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Karen Green to Sign 'Bough Down' at 192 Books, New York

DATE: 5/29/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

Siglio and 192 Books invite you to a book signing and reception on Friday, May 31 at 7 p.m. to celebrate the publication of Karen Green’s Bough Down, which Maggie Nelson, of the Los Angeles Review of Books, calls "an astonishment." She writes, "It is one of the most moving, strange, original, harrowing, and beautiful documents of grief and reckoning I’ve read. The book consists of a series of prose poems, or individuated chunks of poetic prose, interspersed with postage-stamp-sized collages made by Green, who is also a visual artist. Collectively the text bears witness to the 2008 suicide of her husband, the writer David Foster Wallace, and its harrowing aftermath for Green. The book feels like an instant classic, but without any of the aggrandizement that can attend such a thing. Instead it is suffused throughout with the dissonant, private richness of the minor, while also managing to be a major achievement." For the event, space is limited, so please RSVP at 212-255-4022 or info@192books.com. Featured image is reproduced from Bough Down. more

Laura Anderson Barbata Launches 'Transcommunality' at Greenlight Bookstore

DATE: 5/23/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

This Saturday, May 25 at 5PM, Greenlight Bookstore presents artist Laura Anderson Barbata, author of Transcommunality: Interventions and Collaborations in Stilt Dancing Communities, in conversation with some of her artistic collaborators, including Najja Codrington and Ali Sylvester, founders of the Brooklyn Jumbies, artist Tim Rollins, curator and art historian Edward Sullivan, participating photographers Frank Veronsky, Stefan Falke and Stefan Hagen, and Liz Galván, Director of Centro de Diseńo de Oaxaca. This event, timed to coincide with BAM’s DanceAfrica festival, will conclude with a book signing and perhaps… Moko Brooklyn Jumbies! Featured image, "Intervention: Halloween" (2008), by Stefan Falke, is reproduced from Transcommunality. more

'Sexed-up Cocaine Modernism:' Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction Featured in New York Magazine

DATE: 5/20/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

In the May 19 issue of New York magazine, Carl Swanson previews Christopher Rawlins' must-have summer architecture monograph, Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction. more

'Terence Donovan Fashion' Slideshow Featured on The New York Times Lens Blog

DATE: 5/20/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

In Art / Books illuminating new monograph on the late, great, British fashion photographer Terence Donovan (who never allowed a book of his photographs to be published in his lifetime), the artist is quoted, "Photography is an elusive craft. I don’t consider it art because it is very specific and finite – not like painting, which evokes emotion beyond what you see. Nevertheless, it is a very difficult thing to make work. It is a curious combination of precision and chaos. A photographer must have a grasp of a complex cockpit drill in order to overpower the technical density which is very evident the more you understand photography." Featured image, of model Hiroko Matsumoto posing for "Ces Collections romantiques Pierre Cardin" in the March 3, 1966, edition of French Elle, is reproduced from Terence Donovan Fashion. For a slideshow of additional images from the book, see The New York Times Lens blog. more

Launch Events for Paz de la Huerta & Alexandra Carr

DATE: 5/20/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

Actress Paz de la Huerta and photographer Alexandra Carr will appear at two NYC events this Wednesday, May 29, in celebration of their new photobook, The Birds Don't Die Over the Winter, published by Damiani. First, from 6-8 PM, Clic Bookstore & Gallery on Centre Street will host a book signing (call 212.966.2766 to preorder). Then, from 8-11 PM, The Committee & No. 8 Café Society present a conversation between De la Huerta and Carr beginning at 8:30 PM (reservations at: reservations@no8ny.com.) Featured image is reproduced from Paz de la Huerta: The Birds Don't Die Over the Winter: Photographs by Alexandra Carr. more

New Release: 'Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past'

DATE: 5/17/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

Featured image, "Ginevra" ("Geneva"), from the Atmosfera 1933 series (originally published in the early- and mid-century Italian contemporary art annual, Almanacco Letterario) is reproduced from Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past, just published by Silvana Editorale. In her catalog essay, Miroslava Hajek writes, "The use of paradox was central to all aspects of Munari's activity, not only that of an artistic nature. He employed it in order to undermine banal stereotypes and to stimulate mental agility. In visual terms it was reflected in his juxtaposition of geometric shapes and organic forms." more

Slide Your Brains Out: Thomas Campbell & Dan Malloy Slideshow and Booksigning at Patagonia Cardiff Surf Shop

DATE: 5/15/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

This Friday, May 17 from 7-10 pm, artist/photographer Thomas Campbell and former-pro-turned-surf-ambassador Dan Malloy will present a slideshow and booksigning for Campbell's glorious photography book, Slide Your Brains Out, at the Patagonia Cardiff Surf Shop (founded by Malloy and his equally legendary brothers, Keith and Dan, in 2006) with music by The Mattson 2. Featured image is "Joel Tudor color quiver," Del Mar, California, 2003. more

The Figurative Work of David Smith

DATE: 5/13/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

Featured image, the 1964 enamel on canvas, "Untitled (Nude)," is reproduced from Points of Power, the first publication to trace the figurative impulse in the work of Abstract Expressionist David Smith. In her catalog essay, Candida Smith, the artist's daughter, writes, "The artist... kept his distance. He gave his 'models' no direction. The women here have no more concern for the artist or his view of them than would a horse or a leopard, and thus they have the same animal power and unconscious sensuality. They ask to be seen as something other than 'figures'" more

PictureBox to Launch 'The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga' at The Standard, New York

DATE: 5/13/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

Together with Chip Kidd, The Standard and PictureBox, we invite you to join Gengoroh Tagame in celebrating the release of his new book, Wednesday, May 15 from 6-9PM at The Shop @ The Standard, High Line. Tagame and Kidd will sign books: get 'em while they're hot! more

Sunday, May 12: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adrián Villar Rojas, Clifford Owens, Rirkrit Tiravanija & Lawrence Weiner Do It in the Dome!

DATE: 5/10/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS

This Sunday, May 12, from 2-3PM (and coinciding with the opening of EXPO 1: New York at MoMA PS1), ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1, Independent Curators International and D.A.P. invite you to join Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adrián Villar Rojas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Clifford Owens, Lawrence Weiner and special guests to launch Do It: The Compendium in the VW Dome at MoMA PS1. more

Imagining the Future Art Book
Sharon Helgason Gallagher

DATE: 3/5/2013

"Paging through a book is like closing a door behind you that simultaneously opens another onto a new room -- all the while keeping the previous room available, just behind the now-closed door of the turned page. Here I am in the hallway of the introduction..." -- excerpt from Sharon Helgason Gallagher's remarks at the New York Public Library panel discussion The Future of the Art Book more

What Shall We Want to Have Called a "Book"?
Sharon Helgason Gallagher

DATE: 9/27/2012

What are the kinds of books we ought to be publishing today as exemplars of the book for the future? What is the enduring legacy of "bookishness" that we want to -- may I say "ought to" -- transmit to the future? What kinds of meaning are and can be transmitted uniquely in the book form? What is the "bookishness" of the book that does not survive conversion, translation, adaptation, or reformatting as a digital publication? And what kinds of books even posses this quality? more

Excerpt from Gainsbourg: The Biography

DATE: 7/16/2012

Tonight, TamTam Books launches Gilles Verlant's authoritative new biography of the legendary French pop star, Serge Gainsbourg. Below is an excerpt: Verlant's chapter on Gainsbourg's passionate but short-lived love affair with screen legend, Brigitte Bardot. more

"Schindler, Space Architect" Excerpted from Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader

DATE: 5/10/2012

"ONE DAY Schindler was looking at the floor plan of a house that had just been developed in quarter scale from the rough plan he had made directly on the surveyor’s eight-scale contour map." more



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