"The Witches of Tepoztln (And Other Operas)" is a compilation of four dissimilar and dark operas, written by equally dark composers whose fiction or reality never completely is confirmed by the author. The book invites the reader to reflect about the gestation of the "masterpiece."

Helguera's autobiographical work provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a 21st-century artist during his art school years.

"The balancing act between flippancy and gravity is neither easy to achieve nor to sustain, yet Helguera manages it with ease."--"Art Review."

"Pablo Helguera is the art world's Herblock. His work satirized the hypocrisy in the world of galleries, museums, collectors, and artists and always goes straight to where it hurts the most." --Jens Hoffmann, curator and director of CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco.

"Mining the history of a museum, Helguera asks questions of these long-gone curators. The answers, embedded in the archives, are as engaging and enjoyable as any exhibition on view."--Fred Wilson, artist.

In 1660, a mysterious sect of Dutch mystics arrived to an island in the New World with the objective to create a new society. Their governing principle revolved around the uninterrupted performance of a single dramatic work in seven tableaux vivants. Invoking alchemical imagery and hermetic thought, their goal was to arrive to a higher state of being by collectively embodying the symbolic representation of all of human and divine knowledge. Their experiment, which would last a century, would test the human boundaries of time, physical endurance, and the collective commitment toward an idea....

In the summer of 2006, artist Pablo Helguera drove from Alaska to Chile as part of an art project, and this edition remains the most personal account of his four-month journey. The collection of collages made out of images and texts of education manuals and history books oscillates between an image poem and a cryptic travelogue.

While providing an insider's perspective on the workings and contradictions of the contemporary art scene, Helguera's "Artoons" are satirical, critical, sometimes existential, and always entertaining.

In 2006, artist Pablo Helguera drove with a portable schoolhouse from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, exploring the historical ideals of Pan-Americanism. Five years after that journey, this bilingual anthology gathers a group of critical essays and documentary materials of this pedagogical and public art experiment.

Drawing on the rich literary tradition of the aphorism, Pablo Helguera uses an anthropologist's lens to comment on contemporary art its practice. While this is a book directed to visual artists, the reflections of An Atlas of Commonplaces provide a window to current issue around art making for art professionals and the general public alike. Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist living in New York. He is the author of many books including The Parable Conference, (2014), Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011) and Art Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art World (2012).