CITY Issue 55 - (Page 18) ACTION READ ALL ABOUT IT Renee Lucas cracks open four new books Art & Today (Phaidon, $90) by Eleanor Heartney Martin Puryear, Ólafur Elíasson, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, and 400 other artists are all bound together in Art & Today, a comprehensive collection of the world’s most significant contemporary artists. The featured works are divided up into categories including, “Deformation,” which celebrates human imperfection, and “Spirituality,” where art rediscovers transcendence. The Endless City (Phaidon, $60) by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic Last century, the majority of people on earth lived in rural areas and worked off the land to survive. Today, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population resides in cities — a number likely to reach a staggering 75 percent by 2050. The Endless City draws together architectural, economic, sociological, and political research from around the world to present some shocking facts and figures about the way we live today, and how to design cities for the future. He Said Beer, She Said Wine (DK Publishing, $25) by Sam Calagione and Marnie Old It’s Saturday night and you and your special someone are trying to agree on what to pair with your steak dinner. You’re in the mood for an Australian Shiraz; your guy is craving a frothy Indian brown ale. Who wins? This age-old dispute is fiercely debated by Dogfish Head Brewery owner Sam Calagione and Marnie Old, director of Wine Studies at the French Culinary Institute, in He Said Beer, She Said Wine. The two alcohol aficionados squabble over which drink better matches specific meals, but in the end agree to disagree on pairing different foods with a wide variety of high-end brews and vinos. ART & TODAY: DORIS SALCEDO’S INSTALLATION… (2003), COURTESY ALEXANDER AND BONIN, NEW YORK, PHOTO BY MUAMMER YANMAZ. DORIS SALCEDO’S INSTALLATION FOR THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL BIENNIAL (2003), FROM ART & TODAY. Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series (Prestel, $60) edited by Ingrid Mossinger and Kerstin Drechsel While on tour from 1989 to 1992, Bob Dylan drew hundreds of snapshot-style sketches that he always intended to paint. But not until last year did museum director Ingrid Mössinger urge Dylan to transform the sketches into watercolors and gouaches, which he did over a period of eight months. The paintings depict scenes of everyday life, from hotel rooms and apartments to cityscapes, sidewalk cafés, train tracks, and wandering rivers — all in riotous color. WOMAN ON A BED FROM BOB DYLAN: THE DRAWN BLANK SERIES. CITY 18: Size of wheels in inches on the all-new BMW 135i Coupe
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.