This book gathers zines by Ari Marcopoulos, an inveterate maker of these small paper pamphlets, offering a unique insight and overview into the daily practice of this influential artist. Often self-published or created in collaboration with boutique and independent publishers, these informal, DIY-aesthetic creations function as sketchbook, diary, installation space, and a means of processing Marcopoulos’s daily practice of photographing his life, his family, his neighborhood, and the rarified cultural milieu in which he operates. So this is an incredibly intimate view into an artist’s life, but also into zine culture itself.⁠ ⁠⁠ Buy

This book celebrates the anniversary of a historic exhibition from 1971: Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.⁠ ⁠ But this book does not stop at presenting the 26 women artists in the original exhibition, as it is titled 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone! As you've probably guessed, it features alongside twenty-six contemporary artists who identify as female or non-binary and traces the development of feminist art practices over the last five decades. And that makes it a milestone in itself.⁠ Buy

We love niche magazines! If you want to please everyone, you probably won't please anyone. So if you ask us, the more niche, the better! Racquet is one of those magazines. It is made for players and fans of tennis. But it doesn't focus on the big tournaments, the superstars and the points. It dives deep into the tennis culture that can be found far from the prestigious green. ⁠ ⁠ This issue is all about the clay court.⁠ ⁠⁠ Buy

It is probably true, in our current times optimism really is for the courageous.⁠ ⁠ From the pen of Salena Godden these poems reflecting on our fast-changing world with humour and resilience. They touch all those current topics of sexism and racism, class discrimination, poverty and homelessness, immigration and identity. Some were written for the women’s march and in salute of peaceful protest. ⁠ ⁠ This is a book full of light, courage and most of all hope.⁠ ⁠⁠ Buy

This book is about coding in graphic design - its rapid rise, challenges and opportunities. ⁠ ⁠ Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age is a comprehensive overview. It includes the history and economic context of programming in graphic design, as well as more than twenty interviews in which key design figures reflect on the ways coding has renewed and changed their design practices and strategies - and the direction it will take in the future.⁠ ⁠⁠ Buy

Nasser Road in Kampala is nicknamed "Uganda's Silicon Valley". This street is a mythical place known for its printing business and as a centre of fraud. Everything from fake identity cards to university degrees can be made and bought here.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ But this publication draws attention to a special and very strange product of this notorious street: posters and calendars depicting politicians and well-known personalities as superheroes. Don't be surprised if you see pictures of Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden or Mohammed Khaddafi transformed into battle-ready RoboCops. These posters are fascinating and incredibly funny, but at the same time deeply political. They tell the story of the common man's struggle against the might of Western imperialism, where international villains are celebrated as anti-heroes.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Nasser Road is a selection of these posters collected by Kristof Titeca over the course of twenty years, as well as a comprehensive analysis. It includes photographs by Ugandan photographers Badru Katumba and Zahara Abdul and an essay by Yusuf Serumkuma.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Nasser Road - Political Posters in Uganda is the photographic discovery of a place where the unthinkable becomes reality - or at least a poster.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Buy

There is a new aesthetic category in the arts: Cuteness! What?! Cute art? For a long time, that was considered a contradiction in terms. Art could be many things - but certainly not cute. While other motifs of consumer and popular culture were taken up as a matter of course through readymades, pop art or appropriation art, "cuteness" long remained one of the last taboos in the visual arts.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ But globalisation and social media continue to challenge established notions of art and forms of work - as they do when cuteness enters the realm of visual art, as in Leslie Holt's ongoing series Hello Masterpiece, which has the most famous kitten in contemporary consumer culture, Hello Kitty, meet the world's most important works of art.⁠⁠ Buy

Rick Rubin was called the most important producer. What made him so special was that he created a space where artists of all genres can explore who they really are musically. He has made it his mission to help people overcome their self-imposed expectations in order to return to a state of innocence from which the surprising can be achieved. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn’t, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone’s life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments—and lifetimes—of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠ Buy

We live in a single-use society, where fashion is fast, disposability is the norm and it is easier to replace than to repair. We don’t need to mend things anymore.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ But as bad as the linear take-make-waste model that has dominated Western economies since the Industrial Revolution is for our planet, and therefore ultimately for us, as strong is the movement that seeks to fix what is broken. This book compiles 25 artists, curators, menders and re-makers who have rejected the allure of the fast, disposable and easy in favour of the patina of use, the stories of age and the longevity of care and repair. Accompanying these profiles, six in-depth essays explore the societal, cultural and environmental roles of mending in a throwaway world.⁠⁠ Buy

Milano is fast-paced, well-laced, slick and clean-cut, but with an underground roughness, for a coin always has three sides...⁠ ⁠ Nomas shows us the Italian capital of business in a different light! Yes, there are roaring Ferraris, pitching Operas, clacking high-heels on marble floors but it is all far more poetic through the lens of Nomas. Laced with the famous Milanese fog, the rose-tinted vintage afternoon light, the dusty but delicious trattorias hiding behind yellowed curtains, the progressive design and subversive creatives - this issue lets us peer through the closed doors of Milan to catch a glimpse of its hidden beauty..⁠ ⁠ Buy

Sando is a Japanese sandwich. Kind of like those fluffy, mushy Tramezzini. But in typical Japanese creativity – the Sando has undergone a makeover in recent years. They come with all kinds of fillings and taste patterns. From the classic Tonkatsu Sando to the sweet version filled with fruit and even crème caramel.⁠ ⁠ With their slightly sweet, pillowy milk bread and adventurous filling, Cult Sando takes this humble sandwich with its vintage aesthetics to new heights. ⁠ Buy

"Closed due to colonialism, elitism, and a private dinner"⁠ This killer subtitle of the museum issue of Spike Art Magazine alone makes us want to drop everything and take a very long, extended bathroom break with this magazine.⁠ ⁠ But while Spike takes on the current discussion about colonialism and elitism that is rightly being had about museums, they are also writing a love letter to these very institutions. They believe that the museum is at a turning point.⁠ ⁠ For Spike magazine, it is either dawn or dusk for the museum. If it's dawn, it could be the beginning of a new chapter, a chapter where the museum takes all the criticism and evolves into something new. But if the semi-darkness the museum is in right now is actually the dusk, then this issue is its eulogy.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ "You can be a museum," Gertrude Stein told MoMA's founding director, "or you can be modern, but you can't be both."⁠ Buy