Mami Kataoka

In May 2012 nearly thirty leading contemporary artists from throughout Asia will present arresting and provocative work at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Art objects from the museum's extensive collection of traditional art will be juxtaposed with the contemporary works--not so much to compa...

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972) enmeshes everyday objects such as cars and clothes in web-cocoons of gray thread. At once delicate and sinister, they suggest an overrunning of the familiar by some alien entity. This volume surveys her works and performances from the 1990s to the present.

Accompanying an exhibition that takes sloth as one of its central themes, Cosima von Bonin's newest monograph also reproduces an anthology of texts on laziness and sloth that were first published by Brooklyn-based "Cabinet" magazine.