Regime of Impunity: A Diagnostic Essay on Contemporary Power
PCP Press
Publisher of avant-garde art booksand insurgent authors since '69
Publisher of avant-garde art booksand insurgent authors since '69
100 Black Artists
100 Women Artists
100 Words
2005 Western RV Biennial Exhibition
A Book of Drawings by a Woman from Waikiki
A Flaw In The Model
All Good
All That Is Possible
Another Tight Spot
Anthology 1987 – 2012
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Art History Lecture Notes
Art Through The Ages Workbook
Beat It
Beauty Always Wins
Big Bad World
Blocking for Godot: Vol. 1
Blocking for Godot: Vol. 2
Blocking for Godot: Vol. 3
Blocking for Godot: Vol. 4
Bosoms And Bottoms
Control Without Presence: An Exhibition of 36 Paintings
Covering Your Ass Since '69
Cracked But OK!
Decoding The Indecipherable
Deleted Nabokov Novel
Drawing Upon Art
Droppings On Your Monument
Duct and Cover
Estimates
Everyone Sucks
Excess & Joy: Philosophical Transversations (Color Edition)
Faux Real
Figure Paintings
Figurlich Art und Konzeptkunst
Fliege Euer Unheimlich Gut Flugzeug
For Immediate Release
Großmacht Ausstellung!
Guardian Of The Legacy
Gül Koç: She/She Paintings
Hasste und Angst
Hector
HELP
Help Wanted: Complete Resource
Help Wanted: Exhibition Catalogue
History, Homelessness, and Bankruptcy
House Where The Bottom Fell Out
How Not to Look at Modern Art in 2076
I-5
Jose Queervo
Killer American Style
LA Cart
LG Williams: An Appreciation (1985–2001)
LG Williams: Band-Aids®
LG Williams at HI Gallery
LG Williams: Large (2001–03)
Lick Bait: A LG Williams Reader
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Nothing To Confess: Charlie Colin's Rock & Roll Notebook
Ntifein Jest: A Novel
One Awesome Sculpture
Party Every Night
The Philosophy Of Obey: 1433 Philosophical Statements by Obey from 1989-2008
Pole
Really?
Richard Carter Studio: Pope Valley Anagama Kiln Record
Salaryman / Superman
SCKONTHIS!! The Essential Raymond Pettibon Compilation
Selected Installations: 1996–1997
Set The Record Wrong
So Dich Bedard Ein Sruchstuck
Stars
Stupid Fucking Closed: 18 Paintings
That's Stupid
The Age of the Image
The Big Bad World™
The Complete Actions
The Dow
The Drawing Handbook
The Gallery Is Closed
The KKK Took My Ozarks Away
The Story Called The Dream
The Story Of Art Workbook
The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Bailout Coloring Book
The Transversality of Gregory de la Haba
There Is No Alternative
Transcendental Epistemologies & The Ontology Of Inquiry
Tuff Luyv: Abridged Raymond Pettibon Compilation
Twentynine Palms Installation
Wally Hedrick: Envisioning The Dark Millennium
Wasted Words: Essential Dave Hickey Online Compilation
Wayne Thiebaud Lectures on Art and Drawing
We Are The Champions
What The Fing F?: LG Williams Artworks 2003-2005
White Flag
Year In Rearview
You Get The Point
Catalogue Raisonné: Selected Artworks (1985–2004)
Catalogue Raisonné: Selected Artworks (2005–2010)
Catalogue Raisonné: Selected Artworks (2011–2013)
Catalogue Raisonné: Selected Artwork (2014–2022)
Catalogue Raisonné: Selected Artworks (2023–2025)
Catalogue Raisonné: Complete Press
Catalogue Raisonné: Notes On Art (1990–2025)
Catalogue Raisonné: Selected Iconography (1990–2025)
iMessages — Part 1 (2011–2016)
iMessages — Part 2 (2016–2017)
iMessages — (10/16/2016–05/21/2024)
Pull-quotes, polemics, the occasional eulogy. Essays from inside the catalog and the wider art world — same press, longer leash.
VoyageLA profile/interview introducing PCP Press and its counter-institutional publishing history.
PCP Press announcement of new releases, including 100 Women Artists, 100 Black Artists, and related titles.
Announcement noting PCP Press's appearance in Artforum Magazine.
Notice that Dave Hickey's PCP Press books appeared again in a Hollywood film context.
Announcement of the six-volume LG Williams Catalogue Raisonné becoming available through Amazon.
Sasha Frere-Jones Substack item discussing Dave Hickey, criticism, and PCP Press's Hickey publications.
Clay Risen's New York Times obituary marking Dave Hickey's death and cultural influence.
Seattle Times passage noting Dave Hickey among the week's deaths.
Brandon Zech's Glasstire remembrance of Dave Hickey's life and art-world impact.
Artforum news item on the death of critic Dave Hickey.
Taylor Dafoe's Artnet News obituary emphasizing Hickey's wit, taste, and high-low sensibility.
Christi Carras's Los Angeles Times obituary on Hickey's provocative art-critical career.
French-language notice of Dave Hickey's death and critical reputation.
Notice that PCP Press's Dave Hickey volumes appear in Kelcey Edwards's film The Art of Making It.
Sharon Anderson's MindTheImage review of PCP Press's Raymond Pettibon Twitter compilation.
Archived notice of Raymond Pettibon's SCKONTHIS!! appearing on Amazon's Hot New Releases list.
PCP Press release announcing three Raymond Pettibon Twitter compilation titles.
Guardian interview foregrounding Hickey's views on artists, criticism, and earned cultural authority.
David Hawkes's Times Literary Supplement review of Wasted Words and Dust Bunnies.
Artbook @ Hauser Wirth & Schimmel event with Dave Hickey and Julia Friedman.
UCLA Hammer Museum event with Dave Hickey and Julia Friedman.
Livestream recording of Dave Hickey with Julia Friedman at the UCLA Hammer Museum.
SITE Santa Fe event with Dave Hickey and Julia Friedman.
Full-length Vimeo recording of the SITE Santa Fe Hickey/Friedman event.
YouTube trailer for the SITE Santa Fe Dave Hickey with Julia Friedman event.
SMoCA lecture and book signing with Julia Friedman in Scottsdale, Arizona.
YouTube trailer for Julia Friedman's SMoCA appearance.
CAC Las Vegas event with Dave Hickey and Julia Friedman, 6–9 pm.
KNPR Public Radio segment on Hickey's Facebook writing and its publication as Wasted Words.
Jenna Duncan's Java Magazine profile of Julia Friedman in relation to the Hickey publications.
LA Art Book Fair signing for Julia Friedman, 4–6 pm at Booth T07.
Kristen Peterson's Las Vegas Weekly article on Hickey's two new PCP Press books.
Settlers & Nomads notice on the new Dave Hickey and Julia Friedman books.
James Panero's New Criterion dispatch engaging Hickey, criticism, and the new books.
William E. Pratt's roundup item on art-world attention around Hickey's Facebook rants.
Ryan Steadman's Observer article on Hickey's Facebook posts becoming two PCP Press books.
Bookforum note on the publication of Hickey's Facebook posts.
Scribd-hosted PDF of David Hawkes's Times Literary Supplement review.
Arizona State University library record for The Age of the Image, with Hawkes, Williams, and Rubin.
“Our project is not artisanal but antagonistic.”
“We issue books as others issue viruses.”
“Visibility, in our field, is a terminal condition.”
“To remain unreadable — yet unavoidable.”
PCP Press was founded in San Francisco in 1969 as a counter-institution to the art-book industry — not to illustrate artistic practice, but to test what visual representation, language, and form could still register as critical resistance. The press operates today out of Beverly Hills.
The catalog spans five decades and a long bench of accomplices: Wally Hedrick, Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Shepard Fairey, Wayne Thiebaud, Charles Gaines, David Hawkes, LG Williams, and others. In 2016, two of the most recalcitrant titles — Dust Bunnies and Wasted Words by Dave Hickey — surfaced in the Times Literary Supplement.
"Founded in 1969 as a counter-institution… publishing as both practice and polemic." — VoyageLA, Life & Work with PCP Press, Nov 2025Read the full interview on VoyageLA
