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The Art Guys: Think Twice This is the definitive tome on The Art Guys early work. "The Art Guys: Think Twice" was published in conjunction with their overview exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston in 1995 which set attendance records. Included are essays by curator Lynn Herbert, MacArthur Fellow Dave Hickey, Prix de Rome writer David Levi Strauss, and famed curator Walter Hopps. Order from The Art Guys. (Price $20 - does not include $5 handling fee and postage) Also vailable through Amazon and other outlets worldwide.

SUITS: The Clothes Make The Man "[The] impudent Pimpernels of post-conceptual performance art." -Dave Hickey The Art Guys have done it again! In a project exploring the connection between fashion, art, and commerce that only these irrepressible mavericks could have conceived, the two Houston-based artists spent a year crisscrossing the country wearing suits by designer Todd Oldham on which they had sold advertising space to 56 American companies. Suits captures-through photographs, essays, and an interview with The Art Guys-the story of their often hilarious experiences in their guise as human billboards. Order from The Art Guys. (Price $20 - does not include $5 handling fee and postage) Also vailable through Amazon and other outlets worldwide.

The Art Guys: Cloud Cuckoo Land Selections from 25 Years of Drawings, Proposals, Pipe Dreams and Failed Schemes This newly published catalog offers a side of The Art Guys rarely seen with many works exhibited for the first time. Published by the Galveston Arts Center in 2007 in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title. Includes an introductory essay by Lynn Herbert, Adjunct Curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Order from The Art Guys. (Price $20 - does not include $5 handling fee and postage)

art & laughter "This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. Art and Laughter looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why, and exploring the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humor. Encouraging laughter in the hallowed space of the gallery, Klein takes us on a tour of the comic work of Red Grooms, Cary Leibowitz, William Wegman, The Chigaco Hairy Who, Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons, William Wegman, Vik Muniz and many more. [Sherrie Klein] looks too at the smile in art and at the cute, the camp and the downright kitsch." - art & laughter Available through Amazon and other outlets worldwide.

Lifting: Theft In Art Lifting is a publication and a travelling exhibition of work from the 1970s onwards by artists who have—or claim to have—crossed a legal or moral line and committed theft in the name of art. Their motivations are diverse, from the frivolously mischievous to the critique of cultural structures. Borrowing and appropriation have long since had a presence within the creative process. However, the artists within this exhibition have deliberately made the act of theft a fundamental part of the process. The resulting work tests the boundaries of what is morally and ethically acceptable within society, and engages with the ways in which legal and cultural significance are attributed to property. Artists in the exhibition include The Art Guys,Kelly Baum, Miguel Calderon and osua Okon, David M Meurer and Rosemary J. Coombe, Tom Friedman, Kenneth Goldsmith, Dan Griffiths, Paul Groot, Jeff Ferrell, Mark Jefrey, Janice Kerbel, Micah Lexier, Luis o Miguel, Ann Messner, Ivan Moudov, Scott Myles, Dennis Oppenheim, Joel Ross, Jon Routson, Savage, Rhys Southan, Diana Stigter, Ulay, Timm Ulrichs, Frazier Ward and Allison Wiese. Available through Atopia Projects.

DVD/Video

Microcinema International unveils Art Guys video/performance anthology! "The Art Guys: Home On The Range" Best known for their numerous staged performances and public spectacles, The Art Guys have presented their work in grocery stores, movie theaters, airports, restaurants, sports arenas, and other non-traditional venues for experiencing art while also exploiting mass media and entertainment to explore contemporary society and issues. The Art Guys: Home on the Range is the new two-DVD box set anthology of their work from 1983 through 2008 produced by Microcinema International. The set includes live stage performances, conceptual events in public, video works, and the ZenFilm documentary, Nothing To It: The Art Guys in Concert. Available through Microcinema.

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