Point Pleasant Publishing

An international contemporary art publisher specializing in writing critical essays.

*Gallery organized by publishing date from the catalogue and journal.

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Point Pleasant Publishing was founded in 2014 in Jersey City, New Jersey and initially started as an artist community and curatorial organization hosting exhibitions and artistic events across New Jersey as well as writing exhibition catalogues. Point Pleasant evolved its focus on publishing an international catalogue with curatorial reviews on some of the finest conceptual and experimental artists in the world. The Artist Feature Catalogue is published in three formats consisting of the Point Pleasant website, Substack, and linen wrap hardcover books.

In addition, the Point Pleasant Journal also publishes articles but with a focus on philosophical interpretations of concepts and presenting other information regarding contemporary discourse in the visual arts. Point Pleasant Journal essays are published inside the linen wrap hardcover book editions of the Artist Feature Catalogue in addition to t...

Administration:
Editor & Curator: Michael Athanasius Hanna
Writer & Contributor: Joas-Sebastian Nebe


LinkedIn Recommendations from Notable Established Artists who have Worked with the Editor:

​Masha Luch

Contemporary Multimedia Artist (video, photography, installation, printmaking, collage, and graphics)

​Michael is an attentive and thoughtful curator and critic. He writes with rare depth and a genuine respect for an artist’s work, articulating meaning precisely and never turning art into empty rhetoric. You can always feel that he is genuinely invested in the quality of the result and never indifferent to what the work is actually saying. At the same time, Michael is a productive and talented artist himself, which makes him highly sensitive both to the creative process and to the ways we can speak about it. I sincerely recommend working with him.

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​Fina Ferrara

Performance and Video Artist

​Michael is an excellent writer and very dedicated to his work. He dives deep into each artist’s body of work with genuine curiosity. He is very passionate, sensitive and empathetic to the artist’s vision.

Having collaborated with him on three published essays about my work, I can defi...

What is 'the catalogue'?

​​The Artist Feature Catalogue is not a magazine but rather a collection of scholarly essays published in a hardcover art book format as well as presented digitally in a manner similar to an exhibition catalogue. With distinction, the catalogue includes artists who have works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and multiple Smithsonian Institution museums. Artists included in the catalogue have also been critically published by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, National Geographic, The Boston Globe, Financial Times, Newsweek, and The Guardian. There are also quite a few artists in the catalogue who are represented by some of the most respected galleries in the world. Point Pleasant Publishing editions include notable award achievers such as National Endowment for the Arts and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients as well as International Photography Awards (IPA) winners.

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What are the contributions of Point Pleasant Publishing?​​

Point Pleasant Publishing is a leading voice in international contemporary discourse and experimental conceptual art. The publisher has an extensive world-wide network ...