– SARAH MAPLE… Celebrated British artist Sarah Maples certainly is no stranger to challenging your beliefs about society, gender roles, religion, Internet culture, the art circuit, and whatnot – she smoked in a hijab, got beaten live on tape, transfe …

Tacit Knowledge provides an insight into the complex artistic and educational practices that characterized the first decade of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). There is a special focus on the conceptual and feminist strategies developed …

An East German mordernism existed in parallel to West German modernism in the fields of architecture and design. Walter Scheiffele shows the interplay between the two by looking at furniture making, for which the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau had been …

Radical Cut-Up: Nothing Is Original investigates the cut-up as a contemporary mode of creativity and important global model of cultural production. The term cut-up serves as an open container for a long list of terms and actions that describe the combi …

The Apparatus shows a photographer taking photographs. We do not see what she is recording but we follow all the individual steps in the process: how she looks at her subject, how the camera behaves in relation to the body, how the body—the locomotor a …

Under the influence of migration and financial crises, we are experiencing a renaissance of rationing—the limited dispensation of goods and services that are not paid for with money. In Germany too the “refugee crisis” has put “cashless billing” (vouch …

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response is a publication that aims to illuminate the architecture of informality and its mechanism, focused on the neighborhood of Ard-el-Liwa. It challenges the usual negative perception attached to informal areas. Instead …

Foreword by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke With photographs by Leonore Mau “Fichte did away with the opposition between objective and poetic writing—his heightened objectivity becomes poetic, his poetry journalistic. He wrote to fight against …

How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to …

As we hurtle into the twenty-first century, will we be passive downloaders of content or active uploaders of meaning? The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century’s culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of prod …

Leading art institutions such as Tate Modern, the São Paulo Biennial, and Documenta have now recognized that an ongoing artistic use of the airwaves has generated an autonomous genre called radio art. Over the last few decades independent radio station …

Chicago 1968 represents, perhaps as no other moment in American history, the flashpoint of cultural resistance to a militarized world out of control. In the summer of 1968, still reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy o …

Robert Crumb, Altmeister des US-Underground-Comix, ist zurück! Diesmal mit einer bitterbösen Abrechnung mit dem amerikanischen Traum, die – obwohl zwischen 1965 und 1996 entstanden – aktueller nicht sein könnte. Selbstironisch und mit kritischer Wucht …

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The artist and collector Martin Dammann has studied war photography, the impact of images, and how history is written. During his research, he came across many amateur photographs of soldiers in the German army who dressed as women—scenes that directly …