Jeffrey Kastner

Brian Wallis

The definitive survey of Land Art and contemporary environmental art, now available in paperback

Land & Environmental Art

Contains essays on art in relation to nature and how our culture affects both things.

Nature

Veronica Roberts

Stuart Horodner

Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser accompanies the Blanton Museum's mid-career survey of the work of Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian, organized by Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Veronica Roberts. The book reveals the artist's humor, ingenuity, and ability to unearth the creative potential that "lurks within the mundane," to use her words. The diverse range of art it highlights includes Mended Spiderwebs, a series of photographs documenting the artist's attempts to weave red string into dilapidated spiderwebs, and Under Pressure, a recent video that Katchadourian took of herself lip-synching to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury's duet using her mobile phone in the cramped quarters of an airplane lavatory. We learn about art projects she has made with the assistance not only of arachnids and rock stars, but also United Nations translators, birdcall experts, librarians, sports announcers, parking lot attendants, an accent elimination coach, and even her own parents. This exhibition catalogue marks the first significant publication on Katchadourian's work and features essays by Jeffrey Kastner and Veronica Roberts, as well as an interview between the artist and Stuart Horodner. In addition, it includes Katchadourian's accounts of fourteen individual works paired with creative essays from a multidisciplinary team of contributors including artist Ann Hamilton, animal behavior expert Laurel Braitman, and sound art scholar Christoph Cox. Through these diverse perspectives, readers are introduced to Katchadourian's unbridled curiosity and puckish wit.

Curiouser

Nina Katchadourian

Arthur C. Danto

Marion Boulton Stroud

Sarah Sze

Jonathan Gilmore

Sarah Sze at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Jeff Gibson

In this provocative new artist's book, painter and critic Jeff Gibson pairs open-ended, abstract photographic images with pages torn from encyclopedias from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.. By contrast, the appropriated pages present various groupings of natural and cultural material and phenomena, whose meanings are comparatively fixed by virtue of their taxonomic organization. Essay by New York journalist and critic Jeffrey Kastner, who writes regularly for Artforum, The New York Times and Cabinet, where he is Senior Editor.Jeff Gibson was born in 1958 in Brisbane, Australia. Now based in New York, he recently presented a work on the Panasonic screen in Times Square as part of Creative Time's 59th Minute program and exhibited at the New York Academy of Sciences. His critical writing has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Flash Art and Art & Text. Exhibition: Binghamton University, SUNY NY 9/28/07-11/3/07

Sarsaparilla to Sorcery

The definitive survey of Land Art and contemporary environmental art.

Jeffrey Kastner

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