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New Ways of Doing Nothing⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ The group exhibition #NewWays of #DoingNothing opened at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. Devoted to showing artistic works that oppose activity, the exhibition also proposed a politics of radical passivity. A major influence for the exhibition was the titular character of Hermann Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street. This exhibition catalog presents itself as both sourcebook and reader. It begins with a traditional display of individual works by over 20 artists—from Karl Holmqvist and the Paris-based collective #ClaireFontaine to #RobertBreer and #Superflex —then breaks into a layered curatorial conversation and #collage of reprinted text pages and excerpts introducing those artists and thinkers who, in the words of Bartleby, “prefer not to.” ⁣ ⁣ Designed by #AnnaHaas⁣ Published by #SternbergPress and #KunsthalleWien⁣ #design #activity #passivity #artists #art #painter #illustrator #sculpture #musician #sculptor #painting #photographer (at Vienna, Austria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvgvcUzn-H1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tqgi12re0nsf

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OPEN TODAY 12-4 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: MYTHS OF THE MARBLE (2018) • Contributions by Iggy Cortez, Cayetano Ferrer, Roksana Filipowska, Ane Graff, Milena Hoegsberg, Tom Holert, Charlotte Ickes, Marina Isgro, Rachel de Joode, Homay King, Alex Klein, Ignas Krunglevičius, Chris Marker, Daria Martin, Florian Meisenberg, Shahryar Nashat, Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, Susanne M. Winterling • Myths of the Marble documents a group exhibition that took place in 2017 at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway (HOK) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (ICA). Cocurated by Alex Klein (ICA) and Milena Hoegsberg (HOK), the exhibition reflects upon how the “virtual” has been engaged by contemporary artists as a way to consider the world as a site of possibility and limitation that both permeates physical space and online experience. • The book features individual profiles of each artist, generously illustrated with images of works spanning painting, sculpture, and installation to video, 16-mm film, and VR technology, as well as exhibition views from both venues. Homay King and Tom Holert each provide essays that meditate upon how virtuality in its various forms offer radical reconfigurations of the body, ecology, and architectural space at a moment when the capacity to depict the world has never been greater, and where reality is itself increasingly articulated as a construction. Rounding out the book is a discussion between artists Cayetano Ferrer, Florian Meisenberg, and Sondra Perry with art historians Iggy Cortez and Marina Isgro, which delves into concepts ranging from the video game “skybox” to the complexities of the “prosthetic.” • In the bookshop today and via our website. • #worldfoodbooks #mythsofthemarble #sternbergpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

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New Ways of Doing Nothing / Available at www.draw-down.com / The group exhibition #NewWaysofDoingNothing opened at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. Devoted to showing artistic works that oppose activity, the exhibition also proposed a politics of radical passivity. A major influence for the exhibition was the titular character of Hermann Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street. This exhibition catalog presents itself as both sourcebook and reader. It begins with a traditional display of individual works by over 20 artists—from Karl Holmqvist and the Paris-based collective #ClaireFontaine to #RobertBreer and #Superflex —then breaks into a layered curatorial conversation and #collage of reprinted text pages and excerpts introducing those artists and thinkers who, in the words of Bartleby, “prefer not to.” Designed by #AnnaHaas / Published by #SternbergPress and #KunsthalleWien / #design #activity #passivity https://www.instagram.com/p/BtLg_eoAIbs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6ih7pmy1m55g

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TODAY! Save 10% on EVERYTHING! Code: MISFITS / Publishing as Artistic Practice / Available at www.draw-down.com / What does it mean to publish today? Concepts of ownership, authorship, work, accessibility and publicity are being renegotiated in the face of a changing media landscape, institutional upheavals and discursive shifts in legal, artistic and political arenas. The field of publishing not only stands at the intersection of these developments but is also introducing new ruptures. This reader of “19 texts and 69 images” by artists, publishers and scholars demonstrates that the question of publishing has moved from the margin to the center of aesthetic and academic discourse. Includes essays by media studies/contemporary literature scholar Paul Benzon; Vienna-based artists Michalis Pichler and Bernard Cella; founder of Wendy’s Subway (a library reading room and workshop) Matt Longabucco; graphic designer Ann Richter; curator Rachel Valinsky; Neural magazine founder Alessandro Ludovico; New York–based Armenian Iraqi–American writer K. Antranik Cassem; and Moscow-based artist Vadim Zakharov. Designed by #StudioPandan Published by #SternbergPress #Publishing #ArtisticPractice #ownership #authorship https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs6Tcusg9FQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tmmnu9wuibn5

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Today SAVE 9% on everything with code “TAKE9” / “Insert Complicated Title Here” / Available at www.draw-down.com / “What’s my DNA?” Virgil Abloh asks an overflowing auditorium at the #Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Abloh goes on to provide his audience with a #cheatcode —advice he wishes he had received as a student. He then unpacks a series of “shortcuts” for cultivating a “personal #design language.” Trained as an #architect and engineer, Abloh has translated the tools and techniques of his student days into the world of fashion, product design, and music. His label, Off-White, works in seeming contradictions, marrying streetwear with couture, collaborating with brands like Nike, Ikea, and the Red Cross; musicians like Lil Uzi Vert and Rihanna; and “mentors” like #RemKoolhaas. Impervious to hurdles (“They literally don’t exist.”), Abloh takes us behind the scenes of his #designprocess — sharing the essentials of editing, problem-solving, and storytelling. He paints a picture of his DNA, and then flips the question: What’s your DNA? Designed by #Åbäke / Published by #SternbergPress and the #HarvardUniversity Graduate School of Design, 2018 #graphicdesign https://www.instagram.com/p/BtI-K8xgZ2D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hecjjl67r1vg

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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE MUSEUM OF RHYTHM (2018) • The Museum of Rhythm is a speculative institution that engages rhythm as a tool for interrogating the foundations of modernity and the sensual complex of time in daily experience. When entering a larger cultural infrastructure such as the art museum, it juxtaposes modern and contemporary art with ethnographic research, cinema, music, and scientific instruments to set in resonance a critical apparatus and conduct exercises in Rhythmanalysis. • This book, and the exhibition upon which it is based, is an outcome of durational research that sees art as one of the means by which the ideologies of rhythm are implemented. Hence alongside artworks it, by necessity, includes objects, films, and documents connected with the history of the development of time measurement, labor monitoring devices, choreography, and music practice, which enable the human being to experience more complex rhythms. • The book includes visual documentation of the exhibition as well as essays and texts by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Erick Beltrán, Robert Brain, Francisco Camacho Herrera, Natasha Ginwala, Robert Horvitz, Ken Jacobs, Elisabeth Lebovici, Ernst Mach, Angela Melitopoulos, Daniel Muzyczuk, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Jean Painlevé, Forrestine Paulay, Kathleen Rivera, Simon Schaffer, Georg Simmel, Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen Willats, and Jason Young. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #themuseumofrhythm #sternbergpress #hansrichter #lawrenceabuhamdan #erickbeltran #nanaoforiattaayim #ernstmach #stephenwillats #angelamelitopoulos #danielmuzyczuk #wadadaleosmith #jeanpainleve #franciscocamachoherrera #kenjacobs #natashaginwala #simonschaeffer #manray #hannedarboven (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

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Back in Stock! Publishing as Artistic Practice / Available at www.draw-down.com / What does it mean to publish today? Concepts of ownership, authorship, work, accessibility and publicity are being renegotiated in the face of a changing media landscape, institutional upheavals and discursive shifts in legal, artistic and political arenas. The field of publishing not only stands at the intersection of these developments but is also introducing new ruptures. This reader of “19 texts and 69 images” by artists, publishers and scholars demonstrates that the question of publishing has moved from the margin to the center of aesthetic and academic discourse. Includes essays by media studies/contemporary literature scholar Paul Benzon; Vienna-based artists Michalis Pichler and Bernard Cella; founder of Wendy’s Subway (a library reading room and workshop) Matt Longabucco; graphic designer Ann Richter; curator Rachel Valinsky; Neural magazine founder Alessandro Ludovico; New York–based Armenian Iraqi–American writer K. Antranik Cassem; and Moscow-based artist Vadim Zakharov. Designed by #StudioPandan Published by #SternbergPress #Publishing #ArtisticPractice #ownership #authorship

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Publishing as Artistic Practice / Available at www.draw-down.com / What does it mean to publish today? Concepts of ownership, authorship, work, accessibility and publicity are being renegotiated in the face of a changing media landscape, institutional upheavals and discursive shifts in legal, artistic and political arenas. The field of publishing not only stands at the intersection of these developments but is also introducing new ruptures. This reader of “19 texts and 69 images” by artists, publishers and scholars demonstrates that the question of publishing has moved from the margin to the center of aesthetic and academic discourse. Includes essays by media studies/contemporary literature scholar Paul Benzon; Vienna-based artists Michalis Pichler and Bernard Cella; founder of Wendy’s Subway (a library reading room and workshop) Matt Longabucco; graphic designer Ann Richter; curator Rachel Valinsky; Neural magazine founder Alessandro Ludovico; New York–based Armenian Iraqi–American writer K. Antranik Cassem; and Moscow-based artist Vadim Zakharov. Designed by #StudioPandan Published by #SternbergPress #Publishing #ArtisticPractice #ownership #authorship