Jeff Koons was signing copies of his new book Hulk Elvis Thursday night at the newish Gagosian Shop. While Hulk Elvis is new, the work in it is from Koons’s summer 2007 show of the same name, at Gagosian’s London gallery. … more
The sold-out 2008 world tour by pop renaissance man and ten-time Grammy-winner Kanye West has been translated to book form and will be released on October 22 by Rizzoli.
A collaboration between Kanye, Base, and Rizzoli, the 288-page Glow In The Dark is “narrated” by Kanye himself. Text pulled from an interview with director/producer and tour collaborator Spike Jonze provides personal, behind-the-scenes insight to illuminate the book’s 400 tour-spanning images, shot by Nabil Elderkin. … more
The following reflections come from Base’s NYC-based partner Geoff Cook on working with Kanye West over the past year.
Over the last decade, I’ve been lucky enough to work with talented entrepreneurs, savvy business folk, and creative visionaries. Yet as another project with Kanye West (his high-end book being published by Rizzoli) approaches completion, I find myself referring consistently to things he’s done and said, many of which can serve as metaphors to live by. … more
Ryan McGinness is a busy man. In the last six months he’s had shows in Milan, Toronto, Cincinnati, and Aspen, Colorado. This week he opens a show of new paintings and sculptures at New York’s Deitch Projects, his first there since 2005.
The show coincides with a book of the same name, Ryan McGinness Works. (Rizzoli, 2009), which comes hot on the heels of two other books of his work, the two-volume … more
