DATE 7/6/2025
'Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me' is a book for life There is a reason Jeffrey Gibson was selected to represent the United States at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. And its not because hes Native American, and its not because hes gay. Its because he is the best. Now, the astonishing, challenging, celebratory and totally uncompromising work that he exhibited in Venice can be seen in a new iteration at The Broad museum in Los Angeles. This show, and the next-level catalog that accompanies it, prove without question that Gibson more than deserves the MacArthur genius award that he received in 2019. Printed with a variety of special papers, custom inks, multicolored ribbons, gatefolds and fold-out posters, the space in which to place me is unlike any other book. It conveys perfectly the complex physical content of the exhibitionwhich includes performance, sculpture, painting, programming and moreand the intellectual content of the workencompassing such themes as inclusivity, community, dignity and tradition. Text contributions are by an esteemed group of scholars and collaborators.DATE 7/3/2025
This holiday weekend, consider the Lobster! The Fourth of July holiday is both fun and loaded. But whether you love the barbeques and the fireworks, or you fixate on contradictory aspects of our countrys history, we think there’s something special about this 1935 Lobster photograph by Madame Yevonde. Reproduced from Chromotherapia, its one of 170 feel-good color photographs selected by artist and Toilet Paper editor Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé for their unusual intensity. Color photography is often criticized and belittled, Cattelan and Stourdzé write, but it has been a bonanza for artists, allowing them to get out their palettes and repaint the world. Some have broken with the mediums traditional documentary role to explore photographys shared roots with the world of the imagination, flirting with pop culture, Surrealism, bling, camp, kitsch and the bizarreall associated with bad taste and extravagance. But why shouldnt the trivial and the banal also have something to tell us about our existence and the age we live in? Why should rigorous, ascetic minimalism be the only way to approach reality?DATE 6/30/2025
Raise your spades for Ron Finley, Gangsta Gardener This photographby Dae Howerton and Dallas J. Loganof Los Angeles community organizer, urban gardener, humanitarian, artist, designer, father and ecolutionary Ron Finley is reproduced from staff favorite new release Ron Finley: The Gangsta Gardener. The first book devoted to this heroic horticulturalist, The Gangsta Gardener chronicles Finleys journey from 2009, when he was first fined for planting vegetables, fruit trees and flowers in barren spaces around his neighborhood, through his participation in the 2024 Hammer Museum exhibition, Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice. Growing your own food is a human right! Or it should be! he writes in the book. Being healthy is a form of resistance. Swords to Plowshares. Let your shovel be your Weapon of Choice to change the system of food inequality. Raise Your Spades!RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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