Kerry James Marshall is een van Noord-Amerika’s belangrijkste hedendaagse kunstenaars en wordt geroemd om zijn werk dat de ondervertegenwoordiging van de zwarte figuur in de Westerse beeldcultuur aankaart. Marshall staat vooral bekend als schilder, maar heeft tijdens zijn carrière ook een uitgebreid grafisch oeuvre geproduceerd, dat nauwelijks gedocumenteerd is. In zijn jeugd leerde hij tekenen en schilderen, maar verdiepte hij zich ook in grafische druktechnieken. Het merendeel van zijn g...

‘100MJ’ concerns an intuitive and personal drawing project about identity by Dutch artist Bas Kosters. The book shows a series of a hundred full page drawings based on the image of Michael Jackson. It is about how people are shaped trough the eyes of others, the reach of recognizability and identity. It plays with the ideas about visual culture and recognizability. In hundred portraits drawn on ephemera Kosters shows, in a poetic manner, man in all their strength.

Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary politica...

This book is as much about making architecture as it is about world making. Herman Hertzberger has never considered his works as stand-alones, but always as parts of webs of connections on different scales. Shaping freedom integrates his architecture, texts, photographs, drawings, quotes, and art and architecture of others. All these layers are reciprocally related to each other. Together, they form Hertzberger’s architectural universe.

Exponential population ageing is changing how we coexist in urban spaces. The Architecture of Ageing is de Architekten Cie.’s long-term collaborative project on housing, ageing, and care in the city. It is where we synthesise our knowledge and share our experience through continuous dialogues at home in the Netherlands and internationally.

Improving discourse on ‘care’ is high on the agenda in our globally ageing world. Our task of densifying cities with hundreds of apartments in single...

Situated in the middle of the river Maas, between the northern and southern parts of Rotterdam, Noordereiland is shaped like a typical riverboat. Bart Lodewijks trekked from its western to its eastern end, making his drawings in chalk on commercial buildings, ship cabins, quay walls, houses, and steel pipes. He then wrote a poetic account of the life he encountered on the island, published in three parts. His presence as an outsider there elicited both questions and stories from the island’...

Kunstenaar Kris Martin brengt in het Kasteel van Laarne een groep van tien hedendaagse Belgische kunstenaars samen onder de noemer NADIR. Het nadir (van het Arabisch nathir, ‘tegenovergesteld’) is in de astronomie het punt dat vlak tegenover het zenit staat en zich dus recht onder de waarnemer bevindt. Voor Martin is het een metafoor: NADIR gaat over kijken naar wat er is, over naar de kern gaan. Hij besloot om het kruim van de Belgische kunstscene samen te brengen in een groepstentoonste...

This publication celebrates the 10 th anniversary of the Master of Choreography programme of the ArtEZ School of Dance. It marks this particular moment in time by creating a discursive and dynamic object in which memories of the past and visions of the future converge. 'Inventing Futures' is a mixture, a hybrid of an art book, a selection of essays, a score or a choreography itself, which comes to life in its encounter with the reader. The book consists of five clusters reflecting upon a cent...

Crowned the “Prince of Painters” by Giorgio Vasari, Raphael (1483–1520) was one of the most popular artists of the Italian Renaissance. Famous for his serene and harmonious series of Madonnas and his work at the Vatican Palace, he was an extremely influential painter, both during and after his own lifetime. Raphael in Detail shows his masterpieces in unprecedented, large-format details. The art historian and specialist of the Italian Renaissance, Stefano Zuffi, takes the reader on a voy...

Produced by the London Centre for Book Arts, this publication introduces the reader to a wonderful world of artisanal paper and ink makers, typographers, printers, bookbinders, artists, publishers, and booksellers. Take a peek into the universes of 30 craftspeople and makers located around the world, from Tokyo to New York. Some still follow age-old techniques, while others use the latest modern technologies, or even a combination of both. With ‘Books: Art, Craft & Community’ we not only ...