From a past barter: Tracy Emin, Super Loving Cat, 2007. It is often declared that the upside of a depression, be economic or psychological, is that it promotes creative thought. Art Barter is hard evidence of this claim. Launched last November by London-based curators Lauren Jones and Alix Janta, Art Barter re-examines our current system [...]
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Art Barter
Peter Sutherland and Albert Maysles
Albert Maysles is the filmmaker behind such amazing, amazingly weird films as Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens. He’s going to be in conversation with Peter Sutherland, another chronicler of the slightly strange, on Tuesday, April 20, at Thirty Days Gallery. It’s one of the many events they have going on this month in a pop-up [...]
Tim Barber
TV Books Takes Hollywood
Beginning this month, Space 15Twenty in Hollywood will house a collection of new books, posters and artwork curated by Tim Barber, photographer and founder of the independent, New York-based publishing house TV Books. At Friday’s opening reception, the muted simplicity of the exhibition space played foil to a catalog of fearless works, such as Death [...]
What Makes You So Special? Tinyvices Book Launch at Aperture Gallery
Last Thursday, Aperture opened its doors to celebrate the launch of the Tinyvices book series, which sees the gray lady of photography extending her hand to Tim Barber and the work of an exceptional five out of the hundreds of photographers represented by Barber’s online gallery. The series offers the freshest, and definitely the most [...]
Project #1
We’ve updated our “Read” page with a challenge for you writers out there. The image above, by Tim Barber (photographer, curator of Tiny Vices, and publisher of TV Books), will serve as a point of departure for a piece of original writing. Check out the “Read” page for more details.


