Palermo Atlas is an interdisciplinary analysis on the city of Palermo commissioned by Manifesta 12 and conducted by the architectural firm OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The research explores the architecture, archeology, anthropology of the city, its historical archives and personal stories. Contemporary Palermo is a subject of particularly fascinating studies. On the one hand it is a mosaic of identities, cultures and ecosystems, the result of centuries of meetings and exchanges between civilizations. On the other

Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship of these two masters in one elegant volume. It presents their life and work as never before, from their formative years at the Bauhaus in Germany to their remarkable influence at Black Mountain College in the United States through their intensely pr

The photographs in the book are taken on either side of the Atlantic in places where the Internet is concentrated. Where the fibres come together, and almost everything we do online passes down a few impossibly narrow tubes, stretching along the seabed, connecting one continent to another. Looking at these vast unknowable entities – the ocean and the Internet – we sense their strangeness.  We can understand each conceptually but can only ever see or bump int

Are you a robot? is a question everyone has likely come across while using the internet. The most common way to prove that you’re, in fact, not a robot is by analysing a set of photographs and selecting the ones depicting a bus, a motorcycle, a fire hydrant, or a traffic light. With this simple but effective way, you demonstrate your ability to interpret images and automatically position yourself out with the capacities of

Can something poetic become political and vice versa sometimes? From the reflection put by Francis Alÿs in the work Sometimes Doing Something Poetical Can Become Political, And Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic comes Politics/Poetics. What is the meaning of politic and of poetic, and can art merge them? In the book, the author builds a conceptual ellipse in which Francis alÿs and Jeremy Deller are analyzed as two par