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Artist Susan Kleinberg's piece, "Perceiving Courage" premiered at the 2001 Venice Biennale, then showed at PS1/MoMA in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and has been shown around the world. It is conversations linked to photographs of dozens of people from all walks of life, including Cong. John Lewis, astronaut Sally Ride, author Gore Vidal, former President Bill Clinton, domestic worker Santa Isaacs, former Italian Prime Minister...

Stemming from a performance that originated at the Guggenheim Museum, “The Francis Effect” explores Tania Bruguera's work as an artist, activist, and Cuban immigrant to the US engaging the tension between art's pragmatic, activist, and aesthetic possibilities. The performance of “The Francis Effect” follows the guise of a political campaign, aiming to request that the Pope grant Vatican City citizenship to all immigrants and refugees. As a...

Este libro es una cartografía de la experiencia del desplazamiento físico incluyendo miradas descentradas y deslocalizadas en torno a Chile por parte de artistas, curadoras y creadoras chilenas residentes, o que habrían residido, en el extranjero. Estas narrativas desbordan la práctica artística, se indaga en un tipo de materialidad sensible y social a la vez, que no tiene por fin el análisis de la producción cultural sino las elaboraciones...

The Conversations with Creative Women: Pocket Edition series contain exclusive interviews with some of Australia's most talented female creatives from industries as varied as ceramics, interior design, styling, photography, illustration, filmmaking, furniture, and book design.

"Jo Walsh has loved Cameron Mitchell for as long as she can remember. Whether front and center in her life or on the periphery, the tall, brooding artist has made his presence seductively and irresistibly known. But whenever they start to get close, Cam pulls away. Jo's tired of keeping her feelings in a box Cam is afraid to open. If he wants her, he'll have to prove it. And if he doesn't, Jo will need to know the real reason why. How do you walk...

Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of Misery by Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and possibility in elliptical, enigmatic poems. Here, "joy would crawl over broken glass, if that was the way." Here, sleep is "a circle whose diameter might be small," a circle "pitifully small," a "wrecked and empty hypothetical circle." Paired with Sloat's stunning mixed-media...

"An illustrated comic travelogue about an American immigrant driving alone through all that's left of "The Mother Road," Route 66"--

"Stolen art. A New Mexico archaeological dig. An abandoned dog. And a secret that's worth killing for. Evelyn McTavishs world came crashing down with the suicide of her fiance. As she struggles to put her life back together and make a living from her art, she receives a call that her dog is about to be destroyed at the pound. Except she doesn't own a dog. But the shelter is adamant that the microchip embedded in the canine with her name and address...

Suspension is that rare book of poetry, as much a narrative as a collection of individually successful lyrics. We follow here the extraordinary events of a life and the visions of the one/the many living it. We end, as in life, so far from where we began that a true sense of progress is made in the reading of this poetry, and yet we've lingered, meditated, listened, because this is work made mostly of imagery and music, subtlety and unflinching consideration....

A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a professional painter in Jerusalem throughout her life. She was born in 1906 in Kiev to a Russian mother and a Christian Arab father. Her family fled to Jerusalem in 1917 in the wake of the Russian Revolution. Her life was marked by violence and war, including the Arab Revolt from 1936 to 1939, the Nakba in 1948,...