It's Urgent!

Artist billboards on our fraught present and uncertain future, from Etel Adnan to Stanley Whitney

The book features all 153 original posters created by the 127 artists invited to participate in It's Urgent!, an open-form touring exhibition. Artists from all over the world responded to Hans Ulrich Obrist's invitation to address the most pressing themes of our times--ecology, inequality, common future, solidarity, anti-racism and social justice. It's Urgent! aims to make the artists' ideas open up to new audiences and insert them into public life and the community at large.
Artists include: Etel Adnan, Tania Bruguera, Olafur Eliasson, Hans Haacke, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, David Adjaye, Mark Bradford, Judy Chicago, Douglas Coupland, Jimmie Durham, Formafantasma, Cao Fei, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Liam Gillick, Renée Green, Newton Harrison, Luchita Hurtado, Pierre Huyghe, Koo Jeong A, Josh Kline, Suzanne Lacy, Yoko Ono, Trevor Paglen, Raymond Pettibon, Raqs Media Collective, Peter Saville, Stephen Shore, Lawrence Weiner and Stanley Whitney.