For those who haven’t been, the NY Art Book Fair is held annually at MOMA PS1 and presents an exhaustive collection of artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs, monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines in one space over the course of a weekend. From the impassioned art-book obsessive to anyone with a remote interest in print, [...]
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New York Art Book Fair
September 30, 2011 – 8:05 am
This weekend, Printed Matter presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. Free and open to the public, the fair features more than 200 stands selling artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty-one countries. Personally, I [...]
The Accidental Egyptian Book Launch
August 4, 2010 – 12:17 pm
The book The Accidental Egyptian and Occidental Arrangements features over 25 photograph-based collages of xerox imagery on cut paper. Culling from the personal image collection of the authors, Timothy Hull and Paul Mpagi Seputa, the collages talk about personal relationships and arrangements, with repeating portraits and images of coastal Maine, rainforests and ruins. The book is [...]
NY Art Book Fair Opens Today
October 2, 2009 – 2:33 am
Today the NY Art Book Fair opens at P.S. 1 in Long Island City. Presented by Printed Matter, the fair will feature sellers from around the world and an exhibition of books and posters by Richard Prince. On Friday and Saturday, it’s open from 11am – 7pm, on Sunday 11am – 5pm. For more info visit their [...]
Destroy All Monsters at Printed Matter
June 15, 2009 – 10:43 am
Every time I get to go to Printed Matter, I feel like I’m in a different world: the world of fanzines, self publishing and DIY culture where casual to crazy ideas are born through paper pages. At the ”Destroy All The Monsters” exhibition, it felt like all the zine-making, weird picture taking and music playing punks united over [...]
Third Annual Japanese Young Artists’ Book Fair
February 19, 2009 – 3:14 pm
The Third Annual Japanese Young Artists’ Book Fair is not what it portends to be: There are no tents or stands, no crowds, no artist-audience Q & A. There aren’t even books, at least not in the regular sense of the word. But for quietly interested collectors curious about the newest wave of Japanese niche-art, [...]
