The blockbuster two-volume guide to the Venice Biennale, with over 1,000 illustrations

The 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa (artistic director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo), is titled Foreigners Everywhere. It takes its name from a series of artworks made in 2004 by the collective Claire Fontaine, and is, as Pedrosa explains, a celebration of the foreign, the distant, the outsider, the queer as well as the Indigenous. It will focus on artists who are themselves foreigners, immigrants, expatriates, diasporic, emigres, exiled and refugees--especially those who have moved between the Global South and the Global North. Pedrosa divides the exhibition into two parts: Nucleo Contemporaneo, for contemporary artists, and Nucleo Storico, for historical ones. The former expands upon the concept of the foreigner or outsider artist, while the latter examines artworks created in the Global South between 1905 and 1990.
The catalog, copublished by Silvana Editoriale and Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia, is, as with the 2022 publication, printed in two volumes, and follows the exhibition route to accompany visitors and art lovers through the exhibition spaces of the Giardini and the Arsenale. It also presents the other projects on display in various locations around the city of Venice and at Forte Marghera in Mestre.
Artists include: Pacita Abad, Etel Adnan, Baya, Monika Correa, Olga de Amaral, Dumile Deni, Uza Egonu, Aref El Rayess, Louis Fratino, Fred Graham, Mohamed Hamidi, Carmen Herrera, María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Grace Salome Kwami, Wilfredo Lam, Esther Mahlangu, Tina Modotti, Ahmed Morsi, Taylor Nkomo, Pan Yuliang, Dalton Paula, Sayed Haider Raza, Emma Reyes, Jamini Roy, Mahmoud Sabri, Joshua Serafin, Amrita Sher-Gil, Yinka Shonibare, Joseph Stella, Salman Toor, Ahmed Umar, Rubem Valentim, Kay WalkingStick, Bibi Zogbé.

A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries

Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum

Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy. The so-called Black Atlantic, to use the term coined by Paul Gilroy, is geography lacking precise borders, a fluid field where African experiences invade and occupy other nations, territories and cultures.
The plural and polyphonic quality of histórias is also of note; unlike the English histories, the word in Portuguese carries a double meaning that encompasses both fiction and nonfiction, personal, political, economic and cultural, as well as mythological narratives.
The book features more than 400 works from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as Europe, from the 16th to the 21st century. These are organized in eight thematic groupings: Maps and Margins; Emancipations; Everyday Lives; Rites and Rhythms; Routes and Trances; Portraits; Afro Atlantic Modernisms; Resistances and Activism.
Artists include: Nina Chanel Abney, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Emanoel Araujo, Maria Auxiliadora, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Paul Cézanne, Victoria Santa Cruz, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Melvin Edwards, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Ben Enwonwu, Ellen Gallagher, Theodore Géricault, Barkley Hendricks, William Henry Jones, Loïs Mailou Jones, Titus Kaphar, Wifredo Lam, Norman Lewis, Ibrahim Mahama, Edna Manley, Archibald Motley, Abdias Nascimento, Gilberto de la Nuez, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Dalton Paula, Rosana Paulino, Howardena Pindell, Heitor dos Prazeres, Joshua Reynolds, Faith Ringgold, Gerard Sekoto, Alma Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Rubem Valentim, Kara Walker and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

A sweeping look at the history of the artist collective whose graphic poster designs helped define the visual culture of AIDS activism

Gran Fury (1988-95) was a New York-based activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an organization founded in 1987 to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United States through political activism. Named for the vehicle favored by the New York City police, Gran Fury formed to summon a sense of collective indignation. The collective's innovative graphic design campaigns were mobilized in ACT UP demonstrations to awaken the public to the disdain, neglect and silence of Ronald Reagan's administration during the epidemic. The group produced posters, newspapers, stickers, photographs, videos and billboards that were circulated to transform perceptions about HIV/AIDS, interrogate ineffective public policies and underreported government data, interrupt misconceptions disseminated by the media, confront the morality of religious institutions, and alleviate the stigma and discrimination faced by people living with HIV/AIDS. They worked closely with other activist groups, including the Silence=Death Project, whose posters featuring a pink triangle came to be a defining visual of the AIDS crisis.
This richly illustrated catalog is a comprehensive survey of the collective's body of work. It includes unpublished essays, historical interviews, rare pamphlets, photographs and ephemera that altogether chart the development of a new visual language for effecting social change. Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is an indispensable reference for the study of the intersection of activism and the arts in the late 20th century.

Inspired by the introduction of synthetic fabrics to Brazil in the 1960s, MASP Renner's Art in Fashion project is a rare example of clothing produced for a museum

Over three seasons, the MASP Renner project invited 26 duos of artists and fashion designers to produce 78 garments created directly for the museum's collection. MASP Renner is one of the few examples of a fashion collection made up entirely of collaborations between artists and designers.

A colossal panorama of Brazilian visual culture across five centuries

Published for the bicentennial of Brazil's independence, Brazilian Histories brings together a selection of more than 300 works and documents from different mediums, typologies and regions of the country, spanning the 16th to 21st centuries.

Created in 2013, MAHKU (Huni Kuin Artists Movement) began its work by translating traditional songs of the Indigenous Huni Kuin people into figurative drawings. This is the group's first book, including transcriptions of their songs and myths, as well as images of their visual practice.

Images of dance in art, from Hieronymus Bosch to Keith Haring

This volume gathers 250 works of art that depict dancing and its attendant cultures. Artists include Adrian Piper, Alexander Calder, Ana Mendieta, Edgar Degas, Faith Ringgold, H�lio Oiticica, Toulouse-Lautrec, Hieronymus Bosch, Keith Haring, Leonardo da Vinci, Luchita Hurtado, Lygia Pape, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Poussin, Kandinsky and more.

The culmination of MASP's 2019 program centered on women artists throughout history

Over the last few years, The São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) has undertaken a pioneering effort to include artwork by women in both its permanent collection and its programming. The museum's 2019 program was dedicated to women artists, and this publication is the culmination of that effort. Women's Histories, Feminist Histories combines the catalogs of two parallel, complementary exhibitions organized in dialogue at MASP: Women's Histories: Artists before 1900, curated by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Mariana Leme, and Feminist Histories: Artists after 2000, curated by Isabella Rjeille. The juxtaposition of these two exhibitions with similar focuses but different scopes within a single publication allows us to establish dialogues between artwork from different eras.
Artists include: Maria Graham, Tarsila do Amaral, Anna Bella Geiger, Leonor Antunes, Gego, Catarina Simão, Jenn Nkiru, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Laura Huertas Millán and Anna Maria Maiolino.