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 6/1/2024 There's no such thing as being extra in June! Pride Month Staff Picks 2024DATE 5/12/2024 Black Feminist World-Building in LaToya Ruby Frazier’s ‘Monuments of Solidarity’DATE 5/8/2024 The World of Tim Burton in rare, archival materialsDATE 5/5/2024 Eugene Richards' eloquent new photobook documenting Green-Wood CemeteryDATE 5/5/2024 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez and David Horvitz on 'Let's Become Fungal'DATE 5/2/2024 Dan Walsh and Bob Nickas to launch 'The Process of Painting' at Paula Cooper GalleryDATE 5/1/2024 A new book on NYC graffiti art legend Lee QuiñonesDATE 4/30/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Roger A. Deakins with James Ellis Deakins and Matthew Heineman on 'Byways'DATE 4/30/2024 Danny Lyon at Photobook AustinDATE 4/25/2024 Join us at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair 2024!DATE 4/25/2024 Joshua Charow's 'Loft Law' documents the last of NYC's original artist loftsDATE 4/25/2024 The Strand presents Joshua Charow in conversation with Wendy Goodman for the launch of 'Loft Law'DATE 4/24/2024 Bungee Space presents Set Margins’ 6-Book Launch and Get Together | ARTBOOK FEATURED IMAGE ARCHIVE DATE 4/20/2024 Heads up on 4/20!Featured spreads are from Heads Together: Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–1973, Edition Patrick Frey’s enlightening 566-page compendium of marijuana graphics from the Underground Press Syndicate during the height of the American counterculture. UPS coordinator and cofounder of the East Village Other John Wilcock writes, “Pot was to become a significant part of the impending youth revolution, corresponding to the black flag of anarchy in the way that it rallied the troops. Even if it began as an act of defiance, it soon became the one thing shared by all sectors of the anti-establishment throughout the Western world. There wasn’t any underground newspaper that I visited—Zurich, Rome, Amsterdam, London, Paris, to name but a few where I wasn’t invited to share a friendly joint, just as we had shared pictures and stories… it was impossible to overestimate how important pot had been as a unifying banner and rallying point.” DATE 3/14/2024 Celebrate Pi Day with 'Einstein: The Man and His Mind'"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." So said Albert Einstein, born on this day in 1879. Both this quotation and this rare 1947 print signed by photographer Philippe Halsman are reproduced from Einstein: The Man and His Mind—Damiani's stunning visual biography, featuring a wealth of signed photographs, letters, manuscripts and more from the collection of Gary S. Berger. According to the editors, Halsman's iconic photograph has become one of the most recognizable images of the twentieth century. "It appeared on a 1966 US postage stamp and was featured on the cover of the December 31, 1999, edition of Time magazine, which honored Einstein as the 'Person of the Century.' … In his book Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective, Halsman explained the circumstances of the photo: 'I admired Albert Einstein more than anyone I ever photographed, not only as the genius who single-handedly had changed the foundation of modern physics but even more as a rare and idealistic human being. Personally, I owed him an immense debt of gratitude. After the fall of France, it was through his personal intervention that my name was added to the list of artists and scientists who, in danger of being captured by the Nazis, were given emergency visas to the United States.'" DATE 2/14/2024 Joy and magnificence in Valentine's Day staff pick, 'Elder Sex'Featured spreads are from Marilyn Minter: Elder Sex, JBE Books’ beautifully-produced and celebratory monograph based on the artist’s recent work for a New York Times feature on the joys and challenges of sex after seventy. In her aptly-named catalog essay, “Screw it, this is who I am,” New Yorker writer Naomi Fry states that Minter's work "shows us that we are human in our fullness, in our repellent and attractive parts, and, too, that what counts as repellent can also often be attractive. In the Elder Sex, photos, Minter is unembarrassed to put on display what we are not used to seeing—what culture thinks we don’t want to see—and there is joy and magnificence in that gesture. The bodies that Minter depicts heave and pulse with sensation and texture, giving us something radical. They’re real, and they’re spectacular.” |
