What inspires today\"s great artists and architects? How do they work? What are their influences? What work would they like to do?...

Accompanying catalogue of an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Paris. The catalogue includes a fully illustrated, comprehensive listing of the paintings, drawings, and prints in Lichtenstein’s Expressionism series....

In recent years no other German conceptual artist has received such worldwide recognition through his consistent artistic work as Thomas Demand. His photographic installations, based on complex work processes, range from the search and selection of motifs, through the construction of paper maquettes, to photographs of the completed installation....

Since the 1960s, Robert Crumb\'s zany sense of humour fused with a psychedelic vision has made him one of the most influential comic artists. His characters, including Fritz the Cat, Mr....

Rem Koolhass is the optimistic and bold theoretician of contemporary architecture. In his talks with Hans-Ulrich Obrist, he discusses his work in China - amongst others; his spectacular and controversial concept for the headquarters of China Central Television in Beijing; and his designs for Prada shops, where consumption is staged like art....

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson have known each other for many years, and have worked together intimately--on exhibitions, book projects, performances and more. Their legendary conversations, gathered here, are revealing, challenging, philosophical--and essential to both oeuvres....

For more than half a century, the influential American artist and activist Nancy Spero has been known for her relentless honesty and her unshakable commitment to political, social and cultural causes--from women\'s issues to war and other power conflicts....

In this German-language-only installment of Hans Ulrich Obrist\'s Conversation Series, the acclaimed curator-conversationalist speaks with the German Pop Surrealist painter Konrad Klapheck, and includes the German conceptual photographer Hans-Peter Feldmann--who was there to document the afternoon\'s activities with a series of photographic portrai...

John Chamberlain is famous for his sculptures of crushed cars, which made him a pioneer of Pop Art in the 1960s. Casually, this conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist traces the life and art of a charismatic loner, leading him from Abstract Expressionism to Nouveau Realism and on to Pop Art....

In volume 16 of The Conversation Series, Hans Ulrich Obrist presents an in-depth exchange with the venerable German-born artist and activist Gustav Metzger, which illuminates the artist\'s fascinating life and 60-year career....

Volume 15 of The Conversation Series features a riveting dialogue between series editor and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist and the renowned Italian designer Enzo Mari....

The challenging French conceptualist Gonzalez-Foerster is prominent on the international scene. For Skulptur Projekte Munster 2007, she showed small-scale replicas of other Munster fair works, past and present; for her recent ARC Paris museum show, she collaborated with designer Nicolas Ghesquiere....

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski are not only associated through their longstanding friendship: Boltanski was also the first artist that Obrist ever exhibited. Over the course of this friendship the two have often met for discussions, the earliest of which, from 1994, are published here....

The British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) completed relatively few buildings, but through his drawings, proposals, teachings and conversations, he exerted an enormous influence across many disciplines....

Since the mid-1960s when he started out as a fledgling critic, Dan Graham has carved out a unique role for himself, expanding the scope of the Conceptual artist to incorporate art criticism, music criticism, photography and architecture....