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DATE 3/2/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'

DATE 3/2/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'

DATE 3/2/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'

DATE 2/15/2025

Palm Springs Modernism Week presents Christopher Rawlins on 'Fire Island Modernist,' new edition

DATE 2/15/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Charles Gaines and Huey Copeland launching 'The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism'

DATE 2/13/2025

Rizzoli Bookstore presents John Dolan and Peter Hermann on 'The Perfect Imperfect'

DATE 2/12/2025

Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2025 CAA National Conference

DATE 2/11/2025

Skira presents Bonnie Clearwater, David Mirvish and Eric N. Mack launching 'Glory of the World: Color Field Painting'

DATE 2/9/2025

'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' opens at the Hammer!

DATE 2/7/2025

CARA presents Simone Fattal launching her new monograph in conversation with Negar Azimi

DATE 2/5/2025

A book like no other: 'Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery'

DATE 2/2/2025

Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object New York 2025

DATE 2/1/2025

Celebrate Black History Month, 2025


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Ahmed Abdullah with Sun Ra and His Arkestra in Istanbul, Turkey, 1990, from
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/21/2023

Trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah on his time in the Sun Ra Arkestra

New from Blank Forms Editions, A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra is a one-of-a-kind, 512-page goldmine by Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah, recounting decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charting the rise of the New York loft jazz scene. Featured photograph is of Abdullah with Sun Ra and His Arkestra in Istanbul, Turkey, 1990⁠. Abdullah quotes Sun Ra: “It’s not easy to play in this band because there’s certain stuff you have to have. You have to belong, you have to be rated by Superior Beings as suitable, and if you’re not rated … I be telling everybody, it’s not my band. It’s the Creator’s band, and if they’re not suitable for the future, they won’t be fit for the present.”

A Strange Celestial Road

A Strange Celestial Road

Blank Forms Editions
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 512 pgs / 20 color / 40 b&w.

$29.95  free shipping





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