In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What’s Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.

Francis McKee is an Irish writer, medical historian, and curator working in Glasgow where since 2006 he has been the director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, and is a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art. McKee has worked on the development of open-source ideologies and their practical application to art spaces.

Designed by Julie Peeters and Valerie Arif.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly Paintings and Sculptures 1963–1979 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 13 December, 1979–3 February 1980.

SM Cat. No 663.

Designed by Wim Crouwel and Artlette Brouwers (Total Design).

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Catalogue accompanying Jutta Koether’s exhibition How goes it? at Galerie Buchholz, Köln in September 2021. This orange envelope contains 5 colour plate reproductions of the paintings featured in the exhibition, alongside 5 black and white text cards with a written correspondence between Sabeth Buchmann and the artist.

Produced on the occasion of Joel Fisher’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 14 April–28 May, 1978.

SM Cat. No 639.

Designed by Total Design.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

This is the fourth volume in Karma’s 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano’s Private Book project. It is primarily a calendar of Lozano’s personal, artistic and chemical interactions in 1969–1970. A prolific writer and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and private, the painter Lee Lozano (1930–1999) kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1970 while living in New York’s SoHo neighborhood. In 1972 she rigorously edited these books, thus completing the project. Eleven of these private books survive, containing notes on her work, detailed interactions with artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical queries into art’s role in society and humorous asides from daily life.

Produced on the occasion of Lee Lozano, Drawings 1959–64 at Karma, New York, July 12–August 13, 2021.

Lozano’s drawings register a social consciousness that was radical for its time and continues to be groundbreaking in the present day. Her transgressive and experimental illustrations dissect institutionalized power, behavioral propriety, and gender socialization with zealous intensity. Challenging norms of respectability, Lozano’s works are “anti-skill, antisocial, antithetical, a “manly,” macho display, figured in the touch and tone as much as in the innuendos and imagery,” as Tamar Garb aptly notes.