Published to accompany a group of exhibitions in Vienna, Why Painting Now? looks at the relation of painting to information and communication media and other issues of contemporaneity. Curators such as Ei Arakawa, Yve-Alain Bois, Tyler Coburn, Antony Hudek, Franklin Melendez, Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Martin Prinzhorn, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Caroline Smulders and Jan Verwoert contribute.