ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/25/2024 LIVE from NYPL presents Michael Stipe launching 'Even the birds gave pause'DATE 6/13/2024 ICP presents Eugene Richards on 'Remembrance Garden'DATE 6/8/2024 "Next-level otherness" in Pride Month staff pick 'Nick Cave: Forothermore'DATE 6/6/2024 Celebratory and transgressive, 'John Waters: Pope of Trash' is a Pride Month Staff PickDATE 6/3/2024 In Nan Goldin's 'The Other Side,' you are who you pretend to beDATE 6/2/2024 Green-Wood Cemetery presents Eugene Richards launching 'Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery'DATE 6/1/2024 There's no such thing as being extra in June! Pride Month Staff Picks 2024DATE 5/28/2024 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love,' on view at The BroadDATE 5/24/2024 Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with Garry Winogrand's intimate, flashing mirror of AmericaDATE 5/24/2024 Beautifully illustrated essays on Arab ModernistsDATE 5/19/2024 Of bodies and knowing, in 'Christina Quarles: Collapsed Time'DATE 5/17/2024 192 Books presents Robert Storr and Lloyd Wise launching Heni 'Focal Points' seriesDATE 5/17/2024 Lee Quiñones signing at Perrotin Store New York | AT FIRST SIGHTTHOMAS EVANS | DATE 3/18/2011Done.Book: Picturing the City of SocietyThe methodological models for urbanism are plentiful, ranging from the recent revival in cartography to the boom in infrastructure theory, but Wolfgang Scheppe’s Done.Book: Picturing the City of Society offers a wonderfully original take on the city he has made his ongoing object of study, Venice. Migropolis, Scheppe’s massive two-volume saturation job on Venice from 2010, adopted an impressive and thorough but not unfamiliar psychogeographic method for excavating the city’s layers, in which various mappings were undertaken through walks around the city. Done.Book is a more eccentric enterprise. Described by Scheppe as “an inquiry into the depth of visual archives,” it assembles a portrait of Venice through two sets of archival materials: the notebooks used by the Victorian art writer John Ruskin (1819-1900) for his legendary 1851 study Stones of Venice and the photographic archive of one Alvio Gavagnin, a Venetian market seller and non-professional photographer who bequeathed Scheppe his archive after they met at Gavagin’s stall. |