Amy J Patton

Amy Patton's latest film Oil slips between a theater production of Upton Sinclair's novel of the same name and the making of the film itself. Bitter, Black Thoughts is the first book on Patton's films and features her notes for Oil along with essays by curator Rachel Hooper and novelist Ingo Niermann.

When Berlin based artist Erik Niedling dies, he would like to be buried in Pyramid Mountain, the largest tomb of all time as conceived by writer Ingo Niermann, his collaborator on this book. The second in Niermann s Future of Art series, this Diary documents a year in the life of Niedling, who lived...

Read Adriano Sack's posts on the Penguin Blog.“Curiouser and curiouser” —fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs. Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every c...

According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in West Flanders. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved at...

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Amy Patton, held at Blaffer Art Museum, August 28-November 13, 2010."