Product Description: Since the 1980s, American sculptor Rita McBride (born 1960) has toyed with the relationship between functionalism and formalism in public structures. Relying on materials such as aluminum, brass and steel, she mines the sculptural possibilities of mass-produced goods...read more

Product Description: The fourth and final book in the infamous Ways series of novels as conceptual art—a project by visual artist Rita McBride in collaboration with the Whitney Museum, Printed Matter, Inc., and Arsenal Pulp Press. These books reimagine literary genres by pulling together some of the world’s leading artists, writers, and cultural thinkers to write “chapters” of a novel, all of which are set in the visual art world; by doing so, they create a beguiling “accidental” novel that subverts our traditional ideas of narrative as well as satirizing the sacred institutions of art and industry...read more

Product Description: The third in the Ways Books series of books as conceptual art: anthologies of anonymously written stories which, put together, are “novels” that challenge our notions of traditional narrative genres. Conceived by international conceptual artist Rita McBride and produced with the Whitney Museum of American Art, one of America’s preeminent art institutions, and Printed Matter, Inc...read more

Product Description: Futureways is a faux science fiction novel that dares to reinvent the future. The story of an art exhibition in the distant future, the book posits an otherworldly community of alien shape-shifters, robotic administrators and demon-conjuring Magi who inhabit spaceports, otherworldly archeological sites, gated utopias, courthouses and bars...read more

Product Description: Heartways, a collaboration between the Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed Matter, Inc., and Arsenal Pulp Press through its ArsenalAdvance imprint, is a faux romance compilation that deconstructs art, -literature, sex, and desire in one fell swoop...read more

Product Description: The spacious installations of up-and-coming sculptor Rita McBride refer to architecture--as a model, as a repertoire of forms, and as social reality. Her work explores questions of ideology in art and architecture--playing with the modernist legacies of LeCorbusier and the Bauhaus group, among others--but always with a sense of irony and aesthetics...read more