Art galleries 100 years ago were structured to impose the curator's view onto the public. Today, these institutions welcome differences. In the first coherent account of the changing attitudes about the way art is presented, Nicholas Serota examines the relationship between the artist, the public, and the curator. With authority and insight, he provides an expert view of the ways we may expect to see art displayed in the 21st century. Illus.

Henri Matisse is one of the leading figures of modern art. His unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of any artist's late works. When ill health first prevented Matisse from painting, he began to cut into painted paper with scissors as his primary technique to make maquettes for a number of commissions, from books and stained glass window designs to tapestries and ceramics. Taking the form of a 'studio diary', the catalogue re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and materials that Matisse used, and looks at the tensions in the works between finish and process; and drawings and colour.

Published on the occasion of ‘Relics’, Hirst’s first retrospective exhibition in Doha, Qatar, this illustrated book offers a different perspective on the work of one of the best-known artists working today. Tracing Hirst’s career from his emergence on the art scene in the Young British Artists movement to his present status as one of the most controversial and highly regarded artists of his generation, the catalog gathers over one hundred works, combining historic oeuvres with more recent projects: from ‘The Kingdom’ to The ‘history of pain’, from ‘Pharmacy to For the Love of God’, to the spot, spin and butterfly paintings.0Exhibition: Quatar Museum, Doha, Quatar (10.10.2013-22.01.2014).

Today culture has a powerful new vector: the internet. Ideas - from a YouTube video to a viral marketing phenomenon or a fundamentalist religion - are travelling further and faster, and changing the cultural landscape like never before. In a new electronic democracy of ideas, cultural power is devolving to the creative individual. We will soon all have the means to create; we just have to decide whether it be art or bombs. In our symbol-drenched lives we desperately need a way of decoding the messages that bombard us. Written and designed by Rian Hughes, 'CULT-URE' is the culmination of a decade's research into why and how we communicate. 'CULT-URE' provides a thought-provoking exploration into media convergence within our digital age and an insider's guide into the changing nature of communications, perceptions and identities. Set to become a cult publication for the digital generation, 'CULT-URE' is the 21st century answer to Marshall McLuhan's seminal 'The Medium is the Massage'. 'CULT-URE' is your thought-provoking guide to surviving the new media revolution, and a potent inoculation against infection by dangerous ideas.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery.