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 4/25/2024 The Strand presents Joshua Charow launching 'Loft Law'DATE 3/31/2024 Behold the photographic work of Jay DeFeo, born OTD in 1929DATE 3/30/2024 Seminary Co-op presents the Chicago launch of Danny Lyon's 'This Is My Life I'm Talking About'DATE 3/15/2024 A gorgeous and compelling new exploration of bodega culture from rising star, Tschabalala SelfDATE 3/15/2024 Vintage girl power in ‘Las Mexicanas’DATE 3/14/2024 Celebrate Pi Day with 'Einstein: The Man and His Mind'DATE 3/12/2024 Kindred Stores presents Anita N. Bateman on 'Where is Africa'DATE 3/12/2024 Hot book alert! ‘God Made My Face’ is NEW from Dancing Foxes Press and Brooklyn MuseumDATE 3/11/2024 Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents the launch of 'Richard Nonas'DATE 3/7/2024 Letterform Archive Press presents 'The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930' with Gennifer WeisenfeldDATE 3/7/2024 Visions of the Black figure in ‘The Time is Always Now’DATE 3/7/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chloe Sherman and Noelle Flores Théard on 'Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s'DATE 3/6/2024 Yelena Yemchuk to launch 'Malanka' at Dashwood Books | RECENT POSTSCORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/25/2024The Strand presents Joshua Charow launching 'Loft Law'Thursday, April 25 at 7 PM, the Strand Book Store presents documentary filmmaker and photographer Joshua Charow discussing his debut photobook, 'Loft Law: The Last of New York City's Original Artist Lofts.' This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/31/2024Behold the photographic work of Jay DeFeo, born OTD in 1929Featured spreads are from surprising and enlightening staff favorite Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work, published by DelMonico Books and the Jay DeFeo Foundation. Collecting almost 200 photo collages, photograms, photographs and photocopies—many published here for the first time—by the legendary Bay Area artist, this beautifully produced hardcover features writing by an all-star cast including Leah Levy, Judith Delfiner, Corey Keller, Justine Kurland, Dana Miller, Catherine Wagner and Hilton Als, who writes, “And what would we do without Jay DeFeo, who is only partly alive because she dares us to look at the work and make sense of that sofa covered in netting, or the empty picture frame with the broken wire, or the telephone with the white bulb that burns brightly in the imagination? What can any of these images mean? Are they images of DeFeo’s idea of sculpture, or sculptural elements? What can she mean by those teeth, that shoe? Let us enter her pictures subtly and swiftly together and take from them what we will, freely, as we revel in the eye of DeFeo the beholder. Behold.”CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/30/2024Seminary Co-op presents the Chicago launch of Danny Lyon's 'This Is My Life I'm Talking About'Saturday, March 30, at 3 PM CDT, Seminary Co-op presents photographer Danny Lyon discussing his memoir 'This Is My Life I’m Talking About,' published by Damiani Books. A Q&A and signing will follow the event. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/15/2024Vintage girl power in ‘Las Mexicanas’Featured spreads are from new release Las Mexicanas, RM’s small but mighty paperback album of found photographs of Mexican women in positions of power, play and perhaps even seduction from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s. How we love it! Essayist Brenda Navarro writes, “What is Mexico without the women who have been born in this land? What would be of this country without many of them, who have birthed the Manichaean concept of a nation that has been obliged to live beneath the heavens, in which every person seems to be destined to be a soldier? As Agota Kristof wrote in her novel, The Notebook (1987), women are the ones who carry the weight of wars: ‘Have we seen nothing? Idiot! We women have all the work and all the worries: children to feed, wounded to tend… You men, once the war is over, are all heroes. The dead: heroes. The survivors: heroes. The maimed: heroes. That’s why you invented war. It’s your war. You wanted it, so get on with it—heroes my ass!’”CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/15/2024A gorgeous and compelling new exploration of bodega culture from rising star, Tschabalala Self“Bayo” (2017) is reproduced from hot new release Tschabalala Self: Bodega Run, edited by Sascha Bonét, designed by Pacific and published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. A remarkable publication that has been flying off shelves since the moment it arrived in our warehouses, this clothbound hardcover with zine insert features paintings, sculpture and installation works related to Self’s multiyear examination and celebration of the bodega—underrecognized “hood institution” of NYC Black and Brown communities. Self writes, “There are many inspiring and positive aspects of bodega culture, mainly the fact that these small, versatile businesses are, and always have been, owned by people of color to serve communities of color. The bodega also functions as a multicultural space within the Black diaspora, a space where individuals of African descent, from the Americas and abroad, share both social and financial interactions. … The bodega is both positive and problematic, and through this complexity its significance arises. The culture of the bodega is a reflection of so many aspects of Black and Brown city life. For this reason, the bodega is the perfect avatar by which to speak on the community at large." CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/14/2024Celebrate 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.'"CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/12/2024Hot book alert! ‘God Made My Face’ is NEW from Dancing Foxes Press and Brooklyn MuseumAt last, editor Hilton Als’s highly anticipated tribute to the singular American writer and truth-teller James Baldwin, as told through the artworks and essays of some of the greatest, and most relevant, voices of our time, including Diane Arbus, Beauford Delaney, Alice Neel, Kara Walker, Teju Cole, Barry Jenkins and Darryl Pinckney, to name a few. Jamaica Kincaid writes, “When we make art, we don’t know how it will work out, what it will mean. The writing, the novels, the essays: He did them in a place and in a time, in a country, that has no real love of certain people and certain things and no real love of literature, no real love of Black people doing anything, really, that can’t be appropriated. We must remember that there are a great many things that African Americans have done, making something out of the despair and the horror of the mess they found themselves in, and that they’ve been simply lifted up out of their culture. The blind faith he had in just saying these things, writing these things, doing, living this life and not knowing how it would go. Would it be remembered? Would it vanish? He got inspiration, it seems to me, from the essential life that was going on in the country at the time, the essential life of America, which is something Americans would like to forget. The essential existence of America is the African American. Toni Morrison said that Baldwin was her brother and her ancestor, and that’s what he is for all of us.”CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/12/2024Kindred Stores presents Anita N. Bateman on 'Where is Africa'Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 PM, Kindred Stories presents 'Where Is Africa' author Anita N. Bateman at the Kindred Stories Reading Garden. If you're in Houston, come celebrate this multidisciplinary, illustrated reader unpacking imperialist representations of Africa. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/11/2024Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents the launch of 'Richard Nonas'Monday, March 11, from 4–5:30 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents the launch of 'Richard Nonas.' Please join us for a public discussion between Dieter Schwarz and Allyson Spellacy surveying the artist’s pioneering influence on the downtown New York art scene in the 1970s and his relevance to the founding of PS1 as an ambitious platform for radical vision and experimental action.CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/7/2024Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chloe Sherman and Noelle Flores Théard on 'Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s'Thursday, March 7, from 6–8 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents photographer Chloe Sherman in conversation with 'New Yorker' digital photo editor Noelle Flores Théard about Sherman's new monograph 'Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s,' a tender, joyous portrait of the thriving lesbian subculture in 1990s San Francisco, published by Hatje Cantz. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/7/2024Letterform Archive Press presents 'The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930' with Gennifer WeisenfeldThursday, March 7, from 6–7:30 PM, Letterform Archive Press presents 'The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930' author Gennifer Weisenfeld in conversation with Letterform editor Chris Westcott. Weisenfeld will share art from the original volumes and explore the global exchange of ideas and practices that informed designers’ new approaches to lettering, illustration, design and display.CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/7/2024Visions of the Black figure in ‘The Time is Always Now’Kerry James Marshall’s 2009 “Untitled (Painter)” is reproduced from new release The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, published to accompany the critically acclaimed survey on view now at National Portrait Gallery, London. Called “tremendous” and “stunning from first to last” by The Guardian, this must-see exhibition brings together 22 contemporary African diasporic artists, including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, Lubaina Himid, Titus Kaphar, Wangechi Mutu, Lorna Simpson and Henry Taylor, to name a few. “Through the arts, we are dignified with the entire range of emotions experienced by every other human being on the planet, when we have often been treated as less than fully human because demeaning and reductive concepts of Blackness have been constructed, categorized, perceived and perpetuated in majority white societies for centuries,” Bernardine Evaristo writes. “Through the arts, we throw it all up into the air. We write our poems, plays, scripts. We dance, design. We compose and create music. We make art from our cultures, communities, individuality, imagination. Our creativity strives to burst free from the edicts of those who police its borders, because our aliveness recognizes no borders. It is its own free state.”CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/6/2024Yelena Yemchuk to launch 'Malanka' at Dashwood BooksWednesday, March 6 from 6 to 8 PM, Dashwood Books will host Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk for the signing of her new book, 'Malanka,' published by Edition Patrick Frey.CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/6/2024Ancient custom, from darkness to light, in 'Yelena Yemchuk: Malanka'Featured spreads are from Ukranian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk's most recent photobook, Malanka, documenting "Old New Year," a heavily incantatory, night-long, pre-christian, folklore ritual that takes place on January 14 every year. It is celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. For this project, Yemchuk traveled to Crasna (aka Krasnoilsk) in 2019 and 2020, photographing the celebration meant to drive out winter and stimulate spring into existence—an ancient custom reminiscent of Persephone’s return in Greek mythology.
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