Alexandra Grant Unites Paintings with Polish Poetry
Everything Belongs to the Cosmos by Alexandra Grant. Everything Belongs to the Cosmos is a publication that captures six painted works from 2024 by Los Angeles– and Berlin–based painter Alexandra Grant, based on texts by Polish writers and poets Anna Adamowicz, Krystyna Dąbrowska, Julia Fiedorczuk, Bianka Rolando, Olga Tokarczuk, and Urszula Zajączkowska. The six participating writers and poets were commissioned by Grant for this body of work in 2021 and early 2022 with the assistance of poetry editor Marcin Orliński and translated from Polish into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. The publication, in a folder emblazoned with Grant's neon sculpture soc som (2024), features six fold-out posters of Grant's painted works and an accompanying booklet of the poems or texts of each author, with an introduction by Marcin Orliński, in Polish and English. To order, please visit: https://t.co/6G2yez76AZ. #everythingbelongstothecosmos #xartistsbooks #carliergebauer
First Monograph Celebrates Blondell Cummings' “Moving Pictures”
Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures is the first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings. Published in 2021, the book accompanied an exhibition of the same name, co-organized by the Getty Research...
Dreamlike Road Trip Explores Sleep’s Transformative Power
High Winds by Sylvan Oswald and Jessica Fleischmann. How does sleep—or its absence—change us? At the end of another wakeful night, High Winds tears off on a hallucinatory road trip in search of his estranged half brother, led by cryptic signs...
Literature Thrives Like Ecosystem, Recycling Words Across Generations
“Like other life forms, literature survives, connects, colonizes. Cellulose fibers are converted into paper, into books, and immortal words. Words, too, provide compost. So are intertexts our way of recycling literature? Of metabolizing it? One book belongs to another.” - Clara...
León Ferrari’s Anti‑War Masterpiece Gets First English Translation
The Words of Others (Palabras ajenas) by León Ferrari. The Words of Others (Palabras ajenas) is the first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari’s uncompromising literary masterpiece (1967). A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics,...
Mutu's Catalog Explores Human Representation Through Art
Wangechi Mutu is a catalog that accompanied Mutu's 2022 exhibition at @StormKingArtCtr, which included large-scale bronzes, earthworks, and films. Wangechi Mutu’s work deals with the very idea of human representation: how we perceive and reproduce images of what we think we...
Bianka Rolando’s “Stones” Highlights Inselbergs Poetry‑Lithograph Collection
Our fourth and final feature in celebration of National Poetry Month is Bianka Rolando and her poem "Stones" from our upcoming publication, Inselbergs. Rolando’s first book published in English, Inselbergs is a collection of poetry accompanied by the author’s own lithographs,...
Celebrate Poetry Month with Denise Newman's “First Language”
Our next feature in celebration of National Poetry Month is Denise Newman and an excerpt of her poem “First Language” from Oracular Transmissions by Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby. Oracular Transmissions weaves together three collaborative projects dear friends Etel Adnan...
Spring Sale: 20% Off Clara Obligado’s Growth Memoir
Our spring sale is still in bloom through Friday. Save 20% off using code SPRING20 on all our titles including all that grows by Clara Obligado.🌱 🪻🪻🪻 all that grows: nature and writing is the English-language translation of Todo lo que crece:...
Amir Zaki’s “Building + Becoming” Wins Gold Design Award
Building + Becoming by Amir Zaki. Co-published with DoppelHouse Press, Building + Becoming brings together 272 pages of full color work by the Orange County, CA–based hyperrealist photographer, accompanied by an interview with curator and writer Corrina Peipon and an essay co-authored by critics...
Fictional Sculptures Get Historical Provenance in Baragouin
Baragouin by Kim Schoen. Baragouin is an artists’ book by Los Angeles and Berlin-based artist Kim Schoen. The book is a companion piece to a video work of the same name, filmed in a now-closed residential sculpture showroom in Los Angeles. The...
Oracular Transmissions Unites Adnan and Kirby’s Collaborative Works
Oracular Transmissions by Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby. Oracular Transmissions weaves together three collaborative projects dear friends Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby completed through processes of exchange and translation: Back, Back Again to Paris (2013), The Alhambra (2016), and Transmissions (2017). To order, please visit: https://t.co/2zygdAJILo. #oraculartransmissions #eteladnan #lynnmariekirby...
Clara Obligado Leads Three-Day Latin American Lit Series
Join XAB author Clara Obligado for a special three-day literature series, presented by the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese @UIowa, with support from the International Writing Program (@UIIWP) and the English Department. Tuesday, March...
Asher Hartman's Debut Collection: Mad Clot on a Holy Bone
Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater by Asher Hartman. Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater is the first published collection of work by playwright and artist Asher Hartman and his Gawdafful...
River Flows Through Portikus in Interactive Art Installation
Diversion: Asad Raza 📰 This artist newspaper, edited by Asad Raza and Mathew Hale, accompanied a work by Raza of the same name shown at Kunsthalle Portikus in 2022. Diversion redirected the Main river through the Portikus space, inviting the public...