Galerie Lelong is hosting a book signing and viewing Saturday for Krzysztof Wodiczko’s multimedia installation, …OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project. Based on interviews with veterans and civilians from Iraq and Afghanistan, it looks at the complex psychological impact that combat has on those who experience it. The book signing for …OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project will [...]
Category Archives: Books
Letters to Emma Bowlcut
January 30, 2011 – 1:17 pm
Thursday night at Spoonbill & Sugartown in Brooklyn, musician Bill Callahan (of Smog) gave a reading from his book, Letters to Emma Bowlcut. The epistolary novel chronicles one man’s correspondence with a woman he met at a party. Though they both exchange letters, we only get to read his point of view and responses to [...]
Francesca Woodman: April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981
January 19, 2011 – 11:23 am
Thirty years ago today, Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from the window of a Lower East Side Manhattan loft. A photographer, she was prodigious and original; she had been a star pupil at the Rhode Island School of Design and a contemporary of the Surrealists in Rome. She left behind 800 negatives and 120 [...]
Independent Publishers’ Panel
January 13, 2011 – 10:39 am
This Saturday, January 15, F.L.O.A.T. Gallery will be hosting a panel discussion with four independent publishers of photography books. The panel is accompaniment to their current exhibition, Picture Books, featuring books by New York-based publishers Seems and Hassla, along with New York and Paris-based JSBJ, and Lay Flat. F.L.O.A.T. is a new gallery, located at [...]
Small Kings
December 2, 2010 – 3:35 pm
Small Kings is a selection of black and white photographs shot at Passa Passa, a legendary street bashment in Jamaica. These images were made just a few months before the conflicts in downtown Kingston shut down the party and made Tivoli Gardens, a Kingston neighborhood, headline news around the world. Photographer Alessandro Simonetti and writer [...]
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2
November 14, 2010 – 10:53 pm
Artbook and MoMA Ps1 recently launched the much anticipated Interviews, Volume 2 by famed interviewer Hans Ulrich Obrist. With its sleek silver microphones starkly set against white, the cover looks like the art world cousin of Phaidon’s Silver Spoon cookbook. Both have minimalist covers that belie their extensive, almost encyclopedic content. His interview project, which began [...]
You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen
November 12, 2010 – 4:13 pm
Elisabeth Biondi and Thurston Moore present James Hamilton’s exhibition and his new book of music photography You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen. The opening is tonight, Friday, November 12, from 6-8 pm, and the exhibition will be on view through December 30 at KS Art, 73 Leonard Street, New York.
Where Print Isn’t Dead
October 1, 2010 – 11:07 am
If you read print magazines, you’ve probably seen those ads put out by the magazine industry of Gaga covered in bubbles saying that print is thriving because people order magazines online, or the ones likening the internet to instant coffee. They always give me a slightly uneasy feeling, because if you have to try that [...]
Dream & Awake
August 13, 2010 – 10:22 am
I met Swedish designer Amanda Ericsson in a dark little bar in Paris. After a few minutes spent exchanging pleasantries, she flashed me a coy smile and removed her coat. There, pinned to the front and dead-center of her pants, was a small, white tassled brooch. A grappe de chatte, she calls it (literally, a [...]
