Capitol Records llevó a los Beatles a América y a los Beach Boys al mundo. Y su icónica torre redonda de Hollywood fue también hogar de Nat King Cole y Frank Sinatra. Esta épica historia fotográfica y musical es la retrospectiva oficial de Capitol Records desde su fundación en 1942 hasta la actualidad, con un prólogo de Beck y cientos de imágenes de sus archivos para celebrar la excelencia de su música, ya sea pop, rock, country, clásica, soul o jazz.

Case Study Houses fue un proyecto sin precedentes en la historia de la arquitectura que proporcionó a Estados Unidos nuevos modelos para la construcción de viviendas. Esta restrospectiva analiza los 36 prototipos de casas que compusieron el programa a través de planos de planta, bocetos y fotografías, y aborda el modo en que arquitectos como Richard Neutra, Charles y Ray Eames y Eero Saarinen redefinieron el paisaje de Los Ángeles y el hogar moderno.

En esta extensa monografía dedicada a Albert Oehlen trazamos los audaces conceptos y planteamientos que han caracterizado el innovador arte de Oehlen desde los inicios hasta la actualidad. Ya sean fragmentos de collages o pinturas dactilares, más de 400 obras destacadas descubren la innovación que convirtió a Oehlen en el “pintor abstracto vivo más ingenioso”.

Dian Hanson

Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up—drawings, paintings, and pastels of an idealized female face and figure intended for public display—was produced between 1920 and 1970 for calendars, magazine covers, and centerfolds. The majority of original paintings were discarded by publishers and calendar companies after printing, making the surviving art that much more precious.

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, a blueprint for modern habitation championed by the era’s leading American journal, Arts & Architecture.

The complete facsimile of the ambitious and groundbreaking Arts & Architecture was published by TASCHEN in 2008 as a limited edition. This new curation—directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen—brings together all the covers and the highlights from the first five years of the legendary magazine, with a special focus on the Case Study House Program and its luminary pioneers including Neutra, Schindler, Saarinen, Ellwood, Lautner, Eames, and Koenig.

A celebration of the first brave years of a politically, socially and culturally engaged publication, this special selection is also a testimony to one of the most unique and influential events in the history of American architecture.

Mike Caveney
Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility—whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature by sleight of hand. Long before science fiction, virtual realities, video games, and the Internet, the craft of magic was the most powerful fantasy world man had ever known. As the pioneers of special effects throughout history, magicians have never ceased to mystify us by making the impossible possible.

Reuel Golden
The kind of fame and success The Rolling Stones have achieved in their almost 60-year career is without parallel; their most famous riffs and catchiest lyrics are indelibly engraved in our collective memory. With their mesmerizing on- and off-stage presence, the Stones set the standard for how a rock band should sound, pose, pout, and behave. They were the first to instinctively understand that what you looked like was as important as the music, and that photography had a vital role in promoting that image. “The clothes and the hair are always impeccable,” describes author Luc Sante. “They were playing themselves, but with such consistent finesse you knew they were instinctively aware of the camera and how good they will look in the photos.” Unsurprisingly many of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium wanted to take their picture.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this groundbreaking book - organized by thematic keywords rather than the usual chronological or geographical categories, and drawing upon analytics from The Met's online Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - offers fresh, unconventional ways of engaging with visual culture. Beyond the wealth of illustration, more than 160 engaging curatorial essays place the works in wider contexts, while a foldout, detachable timeline offers further perspective."