CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/16/2026

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore talks and signings at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair 2026!

Join us for Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, September 24–27, 2026, in the Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore, located on the first floor of the museum across from Symone, the upcoming MoMA PS1 cafe (in previews during the fair). Scroll down for event listings for Vivienne Maricevic's New York Then 1986–1992, Abbey Frederick and Theodora Helgason's new literary zine, star-studded talks and signing events for You Weren't There: ’90s Graffiti in New York and Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs and a playful paper camera-making workshop with This Book is a Camera author Kelli Anderson. Pre-order signed copies at the bookstore website, Artbookstores.com.

The Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore is one of the most dynamic independent bookstores on the East Coast, known for its surprising and ever-evolving selection. In addition to the latest books on twentieth and twenty-first century art, photography, design and aesthetic culture, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 offers rare and out-of-print titles, hard-to-find publications related to historic avant-garde art and literary movements, and reading lists inspired by the museum’s exhibitions. For the 2026 New York Art Book Fair, the bookstore presents the following signings in its permanent location, directly across from the first floor cafe.

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SIGNINGS

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NEW YORK THEN 1986–1992
VIVIENNE MARICEVIC IN CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT EWALT
Saturday, September 26, 3–4 PM
New York Then 1986–1992 brings together a striking series of black and white portraits taken by photographer Vivienne Maricevic in late 1980s and early 1990s New York. Working in close collaboration with her subjects, Maricevic photographed trans performers, artists and sex workers who inhabited the dressing rooms, apartments and nightlife spaces of downtown Manhattan and Times Square. The photographs capture moments of conscious self presentation where eroticism meets agency. Bold, vulnerable and self possessed, the images reveal individuals defining how they wished to be seen. For this event, Maricevic will speak with Scott Ewalt, with whom she is collaborating on the current exhibition LIVE SEX ACTS with Times Square Space. Pre-order here.

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ABBEY FREDERICK & THEODÓRA HELGASON IN CONVERSATION & MINI-DIARY MAKING WORKSHOP
ARTBOOK@ MoMA PS1 BOOKSTORE
Saturday, September 26, 4–5 PM
Diorama is a zine of interviews about the physical evidence of thinking and creative life: notebooks, correspondence, work spaces, archives, ephemera, clutter, paper trails and what Joanne Kyger calls “the eternal list.” Join editors Abbey Frederick and Theodora Helgason, who first met while working as booksellers and stationers, for a discussion and mini-diary-making workshop. Materials will be provided to make and exchange with a stranger a tiny diary for the occasion of the day. Pre-order here.

YOU WEREN'T THERE: ’90S GRAFFITI IN NEW YORK
THE STUNT: ILLUSTRATED PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A
ARTBOOK@ MoMA PS1 BOOKSTORE
Saturday, September 26, 5:15–6:45 PM
New York graffiti's golden age is immortalized in You Weren't There: ’90s Graffiti in New York, Hatje Cant's 496-page compendium of photographs and artist interviews gathered by gallerist Hugo Martinez—who may just have become, with this book, the movement's greatest champion. For this Saturday evening event, Martinez will be joined by Danielle Becker, also of Martinez Gallery, and curator, critic and editor Octavio Zaya, alongside a consortium of ’90s graffiti artists and contributors to the book. Book tagging to follow. Pre-order limit 2 per person.

MELISSA AUF DER MAUR IN CONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL FAMIGHETTI: 'MY ’90s ROCK PHOTOGRAPHS'
ARTBOOK@ MoMA PS1 BOOKSTORE
Sunday, September 27, 2–3 PM
Indie rock icon and photographer Melissa Auf der Maur will appear in conversation with Aperture Editor in Chief Michael Famighetti for the NYABF launch of Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs, published to accompany the exhibition on view now at Art Gallery of Ontario. Courtney Love describes the book as cycling "through rage, loss, ecstasy, sex, death, poetry, filth, childbirth, the forest, the river the sea the sea ... & [ending] with love," while Ryan McGinley calls it "Rock ’n’ Roll & Kodak Gold." Book signing to follow. Pre-order here.

KELLI ANDERSON PAPER CAMERA-MAKING WORKSHOP
ARTBOOK@ MoMA PS1 BOOKSTORE
Sunday, September 27, 3–5 PM
This event is a hands-on primer in the behavior of light. In this free, family-friendly workshop, This Book is a Camera author Kelli Anderson will teach participants how to make working paper pinhole cameras that produce large-format (4x5") paper negatives. She will demonstrate how to fold pre-cut pieces of lightproof black paper and use Elmer's glue to shape it into a camera obscura. Packets of photo paper will be provided. The resulting camera will demonstrate how a structure as humble as a folded piece of paper can tap into the intrinsic properties of light to produce a photograph. First-come, first-served (the bookstore will have 25 camera-making "kits," but can accommodate additional attendees who are interested in the lecture content.) Pre-order here.

Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
September 24–27, 2026
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens
Hours and Ticketing information HERE.