Empire State: New York Art Now

Anambitiousintergenerationalsurveyoftwenty-fivecontemporaryNewYorkartists.Contemporaryart,likethecityofNewYork,hasseenmassivegrowthoverthepastfivedecades.Thetwenty-fiveartistsprofiledinEmpireState,fromDanGrahamandJeffKoonstothenet-basedTaborRobak,questionexistingconventionsandexplorethenewpossibilitiesmanifestedbytheircommunity'snew,near-industrialscale.EmpireStateisanexhibitionthataskshowartistsmightreimagineurbanlifeandhowthecityofNewYorkmightcontinuetobeasiteofcontestation.Makingnewconnectionsamongtheartistsviacommissionedpieces,thebookincludesessaysbytheshow'scurators,AlexGartenfeldandSirNormanRosenthal,andbyTomMcDonough,JohnMiller,EileenMyles,andMattKeegan.Eachartist'sworkispairedwithoriginaltextsbyahostofleadingcriticsandcurators,suchasBruceHainley,Hans-UlrichObrist,BonnieClearwater,andTinaKukielski.