The bestselling classic that more than 100 million readers have relied on, now in a totally updated new edition to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

In this guide to human sexuality, a psychiatrist candidly discusses sexual mores, problems, and taboos in light of the latest research findings and contemporary health and social issues.

"'Thinking contemporary curating' is the first publication to comprehensively explore what is distinctive about contemporary curatorial thought. In five essays, art historian, critic, and theorist Terry Smith surveys the international landscape of current discourse; explores a number of exhibitions that show contemporaneity in present, recent, and post art; describes the enormous growth world-wide of exhibitionary infrastructure and the instability that haunts it; re-examines the phenomenon of artist-curators and curator-artists; and assesses a number of key tendencies in curating - such as the reimagined museum, the expanded exhibition, historicization and recuration, infrastructural activism, and engaged spectatorship - as responses to contemporary conditions." -- book cover.

The 51 gallery owners from Europe, The Americas, and Asia interviewed in this book talk about their relationship with artists, what they love (and hate) about their work, The changes the art world has undergone since they started at the end of the 1980s, and thus give precious insights and advice to collectors and up-and-coming players in the field. At this time of an all-encompassing hybridization of roles (critics and curators becoming dealers, artists acting as curators, fair managers becoming curators, etc.), The observations included in this volume provide an extraordinary snapshot of today's art system, reflecting its culture, strategies, and attitudes. Galleries featured in this book include: Air de Paris (Paris), Gavin Brown's Enterprise (New York), Massimo De Carlo (Milan), Greene Naftali (New York), Hotel (London), Kurimanzutto (Mexico), Franco Noero (Turin), Eva Presenhuber (Zurich), Johann König (Berlin), and Vitamin (Beijing). Edited by Andrea Bellini, former US Editor of Flash Art and Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1/MoMA, Is currently the Director of the Artissima fair in Turin. Italian text.

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Public Engagement* *But Were Afraid to Ask" is the product of a course of the same name led by creative laborer, educator, radical community arts organizer, and writer Jen Delos Reyes for the Museum and Exhibition Studies graduate program at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the spring of 2019. The course was designed as a series of public programs featuring diverse guests who shared candidly on their experiences, strategies, and hopes for public engagement in museums, cultural institutions, and beyond. This book features transcriptions of interviews with January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Engagement at the MCA, Kristen Kaza and Elijah McKinnon, Co-Founders of Reunion, Carrie Sandahl-Director of the Program on Disability Art, Culture and Humanities at UIC, Lisa Yun Lee -Director of the National Museum of Public Housing, and Michael Christiano- Deputy Director and Curator of Public Practice at the Smart Museum of Art, as well as an essay by Anthony Stepter, and documentation of the student events created as part of this class.