Joseph Beuys

Peter Fischli

David Weiss

Dan Graham

Geoffrey Batchen

Barbara Kruger

Giovanni Anselmo

John Baldessari

Bas Jan Ader

Douglas Fogle

Richard Flood

Vito Acconci

Kathy Halbreich

Mel Bochner

Jan Dibbets

Pamela Lee

Christian Boltanski

Sol Lewitt

Sarah Charlesworth

Valie Export

Stefan Gronnert

Broodthaers, Marcel.

Artists Using Photography 1960-1982

The Last Picture Show

Mark Benjamin Godfrey

Lanka Tattersall

Magnus Schaefer

Working across an unusually broad range of media, including painting, photography, film, drawing and sculpture, Sigmar Polke (German, 1941-2010) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and experimental artists of the post-war generation. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this richly illustrated publication provides an overview of Polke's cross-disciplinary innovations and career. It features more than 500 illustrations and 18 contributions by scholars and artists that examine the full range of Polke's exceptionally inventive oeuvre. Authors such as exhibition curators Kathy Halbreich, Mark Godfrey and Lanka Tattersall, artists John Kelsey and Jutta Koether, and renowned professors Benjamin Buchloh and Christine Mehring discuss a wide range of topics that include Polke's engagement with German history, abstraction and the paranormal, his continuous questioning of conventional artistic disciplines and social norms, and his experiments with materials and tools as diverse as toxic pigments, patterned fabrics, images taken from a vast range of sources, and the Xerox machine. Four lead essays trace broad themes in Polke's work across mediums and across his career, while twelve shorter texts each focus on a single work or aspect of Polke's practice, which allows for a concentrated consideration of critical issues such as Polke's use of language or textiles that have never been discussed before in any depth. A richly illustrated chronology presents a cultural frame for Polke's work and an interview with Benjamin Buchloh offers insight on Polke's first retrospective, held in 1976. The catalogue includes contributions by a wide range of authors with great expertise, most of whom have never published on Polke before, thus broadening the scope of scholarship on Polke and offering new thinking about this chameleon-like artist.

Sigmar Polke 1963-2010. Supplement

Alibis

Dave Hickey

Robert Storr

Paula Marincola

In a time which one critic characterized recently as the era of the curator, it is not only relevant but absolutely necessary to thoroughly question the current state of curatorial practice, its professional values, and the assumptions implicit in them. Curating Now gathers together the thoughts of a diverse group of internationally recognized, influential curators, comments presented for the benefit and examination of their peers at a weekend-long symposium held in October 2000. Questions regarding curatorial power and authorship, as well as how external pressures and challenges shape exhibitions, were addressed by participants including Robert Storr, Senior Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Thelma Golden, Deputy Director of exhibitions, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Curator, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate Gallery, London.

Imaginative Practice, Public Responsibility

Curating Now

Charles Bukowski

Philippe Vergne

Cameron Jamie

Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. Text by Philippe Vergne. Excerpt by Charles Bukowski

Kathy Halbreich

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