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Dedicated to one of the most celebrated Orientalist artists, the renowned French painter and sculptor, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth. Published to accompany an exhibition at Doha, Qatar Museum, November 2024 to February 2025.

Manzar offers a unique insight into Pakistan's artistic landscape. Includes essays by important art and architecture historians, educators, artists, and architects from Pakistan. Accompanies the exhibition 1 November 2024 to 31 January 2025.

The official yearbook for Ducati's entire 2024 season, covering MotoGP and Superbike as well as major championship races.

Flowers Forever offers a fascinating, elaborately staged tour through the cultural history of flowers. Text in English and Italian.

This collection presents images that belong to the Futurist artistic experimentation in photography - some of which have been made known in historical exhibitions, alongside others that are little known. Text in English and Italian.

This volume captures the photography of Federico Garolla (Naples, 1925 - Milan, 2012), which moved hand in hand with Italian history during a period of notable social change after the war. Text in English and Italian.

The dramatic events of the troubled life of Caravaggio, one of the most formidable painters in the history of art of all time, are retraced in this volume.

This volume pays tribute to two masters of international photography, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) and André Kertész (1894-1985). Accompanies an exhibition in Riccione, 22 November 2024 - 6 April 2025.

The book is published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Damiani, a historic goldsmith company from Valenza (Alessandria - Italy), whose creations, appreciated all over the world, represent one of the excellences of Made in Italy.

With an authoritative critical essay and large selection of photographs, this book - in an updated version, with expanded illustrative material - retraces the symbolic and aesthetic evolution of chain from early history to modern day and its intersections with art, fashion, design, manufacture and new technologies. Text in English and Italian.

This indispensable guide to design in the Arab world by presents a survey of local and regional design talent across disciplines, from architectural and material innovations to contemporary crafts, furniture, fashion, graphic, and object design. Accompanying catalogue to an exhibition at Design Doha, Qatar from 24 February to 5 August 2024.

This volume presents 77 photographs taken by Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944-2013) between 1978 and 2012, virtually spanning the Milanese photographer's entire career. Text in English and Italian.

This book details how copies of Indonesian batik, manufactured in Europe and initially intended for the South-East Asian market, enjoyed unexpected success on the west coast of Africa at the end of the 19th century.

This catalogue was edited for the first European retrospective in over twenty years dedicated to conceptual and minimalist artist Adrian Piper, held at PAC in Milan from 19 March to 09 June 2024. Text in English and Italian.

Presents images taken by photographic studio Aldo Ballo and Marirosa Toscani that captured the cultural dynamics and innovations of the ever-evolving Italian design. Accompanies an exhibition at Castello Sforzesco in Milan, from 14 June - 3 November 2024. Text in English and Italian.

This is the seventh in a series of publications accompanying presentations of contemporary artists at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. It comprises a curatorial essay by Sam Bardaouil, an extensive interview with the artists by Agnes Rameder. Text in English and German.

This volume presents a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of NewLamp, a Roman company that created veritable masterpieces of lighting art. Characterised by their innovative and highly original geometries and forms, these objects have left an indelible mark on the history of design. Text in English and Italian.

Sean Scully (b.1945 ) is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential abstract artists. Géographies focuses on Scully's life stages and travels and is published to accompany an exhibition at Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, 28 April to 16 June 2024. Text in English and German.

This volume accompanies the exhibition Belle Haleine by German artist Georg Baselitz (1938) - a leading figure in the world of contemporary art - hosted in the splendid setting of the Galleria degli Antichi in Sabbioneta (Mantua), the Ideal City founded by Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna. Among the works presented - chosen from among the most significant in his artistic career - are imposing sculptures, large paintings on canvas, and the ten provocative engravings collectively entitled Belle Haleine in homage to Marcel Duchamp, an artist to whom Baselitz - provocatively - often refers in his work, and first exhibited in 1963. The volume offers a broad view of the multifaceted nature of the pioneer of neo-expressionist art, whose hallmark is to reproduce figures "upside down". Text in English and Italian.

Accompanying the exhibition James Abbott McNeill Whistler: The Butterfly Effect, Ruen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 24 May - 22 September 2024, this book takes us from Scotland to Poland, from the Normandy coast to the Parisian salons, in order to help us discover the art of Whistlerism. Text in French, with an English summary.

"We have been looking for 4,000 years: now we have seen!" --Manifesto di Rivolta Femminile (1970)Titled after a foundational 1970 feminist text by Carla Accardi, Elvira Banotti and Carla Lonzi, Now We Have Seen investigates female emancipation in 1970s Italy and its relationship with the visual arts.

Marianna Simnett's WINNER is a multichannel film installation, conceived as a three-act dance for film told through the lens of football. Accompanies an exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof -Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart 17 May to 03 November 2024. Text in English and German.

Alexandra Pirici's new, expansive work Attune explores the ways in which we - and our more-than-human counterparts - resemble, influence, and attune to one another to bring forth complex structures. Text in English and German.

Naama Tsabar's art overcomes the boundaries of sculpture, music, performance and architecture: Hamburger Bahnhof presents the installation and performance artist with her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany 12 April to 22 September. Text in English and German.

The works of Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), two notable authors of 20th century art, are compared for the first time.

Through a wide selection of texts and images, Rachel Feinstein in Florence offers a journey into the artist's creative universe.

The catalogue includes over 30 masterworks by Alexander Calder made between 1930 and 1960. Text in English and Italian.

This volume showcases the first solo exhibition of Olafur Eliasson's work in the Gulf region. Text in English and Arabic.

Balloon Museum surfaces as a sublime theatre of innovation in contemporary art, where inflatable works delineate new aesthetic and interactive horizons.

Ca' Pesaro opens the new 2024 exhibition season with a major exhibition dedicated to Armando Testa (1917-1992). This book is a catalogue of that exhibition. Text in English and Italian.