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FriendsWithYou is a contemporary fine art collective that has been spreading their unifying message of Magic, Luck, and Friendship worldwide since their founding in 2002. Expanding their mission of connectivity and reawakening via their interactive artworks, the artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III call on the viewer to reinvent and reinterpret the lost meaning of spirituality. Using ideas like animism, healing arts, the modern ritual and celebrated symbols, FriendsWithYou addresses the human need to relate to one another. Together, the artists have constructed their own brand of post pop visual language a la Murakami, Arturo Herrera and Yayoi Kusama and have instilled in their work the powerful ability to trigger thoughts of happiness, curiosity, and meaningful interaction.

We Are FriendsWithYou is a brightly colored and comprehensive monograph that explores the journey of Sam & Tury, from their early handcrafted art objects to their recent works experimenting with animation, paintings, sculpture, public playgrounds, and published works. Originating at the crossroads of art, design, and popular culture, FriendsWithYou's output is quite unique. By presenting a “superflat” standpoint on their creations and allowing all types of influences­­­ –– film directors, writers, anime artists, as well as contemporary artists –– they are revolutionizing the art world and widening the straightforward definitions of these disciplines. With contributions by Pharrell Williams, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Peter Doroshenko, this book reveals never-before-seen insight into the complete body of work from the art duo responsible for spreading the self-proclaimed “happy-virus.”

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FriendsWithYou is a globally renowned fine art collective that originated in Miami and is currently based in Los Angeles. Pharrell Williams is a designer, recording artist, and producer based in Miami. Alejandro Jodorowsky is a playwright, filmmaker, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, psychotherapist, and author. Peter Doroshenko is the Director of the Dallas Contemporary Museum and has contributed writing to several contemporary artist books.

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A Clarion Call for Cultural Resistance in a Digital Age 

Welcome to an extraordinary journey into underground culture from visionary publisher Jefferson Hack. Featuring contributions from cultural provocateurs Tilda Swinton, Rankin, Douglas Coupland, Björk, Aimee Mullins, and many more, We Can’t Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century — drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing. In the spirit of progressive individualism at its core every single copy is unique, emblazoned with an individuated, numbered cover displaying a one-off fresco of the provocative material between its pages. If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.

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About the Authors:

Jefferson Hack is the editorial director and cofounder of Dazed Media. Hans Ulrich Obrist is codirector of exhibitions and programs and director of international projects at Serpentine Galleries. Björk is an Icelandic composer, musician, and singer. Tilda Swinton is a British actress and fashion icon known for both arthouse and mainstream films.

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An archive is always a time-machine, but the archives of Wes Anderson take us on a journey not just through time, but through layers of stories and the experiences of storytelling – on paper and on film. This book is dedicated to these stories and celebrates Anderson’s over 30 years in cinema.

From the start of his career, Anderson has maintained a rich library of notebooks, drawings, paintings, polaroids, props, puppets, sets, and costumes from his films. The objects shown here are enhanced and illuminated by Anderson’s long-time collaborators: Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat; musician Seu Jorge; and music supervisor Randall Poster. Also included: an extensive interview with Anderson himself, reflecting on his films and working process.

Wes Anderson: The Archives accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Anderson’s work, curated by la Cinémathèque française in Paris and the Design Museum in London in partnership with Wes Anderson

About the Authors:

Johanna Agerman Ross is the Conran Foundation Chief Curator at the Design Museum in London where she looks after the museum’s programme of exhibitions. She was previously curator of twentieth century and contemporary furniture and product design at the V&A. In 2011 she founded the international design journal Disegno.

Matthieu Orléan is an artistic collaborator at La Cinémathèque française. He is the curator of exhibitions such as: ¡Almodóvar Exhibition! (2006), Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood (2008), The Enchanted World of Jacques Demy (2013), Gus Van Sant Icons (2016).

Dr Lucia Savi is the Head of Curatorial and Interpretation at the Design Museum. She curated the V&A exhibition "Bags: Inside Out" (2020) and authored its catalogue. Savi has contributed to several exhibitions and publications. Her latest academic monograph, A New History of Made in Italy, Fashion and Textiles in Post War Italy, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.

Includes contributions from Glenn Adamson, Lanre Bakare, Frédéric Bonnaud, Hadeel Eltayeb, Stéphane Lerouge, Vincent Malausa, Charlene Prempeh, Tim Marlow, Richard Round-Turner, Nicolas Saada, Leanne Shapton, Isabel Stevens.

A definitive and long-overdue monograph revealing the extraordinarily prolific career of the American artist Wes Lang, whose frenetic and manic paintings bring together ideas and icons mined from a post-pop American landscape. 

In the Wes Lang universe, recurring figures and symbols — horses, reapers, skulls, Native American chiefs, even nods to his favorite painters, country and jazz musicians — serve as emblems in one way or another for freedom and inspiration. References to the Tao Te Ching and the lectures of Ram Dass are scattered throughout the work, revealing a central ethos that underlies the artist’s complex iconography. The repetition of these sometimes paradoxical images and phrases, motifs and mantras, gives Lang’s work a ritualistic aspect seemingly at odds with his eclectic and spontaneous style.

Introduced with an exploratory essay by the critic Arty Nelson, the book draws on more than 25 years’ worth of material, from stark paintings on wood that formed the artist's first exhibition to richly layered oil paintings exhibited in Paris in 2020, and from unpublished pencil drawings to imagery made iconic by his enigmatic commercial collaborations. Oversized and with pull-out gatefold pages, the book is testament to the scope and richness of Lang's work: expansive in its iconography, deceptively intimate in its detail, and juxtaposing a textured, painterly style with a playful acceptance of the diversity of his own influences.

About the Authors:

Wes Lang is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. Arty Nelson is a novelist and essayist who has published writing on contemporary artists from Chris Johanson to Ed Templeton.

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Western Illuminated Manuscripts: Manuscripts in the National Art Library, from the Eleventh to the Early Twentieth Century

This catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the V&A's National Art Library provides a history of an art form over eight centuries as an integral part of the decorative arts. It documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of medieval book-making crafts alongside printing in the post-Renaissance period and their revival in the nineteenth century. Its three volumes bring together for the first time works such as the St Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the Sanvito Petrarch and William Morriss Book of Verse of 1870. Catalogue descriptions discuss in detail each work and pay particular attention to the changing ways in which they have been evaluated and used through the centuries.

Rowan Watson is a Senior Curator in the National Art Library, part of the Word & Image Department at the V&A. He is the author of Illuminated Manuscripts and their Makers (V&A 2003) and co-author of Blood on Paper (V&A 2008).

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This lush, three-volume slipcased set catalogues the V&A’s superb collection of Western illuminated manuscripts. Providing a history of an art form spanning eight centuries as an integral part of the decorative arts, it documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of medieval bookmaking crafts alongside printing in the post-Renaissance period ― and their revival in the 19th century. The three volumes bring together for the first time works such as the St. Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the Sanvito Petrarch of 1463–64 and William Morris’s Book of Verse of 1870. Catalogue descriptions discuss each work in detail and pay particular attention to the changing ways in which they have been evaluated and used through the centuries.

In the cut-throat world of the film industry, you need every advantage you can get to rise above the competition and make a name for yourself. This essential guide combines a practical, no-nonsense approach with a lifetime of insider knowledge, giving you the competitive edge to jump-start your career.

Packed with hard-working tips and advice, this book shows you how to get the best out of your film-school education, how to navigate some of the most frustrating moments in an artist's life, and how to keep the inspiration going as you battle your way through the filmmaking world.

About the Author:

Miguel Parga has been in the industry for 25 years. As a news producer for ABC, he won an Emmy, a DuPont Award, and a Peabody Award. He's created advertisements for Pepsi, Canon, Fisher Price, Bud Light, and Verizon. As a writer in Los Angeles, he's worked on over 20 feature-length scripts. And since 2007, he's been teaching acting, directing, writing, and editing at the New York Film Academy.

The most comprehensive survey to date of the contemporary artist Whitfield Lovell, whose poetic and intricately crafted tableaux and installations document and pay tribute to the history and cultural memory of the African American experience.

Whitfield Lovell: Passages accompanies a major traveling exhibition of the artist’s powerful Conté crayon drawings combined with objects to create assemblages and multisensory installations that focus on aspects of Black history, raising questions about identity, memory, and America’s collective heritage. Whitfield Lovell (b. 1959, Bronx), a 2007 MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient and conceptual artist, creates exquisite drawings inspired by his own collection of vintage photographs of unidentified African Americans taken between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights movement. He pairs his meticulously rendered drawings done on paper or salvaged wooden boards with found objects, creating enigmatic assemblages and stand-alone tableaux that are rich with symbolism and ambiguity and evoke personal memories, ancestral connections, and the collective American past.

This richly illustrated volume features essays by leading scholars that contextualize Lovell’s work through the exploration of compelling elements such as sound and card playing, contemplating memory as method.

About the Author:

Michèle Wije is curator at the American Federation of Arts. Bridget Cooks is associate professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Art History, University of California, Irvine. Cheryl Finley is inaugural director of the Atlanta University Center Art History and Curatorial Studies Collective; a distinguished visiting professor at Spelman College; and associate professor of art history at Cornell University.

In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book Susie Hodge explains, thoroughly and conclusively, why modern art is not, and never has been, child’s play

The book examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical hostility – from Cy Twombly’s scribbled Olympia (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiat’s crude but spontaneous LNAPRK (1982), to the apparently careless mess of Tracey Emin’s My Bed (1998) – and explains how, far from being negligible novelties, they are extensions of the artistic ideas of their time.

In the past, estimation of artists' stature took great account of their ability to produce a likeness of the real world. A portrait was expected to be a faithful likeness, and landscapes had to be recognizable in all their details. However, especially after the arrival of photography, many artists ceased to make such ‘true’ likenesses in favour of more immediate images that sought to express feelings about their subjects. From the beginning of this sea change, critics have mistaken an apparent lack of technique for a lack of sophistication, often deriding works as nothing more than the untutored efforts of children.

Susie Hodge explains how ‘notorious’ works such as Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII (1966) – a rectangular arrangement of fire-bricks that is admittedly easily copied by a child – occupy unique niches in the history of ideas, both showing influences of past artists and themselves influencing subsequent artists. A five-year-old might succeed in executing a spin painting such as those of Damien Hirst without understanding the ideas that lay behind it or its place in the history of artistic endeavour, but it does not follow that this work would be of significance to artists and historians.

With illustrations of works from Hans Arp to Adolf Wölfli, Hodge places each work in its cultural context to present an unforgettable vision of modern art. This book will give you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from the realistic works of earlier centuries, transforming as well as informing your gallery visits for years to come.

Polish painter and filmmaker Wilhelm Sasnal has emerged over the last two decades as one of Europe's preeminent contemporary artists. This major monograph offers a comprehensive assessment of his practice.

Renowned for his powerful portrayals of our collective culture and history, Wilhelm Sasnal draws on found images from his surroundings, newspapers and magazines, billboards, and the Internet, creating works of art that act as an archive to the mass of sprawling images that flood contemporary life. His work addresses weighty historical themes such as the Holocaust, or familiar pop-cultural icons, as well as the people, places, and quotidian objects he encounters, constituting an artistic document of postcommunist Poland at a time of sociopolitical transformation. With a concise approach to his subject matter, Sasnal captures stolen moments in time. His graphic treatment of light and color suggests a camera's gaze, imbuing the canvases with a filmic quality.

This major volume is completed by a series of essays addressing significant themes in the artist's work: alienation, portraiture, the personal versus the public, and history as a prism of reflection.

About the Authors:

Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972) is a Polish painter, illustrator, and filmmaker. Brian Dillon is U.K. editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches at the Royal College of Art, London. Pavel Pys is Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center. Adrian Searle has been Art Critic for the Guardian since 1996. Kasia Redzisz is Senior Curator at Tate Liverpool. Andrzej Przywara is a curator, art critic, and art historian. He is Director of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw.

The South African artist William Kentridge Hon RA was born in Johannesburg in 1955 and lives and works there to this day. He is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media, among them charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and film, as well as his acclaimed theatrical and operatic productions. As elusive as it is allusive, Kentridge’s art is shaped by apartheid and grounded in the politics of the post-apartheid era, and in science, literature and history, while always maintaining space for contradiction and uncertainty.

In a brilliant exposition of Kentridge’s output, Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, undertakes a series of enquiries, of walks around the artist and his practice, through the various layers and linkages, crossings and connections of his art. As he proceeds, he considers Kentridge’s themes, explores them and proceeds by association to others. Along the way, overlaps, thought collages, allusions and assemblages come together to create a connective, dimensional way of thinking inspired by Kentridge’s own habits of creation.

About the Author:

Stephen Clingman is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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William Kentridge is one of the world’s most engaging contemporary artists, renowned for exploring the essence of humanity through both historical and everyday themes. This book invites readers to “listen to the echo”—to engage with the resonance of Kentridge’s multidisciplinary practice. Spanning more than four decades, it presents works ranging from his early printmaking and drawings, which laid the foundation for his animated film series “Drawings for Projection,” to recent installations confronting apartheid, colonialism, social upheaval, and collective memory.

Major works such as the panoramic video installation More Sweetly Play the Dance and the woodcut series “Triumphs and Laments” use the motif of the procession as a powerful metaphor for change. The book also features The Centre for the Less Good Idea, a Johannesburg-based performance incubation space co-founded by Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace, which takes its impulse from Kentridge’s experimental and open-ended approach to making. With recent works like the three-channel film installation To Cross One More Sea and new sculptures from the series “Paper Procession,” this volume captures the breadth and depth of Kentridge’s practice—at once critical, poetic, personal, and always profoundly collaborative.

Co-published with Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Explore William Kentridge’s remarkable performance piece, The Head & The Load, and discover how music, dance, writing, and fine art are combined to tell the haunting story of Africans during WWI

For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installation, films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa, apartheid, and the consequences of colonialism. This book gives an in-depth examination of his performance piece The Head & The Load, which explores the role of Africa during World War I. Throughout the war, more than one million Africans carried provisions and military equipment in hazardous conditions for British, French, and German troops at minimal or no pay.

William Kentridge tells the story of these African porters who ensured the success of the victors, but remain in the shadows. This history, rarely studied today, unfolds in a staged tableau combining music, dance, acting, screenings, and mechanized sculptures. The book includes photos and text from the performance, essays, and artworks created specifically by Kentridge to complement the play. Accompanied by an international cast of singers, actors, and dancers, and with music composed by Philip Miller, The Head & The Load is a powerful and multifaceted work that reconsiders colonial history and its repercussions in today’s world.

About the Author:

William Kentridge is a South African artist internationally renowned for his prints, drawings, and animated films. His artworks are in many collections, including Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His spectacle-performances, including 'The Head & the Load', have been shown at the Festival d Avignon (2012), the thirteenth documenta in Kassel, and MassMOCA, among other prestigious festivals and venues.

Dreaming and relaxing, with the evocative designs of William Morris, this beautiful new book will give you many hours of pleasure, and calm. Printed on high-quality paper, this new book features 45 powerful William Morris artworks for you to colour, offering a suggestion of how the original looked as well as key information such as title and date. Morris is perhaps the most famous artist craftsman in the world, and his bold and visually expressive paintings resonate still today. This book will take you on an enjoyable journey where the satisfaction of creating stunning artworks is mixed with rediscovering the joy of colouring. You can use a wide variety of pens: from gel and pencil, to pigment and crayons, from ballpoint and rollerball to highlighters, although it’s best to avoid the heavy felt pens. Each page is perforated near the spine of the book, so you can tear out and frame, or simply place your wonderful creation on the walls of your home, perhaps even send them as a gift to your loved ones. Bring the Ink to life!

About the Author:

Daisy Seal is a talented, thoughtful writer of gift, celebration and puzzle books. She has long observed the intimate connections between the natural world around us and our search for the enduring spirit of humankind. Previous publications include "Inspirations", "Reflections", "Be Calm," and "Friendship".

This beautifully designed, boxed oracle is ideal for anyone seeking guidance and inspiration from some of history’s most powerful witches and their craft.

Written and illustrated by a practicing witch, this dramatic oracle set features a book and card deck inspired by the magical and mysterious tales of the witches, familiars, deities, and items within the pages of this striking guide.

Witches through History includes archetypes, profiles, and true accounts of women who were thought to have spoken with spirits or made bargains with the Devil — and how they used their midnight powers to help or harm members of their community — the instruments and methods of the craft, the use of familiar spirits, and various methods of witch-finding and hunting. Popular tropes and folklore dealing with witches offer readers a deeper understanding of this mysterious, magical, and sometimes tragic part of history.

The twenty-five oracle cards feature iconic characters, deities, and items from the history of witchcraft, complemented by the five elements of the pentagram (water, earth, fire, air, and spirit). Illustrated with a modern gothic sensibility inspired by historical art and text, the set offers witches and those who admire them a vital daily tool for spiritual, magical, or meditative practice — or simply to use for fun.

About the Author:

Devin Forst has created designs for Wicked Clothes and Creep-o-Rama and exhibited work at Muzeo in Anaheim, California. His artwork and writing have appeared in publications such Mysticum Magicae.

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An official behind-the-scenes companion to New Line Cinema’s IT and IT CHAPTER TWO, the globally popular blockbusters

Collecting the best artwork produced during the making of both of these sophisticated and visually enthralling films ― including concept art, sketches, storyboards, and behind-the-scenes photography ― World of IT explores the films’ singular aesthetic and meticulous world-building.

This compendium includes commentary from director Andy Muschietti; producers Barbara Muschietti, Dan Lin, and Roy Lee; the acclaimed ensemble cast; and other creative players who helped bring a new, disturbing vision of King’s perennial bestseller to life.

About the Author:

Alyse Wax is a regular contributor to SYFY Wire. She freelances for Blumhouse.com and ComingSoon.net. Wax lives in Los Angeles.