This book is the first monograph on the work of Matt Freedman—sculptor, graphic artist, performer, writer, curator, and teacher. It features essays by fifty contributors and extensive documentation of Freedman’s inspirationally diverse four-decade-long practice.
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Permitting Art examines the legal encounters in recent decades between visual artists and the City of New York that determined that art is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment and therefore can be sold on the street without a vending permit, as had long been the case with books.
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A work of incisive political and cultural history in the shape of a rollicking caper novel, The Mollino Set examines the life and work of enigmatic architect and designer Carlo Mollino against Italy’s postwar reconception of its fascist past.
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A book of hands-on exercises for writing, and thinking about writing, in the era of ChatGPT, The Virtual Sentence invites readers to hone unpredictable tactics in response to the increasingly pervasive regimens of predictive composition algorithms.
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An investigation of the 2011 police killing of London resident Mark Duggan and of the long history of racialized policing in the United Kingdom
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A book on the extraordinary life of Warren Niesłuchowski, who had no home for the last sixteen years of his life and lived as a permanent guest of others.
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The seventh volume in Cabinet’s “24-Hour Book” series, The Death of the Artist sees six artists and writers meditating in a variety of ways on finitude.
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The fourth volume in Cabinet’s “24-Hour Book” series, Archive of the Average Swede considers a project initiated by Sweden’s National Archive in the early 1980s designed to fully record the life of a typical citizen.
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The sixth volume in Cabinet’s “24-Hour Book” series, The Ambivalents was written in response to a 1986 catalogue for lab products used in experiments on rats and mice.
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The fifth volume in Cabinet’s “24-Hour Book” series, Take Care was written in response to a 1986 catalogue for lab products used in experiments on rats and mice.
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The fifth and sixth volumes in Cabinet’s “24-Hour Book” series, Take Care and The Ambivalents were written in response to a 1986 catalogue for lab products used in experiments on rats and mice.
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Nancy Davenport’s critical visual meditation on the recent multi-year renovation of the United Nations headquarters.
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The third volume in Cabinet’s “24-Hour Book” series—a collaboration between poet Matthea Harvey and artist Amy Jean Porter—imagines a world where Up and Down, connected by horizontal zippers to the Middle, suddenly unzip themselves, leaving humans to experience a world without contrails or dachshunds.
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The second volume in Cabinet’s “24-Hour Book” series, artist David Scher's book of drawings explores the melancholy peregrinations of a demi-centurion, a lonely, postimperial half-man who seems fated to permanent homelessness.
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A collection of poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum’s responses to 18 vernacular and commercial photographs sent to him by the editors of Cabinet. Originally published in his "Legend" column for the magazine.
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An examination, by theorist Eyal Weizman and photographer Fazal Sheikh, of the long history of climate change as a political tool along the threshold of the Negev Desert.
Encyclopedia featuring selections from Cabinet’s first ten years, as well as seven new essays.
Currently sold out, but still available at DAP.
Lytle Shaw tracks Ernst Moiré from his humble Alpine beginnings to his fateful founding of a Zurich photography studio.
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The inaugural volume in Cabinet’s “24-Hour Book” series, Brian Dillon’s book explores the scenography and architecture of writing itself.
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The travelogue of two Soviet writers making their way across Depression-era America.
Artist Roger Andersson and poet Albert Mobilio collaborate on this alphabet book on adolescence and the loss of innocence.
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Catalogue for the exhibition “An Exchange with Sol LeWitt,” which took place at Cabinet and MASS MoCA in winter 2011.
Book accompanying show curated by Cabinet. A must-have for lovers of bureaucracy, dry 1970s Conceptual Art, and Matta-Clark.
Hardcover facsimile of a 1797 notebook with a contemporaneous essay on the art of commonplacing followed by 144 blank pages.
Fifteen full-page sheets of artist-designed postage stamps, accompanied by an essay by George Pendle.
