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Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, La Casa Azul and other places Frida Kahlo called home, on her life and work.La Casa Azul, now one of the most visited museums in Mexico City, was the artist's birthplace and the home where she grew up. Health troubles and a trolley accident in her youth forced her to spend long periods at home convalescing and she took up painting to pass the time, ultimately developing her own distinctive style which depicted themes drawn from her own life but also contained a strong political message. She married renowned artist Diego Rivera and moved out of la Casa Azul, living in other homes in Mexico and abroad, until eventually returning to her childhood home and converting it into a space that reflected her dedication to Mexican culture.Fully illustrated, the book features Frida's paintings together with archive images and family photographs, objects and artefacts she collected and photographs of the surrounding landscape to provide an insight into how these places shaped this much-loved artist and how the homes and landscapes of her life relate to her work.

Jens Hoffmann is a curator and writer based in San Francisco where he is Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Midori Matsui is an art critic and scholar who has written extensively on Japanese and Western art and culture for a wide variety of periodicals and catalogues.Philippe Vergne is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis.Sergio Edelsztein founded The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv in 1995, where he has been the Director since 1997.Shamim M Momin is an Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Branch Director and Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York. Pi Li is a lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Curator at The Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing. Lisette Lagnado was the Chief Curator of the 27th São Paulo Biennial (2006) and, since 2001, she has been editor of the online journal, Trópico. Gloria Sutton is a former Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York and is currently working with the Kunsthalle, Zurich.The Wrong Gallery, set up by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, and the curators Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, was a tiny, not-for-profit, half-metre-square exhibition space located in a shallow doorway in Chelsea, New York’s gallery district. Evicted in July 2005, the gallery space is currently housed at London's Tate Modern. The Wrong Gallery has organised over 30 exhibitions with artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Elizabeth Peyton and Paul McCarthy. Under The Wrong Gallery's name, Catellan, Subotnick and Gioni have also curated such major international projects as the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).Olesya Turkina is a critic, curator and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. During her too-brief career, she produced a distinctive body of work that includes drawings, installations, performances, photographs, and sculptures. Less well known is her remarkable and prolific production of films. This richly illustrated catalogue presents a series of sequential color stills from each of twenty-one original Super 8 films that have been newly preserved and digitized in high definition for the 2015 exhibition, combined with related photographs, and reference still images from all of the artist’s 104 filmworks; together these illustrations sample the full range of the artist’s film practice from 1971 to 1981. The book includes Mendieta’s first published comprehensive filmography resulting from three years of collaborative research conducted by the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection and the University of Minnesota as well as original essays by John Perreault, Michael Rush, Rachel Weiss, Lynn Lukkas, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, and Laura Wertheim Joseph. The first book-length treatment of Mendieta’s moving-image practice, Covered in Time and History aims to locate her films centrally within her larger oeuvre and at the forefront of the multidisciplinary shifts that characterized visual arts practice during the 1970s.Published in association with the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota.Exhibition dates:University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA): November 9, 2016–February 12, 2017NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdate: February 28–July 3, 2016Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota: September 15–December 12, 2015

Only 100 Available In The U.k, Numbered And Signed By The Author And Legendary Artist Marina Abramovic. Lavish Packaging: Encased In A Bright Red Slipcase With Die-cut Holes, This Deluxe Edition Makes For A Chic And Artistic Literary Presentation Hand-signed Cover: Each Deluxe Edition Cover Will Be Hand-signed By Marina Abramovic And Feature Elegant Color Endpapers, Two Full Color 8-page Inserts, And Over 100 Black And White Photographs Throughout The Book This Memoir Spans Marina Abramovic's Five Decade Career, And Tells A Life Story That Is Almost As Exhilarating And Extraordinary As Her Groundbreaking Performance Art. Taking Us From Her Early Life In Communist Ex-yugoslavia, To Her Time As An A Young Art Student In Belgrade In The 1970s, Where She First Made Her Mark With A Series Of Pieces That Used The Body As A Canvas, The Book Also Describes Her Relationship With The West German Performance Artist Named Ulay Who Was Her Lover And Sole Collaborator For 12 Years. Abramovic Has Collaborated With Stars From Lady Gaga To Jay-z, James Franco And Willem Dafoe. Best Known For Her Recent Pieces 'the Artist Is Present' And '512 Hours', This Book Is A Fascinating Insight Into The Life Of One Of The Most Important Artists Working Today, And The Woman Who Has Been Described As 'the Grandmother Of Performance Art'.

A curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever builtThis Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling and much-admired style of architecture. It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern bloc and other far flung parts of the world.It includes works by some of the best contemporary architects including Zaha Hadid and David Chipperfield as well as by some of the master architects of the 20th century including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph and Marcel Breuer.

You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all--with her black braided hair and colorful Mexican outfits. A brave woman who was an invalid most of her life, she transformed herself into a living work of art. As famous for her self-portraits and haunting imagery as she was for her marriage to another famous artist, Diego Rivera, this strong and courageous painter was inspired by the ancient culture and history of her beloved homeland, Mexico. Her paintings continue to inform and inspire popular culture around the world.

You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all--with her black braided hair and colorful Mexican outfits. A brave woman who was an invalid most of her life, she transformed herself into a living work of art. As famous for her self-portraits and haunting imagery as she was for her marriage to another famous artist, Diego Rivera, this strong and courageous painter was inspired by the ancient culture and history of her beloved homeland, Mexico. Her paintings continue to inform and inspire popular culture around the world.

Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has always been both her subject and her medium, and she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her ongoing quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. As a vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden, Abramovic created some of the most historic early performance pieces. Of these artists, she is the only one still making important durational works.

A collection of writings that sets out Kengo Kuma's theories of architecture, but also a left field critique of where the architecture world finds itself today. Kengo Kuma is one of Japan's leading architects and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Widely known as a prolific writer and philosopher, he proposes architecture that opens up new relationships between nature, technology and human beings. Through a series of thought-provoking essays, he unveils his vision of architecture as a dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation, critiquing the megastructures and capitalist influences of the 20th century and challenging readers to reconsider the role of architecture in shaping our world. Drawing from diverse disciplines including art history, philosophy and literature, Kuma crafts a narrative that transcends the boundaries of traditional architectural theory, presenting a compelling manifesto for a new era of design - one that dismantles hard concrete volumes into points, lines and planes that celebrate the simplicity and sustainability of human connection.

Sculpture Now surveys the dynamic developments in sculptural practice worldwide since the mid-1990s, outlining major trends and identifying the groundbreaking artists who are forging new paths and setting the contemporary agenda. Authoritative and highly readable, Anna Moszynska's text is organized around seven key themes, from the use of the body in sculpture and the appropriation of everyday materials to the importance of nature and ecology to today's artists, the relationship with design and other disciplines, and the enormous impact of installation in the twenty-first century. Established artists such as Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, Gabriel Orozco, Isa Genzken, Miroslaw Balka and Doris Salcedo are featured alongside an international cross-section of the most promising new talent, including Sopheap Pich, Anselm Reyle, Karla Black, Sarah Sze and Thomas Houseago. With over 200 color illustrations displaying a huge range of sculptural work, Sculpture Now offers the essential account of one of the most exciting and experimental forms in contemporary artistic practice.