Isa Genzken

From writers like Teju Cole, Sophie Calle, and László Krasznahorkai, here's what you need to read to catch up this summer.

Advancing the fields of painting, photography, performance, and more, Rauschenberg's work is inextricable from the history of art as a whole.

In this excerpt from Phaidon’s Vitamin: 3D, an exhaustive compendium of today’s most important sculptors, we take a closer look at three of Deutschland’s most important sculptors: Kitty Krauss, Nora Schultz, and Katja Strunz.

In this illuminating interview with the German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen excerpted from Phaidon’s monograph Isa Genzken, the groundbreaking artist discusses the sometimes unlikely sources of her inspiration.

For Part 1 of our list of must-know new sculpture, we’ve excerpted notable works from Phaidon’s The Twenty-First Century Art Book that illustrate the diverse and innovative ways in which artists have responded to our strange century thus far.

The celebrated American artist gives a fascinating and in-depth interview to curator Okwui Enwezor in this excerpt from her just-released Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series monograph.

Here are a few standout pieces from Germany's venerable art-connoisseur magnet, from a radical feminist tree-sitter to the leader of what may be the next Zero Group.

The up-and-coming Brazilian artist describes the inspiration and process behind her colorful soft-sculptures and installlations.

The curator Bob Nickas recounts how, long before her Zwirner solo shows and MoMA retrospective, the German artist explored the city with a photographer’s eye and an outsider’s gaze.

We toured the aisles of this year's impressively robust edition of the Midwest fair to bring you the choicest gems around.

In this interview from his Phaidon Contemporary Art Series monograph, the influential German photographer currently exhibiting at David Zwirner discusses his formative influences.

Flummoxed by Harun Farocki? Tongue-tied by Thea Djordjadze? Here's our guide to avoid making an arse out of yourself in the Arsenale.

We wandered the aisles of Paris’s blue-chip contemporary-art fair in search of compelling artworks—and a sense of the atmosphere in the city in the wake of Paul McCarthy’s attack.

From the collages of the Cubists and the readymades of Duchamp to the assemblage works of today, humble materials have been transformed into stunning works of art throughout the last century.

From the groundbreaking "Primary Structures" at the Jewish Museum (now being reinterpreted in a new show) to "WACK!" at L.A. MOCA in 2007, here's a survey of exhibitions that upended the way we look at art today—and how artists make it, too.

In his latest column, Walter Robinson delves into the counter-culture urges and complex psychology embedded in the artist's extraordinary retrospective.

From a darkly comic spoof by Cyprien Gaillard to an exceptional neoclassical Picasso print, these are works you should snap up now.

From a maestro of hypnotic film installations to one of Modernism's least understood radicals, these artists have got it going on this month.