Self Publish, Be Happy introduces a series of special edition monographs that tackle the subject of sex and pleasure.

Steady is a new bimonthly photography zine.

Shamus Khan postulates that elitism is no longer expressed by enjoying highbrow arts, but rather by indulging a wide range of cultural preferences, from cheap Chinese food to Tchaikovsky.

The Guggenheim bridges the gap between Vasily Kandinsky’s early and later periods, studying his transformation from 1911 to 1913 with paintings and written text.

Should artists tailor their work to go viral? Writer Kyle Chayka investigates.

Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks takes an innovative approach to surveying the art of the last quarter century, which is notoriously difficult to periodize or define. Eschewing grand narratives, Phaidon asked for individual artwork selections from eight of today’s most influential curators.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), we can’t all afford to go to art school. But now there’s a much cheaper way to learn from the likes of John Baldessari or Liam Gillick. The Brooklyn-based contemporary art journal Paper Monument, a sister publication of literary magazine n + 1, has released Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment, which proves that the studio classroom isn’t the only place to learn about making art.

An art historian and an art editor have teamed up to produce Information Graphics, a new Taschen publication (slated for release on May 27) that encyclopedically chronicles the images that make sense of the torrent of data rushing past us. The book itself provokes information overload with four hundred infographics about subjects from sleep to politics and four essays about the history of graphic design. Preview a few highlights from the collection below.

A new monograph marks the tenth anniversary of Henrik Vibskov’s eponymous label and examines his twisted yet compelling creative vision.

Last Thursday the French New York-based artist Anne-Lise Coste visited toomer labzda to give a talk about m, l, e, her latest body of work on display at the young Lower East Side gallery. For the exhibition, forty-eight small and medium-sized canvases filled two walls of the gallery space from floor to ceiling. Each canvas presented a loose portrait of one of the three letters in black spray paint on a white ground, in a balance of severity and airiness. Taken together, the paintings developed a meditative rhythm, resembling a tapestry of interlocking loops and curves, or perhaps a body of text.

Richard Prince has started keeping a blog of informal, Dylanesque observations tucked discretely under the “Contact & News” page of his website. The famed appropriation artist describes visits to New York museums (he takes iPhone self-portraits with the Met’s Greek and Roman sculpture), dredges up memories of New York from the ‘80s, shares his favorite books, and talks to his mom about Morley Safer’s recent 60 Minutes episode about the art world.