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• Coming to Grips with Maria Lind’s Twenty-Seven Hands and a Soft Extra Muscle : Goldin+Senneby with Carbonhand®
• On Maria Lind : Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
• 2011 : March : Next Top Model
• April : High Performance
• May : Heart of the Matter
• Summer : Less Is Best...
• September : A Curator Queues and Sweats and Chatters : And Wonders if She Really Needs to Be at Another Teflon Biennale
• November : A Curator on the Art of Exhibition Design, Lost Somewhere on the Way to Vienna and Istanbul
• December : A Curator Discovers That It’s Not Only Sisters but Also Smaller Art Organisations Who Are Doing Itfor Themselves
• 2012 : March : Future Greats : Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sunden
• Can Concrete Art Help Break an Obsession with History among Current Documentary Practices?
• May : A Curator Considers the Lessons to Be Learned from Monuments and Memorials
• Summer : A Critic Chuckles Away at the Anarchic, Off-the-Wall Antics of a Swedish Design Collective
• Imagined Interview with Maria Lind / Ahmet Ogut
• 2013 : March : Future Greats : Magnus Bärtås
• What Makes a Jewel?
• May : Marie-Louise Ekman : The Melancholic Carnival of a Proto Bad Girl
• September : Venice : A Victory for Brains over Brawn
• October : The Rise of the Gnomons
• November : Can a Show about the Real World Be Too Close to the Real World?
• December : It's Time to Go Back to Basics (and Earrings)
• 2014 : March : Future Greats : Flaka Haliti
• A New Enlightenment?
• April : Late-Modernist Housing
• May : The Performance of Bureaucracy
• Summer : Lisa Robertson
• September : The Triumph of the Nerds
• October : If You're Just Offering Me Some More Art, Then You Can Go Somewhere Else
• November : As Close as It Gets
• December : A Funhouse in Paris Brings to Mind a Classic Fairytale
• 2010/2018 : Philippe Parreno
• 2015 : January/February : A Tehran Sensation
• March : Future Greats : Ayesha Sultana
• The Transforming Wonders of the Natural World
• April : An Ominous Buzz
• May : In Defence of the Biennial
• Summer : Male Melancholia
• September : Orgasmic Potential
• October : Sticky Fingers, Dirty Shoes
• November : Quiet Traumas
• 2016 : Winter : Mundus Imaginalis
• January/February : On Fertile Ground
• March : Home Works
• April : Networked Nation
• May : Jeamin Cha
• Summer : Nazgol Ansarinia
• September : Age of Hybridity
• On the Spot No 1 : Interview by Mark Rappolt
• December : Support Structures
• March : After the Tunnel, the Light
• April : Pointless Acts
• May : Molecular Dramas
• Summer : Gender Indeterminate
• October : Looms Everywhere
• December : State of the Nation
• Nerdish at Its Best / Joanna Warsza
• Contributor Biographies
• Image Credits
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• About the Author

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Permissions INTRODUCTION: Beyond Critique Pamela Fraser (University of Vermont, USA) and Roger Rothman (Bucknell University, USA)
• PART 1: HISTORY & THEORY
• 1. An Allegory of Criticism David Joselit (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
• 2. Fluxus and the Art of Affirmation Roger Rothman (Bucknell University, USA)
• 3. Defining Criticality as an Historical Object of the 1970s and 1980s AnneMarie Perl (Princeton University, USA)
• 4. "The people were smart and hungry": Criticality, Egalitarianism, and the Pictures Generation Anthony E. Grudin (University of Vermont, USA)
• 5. Shiny Things Paul Preissner (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
• PART 2: PRACTICE
• 6. Still in the Cage: Thoughts on "Two Undiscovered Amerindians, " 20 Years Later Coco Fusco (independent artist)
• 7. Parasitism and Contemporary Art Adrian Anagnost (Tulane University, USA)
• 8. Time, Autonomy and Criticality in Socially Engaged Art Grant Kester (University of California at SanDiego, USA)
• 9. Radical Proximity Sofia Leiby (independent artist)
• 10. Post-Critical Painting Andreas Fischer (Illinois State University, USA)
• 11. Intimate Bureaucracies: A [Sweetened and Condensed] Manifesto dj readies [Craig Saper] (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
• PART 3: INSTRUCTION On Performing the Critical Billie Lee (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) Consideration (As an Antidote to Critique) Karen Schiff (Rhode island School of Design and Boston Architectural College, USA) Re-Thinking Art Education (Revisited), or How I Learned to Love Art Schools Again Jen Delos Reyes (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Pragmatics of Studio Critique Judith Leeman (Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA) Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Gift, Circulation, and Community Building in the Studio Art Crit. Shona Macdonald (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Index.
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Critique has long been a central concept within art practice and theory. Since the emergence of Conceptual Art, artists have been expected by critics, curators, and art school faculty to focus their work on exposing and debunking ideologies of power and domination. Recently, however, the effectiveness of cultural critique has come into question. The appearance of concepts such as the "speculative, " the "reparative, " and the "constructive" suggests an emerging postcritical paradigm. Beyond Critique takes stock of the current discourse around this issue. With some calling for a renewed criticality and others rejecting the model entirely, the book's contributors explore a variety of new and recently reclaimed criteria for contemporary art and its pedagogy. Some propose turning toward affect and affirmation; others seek to reclaim such allegedly discredited concepts as intimacy, tenderness, and spirituality. With contributions from artists, critics, curators and historians, this book provides new ways of thinking about the historical role of critique while also exploring a wide range of alternative methods and aspirations. Beyond Critique will be a crucial tool for students and instructors who are seeking to think and work beyond the critical.
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What is contemporary art? What makes it 'contemporary'? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? The contemporary art world can be a baffling place, but Kyung An and Jessica Cerasi are on hand to bring you up to speed. From museums and the art market to biennales and the next big thing, Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? offers concise and pointed insights into today's art scene, examining how artists are propelled to stardom, explaining what curators do, challenging our understanding of artistic skill, demystifying the art market, and much, much more. In this easy-to-navigate A to Z guide, the authors' playful explanations draw on key artworks, artists and events from around the globe, including how the lights going on and off won the Turner Prize, what makes the likes of Marina Abramoviae and Ai Weiwei such great artists, and why Kanye West would trade his Grammys to be one. Packed with behind-the-scenes information and completely free of jargon, Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? is the perfect gallery companion and the go-to guide for when the next big thing leaves you stumped.
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In his highly original, wide-ranging and abundantly illustrated book, Alistair Hicks demonstrates his belief that no single curator, critic or dealer can or should monopolize our view of what is happening in the art world today. Instead, he aims to show us how exciting and rewarding it is to steer our own way through the art world. See the art, listen to the artist, trust your responses learn to navigate according to your own instincts. The Global Art Compass is an account of the authors explorations in the contemporary art world and a manifesto for how we might all discover our own inner art compass. The book has an easy-to-navigate continent-by-continent structure and includes numerous extracts from the authors interviews with artists as diverse as Laure Prouvost (France), Gavin Turk (UK), Anri Sala (Albania), Roman Ondak (Slovakia), Michael Borremans (Belgium), Lada Nakonechna (Russia), Gabriel Orozco (Mexico), Amy Cutler (USA), Sandra Gamarra (Peru), Cai Guo-Qiang (China), Nandan Ghiya (India) among many others.
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"Literary Nonfiction. Art. Award-winning journalist, artist, and educator Patricia Rosoff offers a first-hand tour of the sometimes shocking, often challenging ideas and approaches that continue to fuel the art of today. Rosoff describes the sources of contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media in the works of such radicals as Monet, Kandinsky, and Joseph Cornell, who are now part of the tradition but who keep on catalyzing experimental innovators such as Ellen Carey, Spencer Finch, Janine Antoni, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovale. With close (and sympathetic) consideration of conceptualists, including works by Sol LeWitt and Mierle Ukeles, and with special excitement about the inexhaustible potential in abstract art, Pat Rosoff is the gallery or museum guide you've always wished to have along"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction Profiles and images of 100 artists and artists collectives in A-Z format.
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'Beyond Contemporary Art' explores an international group of artists whose diverse creative practises over the last decade have been instrumental in the development of the contemporary art world. The vibrant contemporary art scene is one of constant expansion and innovation, where artists are continually reinventing themselves and dissolving boundaries in artistic disciplines. Etan Jonathan Ilfeld provides an illuminating introduction which discusses the development of international art fairs, the growth of graffiti and street art as well as the technological advancements which have enabled the creation of iPhone art apps, virtual reality, synthetic biology and computer art. This visually stunning and accessible book emphasises the increased hybridisation of the art world, which spans disciplines ranging from science, design and architecture to new media, filmmaking and performance art. 'Beyond Contemporary Art' surveys the work of well-known artists, such as Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter, as well as new and emerging ones such as Katie Paterson, whose projects attempt to visualise invisible forces such as dead stars and melting glaciers. This book reflects the playfully subversive nature of contemporary art and would appeal to any reader interested in the international contemporary art scene. Artists featured include: Mika Rottenberg - Argentina, Natalie Jeremijenko - Australia, Azra Aksamija - Bosnia-Herzegovina, Eduardo Kac - Brazil, Brian Jungen - Canada, Ivan Navarro - Chile, Ai Weiwei - China, Hrvoje Majer - Croatia, Katja Kublitz - Denmark, Banksy - England, Christophe Bruno - France, Aram Bartholl - Germany, Bjork - Iceland, Roisin Byrne - Ireland, Michal Rovner - Israel, Benedetta Tagliabue - Italy, Fumie Kamijo - Japan, Namhee Kwon - Korea, Mounira Al Solh - Lebanon, Julieta Aranda - Mexico, Alicja Kwade - Poland, Miguel Palma - Portugal, Anton Vidokle - Russia, Katie Paterson - Scotland, Candice Breitz - South Africa, Jeremy Wood - USA among many others.
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• Acknowledgments General Introduction: Contemporary Art in Transition: From Late Modern Art to Now I BECOMING CONTEMPORARY IN EUROAMERICA
• 1. Late Modern Art becomes Contemporary
• 2. The Contemporary Art Boom II THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSITION
• 3. Russia and (East of) Europe
• 4. South and Central America, the Caribbean
• 5. China and East Asia
• 6. India, South and Southeast Asia
• 7. Oceania
• 8. Africa
• 9. West Asia III CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS
• 10. World Pictures: Making Art Politically
• 11. Climate Change: Art and Ecology
• 12. Social Media: Affects of Time
• 13. Coda: Permanent Transition Notes Select Bibliography A Directory of Selected Contemporary Art Websites Index Picture Credits.
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Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. Artists everywhere have embraced the contemporary world's teeming multiplicity, its proliferating differences and its challenging complexities. This book shows how contemporary art achieved definitive force in the markets and museums of the major art centres during the 1980s. It then became a global phenomenon as artworlds everywhere began to connect more closely, to become contemporaneous with each other. New communicative technologies and expanding social media are now shaping the future of art. Terry Smith offers the first account of these changes, from their historical beginnings to the present day. This book breaks new ground in tracing how modern, traditional and indigenous art became contemporary in each of cultural region of the world. The author argues that it is diversity, or the contemporaneity of difference, not a convergence towards sameness, which makes today's art contemporary.
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• The Child Within A Question of Perception Creating a World Ordinary made Extraordinary No Limits.
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Crazy Art will be a revelation to anyone who thinks that art is more or less limited to painting, sculpture and photography. The title features the work of more than sixty contemporary artists drawn from all over the world, demonstrating that there are absolutely no boundaries to expressing the most inventive and exciting ideas through a vast range of different media and materials. Five chapters pitch well-known artists - such as Carl Warner with his bizarre "foodscapes", or Nathan Swaya, creator of Brick Art, and Larry Moss with his famous balloon sculptures - alongside young practitioners like Pei-Sang Ng, an artist whose stunning matchstick designs burn brightly but all too briefly. Each artist and subject receives a short introduction, whilst illustrations and detailed descriptions provide insight into their most important, individual and creative works of art. From Food Art to Body Art, Junk Art to Street and even Dust Art, Crazy Art brings their original, radical and provocative ideas to life. Website links guide the reader toward more information on the artists, their work and the galleries or museums that give them patronage.
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Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators and academics, "Searching for Art's New Publics" explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences: from passers-by encountering and participating in the work unexpectedly, to professionals from other disciplines and members of particular communities. Bridging the gap between practice and theory, this exciting book touches on issues of relational aesthetics, but also offers an illustrated artist-based approach. "Searching for Art's New Publics" will appeal to students studying fine art (especially those with an interest in cross-disciplinary work and public art), and those studying curating.
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• We talk art / Judith Leijdekkers
• Artist portraits / Faye Holdert
• Levi van Veluw / Faye Holdert
• Comment corner / Esra Yalçiner
• William Hunt / Joris de Jong
• MoMA moments / Judith Leijdekkers, Sammie Oostrum
• Randa Shaath / Judith Leijdekkers
• Edith Dekyndt / Sammie Oostrum
• DIY tips / Faye Holdert, Sammie Oostrum
• Marc Bijl / Esra Yalçiner
• Art : behind the scenes / Joris de Jong.

"JET : it's not a plane, it's not a girl's name, it's a book about art" is a publication about contemporary art and has been made by a group of five young people, the Junior Editorial Team (JET). In "JET", various themes, artists, disciplines, philosophies, ideas, opinions, continents and cultures are intertwined, which show the diversity of contemporary art and society. "JET" encourages readers to look, think, talk and ask questions about art. In this publication you will find DIY-tips, cartoons, many different artworks, a fictional story and interviews with artists and art professionals.

230 artists respond to the publisher's request to state what "I want".

• preface Introduction
• 1. What is art really?(According to the general public, art historians, anthropologists and philosophers, art and artists)
• 2. What is a discipline? (Historically, globally, contemporary disciplines, elite disciplines, anti-disciplines
• 3. Why Disciplines? Neoliberalism and the strategy of disciplines, value and excellence
• 4. The discipline of art How art is a discipline
• 5. Art and other disciplines Levinas, Glissant and the other, multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity
• 6. Art and politics... and ethics
• 7. Art in Society
• 8. Genius! (the ongoing appeal of genius, exclusions from the shape of genius, towards understanding art and artists in other terms) Conclusion bibliography index.
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Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists alone who may define what art really is. Jelinek contends that while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its liberal democratic potential. Between Discipline and a Hard Place describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called 'creative' arts. A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art world.
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Contemporary British artist Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, online projects, music, drawing, and poetry. She has been selected as the next artist for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and for the 2020 Duveen Galleries commission at Tate Britain. Other recent commissions include Sharjah Biennial 14 and the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, and her solo projects range from Art on the Underground's flagship site at Gloucester Road, an online work for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and a major solo show at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. This first monograph on the artist traces the evolution of her practice. Alongside the artist's own writings, the book will feature three newly-commissioned essays by writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris, the experimental London-based writer Charlie Fox, and Professor Chus Martinez. The book explores the wide variety of media used by the artist to investigate the power structures and contradictions of contemporary life.