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ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First Sight2025 Gift GuidesFeatured Image ArchiveEvents ArchiveDATE 8/2/2026 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object New York, August 2026DATE 7/23/2026 Join us at the San Francisco Art Book Fair, 2026!DATE 7/20/2026 Collier Schorr’s fascinating take on Chantal Akerman’s ‘Je, tu, il, elle’DATE 7/19/2026 Metrograph presents Collier Schorr signing ‘Writing a Letter: Akerman Ballet, Act 1’ followed by a screening of Chantal Akerman’s ‘Je tu il elle’ with joint introduction by Matt WolfDATE 7/17/2026 LACMA Store presents Audrey Sands and Rebecca Morse on 'Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures'DATE 7/16/2026 Artworld occult! A new tarot deck from Francesco ClementeDATE 7/13/2026 An exploration of dancehall, reggae en español, and reggaeton through contemporary artDATE 7/12/2026 Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Karl Haendel, Andrea Gyorody and Aldy Milliken on 'Less Bad'DATE 7/11/2026 LA Showroom Summer Sample Sale, Save 75–85%!DATE 7/11/2026 For 1970s beach vibe, you can’t do better than Joel Sternfeld’s ‘Nags Head’DATE 7/8/2026 Conflict, culture and exchange in 18th-century art across the AmericasDATE 7/7/2026 Hot Town, Summer In (and Out) of the CityDATE 7/6/2026 Another kind of Americana in François Prost’s ‘Gentlemen’s Club’ | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 7/20/2026 Collier Schorr’s fascinating take on Chantal Akerman’s ‘Je, tu, il, elle’“I first saw Chantal Akerman’s film Je tu il elle in the early 1980s. It was the first time I saw two women having sex. It was the first time I saw a lesbian artist. I forgot about it until ten years ago when I started feeling the urge to perform with my subjects. Those impulses brought me back to Akerman, who was both a director and an object of her work. What I saw 40 years later was that the film was a dance. [. . .] I had always felt that female artists who inhabited their work were beautiful and female-presenting and that I was forever locked out of being able to exist as a spectacle. Akerman’s body, unlike an actress’, was awkward and performative, vulnerable and powerful in its ordinariness.” So essayist Peggy Phelan quotes photographer and now choreographer and dancer Collier Schorr in Writing a Letter: Akerman Ballet, Act 1, in which Schorr documents her exploration of Akerman’s game-changing 1974 film. Out now from The Song Cave, it features 180 black-and-white images by Schorr, as in this collection translating the third movement, Sugar Duet. DATE 7/16/2026 Artworld occult! A new tarot deck from Francesco ClementeNew this week from American Art Catalogues, Francesco Clemente’s gorgeously produced, highly anticipated boxed tarot deck. Collecting 78 cards, each illustrated with watercolor or gouache renderings poetically explained in an enclosed guidebook also written by the artist, the deck includes key symbols and recognizable friends and family in the roles of the Major Arcana. These include Jasper Johns, Philip Glass, Scarlett Johansson and Kiki Smith, to name a few. DATE 7/13/2026 An exploration of dancehall, reggae en español, and reggaeton through contemporary artNew from DelMonico Books, Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón is published to accompany the exhibition on view now at MCA Chicago. “In colonial contexts, music, dance and other forms of cultural expression are accessible ways to assert sovereignty amid the daily challenges of colonial violence,” Carla Acevedo Yates writes. “These are the ‘politics of enjoyment,’ a collective exercise of the senses, where Black Atlantic cultural performance practices serve as intangible sites in which sovereignty is reimagined and reclaimed. Like the beat of a drum, these practices awaken an essential life force within us. They allow us to access levels of embodied knowledge and joy that are intuitive and move with the improvisatory nature of Caribbean life itself—constantly adjusting and adapting to the sounds, rhythms, and sensations that surround us.” Featured photograph is by Adrian Boot, 1973. It is captioned: “Charlie Ace’s Swing-A-Ling mobile recording shop and studio. Run by Charlie Ace (real name Vernel Dixon), a legendary DJ in the 1970s as well as label owner of “Swing-A-Ling Records.” He worked with many producers including Lee Perry & Studio One. Sadly, Charlie Ace was gunned down, murdered in the early 1980s.” |
