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1980s Keith Haring Record Art: David BOWIE "Without You" A Rare Highly Sought After Vinyl Art Cover featuring original cover artwork by Keith Haring. Year: 1983. Medium: Off-Set Li...

Joan Miró vinyl album art: set of two, 1966 & 1979: Raimon and Joan Miró were close friends that first collaborated on the 1966 album Cançons de la roda del temps. In 1979, Miró designed a cover for the album Quan la aigua queixa, including the name of Raimon in large handwritten letters. As a result of this relationship, Raimon composed the song A Joan Miró, which creatively certified his admiration towards the painter. Off-set lithographs on vinyl record album covers...

Raymond Pettibon Sonic Youth Record Cover Art: Sonic Youth Goo; original European 1st Pressing, 1990 The most iconic of all Pettibon music-related images,...

1980s Keith Haring Record Art (set of 4 works): Four individual 12 inch albums - all illustrated by Haring during his lifetime - making for standout vintage 1980s Keith Haring wall ...

Raymond Pettibon & Marcel Dzama artist books 2016 (set of 2): 1) Dzama / Pettibon is a collaborative zine between Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon. The zine was originally for the M...

Keith Haring Three Eyed Smiling sticker c. 1982: A timeless Keith Haring collectible originally given out at Haring's first solo exhibit in 1982; and later sold at Haring's Pop Shop ...

Keith Haring Coloring Book (Artist Book of 20 Bound Offset Lithographs), 1985, 1986 Artist Book of 20 staple bound Offset Lithographs Plate signed on cover page; with publisher and a...

Josef Albers Album Art complete set of 7 circa late 1950s: A set of 7 vinyl record covers (containing their records) brilliantly designed by Josef Albers between 1958 and 1960. The s...

Original 1980s Keith Haring Record Art: Keith Haring 'The Baby Beat Box' 1986: Rare highly sought after 1980s Keith Haring record album art featuring a Haring boombox man, a bold Ke...

Josef Albers Album Art circa late 1950s: A set of 4 vinyl record covers (containing their records) brilliantly designed by Josef Albers between 1958 and 1960. Looks fantastic framed ...

Raymond Pettibon The Major Arteries 2009 (Raymond Pettibon zine): This visually enticing 2009 Raymond Pettibon artist book/zine includes 30+ evocative dr...

Raymond Pettibon My Struggle for Life After Death 1982 (Raymond Pettibon zine): This visually enticing 1982 Raymond Pettibon artist book/zine titled incl...

Raymond Pettibon Up The Threshold 1992 (Raymond Pettibon zine): This visually enticing 1992 Raymond Pettibon artist book/zine includes 20+ evocative draw...

Raymond Pettibon Short Teats Bloody Milk 1985 (Raymond Pettibon zine): This visually enticing 1985 Raymond Pettibon artist book/zine titled, Short Teats,...

Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...

Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...

Nick Knight vinyl record art 2007: Off-set print on vinyl record. Unsigned. Measure: 12 x 12 inches Excellent condition Published by Visionaire Fashion, 2007 A very cool frame piec...

Vintage Vinyl Record Art by Keith Haring with bright, lush colors that make for stand-out wall art within reach: Year: 1986 Off-Set Lithograph on record jacket, vinyl record. Dimen...

Keith Haring Record Art 1987: A rare highly sought-after Keith Haring illustrated album cover featuring vibrant colors that make for stand-out wall art. Off-Set Lithograph on vinyl record jacket, 1987. Dimensions: 12 x 12 inches. Features a printed Keith Haring signature on the lower right. Minor shelf & edge wear; in otherwise good overall vintage condition. Includes original record (in good condition). Haring artwork credit found at bottom of last image. Keith Haring Album Art: a brief history:  Whether collaborating with Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, regularly frequenting clubs like Paradise Garage alongside close friend Larry Levan, or sketching DJ robots, New York artist and activist Keith Haring’s work was deeply entwined with the music world lending his vision to sounds by everyone from David Bowie to Run DMC. Looking for something cool to complement this work? Please feel free to browse additional items like this from Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring & more on our 1stDibs gallery page.  Related Categories Vintage Keith Haring. Keith Haring prints. Street art. Pop art...

1960s Joan Miró vinyl album art: Raimon and Joan Miró were close friends that first collaborated on the 1966 album Cançons de la roda del temps. In 19...

Keith Haring Larry Levan Record Art (1986/2009): This historic & much sought after, rare vinyl record album c.2009 features Keith Haring cover art derived from the 1986 illustrations Haring constructed on occasion of Larry Levan’s birthday at Paradise Garage. Record includes the extended live finale of Paradise Garage by the late great DJ Larry Levan. A fantastic frame piece & testament to Haring’s connection to New York City dance culture. Off-Set lithograph. 2009. 12 x 12 inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm). Good to very good overall vintage condition. Includes the original album in good overall vintage condition. Looks very cool framed. Further Background: Larry Levan was an American DJ best known for his decade-long residency at the legendary New York City nightclub Paradise Garage, the prototype of the modern dance club. Levan developed a cult following who referred to his sets as "Saturday Mass". Influential post-disco DJ François Kevorkian credits Levan with introducing the dub aesthetic into dance music. Levan experimented with drum machines...

Rare Vintage 1980s Keith Haring Record Cover Art: (Set of 4: 1983-1987): Four individual 7 inch albums - all illustrated by Haring during his lifetime - making for standout 1980s Ke...

Sabartes, Jaime Picasso – Toreros with four original lithographs Publisher: New York & Paris: George Braziller & Andre Sauret, 1961. First edition. Ha...

Sean Scully Walls of Aran (Hand signed and inscribed by BOTH Sean Scully and Colm Toibin), 2007 Hardback monograph with book jacket Hand signed and personally inscribed to Kevin by ...

Keith Haring Larry Levan Record Art (1986/2009): This historic & much sought after, rare vinyl record album features Keith Haring cover art derived from the 1986 illustrations Haring constructed on occasion of Larry Levan’s birthday at Paradise Garage...

Keith Haring record art 1983: David BOWIE "Without You" A Rare Highly Sought After Vinyl Art Cover featuring Original Artwork by Keith Haring. Rare Japan 1st Pressing 1983 accompanied by its original record album: Medium: Off-Set Lithograph. Dimensions: 7 x 7 inches Plate signed on lower left & dated K. Haring 1983. Cover: Minor signs of handling. Very good overall vintage condition. Also includes the original record in very good to excellent condition. RARE as such. Literature: Taschen Art Record Covers (pg. 214). Truly vibrant colors that make for stand-out Keith Haring wall art. Keith Haring Album Art: a brief history:  Whether collaborating with Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, regularly frequenting clubs like Paradise Garage alongside close friend Larry Levan, or sketching DJ robots, New York artist and activist Keith Haring’s work was deeply entwined with the music world lending his vision to sounds by everyone from David Bowie to Run DMC. Looking for something cool to complement this work? Please feel free to browse additional items like this from Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring & more on our 1stDibs gallery page.  Related Categories Figurative Drawings. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Kaws. Vintage Keith Haring. Keith Haring posters. Pop Art. keith Haring David Bowie.

Yves Klein La Conférence à la Sorbonne, 3 Juin, 1959, 1959-1963 Two 12-inch vinyl records held in gatefold sleeve with silkscreen cover jacket in IKB International Klein Blue...

Rare unopened Robert Rauschenberg designed Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues: In 1983, legendary pop artist Robert Rauschenberg designed the album cover for Talking Heads’ acclaimed...

Original 1987 Vinyl Record Art by Keith Haring: Off-Set Lithograph on vinyl record jacket; engraved gold foil. 12 x 12 inches. Printed Haring signature on the mid lower left. Very good overall vintage condition. Includes the original record & insert, which was also designed by Haring (record: excellent condition). Literature/References: Taschen: Art Record Covers. Keith Haring Album Art: a brief history:  Whether collaborating with Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, regularly frequenting clubs like Paradise Garage alongside close friend Larry Levan, or sketching DJ robots, New York artist and activist Keith Haring’s work was deeply entwined with the music world lending his vision to sounds by everyone from David Bowie to Run DMC. Looking for something cool to complement this work? Please feel free to browse additional items like this from Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Keith Haring & more on our 1stDibs gallery page.  Related Categories: Keith Haring prints posters. Keith Haring record cover art. Keith Haring Christmas.

Nam June Paik Untitled, Plate Six from Novecento, 1992 Mixed Media: Color offset lithograph with unique chalk pastel drawing 13 3/10 × 18 inches Edition 104/130 Pencil numbered 104/130, hand signed in pastel chalk on the front Edizioni Carte Segrete, Rome, Italy Excellent condition; held in matting which can be easily removed The matting measures 18" x 21" This was part of a series of works produced for the Nam June Paik retrospective at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1992, Nam June Paik: Arti Elletroniche. This is one of the editions which bears unique hand coloring with pastel chalk. A comparable work sold at auction in 2015 for US $12,583. (see details below): Nam June Paik Title Novecento Description Nam June PAI K Novecento 1930-1940, 1992 Pastel sur offset en couleurs, épreuve signée et numérotée 104/130 Edizioni Carte Segrete, Rome 23,5 x 39,5 cm EH Oeuvre réalisée a l'occasion de la rétrospective Paik au Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1992, Nam June Paik: Arti Elletroniche, cinema e Media Verso il XXI Secolo Medium pastel Year of Work 1992 Size Height 9.3 in.; Width 15.6 in. / Height 23.5 cm.; Width 39.5 cm. Misc. Signed Sale of Millon & Associés: Monday, June 22, 2015 [Lot 00090] Design Sold For 11,057 EUR Hammer (12,583 USD) Nam June Paik Biography Nam June Paik was born in 1932 in Seoul. He received a BA in aesthetics from the University of Tokyo in 1956 where he also studied music and art history. After graduating, he studied for a year with composer Thrasybulus Georgiades Georgiades at the University of Munich and for two years with composer Woflgang Fortner at the International Music College in Freiburg. He attended the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt in 1957, when he met Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1958, when he met John Cage. Cage, and through him Marcel Duchamp, had a significant influence on Paik as he became a major force in the avant-garde through performances. In Hommage à John Cage (1959), Paik employed audiotape and performance to attack traditional musical instrumentation and compositional practices, splicing together piano playing, screaming, bits of classical music, and sound effects. Realizing that taped sound was not enough, he decided to move into performance, first by introducing performative actions into his audio works. In 1961 Paik performed Simple, Zen for Head and Étude Platonique No. 3, in which he became a volatile figure, thrashing about in unexpected patterns and sudden movements to his signature soundtracks. In 1962 Paik participated in the Fluxus International Festival of the New Music in Weisbaden. Paik's first exhibition, entitled Exposition of Music - Electronic Television, in 1963 at Galerie Parnass at Wuppertal, launched his transition from composer and performance artist to the inventor of a new art form: an engagement with the material site of television as an instrument. In the exhibition, thirteen televisions lay on their backs and sides with their reception altered; for example, Zen for TV (1963) reduced the television picture to a horizontal line and Kuba TV (1963) shrank and expanded the image on the television set according to the changing volume. In 1964 Paik traveled to the US. He quickly settled in New York and became a leading innovator among an emerging generation of artists seeking new modes of artistic expression and distribution. That same year, Paik collaborated with Shuya Abe to create Robot K-456 (1964), a remote controlled robot that played audiotaped speeches by John F. Kennedy and defecated beans in Paik's Robot Opera (1964). In the interactive work Magnet TV (1965), Paik invited viewers to modify the television's output into swerving abstract lines through the movement of a magnet over the TV. In 1967 Paik and frequent collaborator Charlotte Moorman were arrested when Moorman performed Paik's Opera Sextronique (1967), a striptease as she played the cello at the Filmmakers' Cinematheque in New York. Paik's TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969), which Moorman wore in performances, featured two television tubes...

JOE TILSON Culture Carriers Stamp Out Art (Hand Signed), from the Collection of Art Critic Anthony Haden-Guest, 1971 Lithograph mounted on franked Air...

Keith Haring 'Man to Man' record art 1987: A rare vinyl art cover featuring original artwork by Keith Haring. Truly vibrant colors that make for stand-out wall art. Looks very cool f...

Ed Ruscha Ed Ruscha, Hand Signed and inscribed to Marvin Davis, former owner of 20th Century Fox, and his wife Barbara, 2000 Hardback illustrated monograph (book) with color plates. ...

Banksy We Love You...So Love Us, 2000 Mixed Media: Vinyl record held silkscreened album cover 12 1/2 × 12 1/2 × 3/10 inches This rare record album cover was designed by Banksy in 200...

ALLEN JONES Mail Order, for Culture Carriers Stamp Out Art, from The Collection of Art Critic Anthony Haden-Guest, 1971 Lithograph mounted on franked envelope of wove paper (Hand Signed) 6 × 9 inches Edition of 250 (unnumbered) Hand signed in blue ink by Allen Jones with his initials on the lower left of the lithographic stamp, affixed to the envelope. Unframed As a consequence of the prolonged strike by the Royal Mail postal workers in the United Kingdom, Allen Jones, along with a group of top British Pop artists of the era including David Hockney, Eduardo Paolozzi, Derek Boshier, the poet/activist Christopher Logue and Richard Hamilton, published ''Culture Carriers Stamp Out Art''to raise funds for the striking workers. The "stamps" were published in a limited edition of only 250 each (some artists, like Paolozzi and Allen Jones created more than one design), with the artists signing each by hand in blue ink with his initials on the lower right. Allen Jones "Mail Order" is an especially clever take on the project; it is at once a postage stamp (hence the title "Mail Order"), but it also refers to the popular mail order catalogues of the era. It was a particular preoccupation of Jones, who, separately, created a large lithograph called "Janet is Wearing" -- referring to his wife Janet, but playing upon the advertising jargon of the day, used in mail order catalogues. For this particular project - creating a stamp to raise money for mail carriers...

Keith Haring Record Art 1984: Medium: Offset Lithograph on record jacket, vinyl record Dimensions: 12 x 12 inches. Cover: Fair to good overall...

Patti Smith Horses Vinyl Record Album, 1975: US 1st Pressing featuring original photography by Robert Mapplethorpe. Produced by John Cale. Cover: Very Good to overall vintage condit...

Louise Bourgeois I Have Been to Hell and Back Handkerchief, 2007 Embroidery on 100% Cotton Handkerchief With the artist's silkscreened initiala Han...

Christo Wrapped Reichstag: Project for Berlin, 1994 Collage on offset lithograph with raised silver thermal paper used to wrap Reichstag, on thin velincarton 15 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches E...

Glenn Ligon 30 Americans Rubell Family Collection (hand signed and dated by Glenn Ligon), 2012 Hardback monograph with no dust jacket as issued (hand signed and dated by Glenn Ligon) Hand signed and dated 2012 by Glenn Ligon 11 1/2 × 9 × 1 1/4 inches Provenance Hand signed by Glenn Ligon at the opening reception for the present owner (see included documentation) Makes a fantastic gift! This hardback monograph with illustrated boards was published on the occasion of the exhibition at Luhring Augustine Gallery in NY from October 26 to December 8, 2012. Hand signed and dated 2012 by Glenn Ligon for the present owner From its inception in the 1960s, the Rubell Collection has been able to boast a particularly fine range of African-American art. Recent New York exhibitions inspired the Rubell family to mount an exhibition of their holdings in this area, reproduced here in 30 Americans. With a late addition to this exhibition, there are in fact 31 artists: Nina Chanel Abney, John Bankston, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Iona Rozeal Brown, Nick Cave, Robert Colescott, Noah Davis, Leonard Drew, Renée Green, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Kerry James Marshall, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, William Pope L., Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith...

Tracey Emin My Life in a Column (hand signed and dated by Tracey Emin), 2011 Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed and dated on the title page) hand signed and dated 21-6-...

Makes a fantastic gift! RETNA and El Mac Vagos y Reinas (Vagabonds and Queens), Hand Signed by both Artists, 2009 Limited Edition Exhibition Catalog and Screen Printed Box. Hand sign...

“I don’t have any Seine River like Monet, I’ve just got US 66 between Oklahoma and Los Angeles.” — Ed Ruscha An example of this rare Artist Book was exhibited prominently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the 2023-4 Ed Ruscha retrospective. Keep scrolling right of header image to see installation photographs of that exhibit to show how MoMA displayed this accordion style book with slipcase. (the last images) This is the 1966 true 1st Edition of Ed Ruscha's groundbreaking self-published artist book "Every Building on Sunset Strip." The book itself was published in an unsigned edition of 1000. However, in 1980, exceptionally, Ruscha hand signed and beautifully inscribed this book in red ink to football legend Joe Fields. (Joseph Charles Fields Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a center and guard in the National Football League for the New York Jets and the New York Giants.) This book is also in the original slipcase. Dimensions slip case: 7 5/16 x 5 13/16 x 9/16" (18.5 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm) This historic limited edition Artists Book is in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum in California which explains its importance as follows: In the 1960s, Ed Ruscha more or less reinvented the artist’s book. By turning away from the craftsmanship and luxury status that typified the livre d’artiste in favor of the artistic idea or concept, expressed simply through photographs and text, Ruscha opened the genre to the possibilities of mass-production and distribution. The 25-foot length of the accordion-folded Every Building on the Sunset Strip affords the viewer two continuous photographic views of the mile and a half section of this landmark stretch of Sunset, one for each side of one of the city’s landmark thoroughfare. Among many other institutions, it also in the permanent collection of MOMA, which describes "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" thus: Ruscha's photography books are antithetical to the traditional limited-edition livre d'artiste, or artist's book. Their banal subject matter and documentary style are indebted to the remarkable pictures of signs and vernacular architecture that American photographer Walker Evans made in the 1930s, but their deadpan, cool aesthetic is radically different. While each book chronicles an aspect of Los Angeles or the artist's round-trip drives between LA and Oklahoma, their use of photography as a form of map-making or topographical study signals a conceptual, rather than documentary, thrust. Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné, Engberg, vol. 1, ppg. 84-85 and vol. 2, pg. 124, no. B4 Publisher: Dick de Ruscha...

Marina Abramović Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramovic (Hand signed by BOTH Marina Abramovic and photographer Marco Anelli), 2021 Hardback monograph with no dust jacket as is...

Joan Miró vinyl album art, 1979: Raimon and Joan Miró were close friends that first collaborated on the 1966 album Cançons de la roda del temps. In 1979, Miró designed a cover for th...

Tracey Emin You Left Me Breathing (Hand signed and inscribed with a hand drawn heart flourish by Tracey Emin), 2008 Hardback monograph with no dust jacket as issued (Hand signed and ...

Banksy Di-Faced Tenner (Banksy 10 pound note): Set of 2 works (framed): A set of two individual notes, framed transparently on front & reverse. Published by ...

Red Grooms Redgrooms, 2004 Hardback monograph with 3-D sculptural pop-up (signed and numbered in red marker on the artist's designed book plate) Signed and numbered 101/400 in red marker on the artist's designed book plate 13 × 10 × 1 1/2 inches Makes a superb gift! Lavishly illustrated with a pop-up/multiple taken out of the book with its signed & numbered label is often removed, exhibited under plexiglass, and sold separately for several thousand dollars. This fully pre-assembled pop-up with integral base at rear is a re-working of Grooms' iconic New York Taxi of 1986 - which in turn was based on his earlier giant Ruckus NY taxi sculpture...

Vintage original Barbara Kruger Record Art, 1994 Off-set lithograph on vinyl record cover Measure: 12 x 12 inches Minor shelf wear; in otherwise good vintage condition. Very cool fr...

Nan Goldin Supreme Skateboard Deck: "Kim in Rhinestones, Paris 1991": Published in 2018 by Supreme New York. Features a Nan Goldin printed signature o...

Basquiat Rome 1982: Rare, highly sought-after original catalog/exhibition card to Basquiat's 1982 Rome show at Galleria Mario Diacono, Italy. Opening to ...

1982 1st pressing, Querelle vinyl album featuring Original Cover Art by Andy Warhol. Catalogue Raisonne: Paul Marechal: Andy Warhol, The Complete Commissioned Record Covers. Cover: Off-set print of Warhol's original screen print from the same year. 12 x 12 Inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm). Minor shelf-wear; otherwise very good overall vintage condition. Record included in very good condition. Warhol credit appears in the lower section of verso (image 3). Looks super cool framed. Further Background: The soundtrack for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film based on Jean Genet's novel "Querelle de Brest." In 1982 Warhol designed a silk-screen image which was issued as a print, used on the poster for the movie, and as cover art for the soundtrack. Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop Art king, Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Warhol was widely influenced by popular & consumer culture, with this being evident in some of his most famous works: 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe & Mick Jagger, for example. Rejecting the standard painting and sculpting modes of his era, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His most bold successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions. Related Categories Gay interest. Andy Warhol record art. Warhol vinyl record album. Warhol nude. Warhol men.

1986 Andy Warhol record art featuring Debbie Harry. Featured prominently in 'Andy Warhol: The Record Covers, 1949-1987, a Catalog Raisonne' by Warhol scholar Paul Marechal. Off-se...

Cindy Sherman Vinyl Record Art 2007: Off-set print on vinyl record. 12 x 12 inches. Excellent Condition. Published by Visionaire Fashion from a limited ed...

Ed Ruscha (American, b.1937) Some Los Angeles Apartments, 1965/1970 Medium: Artist’s book (black offset printing on 100 lb. white Vicksburg Vellum text paper) Dimensions: 17.8 x 14 x...

Keith Haring Untitled drawing inscribed to David, 1988 Original drawing on paper bound in historic monograph, inscribed to David Copley Boldly signed, inscribed and dated in black marker above the drawing This is a unique work Iconic, unique radiant baby drawing...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-1995, 1996 Hardback monograph with slipcase (hand signed and numbered - Hors Commerce edition, reserved for artists and contributors) Signed by Christo, Jeanne-Claude and photographer Wolfgang Volz and numbered numbered HC-694/HC-700 on the colophon. Also has an encased piece of the actual Reichstag wrapping! fabric! 12 × 12 × 1 1/2 inches Makes a memorable gift! It's hand signed and numbered - with a piece of the actual Reichstag wrapping fabric laid in. Signed by Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Wolfgang Volz and numbered numbered HC-694 on the colophon page (an Hors Commerce [not for sale] edition reserved for artists and collaborators) Original textured silver cloth with blue lettering on spine, housed in matching photo-illustrated slipcase, black lettering on spine. Contains an example of the original aluminum mesh used to wrap the Reichstag, framed in white cardboard (9 x 9") at inside back cover. Documentation of one of the startling and most stunning public art projects, representing the essence of conceptual art on a scale unmatched in the 20th century, one might say. 100 rock climbers abseiling down the facade of the Reichstag, without cranes or machinery being used in the project. This publication provides vivid documentation and a perspective of the extent of the project by the Bulgarian artist. His personal view, as expressed in The Guardian: "Artist - and above all architects - seek permanence," he said. "I don't. I like leaving nothing. That takes courage." His projects were funded mainly by selling preparatory drawings, always refusing sponsorship. Christo forbade the Three Tenors...

Yinka Shonibare Fabric-ation, 2013 Original Dutch wax print fabric chosen by the artist on Hardback cloth bound monograph with fabric covered board 12 1/2 × 11 × 1 1/2 inches Edition 21/50 (each entirely unique) Hand signed, dated and numbered 21/50 by Yinka Shonibare on the first front end page (see photo) Published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK This gorgeous hand signed, numbered and dated monograph with hand made fabric covered boards was published on the occasion of the Yinka Shonibare MBE: Fabric - ation Exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Kunstforeingen Gl Strand in 2013. 160 pages Hand signed, numbered and dated by artist in on the first front end page. Beyond the exhibition plates, the catalogue also includes an interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist and texts by Dr Rebecca Schneider and Jean Fisher. The book measures 12.5" x 11", and is 160 pages. Shonibare produced this beautiful catalogue in an edition of only 50, and is sold out. Each work is totally unique, and has been cloth bound using a different original Dutch wax print fabric with embellishments that was chosen by the artist. It is also signed and numbered by Shonibare. Taking place in three of YSP’s indoor galleries and the open air, FABRIC–ATION featured over 30 vibrant works from the period 2002–2013 including sculpture, film, photography, painting and collage, with many works never before seen in the UK. This major exhibition was sponsored by Guaranty Trust Bank. Born in London in 1962, Shonibare moved to Nigeria when he was three, later returning to the UK to study art. His work shrewdly explores and confounds stereotypes of race and class, engaging with ideas around identity and authenticity as well as dislocation, multiculturalism, global food production and revolution, often addressed through playful conceits. This approach is part of his determination to avoid being categorised: Shonibare accepted an MBE in 2004, adopting the title into his working name, saying, “it was the last thing you would have expected of me”. More about Yinka Shonibare: Yinka Shonibare CBE RA was born in London in 1962 and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to the UK to study Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London and Goldsmiths College, London, where he received his Master’s in Fine Art. Over the past decades, Shonibare has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalization. Working in painting, sculpture, photography, film and installation, Shonibare’s work examines race, class and the construction of cultural identity through a sharp political commentary of the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories. Shonibare uses wry citations of Western art history and literature to question the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities. In 2002, Shonibare was commissioned by Okwui Enwezor to create one of his most recognised installations, Gallantry and Criminal Conversation for Documenta XI. In 2004, he was nominated for the Turner Prize and was awarded the decoration of Member of the ‘Most Excellent Order of the British Empire’, or MBE. In 2019 Shonibare was made Commander of the same order, amending his professional name to include CBE. In 2008, his mid-career survey commenced at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and toured to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. In 2010, his first public art commission Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle was displayed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. In 2013, Shonibare was elected as a Royal Academician and his most recent contributions have included: the RA Family Album, which was used to wrap Burlington Gardens building during construction and his two curated rooms which were part of the 2017 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, during which Wind Sculpture VI was also displayed in the RA courtyard. His recent major commission with the Public Art Fund, Wind Sculpture (SG) I, was installed at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park from March 7 through October 14, 2018. FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art presented The American Library at the Cleveland Public Library from July 14 until September 30, 2018. The British Library was recently acquired by the Tate London. In March 2021, Shonibare received Whitechapel Gallery’s prestigious Art Icon award, becoming the eighth artist to receive the honor. He was also selected to coordinate the Royal Academy of Arts 253rd Summer Exhibition in September 2021. Shonibare’s works are included in notable collections internationally, including the Tate Collection, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome; Pérez Art Museum Miami in Florida and VandenBroek Foundation, The Netherlands. -Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery