Reading like a who’s who of the world’s most important players in contemporary art, pressPlay makes a fascinating stand-alone introduction to the current art scene and those associated with it. Comprising 50 personal encounters with the world’s most significant contemporary artists, interviewed by 50 of today’s key art thinkers, it is an excellent, highly readable survey of contemporary art in the artists’ own words. It includes highly established artists like Louise Bourgeois and Alex Katz, midcareer masters Richard Prince and Raymond Pettibon and the most exciting artists of the current generation. List of artists featured: Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Uta Barth, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeous, Cai Guo-Qiang, Maurizio Cattelan, Vija Celmins, Richard Deacon, Mark Dion, Stan Douglas, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Olafur Eliasson, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Tom Friedman, Isa Genzken, Antony Gormley, Dan Graham, Paul Graham, Hans Haacke, Mona Hatoum, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Alex Katz, Mike Kelley, Mary Kelly, William Kentridge, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Mangold, Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy, Cildo Meireles, Lucy Orta, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Pipilotti Rist, Doris Salcedo, Thomas Schutte, Lorna Simpson, Nancy Spero, Jessica Stockholder, Wolfgang Tilmans, Luc Tymans, Jeff Wall, Gillian Wearing, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West.