Quisqueya Henríquez
Bronx Museum, 64 pages
The Bronx Museum's full-color illustrated catalogue features essays by guest curator Amy Rosenblum Martin and poet/critic Monica de la Torre. Each copy is enveloped with a special edition artwork, wrapping paper designed by Henríquez's using images of trash photographed on the beaches of the Dominican Republic. These works were first conceived as a participatory project. Henríquez approached store owners in Santa Domingo and asked, with a measure of success, that they use her designs to wrap customers' purchases.
Non-Members: $25
Members: $22.50
Lorna Simpson AFA/Abrams, 158 pages
The AFA and Abrams, New York published a fully illustrated catalogue to accompany Lorna Simpson. The book includes a curatorial foreword by Helaine Posner; a dialogue including Lorna Simpson, artist Isaac Julien, and Studio Museum in Harlem Director Thelma Golden, with a preface by Shamim M. Momin, Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; an overview of Simpson's work, from the earlier image and text work to the recent films, by Okwui Enwezor, Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute; and an essay exploring the relationship of Simpson's work to cinema by cultural critic and New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als.
Non-Members: $40 (soft)/$45 (hard)
Members: $36 (soft)/$40.50 (hard)
Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer
Edited by Lesley Martin.
Aperture, 204 pgs
Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer features entirely new writings by the artist that recount his development as an artist and reveal the multiple inspirations behind his successive series. Illustrated by his own works as well as the work of other artists and photographers, the book is a remarkable investigation into the interlinked practices of seeing, representing, and creating, dealing with everything from perception theory to printing processes.
Non-Members: $39.95
Members: $36.00
Ana Mendieta: Earth Body Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 286 pages
This fully illustrated, 288-page catalogue is the most definitive monograph produced to date on the work of Ana Mendieta and contains biographical, analytical and interpretive essays by Olga Viso, curator of the exhibition; Chrissie Iles, curator of contemporary art, Whitney Museum of American Art; art historian Julia Herzberg; and art critic Guy Brett. Additionally, art historian Laura Roulet contributed an extensive chronology of the artist's life and career.
Non-Members: $49.95
Members: $45
Chuck Close Prints: Process & Collaboration
Princeton University Press, 160 pages
Long celebrated as one of America's foremost painters, Chuck Close is also a master of the artistic language of printmaking. This catalog chronicles the genius of Chuck Close in the medium in which he has done some of his most exciting work and entire sections detail the different kinds of printing techniques he has used throughout his career.
Non-Members: $35
Members: $31.50
Melanie Smith: Spiral City and Other Vicarious Pleasures
Dawn Ades, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Eduardo Abaroa, Melanie Smith, David Batchelor
Turner, 207 pages
Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures is the first significant monograph on British born Melanie Smith. Published in conjunction with the artist's 2006 retrospective exhibition at Mexico City's University Museum of Sciences and Arts, this book serves as an introduction to the various media, including video, photography, installation and painting, that Smith has been exploring since her arrival in Mexico two decades ago.
Non-Members: $40
Members: $36
Museums for a New Millenium
Prestel, 224 pages
Museums for a New Millennium documents the remarkable surge in museum building at the turn of the new millennium. This catalog presents an international array of twenty-five of the most important museum building projects from the past ten years. The featured projects-all by renowned architects-offer a panorama of museum architecture at the opening of the 21st century. Included are such landmark projects as Richard Meier's J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin; Santiago Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum; Herzog and De Meuron's TateModern in London; and Tado Ando's Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas.
Non-Members: $ 70
Members: $63
LeWitt x 2
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 80 pages
A full-color catalogue for LeWitt x 2, published by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, includes essays by Dean Swanson, guest curator for the exhibition, and by Martin Friedman, director emeritus of the Walker Art Center. Friedman retired as Director Emeritus of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1990. During his more than thirty-five years at the Walker, it became known as one of America's premier museums for collecting, exhibiting, and publishing contemporary visual art.
Non-Members: $35
Members: $ 31.50
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith
The Menil Collection, 144 pages
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith brings together an intergenerational group of artists who address ritual in the artistic process and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art. The fully illustrated catalogue includes essays by Arthur C. Danto, professor of philosophy at Columbia University; Greg Tate, cultural critic for the Village Voice; Robert Farris Thompson, professor of history at Yale University; Jen Budney, associate curator at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Julia Herzberg, art historian and curator specializing in Latin American art. The catalogue also includes an interview with Ishmael Reed by Franklin Sirmans and work by renowned poet Quincy Troupe.
Non-Members: $45
Members: $40.50
Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space
Blaffer Gallery, 120 pages
Each of the five individual works on view in the exhibition receives an in-depth interpretive essay. Rina Carvajal, adjunct curator at the Miami Art Museum, writes about D’est while independent curator Klaus Ottman writes on De l’autre côté. Claudia Schmuckli, curator of the Blaffer Gallery, and Bill Arning, curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, focus on Sud and Là-bas respectively. Terrie Sultan writes on Les Femmes d’Anvers en Novembre .
Non-Members: $24.95
Members: $22.45
