Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch (Eds.)Thinking through Painting Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas Painting has demonstrated remarkable perseverance in the expanding field of contemporary art and the surrounding ecology of media images. It appears, however, to have dispelled its own once-uncontested material basis: no longer confined to being synonymous with a flat picture plane hung on the wall, today, painting instead tends to emphasize the apparatus of its appearance and the conduits of its circulation.
	Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch (Eds.)Art and Subjecthood The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism This book brings together contributions from the eponymous conference, all of which seek to speculate on the reasons as to why, since the turn of the millennium, we have encountered so many artworks that tend to reconcile Minimalism with suggestions of the human figure.
	Ewa Lajer-BurcharthChardin Material Adapted from the lecture she delivered at the Institut für Kunstkritik, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth’s essay explores the dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of eighteenth-century French painter, Jean-Siméon Chardin.
	John KelseyRich Texts Selected Writing for Art Compiled for the first time here, the critic, artist, gallerist, dealer, translator John Kelsey’s selected essays gamesomely convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the many social roles it creates.
	Daniel Birnbaum, Isabelle Graw (Eds.)The Power of Judgment A Debate on Aesthetic Critique Comprised of a lecture by Christoph Menke and two respective responses to it by Daniel Loick and Isabelle Graw, The Power of Judgment both attests to the importance of judgment in art criticism and argues against its determining verdicts.
	Daniel Birnbaum, Isabelle Graw (Eds.)Canvases and Careers Today Criticism and Its Markets Canvases and Careers Today brings together contributions from the eponymous conference organized by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main. Its goal is to provide deeper insights and more complexity to current debates on the relationship between criticism, art, and the market.
	Daniel Birnbaum, Isabelle Graw (Eds.)Under Pressure Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism Under Pressure gathers together the contributions to the same-titled conference held at the Institut für Kunstkritik from 2006–07.