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1. Barbara Vanderlinden

Carla Arocha and Stephane Schraenen

In Belgium, a country with a deep-rooted gusto for conceptual experimentation, Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen embrace conceptual rigor while transforming space into a dynamic visual laboratory. Arocha arrived in Belgium from Caracas via Chicago before settling in Antwerp, Schraenen’s hometown. Having developed distinct solo practices prior to their partnership, they have been working together in Antwerp for more than twenty years, becoming true collaborators who explore how we perceive and live “the aesthetic” while raising new questions about art and visual culture. Their interactive installations use geometric abstraction and optical effects to merge art and design.  —Chris Dercon, Managing Director, Fondation Cartier, Paris  For more than two decades, Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen have been pursuing an artistic inquiry grounded in postminimalist critique and defined by indeterminacy. Their work unfolds between sculpture, architecture, and installation, where light, material, and perception interlace in ever-shifting relations. At once rigorous and poetic, their practice dwells on the shimmering threshold between independence and collaboration. Their preoccupation with coexisting in difference extends to the duo’s exquisite explorations of perception’s variegated qualities: as a phenomenon rooted in physiology and optics; as it arises from the interactions between materials, light, the eye, and the environment; and as codified in representational conventions like perspective—all of which the artists expertly unmoor.  —Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director,  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago  The art of Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen is an explosion of energy, strong graphics, blinding mirrors, dazzling lights, and fabulous reflections. With a playful nod to fashion and modeling, their work invites us to see, move, and experience space anew.  —Walter Van Beirendonck, Fashion Designer, Antwerp 

Cartier

Few jewellers are as widely known as Cartier, even fewer have as many instantly recognisable designs - some of which, such as the Tank watch, Love bracelet and Trinity ring, have become iconic. Glamorous, witty, beautiful, and beloved of stars such as Grace Kelly, this book features over 150 dazzling Cartier items.

Dike Blair: Matinee

Blair’s painterly use of mise-en-scène evokes the influence of Edward Hopper’s cinema-inspired tableaux Published with Edward Hopper House. This volume builds on a developing body of scholarship linking the American painters Dike Blair (born 1952) and Edward Hopper (1882–1967) to each other. In both Hopper’s tableaux and Blair’s mise-en-scènes, light is a character in its own right, whether casting an eerie pallor on a desolate interior or illuminating the lip of a half-drunk glass; both artists imply narratives without offering definitive plots, inviting the viewer to stitch together a story from images and absences. Matinee foregrounds the “realism” of Blair and Hopper within the context of the utter irreality of the movies, lambent and liminal. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, organized by Helen Molesworth at the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center in Nyack, New York, this volume features a conversation between Molesworth and Blair that takes as its jumping-off point Hopper’s painting New York Movie (1939).

1. Njideka Akunyili Crosby
2. Jareh Das
3. Helen Molesworth

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist was awarded an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College in May 2019. She is also the recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship and has received a number of awards and grants. She was an Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2011 to 2012.Dr. Jareh Das is an independent curator, writer, and researcher who lives and works between West Africa and the United Kingdom. Helen Molesworth is a writer, podcaster, and curator based in Los Angeles and Provincetown. Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., is a professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, and a senior writer and editor-at-large at The Brooklyn Rail. Drew Thompson is an art historian and curator of African and Black Diaspora visual and material culture.

Dike Blair

After decades of working with gouache, Blair turns to oil paint for his most recent series of hyperrealist street scenes, tablescapes and windows Working from his own photographs of subjects such as cigarette packets, blossoming flowers, snacks, liquor glasses and coffee cups, doors and desolate, nighttime scenes, New York–based artist Dike Blair (born 1952) creates intimate, diaristic tableaux paintings. His depictions of food evoke the soft palette and bird's-eye perspective of Wayne Thiebaud, while his window views and landscapes combine the modernism of Edward Hopper with the photorealistic eye of William Eggleston. After using gouache for decades, Blair began working in oil in 2017; the resulting noirish scenes retain the artist’s signature style, but imbue his works with a particular novel luster. This expansive monograph presents Blair’s paintings in oil to date. Illustrated with hundreds of recent works, the book features a reprint of a formative 2018 essay on the artist by Helen Molesworth, as well as new scholarship by Jim Lewis and Christine Robinson.

Yoko Ono

Juliet Bingham is Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London. Jon Hendricks is a curator and since 2008, he has served as the Fluxus Consulting Curator of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Jon has known Yoko Ono since 1965, and has worked with her extensively. Connor Monahan is the Studio Director for Yoko Ono. Sanford Biggers is an interdisciplinary artist who works in film, installation, sculpture, music, and performance, based in New York. Andrew de Brún is Assistant Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London. Patrizia Dander is Head of Curatorial Department, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Catherine Lord is an artist, writer, curator and activist. She is Professor Emerita of Art at the University of California. Helen Molesworth is a writer and podcaster based in Los Angeles and Provincetown. Yasufumi Nakamori is Director of the Asia Society Museum, New York. He was formerly Senior Curator, International Art (Photography), Tate. Barbara Rose (1936–2020) was an art historian and critic, who lived and worked in the United States. Naoko Seki is a curator and art historian. She was previously Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1993–2020). David Toop is a musician, author and Emeritus Professor. He was previously Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication (2013–2021). Kira Wainstein is Research Assistant at Tate Modern, London. Andrew Wilson is a critic, historian and curator. He was previously Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art, and Archives at Tate Britain (2006–2021).