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02/08/2024

Explore interpretations, riffs, and disruptions of The Portland Vase, an ancient Roman glass cameo amphora held in the British Museum since the early 19th century. It has been a global brand that has resonated with artists, makers, collectors, and consumers for centuries.

„The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse“ will be on view through September 8 at museum. Featuring more than sixty-five artworks, the accompanying catalogue examines the role of brands in our culture, considers why Classical traditions dominate the artistic canon, and how that tradition might be reconsidered and disrupted.

Get your copy now at the museum or preorder on amazon to have it delivered to your doorstep!

24/07/2024

We're excited to offer you an exclusive peek into the creation of DAVID KATZENSTEIN. Here, we see the artist at the printer, meticulously examining each page to ensure his photographs are reproduced with exceptional clarity and depth.
This collaborative approach is a cornerstone of our contemporary artist monographs. It's more than just producing a book—it's about faithfully translating an artist's vision into print.

This monograph represents David Katzenstein's artistic journey as a visual chronicler of humanity. Travelling to many parts of the world, he experienced other cultures and peoples first-hand, capturing the essence of our shared human experience through his lens.
The carefully curated selection of photographs presented here were drawn from a much larger body of work, creating a journey through journeys for the viewer.

This captivating monograph is available now in Europe, with its US and worldwide release set for September 2024. Don't miss your chance to own this stunning collection of David Katzenstein's work.
Pre-order your copy today to be among the first to embark on this visual odyssey across cultures and continents.

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23/07/2024

Don't miss your chance to see GEORGE SEGAL: THEMES AND VARIATIONS at until July 31! This captivating exhibition delves into Segal’s extensive career, showcasing his exploration of themes such as figural groups, the n**e, still life, and portraits across various media. Featuring stunning illustrations, the accompanying book and texts reveal Segal as a dynamic artist—an experimental pioneer who embraced traditional techniques.

Get your own copy at the museum, online or ask in your favorite local bookstores!

22/07/2024

We mourn the loss of Thomas Zuhr, who died unexpectedly on 11 July 2024 in Rome at the age of 63. We extend our sympathy and heartfelt condolences to all his friends and relatives.

Thomas Zuhr was born on 17 November 1960, in Bad Reichenhall, Germany. As director of Hirmer Verlag he successfully led the company for fifteen years, before retiring on 1 March 2024.

After beginning his career at Carl Hanser Verlag, he became business manager at Prestel Verlag in 1993. Since then his work focussed on the international art scene, museum exhibitions, and collaborations with galleries.

In 2009 Thomas Zuhr came to Hirmer Verlag, and in 2011 he became its sole director. Hirmer’s success as an international art book publisher in German and English is thanks in large part to his leadership.

17/07/2024

We’re thrilled to give you a first look at the making of SHERRIE NICKOL.

Here, the artist Sherrie Nickol is shown at the printer, carefully reviewing each page to ensure her photographs are reproduced with the utmost fidelity and quality.
This hands-on approach is a hallmark of our contemporary artist monographs. It's not just about printing a book—it's about crafting a true representation of an artist's vision.

Through more than 150 photographs, the viewer is taken on a journey through time and place, entering scenes familiar, distant, and always inviting.
Her shots depict familiar scenes in both domestic and public settings, but always with a close eye on behavioural dynamics.

Stay tuned for more glimpses into Sherrie's powerful exploration of relationships and human connection through her lens.

This captivating monograph is available now in Europe, with its US and worldwide release set for September 2024.

Don't miss your chance to own this stunning collection of Sherrie Nickol's work. Pre-order your copy today to be among the first to experience her unique perspective on human relationships and emotions.

15/07/2024

Last few days to catch AMERICANS IN PARIS at the art museum!

The exhibition delves into the various circles of American artists who made France their home during the post-World War II era, and investigates the academies where many studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.

Featuring new scholarship and illuminating essays, the accompanying publication illustrates many of the paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photos, and films produced during these fertile years.

Next stop for this groundbreaking exhibition will be this fall before it moves to in Spring 2025! Stay tuned for more.

The catalog is available to buy online and in your favorite local bookstores!

08/07/2024

‘Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld,’ opens at the on Saturday, July 13! Join us at 5 pm for a conversation with the artists, followed by a reception.⁠ :tada:
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‘Journey to Nature’s Underworld,’ invites visitors on a voyage of discovery into the depths of our threatened natural world through cinematic paintings by and large-scale sculptural works by . Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman were among the earliest contemporary artists to address, and even anticipate, the epic ecological problems we now face. This publication unites some twenty-five sculptures and paintings by both artists along with selected works on paper and a major new collaborative diorama.

‘Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld’ is a traveling exhibition organized by and is organized for the Tang by .⁠
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04/07/2024

Don't miss your chance to see this groundbreaking exhibition at MAD | Museum of Arts and Design! On view through September 22, 2024.

Get your copy of the accompanying publication at the museum, online or in your favorite local bookstore!

Watch the artist and educator Sonya Clark introduce her solo exhibition presented at the Museum of Arts and Design Mar 23–Sept 22, 2024. Highlighting thirty ...

03/07/2024

"Matisse and the Sea" examines the influence of the sea across modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included artwork in coastal locations on the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. The exhibition at brought together imagery in a range of media (painting, sculptures, paper cutouts, drawings, prints, ceramics, and textiles), and has a particular focus on Matisse’s iconic coastal painting, "Bathers with a Turtle", exploring the range of sources, from Cezanne to sub-Saharan African sculpture, that informed this picture.

Missed the exhibition? Don’t fret! The catalogue is still available at the museum, online and in your favorite local bookstore!

01/07/2024

From silicone tubes to paint, paper and threads – throughout her artistic career stretching back over more than 50 years, artist Monika Fioreschy has been constantly discovering new forms of expression in the tradition of the art of weaving.

In addition to her textile “woven pieces”, this beautifully illustrated publication leads through the artist’s other, often completely heterogeneous work groups and also presents recent upcycled works created from older objects.

The monograph is available online and in your favorite local bookstore. Learn more via link in bio!

28/06/2024

"An examination of landscape as a vehicle for expressing love, loss and healing"

"Afterglow" brings together the known memorial paintings by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) for the first time, unveiling how Church returned to the medium of landscape throughout his career to create solace in times of loss.

The Olana State Historic Site in Hudson shows these paintings until October 27.

The accompanying catalogue is available via Amazon or in Your favourite book shop.


More info via link in bio.

25/06/2024

SAMIA HALABY: EYE WITNESS is opening this Saturday at !

The exhibition follows Halaby’s creative journey to experiment with the ways painting conveys her experiences and reflects how she sees the world around her.

Being a MSU graduate herself, Eye Witness will be Halaby’s first return to MSU since her graduation over sixty years ago, and will feature some of the paintings she made during her time at university.

The exhibition’s accompanying book, Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy (2024), is available for purchase in the museum store, online and in your favorite local bookstore!

The publication celebrates the first-ever American survey of her work by exploring overlooked aspects of her artistic practice. Learn more via the link in our bio.

25/05/2024

We had the incredible opportunity to visit the studio of Peter Halley and capture some unforgettable moments. From his creative workspace to a candid moment with the artist and the author of his new monograph, these snapshots offer a rare glimpse into the world of a modern master.

The monograph, written by Robert Hobbs, is available online and in your favorite local bookstore!

13/05/2024

MOVING PICTURES: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood opened yesterday at Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The exhibition celebrates Struss's storied career and influence on American filmmaking during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Featuring archival materials, films, and over 100 photographs from the Carter’s extensive Struss Artist Archive, it highlights Struss’s innovations in image-making and unique contributions to the film industry in the early 20th century.

The accompanying catalog can be purchased on site at the museum or via link in bio. The exhibition is on view through August 25. Don't miss your chance to experience the story of how a fine-art photographer became one of the most influential cinematographers in Hollywood.

06/05/2024

“I would like to do something great—as great as the lightning that ripped through half the sky and seemed to hang in the sky “unendingly” a few days ago. That was power!“, Wassily Kandinsky wrote to his galerist and friend Galka Scheyer in 1938.

Kandinsky’s letters reflect his life and thoughts as well as his art. Through the astute, sometimes witty, and polemical letters to his colleagues and friends, gallerists, and authors we gain an insight into Kandinsky’s way of thinking and his everyday life, but also into the dramatic times in which he lived: two revolutions, two world wars, the N**i regime, four emigrations and epoch-making art events of which he was one of the main protagonists.

Dive into the mind of this avant-garde pioneer and witness the dawn of a new artistic dimension with 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆. 𝗔 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟭𝟴𝟴𝟵-𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟰. Get this collection of letters – many of them previously unpublished – online via link in bio, or at your favorite local bookstore!

03/05/2024

George Segal’s sculptures are unmistakable and inimitable. Among the most compelling artists in twentieth century art, Segal combines a reverence for tradition with a desire to speak in a contemporary idiom. His unique technique of casting live models using gauze strips permeated with plaster and combining these ghostly white figures with objects of everyday use was revolutionary, catapulting him to fame in 1962.

On view through July 31, 2024, the exhibition George Segal: Themes and Variations at Zimmerli Art Museum examines the artist’s work in all media as a series of variations on themes that he mined throughout his long career—figural groups, the n**e, still life, and portraits.

The accompanying publication present Segal as a radical experimenter, a traditionalist and an artistic pioneer who worked in paint, photography, printmaking, charcoal and pastel, as well as sculpture.

02/05/2024

"Xican-a.o.x. Body" centres the political and creative resistance of Xicanx artists from 1968 to the present. The publication offers new insights into more than 50 years of Xicanx art, examining influential works by some 70 artists who highlight the Brown body as a site of resistance and who have created artistic communities that push against systemic racism and the exclusionary practices of mainstream art institutions.

Thematic essays by renowned scholars address the ways in which Xicanx art lies at the intersection of the politics of identity, race and class, and interrogate questions of “high” and “low” culture.

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22/04/2024

The Saint Louis Art Museum is home to one of North America’s largest and most comprehensive collections of German Expressionist paintings. Rediscover a defining movement of modern art and delve into the paintings’ histories, from their production to their arrival in St. Louis!

This beautifully illustrated volume shows works by 25 renowned artists such as Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Alexey Jawlensky, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gabriele Münter and many more. Of the 48 paintings in the book, 11 are featured in the exhibition, “Concealed Layers: Uncovering Expressionist Paintings.” which is on view at the St. Louis Art Museum through August 4, 2024.

Catalogue available online, at the and in your favorite local bookstore!

28/03/2024

Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. "Americans in Paris" explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year or more between 1946 and 1962.

The Grey Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition at its new location at 18 Cooper Square provides the kind of deep dive into a cultural moment that has long distinguished ’s art institution—formerly named the Grey Art Gallery. Showcased are some 130 paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, textiles, and works on paper by nearly 70 artists, providing a fresh perspective on a creative ferment too often overshadowed by the contemporaneous ascendency of the New York City art scene.

The exhibition, curated by Debra Bricker Balken & Lynn Gumpert, is accompanied by a beautifully illustrated catalog which investigates the academies where many of these artists studied, the spaces where they exhibited their work, the aesthetic discourses that animated their conversations, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.

Available at the Grey Art Museum, online, and at your favorite local bookstore!

14/03/2024

Book presentation, Friday, March 29, 2 – 4 pm :

Get an illustrated introduction to the life and work of Holocaust Survivor, Roma artist, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013) as discussed in her newly released first English monograph "Roma Artist Ceija Stojka – What Should I be Afraid of?" (Hirmer Publishers, 2024). Additionally, engage in a discussion about the important works currently displayed at the Wende Museum as part of the exhibition "Ceija Stojka and Scenes of Roma Life."

The participation in the event is free. RSVP via Link in Bio.

12/03/2024

The Oldest Travelling Steep Wall in the World. Since 1928.

For several years the Munich photographer Florian Holzherr accompanied the steep-wall motorcyclists of the Motodrom with his analogue camera. Donald Ganslmeier and his colleagues are amongst the last of their kind. Holzherr has created a powerful memorial to this action-packed life. His black-and-white photos of the daredevil motorcyclists and the accompanying texts show the myth of the Wall of Death in a fascinating new way.

Available online or in your favorite local bookstore. Learn more via Link in Bio!

07/03/2024

Born in Germany and exiled to Sweden during the N**i regime, Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993) created a diverse and extensive body of work over five decades. Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the painter, whose striking landscapes, portraits, self-portraits, and sensual n*des demonstrate her synthesis of traditional painting style and modern subject matter.

is presenting the largest exhibition of her work to date in Sweden and the Nordic region on view through April 14.

The exhibition catalog discusses Laserstein’s work in Berlin before her exile and her reception in Sweden. Essays build on debates about gender and queerness in the artist’s work and analyze her assimilation strategies in Sweden.

Learn more via Link in Bio!

04/03/2024

Discover a fresh and radical view of Los Angeles art in the 1960s!

On view at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery until Saturday, March 9, 2024, the exhibition "Advance of the Rear Guard. Ceeje Gallery: Out of the Mainstream in 1960s California" tells the story of the Ceeje Gallery, the dream-child of Cecil Hedrick and Jerry Jerome, an out gay couple who established their gallery through interest in a group of young artists that included Charles Garabedian, Eduardo Carrillo, Roberto Chavez, and Louis Lunetta. They presented artists from highly diverse backgrounds, including works by Mexican, Armenian, Italian, African, and Asian descent as well as women, gay, and outsider artists.

The exhibition and catalogue are made possible through the generosity of the Pasadena Art Alliance, Maud Wi******er and Lucas Reiner, and an anonymous donor. The catalogue is available at the gallery, online or in your favorite local bookstore!

26/02/2024

Heroes: Principals of African Greatness draws on the museum’s collection to feature a number of specific, celebratory moments of the deeper African past. Among it’s many narrative threads, the stories inside this publication are aimed at opening an object-centered conversation around the legacy of the peoples of African descent.

Showing nearly 50 artworks from more than 40 artists, the book is designed in an aesthetic reminiscent of a graphic novel or superhero comic book. Like serial issues of a graphic novel, you will find groupings of hero stories with thematic connections, each series with its own arc which can be read individually or as part of a larger narrative universe.

The book is available at the through and in your favorite local bookstore!



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15/02/2024

The artist Yury Kharchenko was born in Moscow in 1986 and moved to Germany in the late 1990s as a Jewish refugee, along with his parents and grandparents who were Holocaust survivors.

Through his Auschwitz images, Kharchenko calls for greater ethics in our morally corrupt consumer society. He uses comic figures like Beavis and Butthead posing in front of the Auschwitz Gate, making the well-known "peace sign" of Yassir Arafat, while simultaneously smoking a cigar. This serves as a reminder not to forget the Holocaust, which is increasingly being overshadowed by the ceremonial culture of remembrance.

Kharchenko often incorporates elements from pop culture, Disney, and Hollywood, blending them with violent fantasies that reference the taboos surrounding his family's experiences during the Holocaust, the era of gulags in the Soviet Union, and life in Germany. His series of star images explore the multifaceted meanings of the Star of David, juxtaposing them against emotionally charged paintings. He also contrasts these images with his flower and house paintings, which symbolize a longing for life in the face of the horrors of war and annihilation. As a Jew from Russia, Kharchenko has been deeply affected by the Ukraine and Israel wars in the past two years, as his relatives are connected to both countries.

His book "Yury Kharchenko. Painting 2018 - 2023" has been published by Hirmer Verlag, offering insights into his work.

More info via Link in Bio.

12/02/2024

The Saint Louis Art Museum is celebrating the opening of the exhibition "Matisse and the Sea" with a FREE public preview on Friday, February 16, 4-8 pm.

Matisse and the Sea brings together imagery in a range of media, including paintings, sculptures, paper cut-outs, drawings, prints, ceramics, and textiles. The exhibition will be on view until May 12, 2024.

Find out more via link in bio!

Picture 2: Henri Matisse, French, 1869–1954; Blue N**e I, 1952; gouache, painted paper cut-outs on canvas; 41 7/8 x 30 11/16 inches; Foundation Beyeler Collection, Inv.60.1; © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Picture 7: Henri Matisse, French, 1869–1954; Bathers with a Turtle, 1907–08, Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. 24:1964; © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

17/01/2024

What does the political and creative resistance of Xicanx artists look like? This upcoming publication presents new histories of Xicanx art, illustrating how artists foreground the Brown body to explore, expand, and complicate conceptions linked to Chicanx, Latinx and Xicanx experiences.

The publication offers new insights into more than 50 years of Xicanx art, examining influential works by some 70 artists who highlight the Brown body as a site of resistance and who have created artistic communities that push against systemic racism and the exclusionary practices of mainstream art institutions. Thematic essays by renowned scholars address the ways in which Xicanx art lies at the intersection of the politics of identity, race and class, and interrogate questions of “high” and “low” culture.

Pre-order your copy of the catalog now and get excited for the exhibition coming to a museum near you soon!

12/01/2024

"Making and Meaning" features select works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College, located in Poughkeepsie, New York. Through illustrated essays and entries as well as poetry and a timeline, this book reveals the profound richness of a collection extending from antiquity to the present day.

Available or in your local bookstore. Find out more via link in bio!

08/01/2024

Beauty, terror, grandeur, awe – the mountain world has always fascinated people. Stephan Huber climbs the snow-covered summits in miniature. In his sculptures he imitates the relief of the mountains and creates object-like works with a theatrical flair. This comprehensive volume reproduces the Alpine cosmos in the powerful images which have been the focus of Huber’s work for more than four decades.

Find out more via link in bio!