A scuplture by Yayoi Kusama called Dancing Pumpkin dated 2020

Yayoi Kusama, 2021.  Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki

Leslie Camhi

RoseLee Goldberg

Takaya Goto

Laura Hoptman

Arthur Lubow

Kevin McGarry

Louise Neri

Olivier Zahm

Edited by Louise Neri and Takaya Goto. Contributions by Leslie Camhi, RoseLee Goldberg, Laura Hoptman, Chris Kraus, Arthur Lubow, Kevin McGarry, Louise Neri, Akira Tatehata, and Olivier Zahm

The most comprehensive book devoted to the incomparable and iconic work of Yayoi Kusama. Yayoi Kusama, now in her eighties, has become a vital force in contemporary art and an influence on generations of artists. Arriving in New York City in 1958 from her native Japan, she embarked on a series of works that forged a new visual vocabulary—the Net paintings, which were composed of scores of small, thickly painted loops spanning large canvases. Her singular approach to art making continued in other extraordinary bodies of work, including the phallic soft sculptures which she later incorporated into full-scale environments. In 1973 she returned to Japan, where she lives and works today. Since then, she has created dazzling walk-in mirror rooms and her now-famous pumpkin sculptures, as well as writing poetry and novels. In this book—created in close collaboration with Kusama and her Tokyo studio—the breadth and import of this watershed artist’s career are considered in depth. In addition to studies of the development of her artistic vocabularies across different media, the book includes ephemera, sketches, and photographs from the artist’s extensive archive that have never been seen before. The publication is timed to coincide with the artist’s major touring retrospective, which makes its American debut at the Whitney Museum in New York in summer 2012, as well as with the much-anticipated collaboration with powerhouse fashion brand Louis Vuitton.

Yayoi Kusama

A detail of a photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans titled Sicily Morning, dated 2018.

In February 2011, German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) decided to pay a visit to Fruit Logistica, the most important convention in the international fruit trade, held annually in Berlin. More than 2,400 fresh produce companies gather at the convention, presenting a dazzling panorama of texture and color. “I was left open-mouthed by the crazy displays and the variety and complexity of the international fruit trade and its processing machinery,” he records. “I reacted with my camera straight away.” The resultant 66 color photographs are published here for the first time.

Wolfgang Tillmans: Fruit Logistica

Edited by Gregor Jansen, Magdalena Holzhey

German painter Tomma Abts (born 1967) creates her geometric abstractions through a slow and strict process, always deploying the same modest portrait format (19 x 15 inches), and applying layer upon layer of paint like blankets of sediment. This catalogue brings together her older paintings with her most recent work and offers the fullest presentation of her career to date.

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Tomma Abts

Scott Harding

John Medeski

Special six-sided 10th Anniversary Edition vinyl

(2003) is the final state of a work that Stan Douglas first presented during the summer of 2002 at 

 in Kassel. In the earlier version, pre-recorded videos of scenes from the Grimms’ fairy tales were superimposed in a random rotation with live, black-and-white feeds from surveillance cameras inside the labyrinthian corridors of Kassel’s Herkules Oktagon monument. A computer mixed this material in real-time, adding sporadic narration and musical accompaniment, and as a result, an effectively endless number of possible permutations were generated: there were no repetitions during the one hundred days of 

Further elaborating upon this work, Douglas taped the random mix of pre-recorded material and surveillance feeds in Kassel and re-edited it with additional scenes and revised narration. First shown in 2003 as a projected installation controlled by an apparatus with a generative algorithm, the present monitor version is derived from this system.

The visual presentation of the pre-recorded fairy tales in 

presents a link with Dario Argento\s eponymous horror movie from 1977. Argento's film was shot in Technicolor, a now obsolescent process which confers a lush, highly saturated palette to the material. Douglas’s scenes capture the style and sound of the film, and their juxtaposition with the muted aesthetics of the Kassel surveillance feeds creates a visually complex, almost delirious effect.

As Nell McClister notes, “Douglas’s overall project involves modernism’s promise and the nostalgia that results from its failure. With 

 the artist turns explicitly to a few historical moments of utopian aspiration. Referring to both 

(in which Marx repeatedly nods to a fairy-tale idiom of drama and transformation) and 

(which famously opens with the 'spector of communism' hanging over Europe), Douglas mines the Grimms’ stories for economic and social allegory.”

Stan Douglas: Suspiria

Lewis Carroll

Text by Lewis Carroll. Artwork by Yayoi Kusama

Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the Wonderland of Alice. She is fascinated by childhood and the way adults have the ability, at their most creative, to see things the way children do, a central concern of the Alice books, by Lewis Carroll.

The book is colour illustrated to very high specification, with her images interspersed thoughtfully throughout the text.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Artwork by Yayoi Kusama

Paul McCarthy

Eva Meyer-Hermann

Ralph Rugoff

Text by Paul McCarthy, Eva Meyer-Hermann, and Ralph Rugoff

The installation “Perfect World,” which Jason Rhoades created for the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 1999, is regarded by many as his most important project. This publication is devoted to that huge work, looking at it from a historical distance, and examining the artist’s central modi operandi as prototypes.

In a wide-ranging conversation Paul McCarthy, a former teacher and friend of the artist, together with Ralph Rugoff, looks back at the Hamburg project and discusses its significance in the context of Rhoades’s work overall. In his essay, Rugoff examines the true-to-scale reductions in the installation, which were created in aluminum and sterling silver as reflections of 

, and which can hardly be included in the traditional concept of the “model.” A picture essay by Eva Meyer-Hermann looks at the phenomenon of the recycling of materials in Rhoades’s work, and follows the further development of central themes in the Hamburg installation.

The book includes many drawings from the artist’s “XEROX-book” that can be read as notes on the intellectual zones and material levels of 

 while at the same time prefiguring many artistic ideas that occupied Rhoades until his early death in 2006. Lavish illustrations and numerous historical photographs of the versions of 

 created in 1999 and 2000, as well as of the complete version of the installation shown in its entirety for the first time in London in 2010 as 

 provide a detailed insight into Rhoades’s artistic cosmos.

Jason Rhoades: The Big Picture

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

Tiffany Bell

Isabelle Dervaux

Jennifer Raab

With texts by Tiffany Bell, Isabelle Dervaux, and Jennifer Raab

This publication documents the first retrospective of the artist’s drawings, which was held at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, in 2012 (it then traveled to the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, in 2012-2013). The catalogue explores the central role that drawing played in Flavin’s practice, and includes essays by exhibition curator Isabelle Dervaux, noted Flavin scholar Tiffany Bell, and art historian Jennifer Raab. Excerpts from Flavin’s journal, in which he writes about his relationship to drawing, are published here for the first time. This richly illustrated catalogue features over 190 plates, including selections from the artist’s personal collection of nineteenth-century Japanese drawings, Hudson River School landscape studies, and drawings by other twentieth-century artists, from Piet Mondrian to Donald Judd.

Dan Flavin: Drawing

Spanning the most important era of his life, from the painful formative years of his early adolescence to the fame and fortune of his adulthood, this collection of personal correspondences sheds light on the artistic development, bitter struggle, and ultimate triumph of the greatest cartoonist of the twentieth century. A powerful literary view into the mind of an artistic genius, and an entertaining read even for those few not familiar with the cartooning giant's work. It's Crumb's sketchbook of words, featuring tons of great art, including entire letters done in cartoon form!

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Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: Robert Crumb Letters 1958–1977

A detail of an artwork by Michaël Borremans titled The Commuter II dated 2022

Portrait of Michaël Borremans, 2025. Photo by Charlie De Keersmaecker 

Christine Kintisch

Belgian artist Michaël Borremans (born 1963) is among the most brilliant painters of emotion of the past half-century. An heir to the sober, enigmatic character studies of Manet and Velazquez and the thick indoor atmospheres of Vermeer, Borremans has greatly advanced this tradition, in part through his incorporation of cinematic allusion and of that uniquely Belgian take on Surrealism that is at once deeply phlegmatic and bizarrely comical. Any divisions between realism and flights of fantasy are mysteriously abolished by Borremans, however, leaving the viewer to confront his intense, almost claustrophobic painterly world. Published for an exhibition at BAWAG Contemporary in Vienna, 

 presents a concise selection of a dozen canvases made over the past five years, examined in dialogue with the artist’s drawings and films.

Michaël Borremans: Magnetics

 finally charts the daily exploits and erotic craziness of this “First Couple” of comics. Who could have imagined that in 1972, when Aline Kominsky, a Long Island escapee and bodaciously talented artist, broke her foot one rainy fall day, it would result in the most unique collaboration in comics history? Laid up in her house, she was persuaded by R. Crumb, her nerdy, neurotic boyfriend, to pass the time drawing together a “two-man” comic. The result is a jaw-dropping yet tender account, not only of the joys and challenges of a legendary marriage, but also of the obstacles faced by struggling female artists. In 

, our foremost male-female cartooning couple recall their success at shocking America with 

, the life-altering birth of their precocious daughter Sophie, and their astonishing move to the safe haven of France. With an irresistible introduction and a striking four-color section, Drawn Together becomes a graphic cause-célebre and a must-have for any comics devotee.

Drawn Together: The Collected Works of R. and A. Crumb

Detail view of Alice Neel's 1967 painting titled Richard

Tim Griffin

Louise Sørensen

Texts by Tim Griffin and Louise Sørensen

Alice Neel (1900–1984) is widely regarded as one of the greatest portraitists of the 20th century. Described as “the pre-eminent painter-chronicler of New York bohemia” by Deborah Solomon of 

, the artist selected her subjects among from her family, friends, and a broad variety of locals: writers, poets, artists, students, textile salesmen, psychologists, cabaret singers, and homeless bohemians. Thus, her eccentric choices also comprised a portrayal of, and dialogue with, the city in which she lived. Through her forthright and at times humorous touch, her work engaged with ongoing political and social issues, including gender, racial inequality, and labor struggles, and she remains a hero to many of today’s most influential figurative painters, including Marlene Dumas, Eric Fischl, and Elizabeth Peyton.

Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at David Zwirner in New York in 2012—the second solo exhibition of the artist’s work at the gallery since Zwirner started representing her Estate in 2008—this beautifully designed book presents a selection of portraits and still lifes from the last two decades of the artist’s life, made between 1964 and 1983. Anchored by large-scale color reproductions of her compelling compositions, the publication also includes an essay by Tim Griffin, Executive Director and Chief Curator at The Kitchen, New York, and former 

Alice Neel: Late Portraits & Still Lifes

Interviews compiled by Jessamyn Fiore. Introduction and selected texts by Louise Sørensen

112 Greene Street was more than a physical space—it was a locus of energy and ideas that with a combination of genius and chance had a profound impact on the trajectory of contemporary art...its permeable walls became the center of an artistic community that challenged the traditional role of the artist, the gallery, the performer, the audience, and the work of art.

112 Greene Street was one of New York’s first alternative, artist-run venues. Started in October 1970 by Jeffrey Lew, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Alan Saret, among others, the building became a focal point for a young generation of artists seeking a substitute for New York’s established gallery circuit, and provided the stage for a singular moment of artistic invention and freedom that was at its peak between 1970 and 1974.

112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974)

 is the culmination of an exhibition by the same name that was on view at David Zwirner in New York in 2011. This extensively researched and historically important book brings together a number of works that were exhibited at the seminal space (including works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Vito Acconci, Tina Girouard, Suzanne Harris, Jene Highstein, Larry Miller, Alan Saret, and Richard Serra); extensive interviews with many of the artists involved in the space; a fascinating timeline of all the activity at 112 Greene Street in the early years; and installation views of the 2011 exhibition. The interviews in the book have been prepared by the exhibition’s curator, Jessamyn Fiore, and Louise Sørensen, Head of Research at David Zwirner, has contributed an introductory text that illuminates the space’s significance and critical reception during the prime years of its operation, as well as commentary on individual works in the show.

112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970-1974)

Edited by Michelle White, Bernice Rose and Gary Garrels. Contributions by Magdalena Dabrowski and Richard Shiff



As the focal point of numerous high-profile exhibitions, the sculpture of Richard Serra (b. 1939) has drawn international acclaim. Yet even those who have marveled at Serra's intellectually rigorous and large works of sculpture may not be familiar with his equally intriguing drawings. This handsome book brings together for the first time Serra's drawn work, considering the artist's investigation of medium as an activity both independent from and linked to his pioneering sculptural practice.

First working in ink, charcoal, and lithographic crayon on paper, Serra originally used drawing as a means to explore form and perceptual relations between his sculpture and the viewer. Over time, his drawings underwent significant shifts in concept, materials, and scale and became fully realized and autonomous works of art. The grand, bold forms he created with black paintstick in his monumental Installation Drawings were designed to disrupt and complement existent spaces and eventually began to occupy entire rooms. In the late 1980s, Serra explored the tension of weight and gravity through layering, and his most recent work experiments with surface effects, using mesh screens as intermediaries between the gesture and the transfer of pigment to paper.

Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective

A detail from a painting by Steven Shearer, titled The Collector's Visit, dated 2019.

Steven Shearer, The Collector's Visit, 2019

Adopting and elaborating upon stylistic repertoires drawn from the history of figure painting, Steven Shearer makes formal and thematic parallels between art history and the iconography associated with various contemporary subcultures including their modes of dissemination such as fanzines and image shrines on personal websites. He is interested in how contemporary society unconsciously echoes specific manners of appearance that have been explored by historical movements or schools. Seen in this light the resemblance between the long, flowing hair of his metal-head rockers and the tresses of Pre-Raphaelite heroines is not fortuitous. Central to Shearer's work is his ongoing compilation of an archive of thousands of images culled from magazines, songs and the internet. In his paintings, text-based works, sculptures and photographic compilations, these sources function generatively as they are combined and recycled across his works. By showing us aspects of popular culture anachronistically, Shearer exposes the false hierarchy of high and low art and prompts us to consider the differences between the cultural industries and the art world.

Steven Shearer: Exhume to Consume

Louis Kaplan

Maria Muhle

Melanie O’Brian

Introduction by Melanie O’Brian. Texts by Louis Kaplan and Maria Muhle

Marking the first in a new series of scholarly readers called Power Plant Pages, this richly designed catalogue was published on the occasion of Stan Douglas’s 2011 solo exhibition at The Power Plant in Toronto. Titled 

Entertainment: Selections from Midcentury Studio

, the exhibition featured two complementary series, 

, recently created by the artist. Douglas has assumed the role of a fictional, anonymous photographer for both series, which were hypothetically produced between 1945-1951. 

 chronicles the burgeoning discipline of press photography in North America during the postwar period, depicting crime-scenes, curious and exotic artifacts, magicians, fashion, dance, gambling, and technology, while 

 comprises black-and-white portraits of the patrons and staff of a fictional 1950s nightclub. Also included are essays by Louis Kaplan, Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media at the University of Toronto, and art historian Maria Muhle.

Stan Douglas: Entertainment

Noam M. Elcott

Sylvia Lavin

Introduction by Noam Elcott. Text by Sylvia Lavin

Over the course of three years, from 2006 to 2009, James Welling (born 1951) photographed the Glass House, the architectural landmark estate that Philip Johnson built in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1949. Welling's photos offer a decided departure from the familiar views of the house and grounds: using digital cameras set on a tripod and holding a variety of filters in front of the lens, he created tinted veils and distortions that transformed the image at the moment of exposure, endowing it with powerful swells of glowing color. As Welling described it in an interview with 

, the use of filters enabled his project to become "a laboratory for ideas about transparency, reflectivity and color." The 45 images presented here, which invite the viewer to draw associations between the camera's lens and the glass surfaces of the house itself, oscillate before our very eyes between photographic abstraction--a recurrent preoccupation for Welling--and depictions of architecture. With this body of work, Welling has located a wholly new approach to, and blend of, both genres.

James Welling: Glass House

Sherrie Levine, Dark Blue Moonlight After Man Ray: 11, 2016

Howard Singerman

This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs “after Walker Evans”—taken not from life but from Evans’s famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama—became central examples in theorizing postmodernism in the visual arts in the 1980s. For the first in-depth examination of Levine, Howard Singerman surveys a wide variety of sources, both historical and theoretical, to assess an artist whose work was understood from the outset to challenge both the label “artist” and the idea of oeuvre—and who has over the past three decades crafted a significant oeuvre of her own. Singerman addresses Levine’s work after Evans, Brancusi, Malevich, and others as an experimental art historical practice—material reenactments of the way the work of art history is always doubled in and structured by language, and of the ways the art itself resists.

Art History After Sherrie Levine

Alexander Alberro

Nora M. Alter

Serge Guilbaut

Sven Lütticken

Jesse Proudfoot

Texts by Nora M. Alter, Serge Guilbaut, Sven Lütticken, and Jesse Proudfoot. Interview with the artist by Alexander Alberro

 is a 44-foot mural installation by Stan Douglas on permanent display at The Woodward Complex in Vancouver. This beautifully designed monograph takes an in-depth look into this monumental work that depicts a staged reenactment of a violent event in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Gastown Riot, as it came to be known, was the culmination of mounting tensions between the city’s counterculture and police following weeks of drug-related arrests. Thousands of people had gathered in a peaceful “smoke-in” protest in the Gastown district, before police in riot gear broke up the event using batons, horses, and dogs to disperse the protesters. Douglas’s meticulous recreation captures the ensuing mayhem with its general atmosphere of confusion and panic. This monograph features essays by Nora M. Alter, Serge Guilbaut, Sven Lütticken, and Jesse Proudfoot and an interview with the artist by Alexander Alberro. Also included are supplementary works from Douglas’s 

 series and archival photographs of the Gastown Riot.

Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971

Michael Almereyda

Lloyd Fonvielle

Kristine McKenna

Greil Marcus

Amy Taubin

Texts by Michael Almereyda, Lloyd Fonvielle, Kristine McKenna, Greil Marcus, and Amy Taubin

For Now is the result of filmmaker Michael Almereyda’s year-long search through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising.

William Eggleston: For Now

Luc Tuymans in his studio, 2022. Photo by Otman Q

Edited by Pablo Sigg and Tommy Simoens. Texts by Luc Tuymans, Pablo Sigg, Tommy Simoens, and Gerrit Vermeiren

Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this volume presents more than 100 paintings produced between 2004 and 2008. Beginning with 

, Luc Tuymans produced a landmark suite of seven thematically linked bodies of work. With a visual narrative that traces the philosophical and psychic roots of contemporary civilization, the series interweave a range of sources — from St. Peter’s Basilica to Disneyland to the 

 house — that together tell the banal and terrifying story of our times. Also included are photographs, preparatory drawings, watercolors, and installation views, all in full color.

Introducing each body of work is a text written by the artist. ‘Proper,’ an essay by Belgian art historian Gerrit Vermeiren, looks at one body of work in detail, tracing the themes of each painting and capturing the cultural atmosphere of the moment in which they were produced. ‘Tuymans, Loyola, Leibniz,’ specially commissioned from Pablo Sigg, an artist and writer based in Mexico, provides historical and philosophical context. An extensive interview by Belgian artist Tommy Simoens offers further insight into Tuymans’s thinking and motivations.

Luc Tuymans: Is It Safe?

An installation view of the exhibition, Suzan Frecon: recent paintings, oil and water, at David Zwirner in London, dated 2022.

 at David Zwirner in fall of 2010, this beautifully designed and produced catalogue — with a text by noted curator and art historian Joachim Pissarro — features Suzan Frecon’s most recent large-scale oil paintings, along with newly commissioned color photography of exhibition and studio installation views, as well as the artist’s notebooks and sketches. Also included is the facsimile of a personal letter to the artist from poet Clark Coolidge.

Suzan Frecon: paintings 2006–2010

Diedrich Diederichsen

John Kelsey

Christopher Williams

Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, John Kelsey, and Christopher Williams

For over 20 years Christopher Williams has worked in the field between photography as art and the application of the photographic medium to documentation, advertising, and journalism. The works involve volumes of such subtexts and themes, which are rarely fully apparent, but are concealed behind layer upon layer of circumstances and references, connotations, and background stories. Williams is a decided storyteller, and builds up his narratives by way of an almost essayistic juxtaposition of photographs that stand in relation – not directly obvious – with one another.

The exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall was the first solo presentation of Williams's work in Scandinavia and the title hints at a specific angle of approach to the complex network of connections. 

For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle

 suggests a course of lessons that covers the industrial preconditions of the spread of photography, and which can in turn be applied to society in a larger perspective. The accumulation of loosely related events in European culture (decolonization, industrialization, the revolution of ‘68) is paralleled with inventions from the same era which have influenced photographic technology. The same title has been used for several exhibitions in recent years, but often with an addition that indicates that each new exhibition is a new experiment: a new revision. The way the titles begin with “For Example” also indicates the same experimental attitude.

The exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall was not a retrospective in the traditional sense, but brought out various aspects of the artistic oeuvre through a selection of both recent photographs and older works. The exhibition itself thus constituted a new revision of Williams’s ongoing project.

The exhibition catalogue collects, for the first time, a selection of Williams’s own writing in the form of press releases for recent exhibitions, each containing only minor changes from one exhibition to the next. The book also presents two new essays on the work of Christopher Williams by John Kelsey and Diedrich Diederichsen.

Christopher Williams: Program. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10)

A painting by Marlene Dumas, titled Longing, dated 2018.

Texts by Dominic van den Boogerd, Barbara Bloom, Mariuccia Casadio, and Ilaria Bonacossa

An investigation into the human form as painted by the acclaimed artist.

Marlene Dumas

In 2007, Thomas Ruff completed his monumental 

 series in which he explored the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Starting with images he culled primarily from the Web, Ruff enlarged them to a gigantic scale, which exaggerates the pixel patterns until they become sublime geometric displays of color. Many of Ruff’s works in the series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes, and conversely, scenes of war, and nature disturbed by human manipulation. Taken together, these masterworks create an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that also actively engages the history of landscape painting. A fittingly deluxe and oversized volume, 

 is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the publication of Ruff’s remarkable series. Also included is an essay by Bennett Simpson, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Thomas Ruff: jpegs

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