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| | | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/19/2019Tuesday, November 19 at 6:30 PM, the New York Academy of Art presents painter Michael Kagan in conversation with gallerist and art writer Bill Powers, in celebration of Kagan's new monograph, 'I Was There When It Happened,' published by Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. The conversation will be accompanied by a visual presentation and followed by a Q&A and a book signing.
LACY SOTO | DATE 11/16/2019 Saturday, November 16 at 3 PM, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Bookstore and SPBH Editions present the book launch for 'Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography.' Author Nicholas Muellner will present a scripted slide reading, followed by a book signing.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/16/2019Saturday, November 16 from 7–9 PM, Opening Ceremony presents the official launch of 'New York: Club Kids' by Waltpaper. Join Walt Cassidy (aka Waltpaper) at 7PM for a panel discussion with original club kids Desi Santiago (Desi Monster), Jenny Dembrow (Jennytalia), Sidney Prawatyotin and Zaldy Goco, followed by a book signing. Live portraits by Skid.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/14/2019Featured spreads are from Mina Stone's best-selling cookbook, Cooking for Artists—inspired by the food she grew up cooking with her Greek yiayia. One of our favorite Holiday Gift Books for Food Lovers, 2019, this volume presents the dishes Stone developed as chef to galleries and artists including Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Urs Fischer, among many others. "I was twenty-four years old and had no idea what I was getting into," Stone writes in her Introduction. "I was freshly out of art school with a BFA in fashion and my own small line of dresses. I started cooking to support myself while I tried to build my label, and—long story short—I realized I crawled into bed with cookbooks much more often than with Vogue. I was never formally trained. I learned mostly on my own, mostly from cooking shows (yes!), and mostly from my eighty-six-year-old Greek yiayia, who cooks every single day the most delicious food you've ever had. She taught me to boil potatoes before roasting them, to make them extra-crispy and soft. She taught me to add the bulk of the olive oil after the food was cooked for full flavor and health. She taught me how to make chickpeas meltingly tender and transform them into the best stew with only four ingredients. She taught me how to cook in order to please people—figuring out what they like and incorporating it into the dish at hand, making more than you need, and going the extra mile."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/12/2019Photographer Arthur Elgort loves women. Certainly it's apparent in the title of his new book, but it's just as clear in the photographs themselves. Models, ballet dancers, painters and fashion insiders glow for Elgort's camera, emanating power and playfulness. One of our Staff Pick Holiday Gift Books for the fashion crowd, 2019, this sunny, chunky, sometimes risqué compendium was designed by Steve Hiett, designer of Elgort's best-selling and now highly collectible 1994 photobook, Arthur Elgort’s Models Manual. If you're in the market for 208 pages of new sass from one of America's great fashion photographers, this is the book for you.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/12/2019“Around 1970–71 Ken Price and I drove across country from Los Angeles to New York in my wife’s 1961 Mercedes Benz 190 SL hard- top coupe with red leather interior. Kenny smoked big cigars constantly the entire distance. In Oklahoma we saw several motorcycle races and went to a circus with a sideshow featuring a tiny trailer that was home to a midget lady named ‘Princess Marguerita.’ We paid for our tickets to see her and saw that we were her only audience. Everything was in miniature, and our heads touched the ceiling. She came out and said, ‘Hello, I am Princess Marguerita, do you like my home?’ We were awestruck, and time stood still. We nodded, smiled and headed for the door. Neither of us had ever seen anything quite like the princess. Even in the noise of New York City, where we saw lots of art and artists, we would continually reference our experience with Princess Marguerita. Years later, with the heavy smell of cigars never leaving the car, the experience with the princess never left our minds.” —Ed Ruscha, quoted by Jean-Pierre Criqui, in Ken Price: Drawings. Featured image is "The Beautiful West" (2005).
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/11/2019Featured image is reproduced from Cobalt Blue, the Sam Francis Foundation's beautiful new clothbound collection of selected writings by the west coast abstract expressionist, whom we honor today on Veteran's Day. "Dear R," one entry reads, "What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used only to make life bearable. If the arts of the past were, in a way, a means of making the unbearable bearable, or the visible sumptuous, then let us now strip away from the yellow that intention. This painting is for the greatest cloud that ever soared over the inlaid sea.
Do you lie dreaming under the huge canvas?"
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/10/2019 Along with Roberta Smith at the New York Times and Brenda Cronin at the Wall Street Journal, we've eagerly awaited the opening of Félix Vallotton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, en route from the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The first Vallotton retrospective in the United States in almost three decades, it's a sharp revelation, for the artist was one of the nineteenth century's greatest satirists of bourgeois mores. Cronin quotes curator Ann Dumas, who likens "Vallotton’s psychologically charged sensibility to that of director Alfred Hitchcock, who built mystery and suspense in his films." In regards to The Lie (Le Mensonge) (1897), featured here, Dumas notes Vallotton's ability to play with "ideas of deceit, betrayal, the darker side of social conventions, particularly of the Parisian bourgeoisie at the time… Clearly one of the protagonists is lying, but who is lying to whom and what about will always remain an enigma."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/9/2019"To make a long story short, I’m not a very organized person and when I moved from the loft where I had been living for thirty-five years in New York City, I piled up thousands of negatives in cardboard boxes and never opened them for three years. Last year in the summer, I was home with someone who worked for me and in a cleaning frenzy, we started looking at all the old New York prints that I had in my studio in Beacon where I live now. I remembered some of them and others not, so I decided to go through my old negatives and contact sheets. I spent practically the whole summer of 2018 looking through more than two thousand rolls. It was an anthropologist’s job and when I discovered these images, I was very surprised because I didn’t think that I had anything on these rolls. There are no clinkers. When I say 'clinkers' I’m being hard on myself. So I mean that there are very few mediocre pictures: I’ve looked at them numerous times now and they’re good through and through. I had found a gold mine!
Right away I thought this is going to be a fantastic New York book! It’s even tighter than my two other books and there will hardly be any flash photos in this book. So what was interesting about the whole story is that it felt like I had created a whole new body of work, and if I had died this work would never have seen the light of day. Nobody has my eye or my patience to go through it all, so it would have been lost forever. And that’s why we gave it the title of Lost and Found. — Bruce Gilden
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/8/2019“I feel it is my moral obligation as a black artist to try to graphically document what I feel socially,” David Hammons said in 1969, one year before he made this haunting double self-portrait. Titled “Black First, America Second” (1970), this body print and silkscreen on paper presents one version of the self that “clings to the stars of the national flag,” according to Soul of a Nation originating curators Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley, “while the other self appears almost painfully cleaved by its stripes… [It] is an image both timely and resolutely of its time.” This work and 235 others are featured in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, the exhibition catalog of the decade, published to accompany the international traveling survey that opens today at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/7/2019Friday, November 15 from 6–8 PM, Printed Matter presents a book launch for 'Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja' by Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña, published by Errant Bodies Press as part of its "Doormats" series.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/7/2019 Featured spread is from Primary Information's monumental new 10.5 x 14.25 inch facsimile edition of The New Woman's Survival Catalog, the 1973 "Woman-made" survey of second-wave feminist projects, collectives and businesses across the US. "This book is a tool for women whose rising expectations are running into the wall of patriarchal privilege: the women who are aggrieved at the discrepancy between their expectations of expanded choice and room to grow and the reality of male resistance. Whether women wish to file job discrimination complaints, equal pay suits or start their own separatist venture, this catalog presents answers, aids, tools produced by the feminist movement in battle against sexism," authors Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie write in the Introduction.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/7/2019 Join us Friday, November 8 through Sunday, November 10 at Boston's Cyclorama Building for the Boston Art Book Fair, where we will be featuring a mix of new and noteworthy titles and books relating to Boston exhibitions!
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/7/2019Tuesday, November 12 from 6–8 PM, Bookmarc New York presents photographer Arthur Elgort signing 'I Love…,' published by Damiani.
LACY SOTO | DATE 11/6/2019 Sunday, November 10 at 3 PM, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore and Goff Books present the book launch and signing event for 'City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris,' the new book from Carolyn Campbell. The launch will include a conversation between Campbell and writer and publisher Tosh Berman.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/6/2019Wednesday, November 13 from 6:30–8:30 PM, SVA MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism presents David Reinfurt, who will discuss 'A *New* Program for Graphic Design,' his do-it-yourself textbook that synthesizes the pragmatic with the experimental and builds on mid- to late-20th-century pedagogical models to convey advanced principles of contemporary design for a general reader. After a brief introduction, Reinfurt will present eight years of class lectures randomly sampled and compressed into exactly one hour.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/5/2019Featured spread—juxtaposing W.E.B. Du Bois' graph showing the "Proportion of Freemen and Slaves among American Negroes" from 1790 through 1870 with a portrait captioned "Young woman, head and shoulders portrait"—is from Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition, a beautifully designed, oversized book of supreme intrinsic power that belongs on every art or American history bookshelf. Combining the photographs and hand-drawn infographics documenting the state and statistics of black lives in America that Du Bois presented at the Paris Exposition of 1900, it contains writing by Jacqueline Francis, Stephen G. Hall, David Adjaye and Henry Louis Gates Jr.. "I find this lush and exquisitely produced book essential to my understanding of a historical event that did much to change my perception of DuBois, and his brilliant expansiveness," Hilton Als writes. "It's marvelous to have this 'lost' material between covers now, and forever."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/5/2019Some day, analog film projection may be a thing of the past, a distant romantic memory akin to phone calls made via rotary phone or transport by way of horse drawn carriage. And yet, film projection is an art, a human intervention, inseparable from the creation of the medium itself, and so far, the results are superior to anything available in the digital sphere. The people at George Eastman Museum know this, and they've put together a book that is basically perfect, even as it cites its own willingness to morph over future iterations. A beautifully designed hardcover with classic stamping and ribbon, this supremely giftable "beginners guide" is at once manifesto, time-capsule of connoisseurship and how-to manual. "Cinema will always be an art form that exists in three dimensions," Tacita Dean and Christopher Nolan write, "it requires a projector and projectionist, as much as it needs the physical volume of the theatre and an audience to watch it. Knowledge of changeover cues, aspect ratios and loop sizes is not the arcane information of a lost era but the expertise necessary to project a film correctly today. To disrespect the role of the projectionist is to disrespect cinema itself."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/5/2019Tuesday, November 5 at 7 PM, in celebration of 'The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide,' Light Industry presents Morgan Fisher's 1976 four-minute 16mm film, 'Projection Instructions,' followed by a talk by Spencer Christiano, an editor of the book and Chief Projectionist at George Eastman Museum—the book's publisher.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/4/2019John Cage lovers, rejoice! A new, expanded paperback edition of Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) is available at last! To the original eight sections written for publication in Clark Coolidge's magazine, Joglars, this volume adds a new essay by mycologist and Cage scholar David Rose and an added chapter containing a sampling of pages from the only known materials from the unfinished ninth part, now held in the archives of the John Cage Trust. One diary scribble reads, "This is the first of the global commandments. Thou shalt not divide the world into nations." Another says, "Music gives us practice in reading things we can't understand." Like the first volume, this is a real treasure.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/3/2019 Alison Elizabeth Taylor's Only Castles Burning… (2017) is reproduced from Landscape Painting Now, one of our top ten Holiday Gift Books for Art Lovers, 2019. Edited by Todd Bradway with primary texts by Barry Schwabsky and contributions by Susan A. Van Scoy, Robert R. Shane and Louise Sørensen, this ambitious 368-page survey features work by more than 80 contemporary artists—both established and emerging—whose ages span seven decades and who hail from 25 different countries. We are proud to say it's been a critic's pick at a wide diversity of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Library Journal, New Criterion, New York Magazine and Hyperallergic, where Peter Malone writes, "above and beyond the volume’s intelligence and visual sumptuousness, I believe Landscape Painting Now, could play a significant role in our conversations about contemporary painting and its meaning."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/2/2019Featured image is a detail from The Chronicles of New York City (2019), an epic mural featuring more than 1,000 New Yorkers, reproduced from JR: Chronicles. This bright, beautifully designed clothbound volume with custom tipped-on cover image was published to accompany the artist's first major exhibition in North America, on view now at the Brooklyn Museum, where the monumental collage serves as the centerpiece. "In the summer of 2018, JR and his team spent a month roaming all five boroughs of New York City, parking their 53-foot-long trailer truck in numerous locations and taking photographs of passersby who wished to participate," curators Drew Sawyer and Sharon Matt Atkins explain. They conclude, "from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris to his large-scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide to his more recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse publics, his projects have always sought to bring people together. Along with the Internet and social media, JR has reinvented the medium of photography and its relationship to global citizenry in the twenty-first century."
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/2/2019 Saturday, November 2 at 12:45 PM, Artbook and Lars Müller Publishers present Micah Lexier signing 'Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response' at Acid-Free Los Angeles Book Market at Blum & Poe Gallery.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/1/2019"Chrysler Building" (1997) is reproduced from Hiroshi Sugimotos's classic photography book, Architecture, just out in a gorgeous new edition from MW Editions and Damiani featuring 19 additional photographs of significant works of modernist architecture. Launching tonight at the Strand, it was singled out by Roberta Smith in The New York Times. Sugimoto's photographs, she writes, "have stretched and reshaped the concepts of time, space and light endemic to the medium, and in the process they have altered our grasp of history, visual perception and existence itself. He has anointed fossils 'the pre-photography time-recording device' and called photography 'a process of making fossils out of the present.'"
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/30/2019The story of Kate and Margaret Fox (pictured in Shannon Taggart's remarkable new photography book, Séance, here photographed before the headstone of Anna Leah (Fox) Underhill, Kate and Margaret's sister and manager) "is a Spiritualist microcosm," Taggart writes. "Every topic tackled in this book traces back to their lives, including table-tipping, spirit materialization, automatic writing, communication with dead celebrities, technology's spiritual shadow, the scientific scrutiny paid to mediumistic bodies and the specter of fraud that haunts it all. My own initiation experience even echoes theirs—pubescent girl learns of a wrongful death from a restless spirit. The sisters' strange saga illustrates just how deeply intertwined fact and fiction are in Spiritualism. Their biography is a head-spinning tale of confusion—phenomenal feats of mediumship and displays of verifiable evidence, admissions of fraud, demonstrations of trickery and a series of recanted confessions. Even after their deaths in the 1890s, the story continued. In 1904, an incomplete human skeleton was unearthed from the Foxes' cellar, near a peddler's tin box. In 1905, Margaret Fox's doctor publicly testified that an immobilized Margaret produced hundreds of loud knocks in the walls, ceiling and floor of her room in the hours before her death. Today, historian Paul Gaunt is using primary sources to propose that the sisters' story is even weirder than it stands on record. In his retelling, the adults started communicating with the noisy spirit by using coded knocking and the young girls caught it like a virus. The phenomenon followed them wherever they went." Photograph by Lauren Kuehmeier.
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DATE 5/9/2018  This week, Lars Müller of Lars Müller Publishers was honored at the 2018 Storefront for Art and Architecture Benefit at the New York Public Library. As the North American distributor of Lars Müller's extraordinary list of books on art, architecture, design and theory, we are ourselves honored to reproduce his acceptance speech here. DATE 1/9/2017  This weekend, the world lost jazz and civil rights champion Nat Hentoff, one of the greatest and most passionate music journalists of all time. In memoriam, we are honored to present Hentoff's eloquently direct text, 'Jazz Festivals and the Changing of America,' from 'Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival' by Reel Art Press. |
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