THE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, ARCHITECT AND THEORIST RESEMBLE THE NIETZSCHEAN FIGURE OF THE DANCER ON THE ROPE. THE ONLY CRITERION OF THEIR SUCCESS IS THEIR ABILITY TO DANCE ON THE ROPE UNDER THE GAZE OF THE PUBLIC FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME. BORIS GROYS
The bookstore of the Zarya Center for Contemporary Art offers a variety of culturological, philosophical and art historical bestsellers, from the collaborative publishing program of the Garage Center and Ad Marginem (whose titles include Susan Sontag, Hans Ulrich Obrist, David Brooks, John Berger, Gilles Deleuze, and many others); must-reads for design and architecture professionals, courtesy of Strelka Press (whose titles include Rem Koolhaas, Deyan Sudjic, and Donald Norman); thought-provoking socio-cultural research from authors publishing with the New Literary Review and Machina; new releases from contemporary philosophers and socio-political journalism from the publishing houses Europa, Praxis, and New Publishing (known for its tough editorial criteria); fresh offerings of contemporary world literature from Corpus; all in addition to the myriad of celebrated and beautifully-illustrated books for children and adolescents, courtesy of Samokat and Clever.