Produced and directed by Christopher Williams. Executive production by John Corbett & Jim Dempsey

 is a play written by Bavarian playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz.

It is part of a trilogy of radio plays from 1971 titled Trilogie Münchener Lebens. The play was first broadcast as a radio play in former West Germany on Südwestfunk in 1972. A second version was broadcast in former East Germany on Rundfunk der DDR in 1974. The West and East German broadcasts are the basis for two radio play adaptations by artist Christopher Williams. Both adaptations are recorded in German using the same technology used to produce the original broadcasts of 1972 and 1974.

Recorded at Studio Nadel Eins, Berlin, Germany; 2-3 October 2023

Broadcast from Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM, Chicago, USA; 25 February 2024, 5pm

Mastered by: Alex Inglizian, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago

Christopher Williams: Radio Play

Text by Fritz Horstman. Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber.



in a format that engages learners of all ages and levels and encourages a hands-on approach

 is often presented as an overarching theory of color, but it is actually a method of learning how to better see and understand color—many of the color exercises illustrated in 

 were devised by Albers’s students: cutting and pasting, looking, pondering, and learning. This workbook companion is a teaching tool designed to enable readers to engage in the kinds of tactile creativity and exploration that characterized Albers’s own classroom.

Focusing on eight of the most important lessons in 

, this book invites readers to learn by doing, using only simple materials. Core instructions for each exercise are enhanced by additional tips, references to Albers’s original text and illustrations, and stories about how Albers presented the ideas in class. The book and exercises are sufficiently nuanced to challenge and inspire seasoned artists, designers, and educators while also being readily accessible to younger readers and less-experienced practitioners.

Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments

By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter

Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures

David Zwirner Books: Spring 2024

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

Feint of Heart: Art Writings, 1982–2002

That Still Moment: Poetry and Essays on Dance

David Zwirner Books: Fall 2024

A painting by Giorgio Morandi titled Natura morta (Still Life), dated 1956.

On Morandi’s exquisitely serene art as a distillation of the tumultuous 20th century

This volume positions Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) as a paradigmatic 20th-century figure: a man who lived through two world wars and experienced the full impact of the era’s disillusionments. Against this bleak backdrop, he sought stringent order and formal harmony, while leaving room for uncertainty and surprise. This clothbound volume spotlights the artist’s paintings and works on paper from the 1920s to the 1960s, as well as a wealth of unpublished documents and photographs recently excavated from the Morandi family archives. Marilena Pasquali, an art historian and leading Morandi expert, interprets these materials, connecting them with the arc of his career. Alongside writings by other art historians, Pasquali casts Morandi’s art as an ongoing response to the tumultuous, dispiriting times in which he lived.

Giorgio Morandi: Time Suspended

Detail of an oil on linen painting, titled Clear Message, dated 2019.

"These paintings came together during the pandemic, a time when the streets of New York felt both familiar and strange. I spent a lot of days just looking at these buildings—ordinary places that suddenly seemed to have more to say. This book is a way to hold onto that time, to capture the city as it was, in all its grit and quiet. These aren’t just paintings; they’re moments of New York as I saw it, block by block. I hope you feel that connection too, page by page." —Josh Smith

Josh Smith: High as Fuck

A detail from a painting by Oscar Murillo, titled manifestation, dated 2019.

Oscar Murillo in his studio, 2022. Photo by Jason Schmidt

Mark Godfrey

Conversation between Oscar Murillo and Mark Godfrey

Looking back at Oscar’s practice for the last 10 years, specifically, the progression of the themes of blackness/void, games and failure, the book is a non-linear journey, finding moments of convergence between shows and artworks that have informed Murillo’s new series. Throughout the book runs in parallel relevant works and a conversation between Oscar Murillo and Mark Godfrey which delves into the details of Murillo’s process and influences.

Inspired by the 1950s Brazilian neo-concrete movement, the photographic editing of the shows and artworks seeks to spark a poetic feeling in contrast to the rigidness of the design.

Shows highlighted in the book include Venice Biennale (2015), Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2021), South London Gallery (2013), Carlos/Ishikawa (2012) and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2024) in between others.

Oscar Murillo: Aesthetic Structures

An installation by Huma Bhabha, titled We Come in Peace, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, dated 2017.

Text by Nicholas Baume and Alberto Rios de la Rosa

Huma Bhabha’s new body of work was made during a three-week residency at Casa Wabi in early 2022. She traveled from Poughkeepsie, a small city on the Hudson River north of New York City, escaping winter and discovering the Oaxacan coast. Alongside a group of fellow artists in residence — each making work in their own studios, sharing meals and the experience of this unique meeting of landscape, culture, and Tadao Ando’s architecture – Bhabha has experimented with local materials and traditional methods to create an installation that brings into dialogue with this remarkable place her own very distinctive aesthetic.

Huma Bhabha: Fundación Casa Wabi was published on the occasions of the exhibitions 

 (2023) at Fundación Casa Wabi’s Puerto Escondido and Mexico City locations, respectively. 

Huma Bhabha: Fundación Casa Wabi

Sasha Gordon, 2024. Photo by Jason Schmidt

Texts by Liz Munsell and Kristina Parsons. Contributions by Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Sasha Gordon, Sara Issakharian, Chella Man, Ilana Savdie, Austin Martin White, and Rosha Yaghmai. Photography by Mary Kang and Abby Ross.



An investigation of seven emerging artists who use supernatural color and uncanny luminescence to challenge the boundaries of traditional figuration.



Color is flexible and amorphous. It lends itself to infinite perceptions and refuses to be definitive. 

Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration

 discusses new work by seven emerging artists who use supernatural color and uncanny luminescence to unsettle the figure. In painting, sculpture, and installation they push at and spill over the outermost limits of realism. Their high-key palettes and disorienting glow defamiliarize human and anthropomorphic forms, highlighting the figure’s manipulability and continual metamorphosis. These artists refute any fixed notions of the self and thwart reductive interpretations, generating space for resilient, transgressive, and exuberant bodies that cannot be placed or contained.

In their work the artists take in and take on the oversaturation of our contemporary moment. They invoke surreal slippages between everyday horrors and their unbound imaginations. This multiethnic, multiracial, and multifaceted group of makers leverage palettes that reflect their cross-cultural allegiances and lived experiences—whether nodding to their respective heritages, to pop culture and digital immersion, or spaces of youthful and queer liberation. Modern and contemporary artists have long offered a counterpoint to strongholds within Western art history that have insisted on a muted palette as an indicator of purity, seriousness, and whiteness—since the Renaissance’s focus on linear perspective and recasting of classical sculpture in white. At a time of deep reconsideration of canons and institutions, this presentation reflects on how color has been othered—perceived as emotional, subjective, and secondary to line in importance. The artists in 

 embrace color to push against such hierarchies. Taken together, their works convey today’s zeitgeist of frenzied too-muchness and all-at-onceness, in-betweenness and expansiveness, ultimately showing interlinked experiences across many spectrums.

A detail from a painting by Portia Zvavahera, titled This is where I travelled [3], dated 2020.

Portia Zvavahera, Ndirikukuona (I can see you), 2021

Text by Sinazo Chiya, Tandazani Dhlakama, Tamar Garb, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Fiona Bradley, Andrew Nairne

This new publication accompanies a major exhibition, curated by Tamar Garb, which will include reproductions of brand new works created on the occasion of this exhibition alongside a selection of recent and older paintings which reveal the depth and richness of Zvavahera’s practice. The focus will be on the theme of dreams, fantasy and figuration, and large details will highlight Zvavahera’s innovative amalgamation of printmaking and painting techniques that build rich surfaces to create her private cosmology of creatures and contexts.

The book will feature a significant new essay from curator Tamar Garb and will centre around an extensive conversation between Garb, Sinazo Chiya, Tandazani Dhlakama and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela discussing Zvavahera’s engagement with eros, intimacy and female-centred experience.

The book will open up how Zvavahera’s works emerge from dreams; being figurative without being illustrative, registering a world of feminine experience and fantasy.

Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa

Edited with text by Josef Helfenstein and Olga Osadtschy. Text by Aden Kumler, Simon Baier, Elena Degen, Jules Pelta Feldman, Aden Kumler, Daniel Kurjakovic, Han Lo, and Mechtild Widrich



Flavin’s “gaseous images” illuminate the landscape of the Kunstmuseum Basel

Legendary minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933–96) began working with fluorescent light tubes in the early 1960s. Arranged in “situations,” he would then further develop them into series and large-scale installations. His pieces often included dedications, making reference in their titles to concrete events, such as wartime atrocities or police violence, or to other artists. The colors and dimensions of the materials he used were prescribed by industrial production. Flooded in light, viewers themselves become part of the works. The space, along with the objects within it, are set in relation to each other and thus become immersive experiences of art, triggering sensual, almost spiritual experiences. Flavin liberated color from the two-dimensionality of painting. This catalog looks at Flavin’s oeuvre in a less familiar setting: the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Dan Flavin: Dedications in Lights

Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Daniel Buchholz, and Christopher Müller. Contributions by Dieter Schwarz, Sabine Breitwieser, Manfred Hermes, Tom McDonough, Juliane Rebentisch, and Isa Genzken. Introduction by Klaus Biesenbach and Lisa Botti. Conversations on the artist by Wolfgang Tillmans and Diedrich Diederichsen



For a long time, I went about my work very conceptually. With the hi-fi photographs, ellipsoids, or with the works made of concrete, I had an idea and realized it forcefully. Then I stopped doing that, suddenly, and a new phase started. Just go ahead. And yet the rigor of all those earlier years is still in me. Now I have slowly reached the point where I can say I want to do something again that I think about very

—Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans

This comprehensive monograph is published in conjunction with Isa Genzken’s eponymous exhibition at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, gathering 75 sculptures by the artist. Alongside many photographs of the works on display, the catalogue, edited by Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller, assembles texts by Dieter Schwarz, Sabine Breitwieser, Manfred Hermes, Tom McDonough, Juliane Rebentisch, and Isa Genzken, a preface by curators Klaus Biesenbach and Lisa Botti, and a new essay by Diedrich Diederichsen, as well as two conversations on the artist with Wolfgang Tillmans and Diedrich Diederichsen.

Isa Genzken: 75/75

A scuplture by Yayoi Kusama called Dancing Pumpkin dated 2020

Yayoi Kusama, 2021.  Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki

Detail view of Alice Neel's 1967 painting titled Richard

An artwork by Elizabeth Peyton, titled Omai (Afterlife) after Sir Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Omai, 1776, dated 2023

Elizabeth Peyton, Portrait at the Opera (Elizabeth), 2016

A detail from a work by Robert Ryman, titled Winsor 34, dated 1966.

Luc Tuymans in his studio, 2022. Photo by Otman Q

Frank Walter

Photograph of 2024 new monographs, published by David Zwirner Books

This collection features recent publications from David Zwirner Books celebrating new or rarely exhibited works by iconic artists including Joan Mitchell, Luc Tuymans, Yayoi Kusama, and Robert Ryman. These monographs explore each artist’s unique contributions to modern and contemporary art through insightful essays, vivid imagery, and archival materials.

Included in this bundle:


New Monographs from 2024

This curated series of publications from David Zwirner Books invites readers on a visual journey across regions and cultures, sparking inspiration in all directions. Each volume showcases the unparalleled work of an artist who captures the essence of place, evoking wanderlust and a deep desire for discovery.

Point Break: Raymond Pettibon, Surfers and Waves

William Eggleston: The Outlands, Selected Works

Pettibon, Eggleston, Mitchell, Walter, Albers, Concrete Cuba

Books to Inspire Travel 

A gelatin silver print by Diane Arbus, titled Triplets in their bedroom, N.J. 1963, dated 1963.

A detail of a photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans titled Sicily Morning, dated 2018.

This collection highlights the breadth of the field of photography, showcasing artists’ diverse approaches to image making and technique. In charting the reception of one photographer’s work through fifty years’ of critical texts to essays exploring the impact of music and jazz, these volumes offer an in-depth look at how preeminent photographers have shaped visual culture.

The Photography Collection

Jarrett Earnest

Dave Hickey

Richard Shiff

The Art Criticism collection features a thought-provoking selection of works by well-known art critics. From historical analyses to contemporary reflections, these texts examine the role of the critic in shaping our understanding of art while exploring diverse positions on aesthetics and visual culture.

Included in this bundle:


Earnest, Hickey, Shiff

Art Criticism Bundle

A detail from a painting by Katherine Bernhardt, titled Escape from New York, dated 2020.

David Zwirner Books’s Special Editions offer the chance to own a bespoke catalogue, monograph, or artist’s book. New editions of our best-selling titles on Yayoi Kusama, Katherine Bernhardt, and Luc Tuymans are now available in a limited run, signed by the artists and with special artist-designed features. Sophisticated and luxurious collectibles, these three editions highlight the visionary work of renowned artists and the craft of bookmaking.

Included in this bundle:


Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers (Special Edition)

Katherine Bernhardt: Why is a mushroom growing in my shower? (Special Edition)

Set of Three

Special Editions

Gaby Bazin

Rose Blake

Doro Globus

This bundle introduces young readers to the world of art and creativity through engaging narratives and vibrant illustrations. Each title encourages exploration and imagination, helping children discover the roles of various artists and craftspeople while fostering a love for artistic expression.

Included in this bundle: 


Children’s Books

César Aira

Michael Glover

David Levi Strauss

Alexander Nemerov

Donald Shambroom

Cynthia Zarin

ekphrasis

Presenting a dynamic collection of newly commissioned texts, this bundle explores our belief in the photographic image, the categorization of contemporary art, the streets of Venice, Duchamp’s activities the day before his death, and more. From innovative interpretations of historical events to contemporary critiques, these books invite readers to engage with art in fresh and unexpected ways, challenging conventional narratives and inspiring deeper reflection.

Included in this bundle: 


Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art

Aira, Glover, Levi Strauss, Nemerov, Shambroom, Zarin

New Texts (ekphrasis)

John Ashbery

Edwin Denby

H.D.

Patrick Modiano

Rainer Maria Rilke

Gertrude Stein

Experience art in its many forms through the minds of some of the 20th century’s greatest poets, from Rainer Maria Rilke to Gertrude Stein. Writing on dance, visual art, paradise, New York streets, and youth, among so much else, through eloquent verse, intimate letters, and vivid essays, these poets explore the intersections of creativity, work, and emotion.

Included in this bundle:


Ashbery, Denby, H.D., Modiano, Rilke, Stein

The Poets (ekphrasis bundle)

Photograph of a bookshelf of 150 books published by David Zwirner, 2013-2024

An extraordinary gift for the art enthusiast: Add onto—or instantly create—a notable art book collection with this curated collection of 150 titles published by David Zwirner Books, featuring an extensive survey of leading modern and contemporary artists. This comprehensive selection—at a 30% retail-value discount—includes monographs, exhibition catalogues, and artist writings, providing a rich resource for collectors, scholars, or anyone looking to deepen their understanding of influential artists and movements. Order by December 8 to receive in time for the holidays.

An extraordinary curated collection of 150 books at a 30% discount

Instant Art Library (150 books)

Photograph of a bookshelf of 100 books published by David Zwirner, 2013-2024

Give the gift of art—and books—with this curated collection of one hundred art books published by David Zwirner Books, an extensive survey of titles on leading modern and contemporary artists. This comprehensive selection—at a 30% retail-value discount—includes monographs, exhibition catalogues, and artist writings, providing a rich resource for collectors, scholars, or anyone looking to deepen their understanding of influential artists and movements. Order by December 8 to receive in time for the holidays.

An extraordinary curated collection of 100 books at a 30% discount

Instant Art Library (100 books)

Émile Bernard

Romaine Brooks

Guy Davenport

Paul Gauguin

Katsushika Hokusai

Marcel Proust

Virginia Woolf

Photograph of Painters collection of ekphrasis books, published by David Zwirner Books

From personal letters and memoirs to form-bending essays, these works by painters, novelists, and poets impart many stories of the modern era’s beloved painters, including Hokusai, Van Gogh, and Romaine Brooks.

On Balthus, Chardin and Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and more

The Painters (ekphrasis bundle)

Derek Jarman

Auguste Rodin

Explore the writings of history’s greatest artists, from Hokusai to Auguste Rodin, Paul Gauguin, and more. Personal insights and reflections on art and aesthetics unite visual and literary expression.

Brooks, Gauguin, Hokusai, Jarman, Rodin

Artist as Writer (ekphrasis)

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