Structured like a cine-novel, this book uses numerous stills from Die Insel as a visual backbone, into which are inserted three newly commissioned texts: Dangerous as hell, having that camera on: A conversation about changing the world and saving a cockroach
 – Fucking Good Art (Nienke Terpsma & Rob Hamelijnck) Drawing upon their own collaborative and conversation-driven practice, they discuss with Van Lieshout the way that he works together with his partner, with his editor and with the protagonists of his films, to make artworks that are simultaneously generous and egocentric. I am a genius (Adrian Searle) Locating Van Lieshout’s practice at the intersection between art and life, The Guardian’s art critic Adrian Searle contemplates the artist’s ambition and its (at times catastrophic) collision with reality. In Praise of Folly, or the Possibility of an Island (Zoë Gray) Examining his apparently contradictory desire to be politically engaged and to withdraw from society into the pure autonomy of art, Gray’s essay considers Van Lieshout as a satirist, unpacking his humorous exploration of weighty, often controversial topics.

Besides providing botanical contents in a simple, personal and cozy way; The Plant offers plant lovers a new look at greenery by featuring the works of many creative people who share our love for plants. As a curious observer of ordinary plants and other greenery, the magazine presents a monograph on a specific plant; bringing together photographers, illustrators, designers, musicians, writers and visual artists, both established and emerging, from all over the world. These people share with The Plant their unique perceptions and experiences of plants.

170 ✕ 240mm 1 Colour Offset 56 pages + jacket Numbered Edition of 1000 Published 2012 (Duke Press)

Debut short-form comics publication by Dutch illustrator Viktor Hachmang. Book of Void deals with the romantic notion of destroying precious artworks and aims to explore its inherent logic – what is it like to live in a world ruled by fear in which a static work of art can become a harmful incomprehensible “Thing” that must be destroyed? Book of Void is a fictionalized account of two subsequent slashings of monumental minimal artworks at the Stedelijk Museum and takes cues from The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi’s classic handbook of samurai swordsmanship and philosophy. Book of Void poses the question if such acts of violence are truly pointless, or do they possess an innate spiritual beauty?

The book features a historical reference on housing needs by Lucius Burckhardt, a philosophy on contemporary machinic capitalism by Gerald Raunig, an essay on gender questions in the sharing economy by Brigitte Theißl, an analytical text on Airbnb’s photo policy and how it affects our everyday life by åyr. It also brings together a set of polemic theses by its editor Christian Berkes, an agonistic panel talk held at Swiss Institute in NYC, which was organized by the London based art collective åyr, and a hyper positivist pamphlet for sharism by Isaac Mao. The text that lent its main title to this publication rounds up this multi-perspective critique of the sharing economy and leads over into a lavishly illustrated Xerox Collection with hidden jokes, self-dissolving associations, and a beautiful form of early interior photography. Welcome Home.

Modern Matter’s 11th issue, American Masters, features a special compilation of visual essays, interviews and artworks from the very best of America’s artists and institutions, 1968 — 2016. With Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, an interview with MoMA PS1’s Klaus Biesenbach, and Sol Lewitt. Plus: Philippe Parreno at Tate Modern, and an exclusive supplement project created with Sarah Lucas, featuring original artwork.

The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo Around the Lasco Project, the Palais de Tokyo’s programme dedicated to urban art, PALAIS magazine is devoting its latest issue to artists whose work has been developed in the street. The Lasco Project was initiated in 2012, and stands as one of the most astonishing successions of urban art in a cultural site, reaching into the slightest nook and darkest cranny of the Palais de Tokyo. For it, almost sixty international artists have produced interventions, some of them monumental, others secret, which confront the Palais de Tokyo’s plain architecture, and infiltrate into its interstices. Interviews, encounters with artists, special contributions, theoretical essays and original texts Bilingual (French & English)