Art Basel 41 Highlights, Part One

Animated currency, she-beasts, Aitken's latest immersive video and pink crystals top our list of Art Basel favorites

One day, nearly 300 galleries and thousands of artworks later, check out below what caught our eye at Art Basel’s 41st event in Basel last month. Stay tuned for more in Part Two. “Hero No. 1” (2009), one of Zhang Huan‘s series of enormous, cowskin-covered sculptures from the Pace Gallery, has an imposing scale only rivaled by the curious expression of the she-creature’s face. Though …

Creamier

Phaidon's newest exhibition-in-a-book curates the cream of modern art

“Creamier,” the latest volume in Phaidon‘s acclaimed “Cream” series, takes the pulse and forecasts the future of contemporary art. The book’s 100 featured artists are the culmination of a carefully selected panel’s survey of the most important contributors to the art world over the last five years. This year’s jury includes Debra Singer, director and chief curator of The Kitchen; Catherine Wood, curator of contemporary …

The Big Butt Book

An ode to the gluteus maximus in a new coffee table book

I like big butts and I cannot lie. As a female constantly preoccupied with how mine looks in pants combined with my experience living in Brazil—the very land that invented the thong bikini and where baile funk girls become overnight celebs based just on the girth of their behinds—I find Taschen’s fatty tome “The Big Butt Book” fascinating and a must-buy for discerning and refined …