Lack of culture, financial resources and globalization are rapidly driving the languages of art into a cul-de-sac. The definitive decline of the avant-garde movements and the erosion of the intellectual power that had supported them, along with the image of art as a status symbol, have fostered the rise of a type of art collecting, which devoid of sufficient knowledge of the object of its desire, has nonetheless imposed new rules of the game and

Originally published between 1961 and 1965 by Tuli Kupferberg and Sylvia Topp’s Birth Press, this volume reproduces all ten issues of YEAH magazine as individual facsimile editions, housed in a single box. Kupferberg described the magazine as “a satyric excursion; a sardonic review; a sarcastic epitome; a chronicle of the last days,” and throughout its pages he acts as both editor and artist, threading the needle of leftist politics with the sarcasm and sharp creative wit

Wolcott was the first woman hired as a full-time photographer for the Farm Security Administration in 1938, during the American Great Depression. Three years later, after taking more than 9,000 photographs, Wolcott received an ultimatum from her husband Lee Wolcott and boss Roy Stryker: choose love or photography. Wolcott quit her job and spent 11 years managing three dairy farms in rural Virginia. She raised four children, did housework, milked cows, learned how to operate machinery, and rep

At turns humorous and absurd, heartfelt and searching, Photo No-Nos is for photographers of all levels wishing to avoid easy metaphors and to sharpen their visual communication skills. Photographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to shoot—things that are cliché, exploitative, derivative, sometimes even arbitrary. Photo No-Nos features ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world’s most talented photographers and photography professionals, along with an encyclo

From the philosopher Alain Badiou experimenting with 'luminous blackness' to the photographer Duane Michals trying to 'see his friend's head dissolve into pure light', this issue presents, among others, Olafur Eliasson, Alex Foxton, Amiko Li, La Maison de Verre, Tommaso Protti. It also presents exclusive works by Caroline Denervaud: a series of collages inspired by the words of John Berger. Featured Contributors Alain Badiou, Edmund Burke, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Olafur Eliasson, Alex Foxton, Alfred Hitch