A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a woman makes love to a boar underneath a mountain of cats; a chicken is roasted with the brains and livers of thrushes, truffles, crushed sweet almonds, rose conserve and drops of divine liqueur; two noble sisters wonder whether anybody can be ‘a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense’; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans.

In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington’s short stories, written throughout her life from her early years in Surrealist Paris to her late period in Dirty War-era Mexico City, the world is by turns subversive, funny, sly, wise and disarming.

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Produced on the occasion of Jack Goldstein’s 1981 exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Designed by Alvaro Becattini.

This artist book, entirely conceived and designed by Kai Althoff, features drawings, photographs and installation views of his exhibition Aus Dir at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne.

The Hermes Lecture is a biennial lecture about the position of the visual artist in the cultural and social field.

Martha Rosler works in video, photography, text, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on the public sphere, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women.

Rosler has for many years produced works on war and the national security climate, connecting life at home with the conduct of war abroad, in which her photomontage series played a critical part. She has also published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and gentrification.

Produced on the occasion of Modell und Ruine, Dessau, 2019. For Haris Epaminonda’s installation inside the Meisterhaus Feininger in Dessau, six individual recordings are compiled into a single track. For each recording, a microphone was positioned on a window sill, documenting the interweaving sounds of the interior and exterior spaces.