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This beautifully designed volume comprises an overview of French artist, sculptor and photographer Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952), who since the early 1980s has frequently incorporated ornamental and architectural qualities into his installations and sculptures. Also included here are his recent Plexiglas abstractions of the past decade.

Created in 2007 by the Musée du Quai Branly and dedicated exclusively to non-western contemporary photography, the Photoquai Biennale presents the work of photographers from all the major geographical zones represented within the museum's collections. Photoquai 2011 focuses on the Caribbean, Cuba, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and East Africa.

Although world-famous for his paintings and sculptures, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was also a photographer, and his practice of photographing interiors, the sea and still lifes, as well as his paintings and sculptures, spanned the duration of his 60-year career. This massive two-volume catalogue gathers this lesser-known aspect of the artist's output, contextualizing it through an exhibition that Twombly himself curated at the Collection Lambert in Avignon. His selection of works was both original and revealing: Jacques Henri Lartigue's albums, the marine horizons of Hiroshi Sugimoto, the serial photographs of Ed Ruscha and Sol Lewitt, and the portraits of Diane Arbus and his close friend Sally Mann. With this publication, Twombly also draws a direct lineage between himself and earlier photographer-artists such as Édouard Vuillard and Edgar Degas (a lineage that provides this catalogue's Proustian subtitle). The two volumes are held together with a blue printed ribbon.

This volume presents a seven-year project by Lebanese photographer Ziad Antar (born 1978), for which he recorded the coastline of the United Arabic Emirates between 2004 and 2011. Portrait of a Territory tells the story of an economic boom and its shortcomings through images of both monumental architectural structures and the abandoned work sites of unfinished construction projects.

For more than 30 years, Leïla Menchari (born 1928) was responsible for designing the traffic-stopping window displays at Hermès' prestigious flagship store at 24 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in Paris. Menchari's aesthetic vision and her sense of colour and texture created magnificent installations that brought the best out of silk and leather. Born in Tunis and considering herself a citizen of the world, Menchari was inspired by her journeys to the Near and Far East, her encounters with extraordinary figures of the art world and her Beaux-Arts training. For Hermès she created Egyptian archaeological sites with sand and crumbling statues and iconic scenes of Paris with monuments crafted out of organza, among many other fantasies. Featuring a preface by Hermès CEO Axel Dumas, this extensively illustrated, sumptuous publication focuses on 137 Hermès storefronts created by Leïla Menchari between 1978 and 2013.

An unusual artist's book by French museum director Bruno Gaudichon, Wanderland recaptures the high-spirited dream logic of the exhibition it accompanies; both are centered around the theme of flânerie, the art of urban wandering. Created through cutting and collaging in the spirit of Surrealism, a whimsical story illustrated by Emmanuel Pierre unfolds across the book's accordion format, while Gaudichon's poetic text winds over the pages to better follow the accidental adventures of the six characters as they wander, flâneur-like, through a fantastical Parisian setting. The book opens with a preface by Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of the storied and family owned Hermès, describing the ways in which flânerie--which alters our relation to time and space, to ourselves, to others and to the world--can inspire and enrich creativity. This unique, collectible volume is a playful homage to a Parisian tradition, and a treat for children and adults alike.

Published to accompany the exhibition showing in Avignon this summer, this book presents an ensemble of recent works by acclaimed Spanish artist Miquel Barceló. Jean Clottes, anthropologist and pre-history specialist, explores the instinctive and technical dimension in Barceló's work; Alberto Manguel contributes an essay on ten years of artistic creation, from solitary studio paintings, monumental commissions and the Palma Cathedral to the massive domed ceiling at the United Nations in Geneva. Finally, Eric Mézil interviews the artist, the fruit of long conversations held in Paris, Majorca and Avignon.

A dual presentation of history paintings at two august French venuesPopes, politicians, actors and historical figures populate the canvases of Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960), in an ongoing dialogue with art and cultural history. This volume documents his recent exhibition at the Grande Chapelle Avignon and the Lambert Collection.

On the literary, philosophical, scientific and esoteric influences of a leading illustratorThis in-depth journey into French artist Abdelkader Benchamma's (born 1975) disturbing and fascinating world examines his latest drawings in the context of his literary, scientific and esoteric inspirations. Benchamma is a leading figure in contemporary drawing, using pen, ink or gouache marker to create his intricate works.

A folk-art movement emerges in the face of unchecked consumerism and waste managementDressed in masks and costumes made from garbage, a generation of Congolese street children and artists draw their inspiration from ancestral clothing arts to stand against the ecological disaster their country suffers. French photographer Stéphan Gladieu (born 1969) captures the movement in his portraiture.

A dazzling intervention at the Beaux-Arts Petit Palais from the author of The Secret Language of FlowersFrench artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964) installed his opulent sculptures in the gardens and halls of Paris¿ Beaux-Arts Petit Palais in Le Théorème de Narcisse. This volume documents his monumental water lilies, gold necklaces and glass bricks.

Between 1978 and 1981, Sophie Calle went on a clandestine exploration of the then abandoned Hotel du Palais d'Orsay. She selected room 501 as her home and without any pre-established method, set about photographing the abandoned hotel over 5 years. As she explored, she picked up items she found: room numbers, customer reception cards, old telephones, diaries, messages addressed to a certain "Oddo" and more besides. What happened to room 501? More than 40 years later it has disappeared and an elevator has taken its place. At the invitation of Donatien Grau, the Musee d'Orsay curator, Sophie Calle returned, equipped with a flashlight, to explore the site again during the lockdown period. She hunted down the ghosts of the Palais d'Orsay, now connected to the present by the visitors that had also deserted the museum. The work reconstructs the artist's archive of photography, letters, invoices and other daily items which bring a forgotten past back to life. To provide commentary on her discoveries, Sophie Calle called upon the archaeologist Jean-Paul Demoule, who writes a series of texts combining fact and fiction. All this evidence has been assembled together to create an objet d'art which resembles an investigation notebook.

The ¿travail-peinture¿ pioneer at the Lambert CollectionThis book spotlights works by Swiss artist Niele Toroni (born 1937) produced for the Lambert Collection in 2000: a series of paintings on paper, tracing paper, canvas, wood and even on a school blackboard. This book of the exhibition contains gallery views and an interview between Toroni and Yvon Lambert.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Mucem, November 21, 2019-March 1, 2020.

A photographic study of the varied character of solitude in America

A succinct introduction to the father of American conceptualism through key works from the Lambert Collection