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The Play of the Unmentionable: An Installation by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum

Joseph Kosuth, David Freedberg New Press New Press
At the height of the controversy over government funding for "obscene" works of art, internationally renowned conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created "The Brooklyn Museum Collection: The Play of the Unmentionable," an exhibit about censorship. His...
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Artists Talk: 1969-1977

Paul Greenhalgh, Paterson Ewen, Robert Filliou, Mel Ramsden, Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Lawrence Weiner, Douglas Huebler The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
An insightful essay by Peggy Gale introduces this transcription of historic talks by internationally known artists, recorded some 30 years ago at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Included are talks by Vito Acconci...
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Armando Testa

Vittorio Gregotti, Gemma De Angelis Testa, Giorgio Verzotti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Joseph Kosuth, Giulio Paolini, Haim Steinbach, Armando Testa, Francesco Vezzoli Charta Charta
Perhaps the most important artist in the history of Italian graphic design, Armando Testa has explored the most diverse languages of visual communication for over a half-century, inventing new ways of expressing ideas, and designing enormously...
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Joseph Kosuth: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Joseph Kosuth Charta Charta
A pioneer of the conceptual art movement, Joseph Kosuth's work explores the role of meaning in art and, like an archeologist of language and culture, he orders words and ideas from our historical memory into distinct yet intersecting layers of...
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Illy Collection: A Decade of Artist Cups by illycaffè

Andrea Illy, Francesco Illy, Matteo Thun, Achille Bonito Oliva, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Neil Aitken, Hannah Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, Ernesto Illy, Vittoria Illy, Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, David Byrne, Sandro Chia, Mario Giacomelli, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis Charta Charta
Which is more important, the coffee you drink or the cup you drink it from? The choice is a difficult one for any aesthete to make, and it is only highlighted and intensified by famed Italian coffeemaker illycaff , which, since 1933, has been...
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African Art at Yale: Yale Art University Gallery Bulletin 2005

Frederick John Lamp, Till Forster, Boris Wastiau, Robert Farris Thompson, Labelle Prussin, John Coleman Darnell, Colleen Manassa, Pavel Preiss, Courtney Martin, John Curley Yale University Art Gallery Yale University Art Gallery
Partial Contents: African Art at Yale FREDERICK JOHN LAMP The Royal Horned Hippopotamus of the Keita of Temne: a-Rong-a-Thoma FREDERICK JOHN LAMP Smoothing the Way of the Dead: A Senufo Rythm Pounder TILL FöRSTER A Piece of Chokwe Court Art: A...
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