This book offers a unique journey into the heart of Gulangyu Island through its most iconic yet overlooked narrators—the banyan trees. More than just botanical features, these trees are the living breath and hidden storytellers of the island, their roots entwined with the very fabric of its urban space, memory, and culture. This book unfolds in four parts: an insightful scientific profile of the banyan tree itself; an exploration of its profound, symbiotic relationship with human life and the city; a detailed presentation of 15 specific banyan sites on Gulangyu, enriched with photographs and drawings; and a compelling oral history section that captures the vibrant, “invisible” life force these trees embody. It is not merely a guide but a cultural map, inviting readers to rediscover the island’s layered narrative and the deep, poetic dialog between nature, architecture, and human history.
Text in English and Mandarin.
Photographer Jérôme Schlomoff (b. 1961) has been capturing the souls of artists and numerous creative figures through his lens since 1984. He presents his portraits against a white background, tightly framed, with no props, showcasing a magnificent interplay of light and shadow. Look at Me is a raw, face-to-face exchange – an inviting gaze.
This new book brings together his hundred most iconic photographs, including portraits of Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gilbert & Georges, Keith Haring, Panamarenko, Bill Viola, John Cale, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Juliette Gréco, Michael Stipe, and Peter Greenaway. Each portrait is accompanied by a poetic narrative by Didier Arnaudet, in an intuitive layout.
Architecture carries memory. It preserves the character of a place while allowing it to evolve for contemporary life. Modern Heritage Homes explores this relationship through a collection of residences that balance history, craftsmanship, and modern living with remarkable sensitivity.
Across these pages, twenty-three homes reveal how designers and architects around the world reinterpret heritage in ways that feel both grounded and current. Some projects draw directly from traditional vernacular forms, while others reinterpret the spirit of modernism through proportion, material, and atmosphere. Together they show that timeless design is shaped by continuity, not imitation. From the quiet elegance of South Dublin Residence to the sculptural clarity of Melody House in the Southern Highlands of Australia, each project demonstrates a strong connection between architecture and landscape. In South Dublin, lime plaster walls, timber beams, and stone floors create a home rooted in tradition, softened for contemporary family life. In Melody House, inspired by Richard Neutra’s modernism, clean horizontal lines and expansive glazing create a dialog between architecture, music, and nature.
In South Africa, An Arts and Crafts Home celebrates craftsmanship and vernacular character through textured materials, layered interiors, and a close relationship with its setting. In Texas, Arrowhead rises above Lake Travis as a retreat inspired by Mediterranean light and romantic spatial sequences, combining openness with intimacy. The California projects bring another dimension to the collection. Brentwood Park Residence and Cole Valley Classic reflect a refined West Coast sensibility where warmth, restraint, and natural textures create deeply personal spaces. In Nantucket, a coastal residence is reimagined with softened palettes and a renewed connection to the Atlantic horizon, proving how even familiar typologies can feel entirely new.
Further into the book, homes such as A Thatched-Roof Villa in the Netherlands and Four Seasons R01 in Istanbul reveal how regional traditions can be translated through a modern lens. Whether through the enduring silhouette of a thatched roof or the quiet precision of contemporary detailing, these homes demonstrate the richness of local identity. What connects all of these projects is a shared respect for permanence, craftsmanship, and emotional resonance. These are homes designed not only to be seen, but to be lived in, adapted, and passed on. They remind us that heritage is not fixed. It is continually shaped by the people who inhabit it. Modern Heritage Homes is an invitation to explore that ongoing dialog between past and present, and to discover how thoughtful design can create homes of lasting beauty.
Charognes is a publication of immense historical and artistic value that gathers the brilliant early works of the great French master Lucien Clergue. Deeply affected by the premature loss of his mother, the artist immediately poured into photography his urgent need to process and understand the tragic dimension of existence. Exploring the wild landscapes of the Camargue, Clergue dedicated himself to documenting the remains and carcasses of abandoned animals. Far from being a morbid obsession with the macabre, this series represents a bold attempt to exorcise and transcend death through the photographic lens. Under his sensitive gaze, decomposition is transformed into pure geometric form, balanced masses, and sculptural structures shaped by a masterful use of light and shadow. The volume documents the historic debut of a visual exploration that deeply impressed even Pablo Picasso during their very first meeting in Arles.
Text in English and French
Spanning grand movie palaces, beloved neighborhood cinemas, and contemporary multiplexes, Thomas Schiff’s photographic survey celebrates the enduring role of movie theaters in American public life. Using his signature panoramic camera, Schiff captures these buildings as vital civic spaces whose architecture reflects the communities they serve. Rather than documenting decline, the book highlights theaters that remain active in new and evolving ways—whether as cinemas, repurposed live performance venues, or cherished landmarks preserved through local advocacy. An introductory essay by film historian Ross Melnick explores the cultural history of the American movie theater, while a foreword by Barbara Miller of Museum of the Moving Image considers their lasting significance as places of collective experience. Together, text and images offer a compelling portrait of movie theaters as enduring centers of community, memory, and shared cultural life.
The Sámi artist John Savio (1902–1938) has long been viewed through the lens of the majority culture, and has consequently been relegated to the margins of art history. John Savio – Hásttuheaddjin: Voice of Resistance approaches his work for the first time from a perspective grounded in specifically Sámi knowledge systems and lifeworlds. In doing so, his practice emerges on its own terms: as a driving force that not only carries forward but renews modernism, with a quiet yet penetrating critique of the colonial structures that shaped Sámi life both in his own time and beyond.
At a moment when Indigenous artists around the world are challenging established notions of representation and knowledge, Savio’s voice resonates with particular force, as the texts in this volume demonstrate. They are written by the exhibition’s curator Liisa-Ravna Finnbog and by Harald Gaski, Elin Anna Labba Magga, Liv Astrid Svaleng, Wanda Nanibush, Kathrine Nedrejord and Sigbjørn Skåden, and include an interview with the visual artist Outi Pieski. Taken together, the texts and the richly illustrated material in this book show why Savio represents a vital chapter in the new, more polyphonic art history that is currently being written.
Magritte: Copy/Paste offers a new way of looking at René Magritte’s work: through the lens of collage. Moving beyond collage as a technique of scissors and paper, the book reveals how Magritte transformed its principles into a powerful pictorial language: cutting, combining, displacing and reconnecting images, words and ideas.
From his adoption of collage in the mid-1920s, as a declaration of his allegiance to Surrealism, to his encounters with Old Master painting, Magritte repeatedly explored the unsettling potential of unexpected juxtapositions. In this sense, his paintings come close to Max Ernst’s description of them as “hand-painted collages.” Published alongside the major exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco, the volume places Magritte’s multifaceted use of collage within a much broader history of the medium, from its Cubist origins and Surrealist reinvention to cinematic montage and contemporary art. With contributions by leading specialists, the book offers both a fresh interpretation of Magritte’s work and a broader history of collage, tracing its central role in the development of modern art.
Melbourne is one of the world’s most admired and vibrant modern cities. A lively multicultural population relishes its attractive waterfront, tree-lined streets and relaxed spaces for eating and socializing. Yet the city has also seen hardship and industrial decline, Gold Rush boom and architectural splendor, poverty and dispossession, all reflected in its remarkable cultural and economic legacy.
Melbourne: City Histories offers an engaging, lavishly illustrated introduction to this dynamic city. It explores the long occupation of the land around present-day Melbourne/Naarm by the people of the Kulin Nation, revealing the devastating impact of their dispossession by European arrivals. Later chapters trace the extraordinarily rapid growth of Melbourne through the 1840s, the Gold Rush decades and the 1880s, when the city became known as ‘Marvellous Melbourne’. It then considers the volatile 20th century, from two world wars and global depression to the ‘long boom’ that attracted migrants from around the world. Published in partnership with the Old Treasury Building Museum.
City Histories profiles a city based on the collections held at an institution within it – the guardians of a city’s story, telling its origins, history, lives of its people through the unique lens of its collections.