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Cai Guo-Qiang is one of the most important Chinese artists to have emerged internationally in the 1990s. Best known for his spectacular firework projects at locations ranging from museum entrances to the sites of land art works such as Robert Smithson's Sprial Jetty, Cai has explored a diversity of media and artforms. These have included works such as an extension to the Great Wall of China, designed to be seen from outer space by extraterrestrial beings; feng shui arrangements of private living spaces both in Japn and New York; participatory projects with kites, jacuzzis and mini golf courses, and sculptures constructed from melted-down cars or abandoned boats. His projects are strongly influenced by their location and the works are frequently altered or developed as they are exhibited at new sites. Unifying Cai's wide-ranging work is his consistent investigation of humanity's place within the universe.

Dana Sachs went to Hanoi when tourist visas began to be offered to Americans; she was young, hopeful, ready to immerse herself in Vietnamese culture. She moved in with a family and earned her keep by teaching English, and she soon found that it was impossible to blend into an Eastern culture without calling attention to her Americanness--particularly in a country where not long ago she would have been considered the enemy. But gradually, Vietnam turned out to be not only hospitable, but the home she couldn't leave. Sachs takes us through two years of eye-opening experiences: from her terrifying bicycle accidents on the busy streets of Hanoi to how she is begged to find a buyer for the remains of American "poes and meeas" (POWs and MIAs). The House on Dream Street is also the story of a community and the people who become inextricably, lovingly, a part of Sachs's life, whether it's her landlady who wonders why at twenty-nine she's not married, the children who giggle when she tries to speak the language, or Phai, the motorcycle mechanic she falls for. The House on Dream Street is both the story of a country on the cusp of change and of a woman learning to know her own heart.

22 to Watch: New Art in Austin provides a snapshot introduction to some of the most interesting emerging and lesser-known artists living within a fifty-mile radius of the Texas capital. Working in such diverse media as painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and film, these artists represent the extraordinary breadth and quality of artistic activity in Austin today.

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: READY TO PROTECT (A Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Valerie Hansen After witnessing a congresswoman’s murder, wildlife photographer and mother-to-be Jamie London is forced into the protection of K-9 cop Ben Sawyer and police dog Shadow. But when they’re tracked down by the assassin, are Ben and Shadow enough to guarantee Jamie will make it to the hearing alive? DEATH VALLEY HIDEOUT (A Desert Justice novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Dana Mentink Placed in the WITSEC program while his brother testifies against a terrifying criminal, Tony Ortega must guard his young niece and nephew—especially with a hitman hunting for them. Death Valley local Willow Duke’s hideout might just be the difference between the little family’s life or death… TEXAS KILLER CONNECTION (A Cowboy Lawmen novel) by Virginia Vaughan Former army intelligence officer Brooke Moore is determined to solve the murder of her look-alike cousin, Tessa—and now she’s become the killer’s next target. Blaming himself for ex Tessa’s death, FBI Agent Colby Avery welcomes the new leads Brooke turns up. But digging deeper brings danger straight to their doorstep… For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense May 2022 Box Set – 2 of 2

This is the first and only book dedicated to Nic Nicosia's work and covers 20 years of activity by this Dallas-based artist whose photographs and films comment on suburban America, warts and all. Nicosa was at the forefront of the revolutionary changes taking place in photography in the early 80s when artists began to make staged and manipulated color photographs, often presented in a large format. The book focuses on nine series of photographs made since 1979 along with four films/videos he has made since 1977. The catalogue is richly illustrated and includes essays by Dana Frits-Hansen, Lynn M. Herbert, and Dave Hickey. Nicosa was born in 1951 in Dallas, Texas, where he currently lives. His works are in the collections of numerous museums including the Guggenheim, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Outbound: Passages from the 90's presents ten seminal works of art that have particularly resonated across the last decade: Janine Antony's Swoon (1997), Matthew Barney's The Ehrich Weiss State (1997), Cai Guo-Qiang's The Dragon has Arrived (1997), Robert Gober's Untitled (1997), Ann Hamilton's (bearings) (1996), Jim Hodges' You (1997), William Kentridge's History of the Main Complaint (1996), Rick Lowe and Deborah Grotfeldt's Sharing the Wealth (1999-2000), Shirin Neshat's Rapture (1999) and Fred Wilson's Guarded View. Selected by the exhibition curators with the idea of sharing ten works that, like passages from a journal, reflect their most memorable encounters with art of the 1990s, these works provide a view of the art of these past ten years. The works presented here are characterized by a rigorous intelligence, a rewarding sensuality, and a sincere engagement with social, political, and spiritual issues -- and they resound with the kind of material, physical, technological, and narrative sophistication of truly great art. Featuring full-color reproductions and perceptive essays, Outbound also includes an illustrated fifty-page timeline of the 90s.

"At the invitation of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2013, Alexis Rockman began research for the Great Lakes Cycle, an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper that the artist created over the course of four years. It will debut in Grand Rapids in 2018 and tour throughout the Great Lakes region"--introduction.