Toby Kamps

Portraits: Luc Tuymans (Menil Collection)

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is a painter engaged with figuration,” using imagery that he reworks in a critical or self-critical way. He combines images from various sourcesphotographs, film stills, mirror imageswith a spare palette, unexpected cropping, and blurring to reinforce the painted image’s statu...

Silence (Menil Collection)

Over the last century, many artists and filmmakers have used silence as subject matter and medium, exploring it as symbol, phenomenon, memorial device, and oppressive force. Silence examines the ways twenty-nine artists invoke silence to shape space and consciousness, most after John Cage's 4'33" (1...

Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence (Menil Collection)

This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi’s (18691948)ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanying images include Gandhi’s own iconography, photojou...

Space Is The Place

This catalogue for the traveling exhibition Space Is the Place (whose title refers to a movie about the super-experimental and influential jazz musician, Sun Ra) takes an inspired look at the theme of space exploration. Encompassing the concept of infinite potential, as well as historical outer-spac...

John Wood & Paul Harrison: Answers to Questions

John Wood (born 1969) and Paul Harrison (born 1966) fuse their aesthetic research with existential slapstick comedy. Working together since 1993, the British duo use a wide variety of props, including furniture, household utensils and their own bodies, setting up comical interactions with objects th...

The Old, Weird America

Borrowing its title from Greil Marcus' 1997 book The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, this publication is produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, which considers the work of 16 artists who explore American folk imagery and hist...

Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue--Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965

Red Green Blue is almost the title of a 1963 painting by Ellsworth Kelly. Red Blue Green, a monumental rectangular oil work, considered a crucial fulcrum point in the artist's career, represents Kelly's concerns about the tension between the figure and the ground, offering two precisely shaped and b...

William N. Copley

William N. Copley (1919–96) was a multifaceted American artist and art-world catalyst. Creator of madcap narrative paintings, drawings and installations, Copley was a unique figure in postwar art history well known for his humorous and sarcastic imagery. Known by his nom de plume CPLY, he was a self...

Space Is the Place

Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art

Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s

Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965

Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s

Tony Matelli