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3Art | Photography | DesignRenegades: San Francisco: The Early 90sChloe ShermanIn the 1990s, queer youth, outcasts and artists flocked to San Francisco to experiment with art, self-expression, style and gender and to find community. Chloe Sherman’s photographic work is an insider’s-eye-view– stunning documentation that connects queers of current and future generations. Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern AbstractionLynne CookeThis richly illustrated volume features more than fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts and handicrafts. Lynne Cooke offers a fresh look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of abstraction in modern art. LUNA LUNA: The Art Amusement ParkAndré HellerIn the late 1980s, more than 30 of the era’s most acclaimed artists designed unique and fully operational fairground attractions specifically for the first ever art amusement park in Hamburg, Germany. Artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Salvador Dalí, and Keith Haring created rides, interactive sculptures, games, performances, and music. Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of LifeNabil Abdel NabiTate Modern curator of international art Nabila Abdel Nabi presents an exploration of the complex, symbiotic ecologies that sustained the practices of two of the 20th century’s greatest painters. With a shared rootedness in the natural world and its wondrous life forms, the work of Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian celebrates the numinous spiritual power of nature and how this gives both art and life meaning.

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4Art | Photography | DesignCOWBOYNora Burnett Abrams, Miranda Lash, Jongwoo Jeremy KimPerhaps no other figure in the American popular imagination conjures the respect, mystery, and adoration than that of the cowboy. And it’s long been a favorite subject of artists from the early twentieth century to today. The enduring myth of the cowboy is a richer, more diverse story than most understand. In this survey, some of the most important artists working today take up the cowboy through the lens of queer, Black, Asian, and Latinx perspectives.Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence features a new body of paintings and sculptures by American artist Kehinde Wiley confronting the legacies of colonialism through the visual language of the fallen figure – ongoing investigation into the iconography of death and sacrifice in Western art that Wiley traced across religious, mythological and historical subjects. – include men and women around the world whose senseless deaths, often unacknowledged or silenced, are transformed into a powerful elegy of global resistance against state-sanctioned violence. Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of SilenceKehinde Wiley, Claudia SchmuckliThe MagiciansBlexbolex, Karin SnelsonFans of Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's work or The Wizard of Oz will feel right at home in the pages of The Magicians, with its fabulously eclectic characters and entertaining, suspenseful, dreamlike story inspired by video games, science fiction, fantasy, and fairy tales. Magic is the beating heart of this multi-world universe—the magic of nature, the magic of childhood, the magic of creativity and imagination. Here, Blexbolex celebrates the mysterious, beautiful mess of life.Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902-1911Diane V Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, Megan Brandow-FallerDie Fläche (The Surface) laid out an extraordinary group vision for design through adventurous work by these designer-professors and more than 100 of their students. Packed with bold ideas for posters, advertisements, book covers, woodcut prints and much more, the result is an inexhaustibly rich sourcebook of graphic forms, modern ideas and technical experiments, all reflecting a reorientation in design practice and teaching that would resonate around the world.

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5Art | Photography | DesignNYC Street Poets & VisionariesKenneth GoldsmithFrom the end of the Reagan era to the beginning of Covid, the New York–based artist and author Kenneth Goldsmith collected hundreds of classified ads and other advertising posters from the streets of the city. Hilarious, offbeat, absurd and sometimes breathtakingly beautiful, the ads are united by their unpredictability as well as their total lack of utility. Although Toledano is based in New York, she has found herself increasingly drawn to Mexico City, a place she considers a creative safe haven. No Mames pays tribute to the local LGBTQ artists, designers and creatives who are currently contributing to Mexican culture—many of whom are couples, roommates or childhood friends. Mayan Toledano: No MamesMayan ToledanoItalian Textile DesignVittorio Linfante, Massimo ZanellaThe dynamic geometrical patterns of Emilio Pucci; the dazzling trompe-l’œil effects of Roberta di Camerino; the pop sensibilities of Gianni Versace and Franco Moschino; the bold street-style prints of Iuter and Sunnei—these and countless other innovations have made Italian design a leading force in the history of 20th-century textiles. Among the thematic sections in the book are those dedicated to scarfs, skirts, shirts, ties, wallpapers, tablecloths and various other fabricated objects.Future Book(s): Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) PublishingPia Pol, Astrid VorstermansWhat is the future of the book? And what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? The editors of this volume asked more than 100 international interested individuals to respond to this question. Journalists, artists, architects, curators, translators, designers, philosophers, sociologists, teachers, book scholars, publishers, printing houses, distributors, booksellers, historians and art historians, critics, policymakers, editors, students and many others enthusiastically share their views, looking ahead five, 20 or 72 years (to the year 2100).

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6Art | Photography | DesignA Way of Living: The Art of Willem de KooningJudith ZilczerWillem de Kooning was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism. MoMA's 2011 de Kooning retrospective drew record crowds, and his prodigious achievements continue to provoke and inspire subsequent generations of artists such as Cecily Brown, Rebecca Warren, and Jonathan Lasker.Featuring more than two hundred and fifty works, including paintings, photographs, drawings, textiles and furniture, this essential volume traces the creative development of Josef and Anni Albers—both instrumental figures in the development of modernism and abstract art. Chapters explore the couple’s relationship and important aspects of their professional partnership, including their meeting at the Bauhaus School and their influential years at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.Anni and Josef Albers: Art and LifeJulia Garimorth, Vincent Broqua, Brenda DanilowitzDeborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/WorkDeborah Roberts, Dawoud Bey, Sarah Elizabeth LewisThe definitive look at two decades of work by Austin-based artist Deborah Roberts with newly commissioned texts and a thorough dive into her archive, this monograph offers a comprehensive view of one of today’s most significant social observers. An extensive plate section is accompanied by a heartfelt foreword from Dawoud Bey on "the tragic mischaracterization of Black children."Weaving at Black Mountain CollegeMichael Beggs, Julie J Thompson, Brenda Danilowitz Black Mountain College attracted a remarkable roster of artists, architects, and musicians. Yet the weaving classes taught by Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and six other faculty members are rarely mentioned or are often treated as mere craft lessons. Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished material and archival photographs, Weaving at Black Mountain College rewrites history to show how weaving played a much larger role in the legendary art and design curriculum than previously assumed.

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7Fashion Ann Lowe: American CouturierElizabeth Way, Heather Hodge, Laura MinaIt’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? And why are the pockets on women’s clothes often too small to fit phones, if they even open at all? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, reveals the issues of gender politics, security, sexuality, power, and privilege tucked inside our pockets. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese brands have built global businesses by creating the highest-quality versions of classic American casual garments—a style known in Japan as ametora, or “American traditional.” Now updated with a new afterword, Ametora shows how Japanese trendsetters and entrepreneurs mimicked, adapted, imported, and ultimately perfected American style, dramatically reshaping not only Japan’s culture but also our own. Ametora: How Japan Saved American StyleW. David MarxNo longer available from the direct retailers, deadstock is the most desirable, exclusive, and valuable sneaker merchandise in existence. Complete with detailed research, historical context, and trend analysis on the aesthetic appeal of each style, this book explores the significance of the sneaker in fashion and culture1,000 Deadstock Sneakers: The Dream CollectionLarry DeadstockPockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things CloseHannah CloseThe definitive illustrated volume on the work and life of Ann Lowe, a consummate couturier who designed lavish evening and bridal gowns for members of America’s social registry, a Black woman whose important legacy has remained under appreciated—until now. Vivid new photography of Lowe’s couture gowns accompany essays that explore the trials and achievements of Lowe’s life and contextualize her work within fashion history.Fly: The Big Book of Basketball FashionMitchell S JacksonEqual parts photo-rich lookbook, and cultural commentary, Fly is the story of the extraordinary intersection of high fashion and basketball, from the league's inception to today, and celebrates the iconic style of NBA athletes.

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8Music | Performance | CulturePhilip Glass Piano EtudesPhilip Glass, Linda Brumbach, Alisa E RegasA monumental gift for music lovers: a deluxe boxed set of Philip Glass’s most personal body of work, along with Studies in Time, a book of essays from notable fellow artists. Originally created to “address the deficiencies in my own playing,” in Glass’s words, the etudes have taken on a life of their own as a modern masterpiece. Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to DanceMark Mann, Chita RiveraA celebration of the strength and emotive ability of dancers, this book is a collection of images that captures the dynamism and energy of the mediums of both dance and photography. In homage to Mann’s hero Irving Penn, he installed a backdrop of old monochromatic muslin. Dancers from many genres—ballet, jazz, African, tap, Broadway theater, hip-hop, ballroom—perform and discuss their passions about the art form in this stark environment.Punk Perfect Awful: BeatHanna Hanra…the little magazine that could …and did.Known for shedding new light on legends of popular culture and championing revolutionary voices, BEAT magazine reflects the depth and breadth of a playlist—bringing together high with low, mainstream with the underground, and mixing genres and styles with a few surprises thrown in. With a parallel narrative by Hanna Hanra on a lifelong relationship with music and the inspiration behind founding BEAT, the book supplements portraits and interviews from the magazine’s archives with unpublished images.Born out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the 13th Floor Elevators were formed in late 1965 when lyricist Tommy Hall asked a local singer named Roky Erickson to join up with his new rock outfit. The Elevators’ pioneering first run ended in internal arguments, drug busts, and forced psychiatric imprisonments. In their short existence, however, the group succeeded in blowing the lid off the budding musical underground, logging early salvos in the countercultural struggle against state authorities, and turning their deeply hallucinatory take on jug-band garage rock into a new American institution called psychedelic music.13th Floor Elevators: A Visual HistoryPaul Drummond

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9Music | Performance | CultureDeep Inside the BluesMargo Cooper, William R FerrisThe urgent need to preserve a cornerstone of American culture led folklorists like John Lomax to travel the country documenting early blues recordings and writers like Amiri Baraka to publish Blues People: Negro Music in White America. Although Margo Cooper did not know it when she began more than twenty years ago, she has followed that tradition and produced a documentary project that archives the oral and visual histories of blues musicians, their families, and communities in northern Mississippi and the Delta.1964: Eyes of the StormPaul McCartney, Jill Lepore1964: Eyes of the Storm creates an intensely dramatic record of The Beatles’ first transatlantic trip, documenting the radical shift in youth culture that crystallized in 1964. Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history.Jane Campion on Jane CampionMichel CimentThrough a series of interviews beginning in the early days of Campion’s career and conducted by award-winning cinema historian Michel Ciment, Jane Campion on Jane Campion offers a unique perspective on the creative process of one of cinema’s greatest contemporary film directors. Organized chronologically, film by film, the interviews are illustrated with film stills and photographs taken on set, as well as with annotated scripts, storyboards, and personal documents lent by Campion. John Waters: Pope of Trash accompanies an exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the first dedicated solely to Waters’ films. The book presents costumes, props, handwritten scripts, concept drawings, correspondence, promotional gimmicks, production photography and other original materials from all of the filmmaker’s features and shorts. Spotlighting many of his longtime collaborators, it also features a new interview with Waters and texts by curators Jenny He and Dara Jaffe, film historian Jeanine Basinger, film critic and cultural theorist B. Ruby Rich, and author-writer-producer David Simon that explore how Waters’ movies have redefined the possibilities of independent cinema.John Waters: Pope of TrashJohn Waters, Jenny He, Dara Jaffe

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10Food & HomeThe Cookie That Changed My LifeNancy SilvertonNancy Silverton made her reputation as the original pastry chef for Wolfgang Puck's restaurant Spago. Biting into a particularly delicious peanut butter cookie one day, she and had an epiphany: every single thing we bake should taste this good. And so she decided to return to her roots, and set to work perfecting the rest of the American baking canon.Veg-TableNik SharmaFrom the bestselling author of The Flavor Equation and Season and winner of the 2023 IACP Trailblazer Award: A fascinating exploration of the unique wonders of more than fifty vegetables through captivating research, stunning photography, and technique-focused recipes.RintaroSylvan Mishima Brackett, Aya BrackettNestled behind a leafy courtyard in San Francisco’s Mission District, with the warm glow of lanterns illuminating well-worn wood counters, Rintaro the restaurant is a beautiful escape; familiar and unexpected, bold and restrained. With over 70 recipes showcasing inspiration and detailed instruction in equal measure, Rintaro is a book for anyone who loves Japanese food, from the curious novice to expats craving the tastes of home.CDMX: The Food of Mexico CityRosa CienfuegosCDMX is a celebration of the food of Mexico City and the dishes that Rosa grew up eating and now recreates in her two Sydney restaurants: Tamaleria and Icatate. It is the food that chilangos (residents of Mexico City) enjoy at home, on the streets, in markets, and in cafes and bars. Authentic and often unique to Ciudad de México, CDMX’s colorful recipes reflect the vibrancy, history, and modern urban life of Mexico’s liveliest city.

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11Food & HomeApartamento Cookbook #7: Late-Night MealsApartamentoThe annual Apartamento cookbook is back in its seventh edition. Whether you’re coming home late after a long shift, stumbling through the door off the back of an indulgent evening out, or simply feeling peckish post-dinner, these 16 recipes by chefs and food-lovers around the world will serve as a trusty guide for nocturnal nourishment. Bon appétit and sweet dreams.New York Living Rooms (Apartamento)Dominique Nabokov, ApartamentoNew York Living Rooms is the first instalment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, re-issued by Apartamento Publishing. With nothing added and nothing altered, Nabokov calls these images her interior ‘portraits’. Some spaces are indulgent and ostentatious, others shelter the bare necessities, but Nabokov simply records them all for her fellow voyeurs and leaves us to decipher the rest..Design Mixology: The Interiors of Tineke TriggsChase Reynolds Ewald, Heather Sandy Hebert An award-winning veteran of six San Francisco Decorator Showcases, Tineke Triggs is an artist with an eye for function, adept at the highly inventive and original. Her work gives rise to a distinct form of design mixology—each home as individual as each of her clients. This book includes an eclectic mix of projects from ski houses in Lake Tahoe and beachfront getaways in Northern and Central California, to reimagined period Victorians to modern homes in Marin County and Silicon Valley.Gustav Klimt: The InteriorsTobias G NatterInterior design was supremely important to Gustav Klimt, and many of his paintings were created for specific settings or spaces. This aspect of Klimt’s practice comes beautifully to life in this book that illustrates how some of the artist’s most beloved canvases appeared in situ. A unique and fascinating appreciation.ShabbatAdena SussmanThe author of Sababa returns with a collection of good-for-the-soul recipes that embody the spirit and pleasures of Shabbat As a child, Adeena Sussman looked forward to the magic of Shabbat all week. In Sussman’s home, then and now, the Shabbat table is a centering force, a nourishing place where one and all are welcome. A treasured time when family and friends come together to relax, unwind, and revel in one another’s company during open-ended, tantalizing meals. An opportunity every week to feed the soul. HandbuiltLily MaetzigCovering the oldest and most traditional ways to make pots, Handbuilt is a beginner's guide to hand building with clay – no pottery wheel required. This book will teach you the building blocks to working with clay, and how to apply a professional finish to your pots including decoration, glazing, and firing techniques. Learn how to create a collection of 23 stylish homeware designs using the three core techniques: coiling, pinching and slab building.

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