Recent essays by Richard Prince; reprints of historical texts by Eve Babitz, Joan Didion, and Kim Gordon; and a new essay by Rachel Kushner. Exhibition: Gagosian West 24th Street, New York, USA (01.11-19.12.2018).
Ilse Zhalina is the daughter of one of Melnek’s more prominent merchants. She has lived most of her life surrounded by the trappings of wealth and privilege. Many would consider...
In 1977, Prince's deceptively simple act of re-photographing advertising images from The New York Times Magazine and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to...
A year after Richard Prince's Untitled (cowboy) photograph set a record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, a study of a work from Richard Prince's series of...
Richard Prince: Check Paintings
There are no smoking cowboys swinging their lassoes or bare-breasted blondes on heavy motorcycles in this droll collection of highly expressive drawings and watercolors. Au contraire, the inventive shapes and...
"A distinction [Prince's] work brings out in particular is between pictures & what you do with pictures, between art & how art is used."-Stuart Morgan, Artscribe
This book showcases how Prince has mined the mythological American West within the artwork he produced during the last four decades.
Perfectly beautiful yet strangely faceless, hundreds of interchangeable fashion models and bare-breasted biker chicks find themselves reincarnated in the artwork of Richard Prince. Prince recycles these American (male) pop culture...
In Inside World, Richard Prince intersperses cropped and distorted photographs reflecting the iconography of American machismo--biker culture, heavy metal, and stock car racing--with reproductions of artworks by Richard Artschwager, Francis...
A literary text by Jonathan Lethem, author of the currently much-talked-about novel Chronic City, rounds off this volume edited by Kristine McKenna."