Monday, April 27, 2009

New Book Highlights 4/23/2009

M+m: Collateral Profit
By Marc Weis, Museum für Fotografie (Berlin, Germany), Ludger Derenthal
Edition: illustrated
Published by Distributed Art Pub Inc, 2006
ISBN 3936711496, 9783936711493
207 pages


M+M, a collaboration by German artists Mark Weis and Martin De Mattia, have more in common with The Matrix than with the famous candies. Their Baudrillard-based work in photography, video, and conceptual art, surveyed here over the past 10 years, tracks a growing disintegration of reality and identity through the influence of mass media, with a humorous wink at our collective insecurity about it.

Andy Warhol : strange world : drawings 1948-1959, February 28-March 29, 2008, Paul Kasmin Gallery / [design: Frauke Ebinger ; essay: Todd Alden]

Rebecca Belmore : rising to the occasion / edited by Daina Augaitis and Kathleen Ritter ; with contributions from Daina Augaitis ... [et al.].

Al Taylor : early work / [text by Robert Storr].

Vincent Desiderio

Substance and light : ten sculptors use cameras : Garth Amundson, David Baskin, Isidro Blasco, Jiyoung Chae, Ipek Duben, Jane Edden, Liza McConnell, Steven Pippin, Sterz, Toni Vandegrift / Mary E. Murray and Gina Murtagh, curators.

Elizabeth Peyton : portrait of an artist.

Jake & Dinos Chapman : if Hitler had been a hippy how happy would we be

Memory made plastic : Ricky Swallow, 1999

Art Shay : Chicago accent / [photographs by] Art Shay ; forword by David Mamet