In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. Known as Times Square, the celebrated installation was restored in 2002. This book takes considers the singular impact this artist has had in establishing sound as a medium in contemporary art.

How long do you have to live somewhere to become part of a community? How are social utopias being constructed? How does the belonging manifest itself and what forms do togetherness and cohabitation take? The exhibition, Volksgarten: Politics of Belonging depicts portraits of (real and imaginary) communities, with a particular focus on Lend and Gries, two Graz districts in the neighbourhood of ...

Works 2004 - 2007. This new monograph on Ai Weiwei's work offers an overview of, and an in-depth reflection on, the artist's most vibrant and celebrated projects. Since 1993, Ai Weiwei has been working as an artist, architect, curator, author, and art critic in Beijing. For the first time a major monograph sheds light on the conceptual approaches and the meanings behind Ai Weiwei's work by ...

Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art. Pop music is a hybrid originally spawned by the parallelism of sound and image found in TV programmes, fanzines and record covers. At its heart is a feeling of direct involvement with people rather than musical values. These can function as sex objects.

Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture. This title looks at the latest trends in the way artists tackle aspects of living tissue, concentrating particularly on sculptors working explicitly with a repertoire of biological shapes biomorphic sculpture. The bulging, mutated, crude, futuristic, prehistoric, skeletal, genetic, seeping, sucking, cellular, larval, hybrid quasi-living forms of such artists as Ruth

Should art make us laugh? Austrian artist Werner Reiterer certainly challenges us to ponder on the sense and nonsenses of our world, but the black humour and irreverent handling of reality in his approach mean that our first reaction is to laugh out loud. What we make of it afterwards is the long finish, as it were.

This catalogue focuses on contemporary Chinese art in a rapidly changing country. Art works of various genres and media provide a connection between the revolutionary past and the globalised present and call the notion of a homogeneous Chinese identity into question.