Designed and produced by Pacific, the publication is an in-depth exploration into Venditti’s casting process and practice.
Please join us for the launch of ‘Like It Is’ by Austin Lee, co-published with Jeffrey Deitch, on Sunday, May 8th from 2–4 pm at Pacific. Lee has made an edition of 3D printed bookmarks for the occasion.
We worked closely with The Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art to develop the identity and guidelines for A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. This exhibition will unveil newly commissioned works across media by 12 acclaimed Black artists, including: Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates, Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Carrie Mae Weems.
Casa Cascabel is a residency and community art space in Merida, Mexico. We developed a brand and website in advance of their opening in January, 2022. See more: https://casacascabel.studio/
Hauser and Wirth's Ursula sat down with Pacific to discuss books, our studio, and the 2021 Printed Matter Art Book Fair.
An online platform for scholars and critics to join with art-workers, students and teachers to collectively reflect on the multiple histories, presents and potential futures of teaching and learning art. Art School hosts live events, critical texts, student responses and other resources. A collaboration between Afterall, Central Saint Martins and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Art School recognizes the current situation calls for radical insight and imagination.
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Jim Vockler Whyte's The Big Lemon presents a family with a dream, one that blinds them to the realities of the day. Overconfidence, self-indulgence and blind passion are all here, presented in a familiar cocktail. Have you ever had a great idea that's turned out to be anything but...?
A manifesto by Sable Elyse Smith, Shaun Leonardo, and Melody Crean. Printed on the occasion of their 2019 exhibition at the New Museum, the text from Mirror/Echo/Tilt documents the artists' examination of the language and gestures used to describe experiences of arrest and incarceration, and looks to counter culturally embedded conceptions of criminality.
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Author, critic, journalist and filmmaker Nelson George has been a cultural documentarian for over four decades. In 1978, while working as a young music journalist, he sat down with a "rapping deejay" named Kurtis Blow. Originally published in New York Amsterdam News, "Rappin' with Kurtis Blow" offers a snapshot of two young men at the forefront of the music genre that has come to dominate the twenty-first century.
The title essay from James Baldwin's brilliant first nonfiction collection, Notes of a Native Son, chronicles his father's death, race relations in Jim Crow America, and the 1943 Harlem Riot. The "fixed boundaries" Baldwin writes about in 1955—established by designations of race, gender, religion, and class—still dominate our society.