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"Sillman is in a thin crowd (with, let's say, Andrea Fraser, Hito Steyerl, Matias Faldbakken, David Salle) of artists who can really write. The evidence is in Faux Pas ... her writings display the same good humor and intelligence of her best paintings." -Jason Farago, New York TimesThis new edition of Faux Pas, the acclaimed collection of writings by Amy Sillman, comes as an expanded edition, with the addition of new essays, including recent texts on Paul Cézanne, Carolee Schneemann, Elizabeth Murray and Louise Fishman. The previously unpublished text from a lecture on drawing complements Sillman's views on color and shape. New drawings from 2020-22 include a selection of works on paper that were part of the artist's installation at the 59th International Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, in 2022.Since the 1970s, Sillman--a beloved and key figure of the New York art scene--has developed a singular body of work that includes large-scale gestural paintings blending abstraction with representation, as well as zines and iPad animations.Over the past decade, Sillman has also produced stimulating essays on the practice of art or the work of other artists: for example, reevaluating the work of the abstract expressionists with a queer eye; elaborating on the role of awkwardness and the body in the artistic process; and discussing in depth the role and meanings of color and shape. Featuring a foreword by Lynne Tillman, Faux Pas gathers a significant selection of Sillman's essays, reviews and lectures, accompanied by drawings, most of them made specially for the book.Faux Pas aims at revealing the coherence and originality of Sillman's reflection, as she addresses the possibilities of art today, favoring excess over good taste, wrestling over dandyism, forms over symbols, with as much critical sense as humor.Based in New York City, Amy Sillman (born 1955) is an artist whose work consistently combines the visceral with the intellectual. She began to study painting in the 1970s at the School of Visual Arts and she received her MFA from Bard College in 1995. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Biennial in 2014 and the Venice Biennale in 2022; her writing has appeared in Bookforum and Artforum, among other publications. She is currently represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York.

Thermostats programmed with AI text read as existential, oracular responses to a dramatically changing environmentIn response to the titular question, American artist Cooper Jacoby (born 1989) programs thermostats inserted into sculptures with continuously evolving text generated by AI. The tone of the narrative changes according to the heat and humidity in the exhibition space. Somewhere between automatic poetry and speculative fiction, these experimental writing pieces form the core of this book.

Williams' long-anticipated novella concludes her most recent project, also comprising performance pieces and a solo exhibitionA novella by Welsh artist Angharad Williams (born 1986), Eraser follows a narrator who undergoes multiple transformations via psychic connections with other living beings, including a rose, a trout and a magpie. The book closes with images of the artist's work and her research addressing human capacity to categorize reality.

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Reevaluating experiments in fashion and decorative arts, Mauss shows how art takes shape in open-ended conversation--"between art history and any afternoon"This collection brings together for the first time Nick Mauss' writing, shimmering with the urgency of a new generation of queer thinkers who are opening the relations between contemporary art, decorative arts, film, performance and dance. An artist renowned for projects that critically and poetically reconfigure inherited genealogies and hierarchies of visual culture and art history, Mauss engages writing as a space for relentlessly activating counter-histories, continuously repositioning the voice of the artist and the reader along the way. In his essays, he considers the foundational practice of artist Lorraine O'Grady, the radical turn-of-the-century fashion of Susan Cianciolo, the anarcho-vaudevillian theater of Reza Abdoh and the needlepoint appropriations of Nicolas Moufarrège, and rethinks queer cinema against its clichés. This volume gathers texts written over the past 15 years, including previously unreleased pieces, notably the transcript of a conversation between the artist and Fran Lebowitz about the Whitney exhibition Transmissions. It also features drawings by Mauss: graphic works that are an integral part of his research, as a line may become a letter or a figure on the page.New York-based artist and writer Nick Mauss (born 1980) is known for an expanded use of drawing that traces unexpected arcs into a multidisciplinary practice.

An exhibition in book form staging a unique encounter between sculpture and photographyBorn out of a close collaboration between Danish artists Marie Lund (born 1976) and Frederik Worm (born 1991), this artist's book expands the physical experience of the exhibition The Falling--staged at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen along with the work of Cally Spooner (born 1983) and Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012)--in print form. Lund invited Worm to document the exhibition, which he did through a series of photographs taken at different times over its duration.Lund's sculptures incorporate materials such as found objects, metal, clay, textiles and concrete, creating shapes that deftly manipulate volume and texture. Responding to their presence, Worm's suite of photographs takes the form of a kinetic trip through the works, favoring proximity and oblique perspectives, blurring the relation between the sculptures and the spaces they inhabit. The Falling is both an experience of the exhibition and a record of the artists' intimate conversation through their respective mediums.

Rarities and ephemera from the life and work of Piero Heliczer--poet, filmmaker, publisher, the Apollinaire of the international '60s avant-gardePiero Heliczer (1937-93) was one of the most important and ubiquitous protagonists of the underground of the 1960s and '70s. Born in Italy, Heliczer lived between London, Paris, New York and Amsterdam; a poet, publisher and filmmaker, he took an active part in Andy Warhol's Factory, filmed the Velvet Underground, and helped Jack Smith on the production of Flaming Creatures. The founder of the Dead Language Press in Paris in the late 1950s, he published Beat poets such as Gregory Corso, as well as the works of Angus MacLise, and was a close friend and collaborator to Tom Raworth, Anselm Hollo and Gerard Malanga.However, Heliczer's work eludes easy classification and stable forms. He preferred the circulation and dissemination of his poetry in broadsheets, little magazines such as Outburst, Locus Solus and The World, and at public readings, in accord with his nomadic, nonconformist life. Piero Heliczer: Poems & Documents retraces his oeuvre, revealing its vital energy and experimental drive through the poems Heliczer published in magazines and periodicals between 1959 and 1979. The poems are presented as facsimile pages from the original magazines, accompanied by reproductions of documents and ephemera, to further highlight the singular printed culture of an era, and the fervent community it nourished.

On the collaborative art of Neïl Beloufa, whose films and installations challenge common perceptions of social relationsThis is the first monograph on the internationally acclaimed French Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa (born 1985). Love, hatred, war, technology, social unrest, bodies and words in crisis: this is the material of which Beloufa's work is made. His films, sculptures and multimedia installations audaciously explore how art can address today's issues, challenging contemporary representations of social relationships, power games, and political and economic structures.An artist favoring collaborations over authorship, and responsive work strategies over predetermined intentions, Beloufa has invented his own work methods, and a particular approach to the studio as a workplace.The catalog presents the artist's projects over the past 12 years, including recent experiments with online platforms and NFTs.

The second in a series of novels that fetishize nightclubs for their inaccessibilityAustralian performer Ivan Cheng's (born 1991) artistic practice is invested in questions around publics and accessibility. Majority is the second installment in his Confidences series, which deploys a version of the vampire and theater as sites for transformation and maintenance.

A critical index of the contemporary human condition in questions and photographs exploring daily lifeAn artist's book by New York-based author and artist Sam Pulitzer (born 1984), The Premise of a Better Life combines photographs with ethical and existential questions addressed to the viewer, in an allegory of the contemporary condition. These photographs of everyday things, ambiguous details, nondescript landscapes and cityscapes were mostly taken in New York, although the city appears as the pale reflection of a model city. Each picture is accompanied by a question: "Can you afford yourself?" "Are you waiting for a moment that just won't come?" "If you knew then what you know now, would it make a difference?" "Do you trust happiness?" The montages offer a complex, personal, at times satirical image of the present age.An original essay by Pulitzer unfolds the project's philosophical and political issues, notably discussing a key reference for the project, Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope.