One website that I enjoy reading is artinfo.com. I particularly enjoy the AI Interviews with contemporary artists, the most recent of which is with Olafur Eliasson, the Icelandic-Danish artist best known for his installations. Eliasson's first major US exhibition, "Take Your Time" just opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is scheduled to be up until February 24, 2008. We have a few books on the artist, including Madeleine Grynsztejn's monograph Olafur Eliasson from Phaidon Press' contemporary artists series, and A sculpture reader : contemporary sculpture since 1980, edited by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer. More are on the way.In the AI Interview with Eliasson, the artist cites Robert Irwin, who was associated with California Light and Space movement, as an important influence (the exhibition catalog for the SFMOMA exhibition includes a dialog between the two artists).
Mid-Manhattan Art has several books on Irwin, including the catalog for Robert Irwin's exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1993, Lawrence Weschler's biography Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees : a life of contemporary artist Robert Irwin, and a book about Irwin's design of the Central Garden at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
If you're interested in mid-century California art, look at Sunshine muse: contemporary art on the west coast and other books in call number 709.794.
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