Published: September 2012

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was as full of contradictions as the changing East Village neighborhood he lived in during the 1980s.

Published: June 2012

Publisher: Duke University Press

The relation between art and politics during the 1960s and '70s in Latin America is a highly contested subject. Critics and academic writers today reflect the myriad positions that artists themselves once adopted in the heat of the moment.

Published: June 2012

Publisher: Prestel

A young Ed Ruscha appears on the cover of Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 (Prestel), pointing at the dirt on the side of the road that stretches beyond him to distant, sun-baked hills. The volume was published in conjunction with the recently opened exhibition at LA MOCA, set to travel this fall to Haus der Kunst in Münich. The grainy, black-and-white photograph is from Royal Road Test (1967), an artist's book done in collaboration with Patrick Blackwell and Mason Williams that documents the destruction of a Royal typewriter tossed from the window of a car speeding along Highway 91 in the southern California desert.

Published: May 2012

Publisher: Yale University Press

Accompanying an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum on view through Sept. 2, Ancestral Modern celebrates the gift of Robert Kaplan and Margaret Levi's collection to the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). This marks the first substantial gift of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art pledged to a major US museum. A useful and beautiful addition to the literature on indigenous Australian art, the collection uniquely focuses on works produced in the last 15 years.

Published: June 2012

Publisher: Duke University Press

It’s rare these days to find critics squaring off for a no-holds-barred match over matters of principle. So it was exhilarating to see Claire Bishop and Grant Kester butt heads in the spring of 2006 over the issue of participatory art.