Performance
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Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place
$27.95 Read moreJoan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland’s most admired artists. During a career that lasted barely fifteen years, she concentrated on two very distinct themes: children in the Townhead area of cen… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1911054023
- Language: English
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There’s a Criminal Touch to Art: How Ulay Stole Hitler’s Favorite Painting and Redefined Performance Art
$27.00 Add to cartOn December 12, 1976, German conceptual artist Ulay stole Hitler’s favorite painting from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It was art theft as conceptual artwork. He hung the painting on the wall o… [more below]
- Author: Charney, Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765163047
- Language: English
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Ballet and Modern Dance
$21.95 Read moreDance’s extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vivi
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Au, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 050020411X
- Language: English
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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
$19.95 Add to cartHow technology and the attention economy shape contemporary art and performance
The reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual- Author: Bishop, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1804296732
- Language: English
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Hell in a Handbag
$17.95 Add to cartThe debut memoir from the unhinged queer genius known as Dynasty Handbag.
A freak’s freak, iconoclast performance artist Jibz Cameron is best known for her multimedia act Dynasty Handbag, an alter ego- Author: Cameron, Jibz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1635902789
- Language: English
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The Artist as Ecologist: Contemporary Art and the Environment
$49.99 Add to cartHow are contemporary artists responding to the climate crisis? Filipa Ramos takes an original approach to the subject by addressing two parallel strands. She looks firstly at pioneering approaches to
- Series: New Directions in Contemporary Art
- Author: Ramos, Filipa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1848225237
- Language: English
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Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties
$29.95 Add to cartScholarship and performance combine to show how drag can be a blueprint for critique, care, teaching, and worldmaking.
Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant and thought-provoking dialogue between- Series: The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
- Author: Khubchandani, Kareem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168458289X
- Language: English
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Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance
$45.00 Read moreAn essential resource for curators, Native and non-Native artists, scholars, students and teachers
Published with Forge Project, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Mackenzie Art Gallery, and
- Author: Hopkins, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1954947119
- Language: English
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Ballet and Modern Dance
$21.95 Read moreDance’s extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vivi
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Au, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 050020411X
- Language: English
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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
$29.95 Add to cartThe standard reference since its first publication in 1979, Performance Art continues its authoritative chronicling of one of the most important art forms to emerge in modern times. Art historian and
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Goldberg, Roselee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0500204683
- Language: English
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Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities
$35.00 Add to cartA two part book reimagining dark matter and the dark
Transtraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni’Ja Whitson’s groundbreaking performance pieces, blending African Diasporic practi
- Author: Whitson, Sage Ni’ja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501999
- Language: English
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Taking Leave
$19.95 Add to cartDeborah Kapchan’s Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhab… [more below]
- Series: Practices
- Author: Kapchan, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032820
- Language: English
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Edges of Ailey
$65.00 Add to cartA revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey
“A rich, multitudinous window into the world of the choreographer Alvin Ailey. . . . It does everything but d- Author: Edwards, Adrienne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278845
- Language: English
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Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising
$22.95 Add to cartIt’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical … [more below]
- Series: Q+ Public
- Author: Flor?ncio, Jo?o
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1978837542
- Language: English
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Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco
$16.95 Add to cartCOVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco meditates on the extraordinary time of loss, isolation, and bizarre rituals of the Covid era and its aftermath.
“Yep, she’s still got it. . . . Like
- Author: Finley, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869350
- Language: English
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Red Stained: The Life of Hilda SIMMs
$22.95 Add to cartBlack actress and activist Hilda Simms was a rising star on the stage and screen in post-WWII America until accusations of un-Americanism and communist sympathies derailed her career.
Hilda Simms eme- Author: Bell, Jokeda Jojo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342529
- Language: English
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Carsten H?ller. Book of Games
$58.33 Add to cartCarsten H?ller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions. They can be played alone, in pairs or in teams, in the street, in bed, on a train, wherever. No props or
- Author: H?ller, Carsten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 3836582236
- Language: English
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Abramovic-Isms
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of fascinating and provocative quotations from the world-renowned performance artist
Marina Abramovic is arguably the most important and influential performance artist of our time. For de- Series: Isms #16
- Author: Abramovic, Marina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0691263736
- Language: English
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The Whiteboard Daily Book of Cues: A Visual Guide to Efficient Movement for Coaches, Trainers, and Athletes
$55.95 Add to cartThere is no such thing as a “golden cue” that works for everyone 100% of the time. Therefore, the more cues a coach has in their toolbox, the more likely they will be able to effectively communicate w… [more below]
- Author: Eagleman, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1628601450
- Language: English
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Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
$18.00 Add to cart“Excellent.”–The Wall Street Journal
Since its publication ten years ago, businesspeople, investors, doctors, parents, students, athletes, and musicians at every level have adopted the maxims of Tale- Author: Colvin, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1591842948
- Language: English
