Rirkrit Tiravanija, who built his reputation on cooking delicious curry dishes as installation art, is something of an enigma. The son of a Thai diplomat, Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires in 1961 and studied in Toronto and Chicago before landing at the Whitney Independent Study Program in the mid-'80s. He gained a loyal audience with his gallery-transforming free meals and laid the groundwork for further social interactions with his 1997 MoMA project, which offered a diminutive model of Philip Johnson's Glass House as a space for children's art workshops. Two years later, Tiravanija sealed his place in the contemporary-art pantheon with a fully functional plywood replica of his New York apartment, open to the public 24 hours a day at Gavin Brown's enterprise. This comprehensive monograph documents these and many more projects by the artist. Highlights include Tiravanija's Hugo Boss Prize exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2005, for which he constructed a low-power television station to challenge government control of the airwaves, and the 2005 traveling survey show A Retrospective (tomorrow is another fine day), from which this colorful volume get its title.

Rirkrit Tiravanija's work is currently on view in numerous group exhibitions in the US and Europe; a solo show opens at Artspace in Auckland, New Zealand in August.