

Rirkrit Tiravanija: Fear Eats the Soul

Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato

Brazilian artist Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900–1995) created thousands of paintings documenting everyday subjects in his hometown of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, including landscapes, favelas and the people that inhabited them. This essential monograph on the artist reproduces over 200 works alongside archival documents and photographs.

Lorenzato

Heimarbeit. Adapted for Use. IKEA Küchen Ensemble

., Christopher Williams’ 2023 exhibition at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. The exhibition included six hand-painted signs, four new photographs in full colour, five new wall treatments, two new films, one new sculpture, one new publication in full colour, and one unique arrangement. This book, designed by Petra Hollenbach, includes documentation of this project and a panel discussion from ‘Theater in der Kritik’ on Franz Xaver Kroetz’s play Oberösterreich which has been buried in the ZDF archive since 1972. It includes four full colour plates and four technical drawings describing the adaptable kitchen set IKEA Metod Küchenkombinationen.

Christopher Williams: Blocking Templates, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln, 2023

Christopher Williams: Blocking Templates

Raoul De Keyser, 2009. Photo by Christophe Vander Eecken

Friends in a Field: Conversations with Raoul De Keyser

Friends in a Field: Conversations with Raoul De Keyser, Gregory R. Miller & Co./Mu.ZEE Ostend, 2023

Texts by Douglas Fogle, Hanneke Skerath, and Ilse Roosens

A dialogue of sensibility and attention: artists from Forrest Bess to Amy Sillman juxtaposed with the delicate paintings of Raoul De Keyser

Over the course of his nearly five-decade career, Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser created paintings that bridge the mysteries of the everyday and the intangible world of abstraction. 

 takes the artist’s radical painterly practice as the beginning of a conversation with a diverse group of artists—both living and dead—whose works share a sensibility and attentiveness to the fragile intangibility of the world. In their paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, these artists join De Keyser in presenting the world back to us as a kind of abstract visual poetry. 

 presents works by Richard Aldrich, Forrest Bess, Matt Connors, René Daniëls, Raoul De Keyser, Vincent Fecteau, Maysha Mohamedi, Rebecca Morris, Betty Parsons, Amy Sillman, Ricky Swallow, Patricia Treib, Luc Tuymans, and Lesley Vance.

Texts by Gottfried Boehm, Vincent Broqua, Fritz Horstman, Raimer Jochims, Donald Judd, Heinz Liesbrock, Amy Jean Porter, Jeannette Redensek, and Margit Rowell

The essential account of Albers’s enormously influential proto-Minimalist series, featuring studies and archival materials

Made over the course of a quarter century between 1950 and his death in 1976, Josef Albers’s groundbreaking series 

 comprises 2,000 oil paintings. His quest for continuous reflection and refinement inspired numerous young Minimalist and Conceptualist artists in their search for a reduced formal language. This outstanding volume explores the secrets of Albers’s subtle aesthetic and the questions it poses: what is the significance of the square? How did Albers’s thoughts on color and its use as a material evolve over this span?

Featuring studies on paper, archival materials and essays by Albers aficionados Margit Rowell and Donald Judd, among others, this richly illustrated publication sheds light on the various inspirations that influenced Albers early on in Europe and later in America, and illustrates the lasting impact of his art and thinking.

Josef Albers: Homage to the Square, 1950–1976

Detail view of Alice Neel's 1967 painting titled Richard

Dynamic and forward thinking this unconventional retrospective monograph takes its cues from Alice Neel’s life and work— at once intimate, powerful, and bursting with color.

Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. “One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by,” she explained, “right hot off the griddle.” This beautifully designed volume takes a unique approach to the exhibition catalog, highlighting Neel’s understanding of the fundamentally political nature of how we look at others, and what it means to feel seen. Long a favorite of portrait lovers, Neel has recently gained an even wider 21st-century audience appreciative of the searing candor with which she viewed the world, the depth of her humanity, and her championing of the underdog. This beautifully produced catalog features a thoroughly modern design, as well as an essay by renowned critic Hilton Als and poetry by Daisy Lafarge.

Alice Neel: Hot off the Griddle

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