Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art

An edited collection that addresses the vital intersection of contemporary art and activism in this watershed cultural moment.

OCEANS attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the sea and its running currents within contemporary art and visual culture.

A wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character.

A collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic category—the cute—on postwar and contemporary art.

The first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice.

The ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices, positions, and theories connected to health in contemporary art.

The first major anthology to focus on relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, with topics ranging from accelerating technological change to global urbanization.

Reflections on the cultural and political complexities of translation in global contemporary artistic practices.

An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production.

A secret history of craft told through lost and overlooked texts that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.