How can a magic trick help us understand an artwork? The spectator of a magic trick wonders what happened in the ineffable moment when a magician disappears and reappears at the other side of the stag
This long overdue publication tells the story of artists Mike Kelley (1954–2012) and Jim Shaw (b. 1952), who shared a lifelong friendship and common background: an upbringing and education in th
A long-overdue survey of an essential West Coast artist whose humorous works delve into America’s underbelly and evolving counterculture. Over the past thirty years, Jim Shaw has become on
