"I find myself in the dusty basement of an impressive old house, filled with astronomy related antiques and mysterious objects. I am meeting yet another meteorite collector who presents to...
Mama Coca reframes the narrative built around coca and examines its prohibition, a plant that has been part of the heritage of South American native communities for thousands of years....
This publication highlights a 3 year project and series of works by James L Hayes in collaboration with artist and composer Peter Power. The Score is a multidisciplinary artwork exploring the heritage,...
All at Once Collapsing Together is a monograph of Caoimhín Gaffney’s work across film, photography, and writing, which uses fiction to imagine new ways of relating to the natural world....
500-piece jigsaw puzzle of Alex Prager’s artwork The Extras (2019), from her body of work Play the Wind . Finished puzzle dimensions: 450 x 450 mmBox dimensions: 245 x 190...
Booklet of 18 blank notecards, featuring 9 images (each appearing twice) from Alex Prager’s Western Mechanics exhibition, 2024. Enclosed in a die cut sleeve. Limited run.Sleeve/each notecard: 155 x 100 mm
Photography Is presents more than 3,000 phrases that define one of the most democratic and ubiquitous of all art forms. Mirroring the ambiguous and untrustworthy nature of photographs themselves, each...
A new publication by Stereo Editions featuring two extensive interviews with filmmakers Annik Leroy and Julie Morel.“This conversation was recorded in Brussels in November 2023. It was an attempt to...
The Island Weights is a collection of poems by Sky Hopinka, published by Stereo Editions as a letterpress limited edition. Relating to the four water spirits holding the earth in place,...
The Wilhelm Gustloff was a cruise ship named after the assassinated leader of the Swiss Nazi party. It was sunk on January 30th 1945, hours after leaving the port of...
With beautiful colour images and a chronology of 25 years of contemporary art exhibitions in Belfast, this new book is a very special insight and illumination of the Golden Thread...
Publication accompanying the exhibition at New Art Projects, London, by Brian Teeling and Dorje de Burgh, featuring commissioned essays by Una Mullally and Sam Moore. The exhibition, as documented in...
Few subjects can evoke the entwinement of the corporeal, personal, and political so succinctly as that of hair. Throughout history, hair has been charged with significance and is resonant with...
Crowd Work is the venturous debut by writer Sam Furlong. With candour, its poems detail experiences of a body’s living, materialities it inhabits and shares with bodies and other species....
A collection of translated historical sources and essays on International Women’s Day 1979 in Iran, initiated by Katayoon Barzegar, and edited by Niloufar Nematollahi, and Jose Rosales. Spanning the breadth...
The poems in hum it on the phone are made up of fragments from interdisciplinary artist Audrey Roger's diary entries, notebooks, descriptions of dreams she has had, as well as...
Citizen Artist 2016-2018 is a publication that reflects on the process of the studio 468 award programme, CITIZEN ARTIST. It demonstrates the richness and diversity of each CITIZEN ARTIST awardees’...
The People’s Shed is a reflection of artist, Evelyn Broderick’s, residency at studio 468 ‘A Radical Imagination’ and her collaborative arts project. This publication reflects on Evelyn’s pedagogical arts practice...
Photobook Conversations foregrounds discussions on and around a range of positions, practices and politics that shape the landscape of contemporary photography and publishing today. With generosity and willingness to share...
𝑻𝒖𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒔 is a casebound publication showcasing Kevin Mooney’s most recent series of works commissioned by and exhibited in Luan Gallery. Tuberclerosies includes a curatorial essay by Aoife Banks, curator of...
Conceived and imagined in close collaboration with Orla Barry on the occasion of her exhibition at MACS, The Shepherd's Progress brings together a majority of the works (texts, installations, performances) produced by...
In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black...
Helena Gorey’s is a distinctly lived practice as nature ecology and the environment and specifically her native homeplace of rural Co. Kilkenny is central to what inspires her. This body...
Since the turn of the millennium, the analogue photo book has experienced an international boom, developing into its own art form: a kind of visual literature, somewhere between novel and...
Fifty states of mind across a divided America. Published to coincide with the 2020 American presidential election, the book consists of three double page spreads scattered with red and blue...
A zombie falls in love with a woman after eating her boyfriend's brain and starts to regain human feelings. Nine o'clock is the watershedAfter that you're on your own. Published...
Counting backwards from one hundred when you can't sleep revives an autobiography of numbers: street numbers, opus numbers, peg numbers, birthdays, buses, ages, dates, years, movies, books, songs, long division,...
Pallas Projects Studios are very excited to announce the publication of "Traces in the Landscape: Stone Desert, Alps, and Atlantic Shore", a new artistic publication edited by artistic-director Mark Cullen,...
W/w follows the trials and triumphs of Mary, an aspiring artist and writer, in conflict with the world around her. Confined to the porch of her family home, Mary’s consciousness searches for...
Over the past 4 years artist Vanessa Daws and curator Rosie Hermon have been working on Swimming a Long Way Together a project inspired by the 20th century pioneering swimmer Mercedes...
A True Record is the creative response to Marlay House by Grace Wilentz and Jane Cummins with documentary photographs by Aisling McCoy. Marlay House, dating to the 17th/18th centuries, is...
Nathan G. Lowry is an Irish artist based in Co. Dublin, Ireland. Process in Progress: Faces, Spaces and Figures features a selection of Lowry's favourite artworks from over the years. Within this...
In On Slaughter, artist Klara Hobza uses scientific drawings to accompany Markus, a dropout in the forests of Sweden as he slaughters a sheep. The best impression of the book...
"For Girls' Night, I travelled around Ireland to photograph teen discos, and to try and capture the anticipation of girls as they prepared for them. In a way, I wanted...
Jana Müller’s new artist book, Falscher Hase/Mock Rabbit opens by shedding light on criminal investigations in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), offering an artistic exploration of historical narratives and...
In 2019, the previously unseeable became seen when the first image of a supermassive black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. Taking its initial inspiration from...
Publication accompanying the exhibition The Blue Rooms at the City Assembly House, September 2023.The Blue Rooms is a series of projected images in domestic rooms in houses in Dublin City,...
In Stanisław Lem’s novel Fiasco (1986) the attempts to communicate with the inhabitants of a distant planet fail because of the human crew’s inability to distinguish the members of this society...
The augmented reality work Mixed Signals consists of scannable watercolors that unfold a lively dimension on the mobile phone. The thick cardboard pages of the book are perfect for this....
This richly illustrated catalogue celebrates two genre-defying artworks by Jesse Jones 'Tremble, Tremble' and 'The Tower.' Includes contributions from feminist activist and writer Silvia Federici, curators Tessa Giblin and Tara...
‘A Table of Books in Ballybeg’ gathers most of the Irish projects produced by Coracle, a small publishing press working from the townland of Grange, west of Clonmel in County...
IT WOKE ME FROM MY SLEEP is a new monograph of recent work. It opens with a wonderful essay by Cristín Leach and closes with an in-conversation text with Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll....
Co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe in the context of FUTURES Photography Platform. Trigger Issue 5: Energy consists of thirteen contributions (essays, artist contributions, conversations) which engender possible ways...
Re-imagined as a series of 1-star trip advisor reviews, this publication revisits John Muir's seminal memoir My First Summer in the Sierra, the ecologist's selected diary entries from his journeys...
The second book from Coracle of William Minor’s poems, after 'tree on the outside' from 2010. Here, by conjecture and statement surrounding the artist’s life and work, he presents an interior...
William O’Neill is a visual artist living and working in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in...
The exposed and elusive soul is the essence of these texts. To relish, little by little, following its music, without trying to understand, but understanding it all. ‘Why bother trying...
Broken English Goodbye brings together ES Kibele Yarman's illustrations and poems on departure and detachment, produced between the years 2015-2020. 'Broken English Goodbye is an assemblage made up of 20...
Ten Exhibits presents a body of work dealing with the relationship between language, image and location using the lingo of forensic photography. The project consists of evidence collected at exhibition...
XVIII Stories of TULCA is a new publication that marks the 18th anniversary of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and documents its UnSelfing Programme for Galway 2020 European Capital of...
Aleen Solari’s work is shaped profoundly by insights into various subcultures. These insights are partly drawn from her own experiences, partly borrowed from members of certain scenes who she invites to be...
A book, supposedly by the presumed pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto”, of private musings, poetry, drawings and collage/imageries that expose the interiority of one committed to absence. Published by FUFU PRESSEdition of 15Softcover 66 pages203 × 266...
Christodoulos Makris’ second full collection, blends painstaking poetic craft with the accidental hazards of found text and overheard sample. As challenging as it is accessible, these poems comment wittily yet...
An artist’s book published by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios coincides with the opening of Niamh O’Malley’s exhibition, Gather, at La Biennale di Venezia in April 2022. Designed by Alex...
The last copy is reduced in price due to slight damage on the cover. Cheat Sheet by Júlía Hermannsdóttir candidly documents debilitating auto-immune illness with generosity, directness and dark humor....
Blackforest Library No. 6 is dedicated to Calypso Cave in Malta, a magical place where Calypso, the beautiful nymph, kept Odysseus as a prisoner of love for seven years. Swiss...
In 1924, the Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer was commissioned by tobacco millionaire and plantation owner, James Buchanan Duke, to develop and expand the existing Trinity College campus of Duke University...
A new anthology bringing together ten artist commissions and twenty-two texts from Autograph’s commissioning programme Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other.Initiated during the first national lockdown in...
Border thinking has become a defining feature of the global social order in the twenty-first century. In Being a Border, art historian, critic, and theorist Nuit Banai writes on the...
'The critique of self-absorption, mounted formally in the unpunctuated flow of the poetic voice, is also explored thematically in the transmutation of all forms of movement into opportunities for advantage....
Susanne Miggitsch, Heating up the Seat is a transcript of hours of bus rides through London. Conversations, soundscapes, and announcements are meticulously written down, with priority given to the loudest...
“The negatives were gone”, it says on the first page of Doris Lasch's story Hellfeld. This unheard-of occurrence is, in the spirit of Goethe, the trigger for the inner movement...
Food is a precious commodity, it has power, it can be a protest or an act of care, it can control, it nourishes us not just biologically, but socially and...
Poetry Ireland Review is a highly-regarded journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and visual...
belvedere: a structure designed to command a view; from the Italian bel "beautiful" and vere "to see" The Belvedere is produced by Dublin City University's M.A. in Creative Writing programme, a class that convenes...
Back to Basics, Vol. 2: Extended Recipes for Ecological Photo Chemistry is the second volume of Andrés Pardo’s research into low-toxicity photographic developers. Once you have mastered the foundations featured...
Ten years after the Independence Referendum, Irish Pages asks diverse Scottish writers of distinction – established, mid-career and new – to think about their country, and take stock of the current state...
The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...
Perennially on the outside, Brian has led a solitary life; he works at Camden Council, lunches every day at Il Castelletto café and then returns to his small flat on Kentish Town Road....
Jennifer Walshe is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist, and Professor of Composition at the University of Oxford. With a background in experimental music, she has over a decade of experience working...
A revelatory glimpse into the future of photography, one where the very nature of how images are created is fundamentally transformed by artificial intelligence. An invaluable roadmap in a new...
The late Tongan scholar Epeli Hau‘ofa wrote of the Pacific Ocean as a ‘Sea of Islands’. Rather than imagining a scattering of small, defined island states, he sketched a vast...
Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown suggests that unidentifiable things in photographs point towards larger questions about the limits of knowledge. In a world that seems to give up...
In Irrational, artist Francesco Jodice and curator Francesco Zanot dissect the rise of irrationality in modern life and society through an extensive and thought-provoking array of visual case studies. Addressing...
‘Monogamy is not dismantled by fucking more or by falling in love simultaneously with more people, but by constructing relationships in a different way, relationships that allow us to fuck...
Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating the ‘elderly’ as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique...
Tolka is a Dublin-based biannual literary journal of non-fiction, publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that falls in between. They publish and promote work that...
A collection of translated essays by feminists in Iran that attempts to imagine beyond walls of oppression by navigating the intersections of writing and the everyday becomings of a feminist...
Poetry Ireland Review is a highly-regarded journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and visual artists. Poetry...
How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to...
From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From Alice Coltrane working with...
Although often considered to be a fault or a glitch in the system, the event of hallucination is central to the models of image production generated by artificial intelligence (AI)....
To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the...
Challenging Institutionalization explores the heterogeneous processes of PhD and postdoc supervision in the arts to formulate shared horizons. The publication is structured around a series of lectures and conversations that took...
What parallels are there between a human pranayama practitioner and a migratory bird in heavily datafied environments? And what can they tell us about the need to reorient our...
Evictions are one of the most harmful features of the current housing crisis in Ireland, causing a vast amount of hardship and disruption amongst tenants and working class communities. But...
The title ‘Empathy Lab’ comes from a dedicated area in Facebook’s EU headquarters in Dublin where employees can express empathy to various causes, through the use of technology. This body...
The Pig’s Back (named for Donegal’s Muckish mountain and for the phrase ar mhuin na muice, to be in luck) is a literary prose journal that aims to bring the...
Bless the Corners of This House: (And Open Every Door, to Stranger as to Kin) is a collection of perspectives from Ireland-based artists, writers, and activists exploring the meaning of...
The title “improbable, imaginary, invisible, tuning sound to bodies, bodies to sound” is a poem and a blurb. This book is queer, playful, and tongue-in-cheek. The 77 drawings of imagined...
For centuries, the garden has been considered a mirror of society, a microcosm, in which the broader relationships between nature and culture are reflected on a small scale. From this...
Radical Fashion Exercises are bottom-up , unusual, innovative, striking, inspiring or otherwise radical assignments in the broad field of fashion as an expression, system, production process, image-determiner, and the clothing and textile industry....
Wicked Arts Assignments are daring, unusual, quirky, funny, poetic, inspiring, socially engaged or otherwise challenging art assignments. Anyone who teaches art knows them: an assignment that seems simple, but challenges...
Wicked Arts Education helps you design exciting arts education programs from the ground up. These programs make meaningful connections between student culture, the arts, and society. We’ve tested our arts...
How can we break through a culture of mistrust? Suspicion regarding our fellow beings, the authorities and enterprises is growing, blamed on passing the buck and feelings of impotence. We...
Motherhood is a theme that stands at the core of life, but has nevertheless been kept in the private sphere for a long time, haunted by clichés, stigmas and myths....
Queer Exhibition Histories comprises case studies highlighting the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators, centering on queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and...
The aftermath of the Covid restrictions, mental problems, being confronted with the influx of people with a different background and culture, the alienation of ourselves and of others, not being...
How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? Worlding Ecologies serves as an...
There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not...
Edited by Larry Warsh. Marina Abramović is arguably the most important and influential performance artist of our time. For decades, she has broken boundaries in iconic works such as The...
Mickalene Thomas’ vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black women at rest reclaim space and representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose. Major survey chronicling superstar US artist Mickalene Thomas...
A close look at a new installation by renowned contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas that marks the first time she has engaged with early American history Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) has...
Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its 23 year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North...
There is food within three metres of your front door. Three generations ago, it was common practice all over the world to collect this wild food; knowledge of what, where...
Metre is printed on long strips of paper reminiscent of disposable measuring tapes from IKEA showrooms. Metre considers the intimacy and lazy pace of leisure time spent with friends in...
Part studious, part visceral, 'Dying Livingly' is a collection of short essays written in the first few years of the author's holistic deathcare research and practice. With a focus on...
We are constantly photographing and being photographed while feeding machine learning databases with our data, which in turn is used to generate new images. Analyzing the transformation of photography by...
Confined to a hospital bed, a rattling mind stuck within a thwarted body discovers that to be an “I” is to be several, ‘municipal’, as Dillon has it. ‘Not alone,...
'Count Me Out–Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn', edited by Toner Quinn, is a landmark collection from the iconoclastic Irish filmmaker, photographer and writer.Combining essays and articles dating from the...
Archiving Plurality: A Collaborative Process is a research project led by post‑doctoral researcher-in-residence Alessia Cargnelli for NIVAL, the National Irish Visual Arts Library, with the objective of further facilitating access, inclusion...
We invited people to imagine beyond their present state,to conjure a society in which they’d like to live. Here’s a sudden freedom to release what’s possible,regardless of everything, in a...
what does it mean when you try to grow mint and fail? what are the basic conditions for cultivating an invasive plant? if you fail to meet them who are you?The twelfth in the coloured...
'This Hostel Life' tells the stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of women queuing for basic supplies in an Irish direct provision hostel...
From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards. Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by...
The Lives of Images, edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, is a set of contemporary thematic readers designed for educators, students, practicing photographers, and others interested in the ways images function within...
The Lives of Images, edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, is a set of contemporary thematic readers designed for educators, students, practicing photographers, and others interested in the ways images function within...
Trumpet is an occasional publication. Reviews, opinions and essays on poetry and the arts in a bite sized literary pamphlet.Trumpet Issue 13 features poetry from Chrissie Donoghue Ward, Fióna Bolger,...
Fergus Feehily's new artist’s book, The Horse and The Rider, brings together many reflections on thinking about and experiencing art, and alternative ways of seeing and understanding artistic values. The...
Lesbian Art Circle, Volume III is the third publication from Lesbian Art Circle, an event and publication series based in Dublin, Ireland, which centres the visual and written work of queer...
Deeply rooted in a form of artistic 'barefoot anthropology' 'Shaved Rapunzel, Scheherazade & the Shearling Ram from Arcady' reflects both on the culture of disconnection from the natural environment and...
Jes Fernie's publication is, in her own words, ‘a selection of mad, frayed, totally normal stories about undone, uncelebrated, abandoned things. They are spectacular, strange, problematic, hurtful, funny, ludicrous tales....
Poetry Ireland Review is a journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and...
After selling out the award-winning first edition, Ormston House launched the second edition of 100 Women of Limerick by Sharon Slater in a softback cover. 100 Women of Limerick includes the...
Vital Signs is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing. Representing the best of contemporary and classic poetry, Vital Signs is a book for our...
'The Piper’s Grip', is a tender and reverent account of the homo-erotics of an Irish music session. In the tradition of Irish musical bawdry, this story portrays a man’s ecstatic...
Barack Obama, Robert Pattinson, Pablo Picasso, Ödön von Horvath, Maruc Tullius Cicero, David Morrissey, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and many more …This 16-page zine by artist, designer, and organizer Rosalie Schweiker is...
In an increasingly digital world, brands are faced with the challenge of reshaping their identities in order to solidify their presence both online and offline, not to mention a variety...
There has never been a period in photography’s long history – no school, no movement – when flowers have not been a central focus, whether in the form of the...
‘Why Exhibit? Vol. 2, On Curating Photography’ combines articles and conversations on curatorial practices concerning photo-based images. Discussion centres on challenges curators and artists working with photography face today. How...
‘Talking about Photobooks’ gives an insight in the history of the photobook medium, its relationship to architecture and artificial intelligence, and the many roles the photobook can play in art...
Sonder is an Irish print literary journal publishing short stories, creative nonfiction, flash fiction and poetry. In Issue X, these stories centre around the theme of need and the idea...
Tolka is a Dublin-based biannual literary journal of non-fiction, publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that falls in between. They publish and promote work that...
'! All’arme / ? And what... if not' is at once experimental, interdisciplinary and intercultural. This collection teems with close observation and glancing intimations of human frailty and the minutiae...
Children's picturebooks are the very first book we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a...
This book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. All areas of the job are covered – creating a portfolio; approaching potential clients; preparing for meetings and negotiating contracts;...
In The Women Who Changed Photography the reader can discover 50 groundbreaking female photographers and how to incorporate their styles and techniques into their own photography. Often in the shadow of...
Writing great copy is often assumed to be a natural talent. However, there are powerful techniques one can employ to craft strong written content with ease. This essential guide teaches...
Through a curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Artists on Art takes the reader inside the minds of the world's most influential creative thinkers and doers. From Ai Weiwei...
Long taboo, lived experiences of motherhood – and all that accompanies it – are now the subject of urgent discussion. 'Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood' delves into the...
With a history tracing back to ancient Egypt, cats have not only gained the favour of humans by repelling pests, but have also provided us with companionship and plenty of...
Whether you look at them in awe or in fear, the world of small but mighty insects is an irreplaceable part of Earth and its ecosystems, and is equally strange...
Behind every accomplished artist is often a journal, sketchbook, or notepad where all their ideas and inspirations are gathered, a portable space where concepts and thoughts can be experimented and...
The body remains a battleground. Politicised, conceptualised and increasingly shared, our often-paradoxical relationship with the human form is nothing new, but finds itself heightened in the digitised, virtualised era of...
An updated edition of this essential practical handbook for all those involved in, or studying the dynamic field of curating. From pitching your ideas and writing loan requests to working...
Vol 10 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation...
This massive publication offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book between the 1920s and 1940s, a period characterized by the rapid modernization of the region. The...
'Curious' presents a series of interviews with curators and artists by Paul O'Neill, conducted at the turn of the millennium when contemporary curating was solidifying as a creative profession. While...
In recent years, collective approaches to curatorial practice have become prominent, and not for the first time. While the myth of the stand-alone curator has been largely dismantled in favor...
In his essay, the writer and artist Isaiah Lopaz tells of recovered memories, yearning desires and the bitter and painful disappointment that his place of refuge, Europe, became. His text...
Punks Listen – The Fanzine is a follow-up to the highly successful book of the same name. So far, the book has raised over €15,000 for the Red Cross Ukraine...
For centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedom explores the embroidery made in prisons...
Exploring the intimate relationship between Hawaiian quilts, post-colonialism and ecological disaster, research curator Marenka Thompson-Odlum traverses Hawai‘i through the Poakalani quilting group and fifteen extraordinary quilts, newly commissioned by Pitt...