In and Out of the Museum: Writings on Art, Vol. 2: 2000-2012

By Klaus Ottmann

In the second volume of his Writings on Art, the curator, translator, and author of The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition; Yves Klein by Himself: His Life and Thought; Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective; Life, Love, and Death: The Work of James Lee Byars; Jennifer Bartlett & Pierre Bonnard: In and Out of the Garden; and The Essential Mark Rothko has gathered essays written primarily for museum publications, along with selected reviews and interviews done between 2000 and 2012.

Among the texts included are seminal essays on James Lee Byars, Rackstraw Downes, Robert Grosvenor, Per Kirkeby, Yves Klein, Wolfgang Laib, Wangechi Mutu, and Fairfield Porter, as well as shorter catalogue entries on Miroslaw Balka, Jennifer Bartlett, Patty Chang, Peter Doig, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Graves, Jonathan Meese, Catherine Opie, Alfonso Ossorio, Mark Rothko, Georges Seurat, and others; selected exhibition reviews; and interviews with artists Andrei Roiter, Wolfgang Laib, and Frank Stella.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882149822
• ISBN13: 9780882149820
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Spring Publications
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"