ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2021 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveDATE 10/31/2022 Celebrate Halloween with Christopher Frayling on 'Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years'DATE 10/25/2022 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chris Floyd and Catriona Ni Aolain on 'Not Just Pictures'DATE 10/1/2022 Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Betony Vernon signing 'Paradise Found: An Erotic Treasury for Sybarites'DATE 9/27/2022 Isolde Brielmaier in conversation with Aruna D’Souza on 'I Am Sparkling'DATE 9/26/2022 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Baldwin Lee in conversation with Imani PerryDATE 9/22/2022 New Museum presents the launch of 'El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture'DATE 9/22/2022 'Temperature's Rising' — a new oral history of Galaxie 500DATE 9/22/2022 On view now at Howard Greenberg Gallery, 'Baldwin Lee' is a revelationDATE 9/19/2022 In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage MonthDATE 9/19/2022 Featuring a pull-off poster cover, 'Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight' is a New Release this week!DATE 9/17/2022 Museum Store of the Month: MFA Boston ShopDATE 9/17/2022 Peter Fetterman Gallery presents Roger A. Deakins exhibition and 'Byways' signingDATE 9/16/2022 'Julie Blackmon: Midwest Materials' is NEW from Radius Books | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/31/2022Celebrate Halloween with Christopher Frayling on 'Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years'Monday, October 31 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents 'Vampire Cinema' author Christopher Frayling on a century of classic vampire cinema—in posters, stills and artwork—from Murnau to 'True Blood' and beyond. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/25/2022Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chris Floyd and Catriona Ni Aolain on 'Not Just Pictures'Tuesday, October 25 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents photographer Chris Floyd in conversation with 'Rolling Stone' Director of Creative Content Catriona Ni Aolain for the launch of Floyd's new monograph, 'Not Just Pictures,' published by Reel Art Press.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/1/2022Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Betony Vernon signing 'Paradise Found: An Erotic Treasury for Sybarites'Saturday, October 1, from 3–5 PM PST, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents a very special book signing with designer and sexual anthropologist Betony Vernon celebrating her book 'Paradise Found: An Erotic Treasury for Sybarites,' published by Rizzoli. The event will take place in the lush Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Garden.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/27/2022NYU CBVC presents Isolde Brielmaier in conversation with Aruna D’Souza on 'I Am Sparkling'Tuesday, September 27, from 6–7 PM EST, NYU Center for Black Visual Culture presents a virtual discussion between Isolde Brielmaier—author of 'I Am Sparkling: N.V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients, Mombasa, Kenya, 1940–1980'—and Aruna D'Souza, noted writer on art, culture, food, feminism, race and diaspora. Brielmaier and D'Souza will explore the ways Parekh’s portrait studio reflected Mombasa’s identity; how his studio provided solace amid Kenya’s state of emergency and political party bans; how he used styling and the camera to reflect the cultural milieu; and other issues.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/26/2022Rizzoli Bookstore presents Baldwin Lee in conversation with Imani PerryMonday, September 26 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents photographer Baldwin Lee discussing his new monograph from Hunters Point Press with interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature and African-American culture, Imani Perry. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/22/2022New Museum presents the launch of 'El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture'Thursday, September 22 at 6:30 PM, the New Museum and Damiani Books present the launch of 'El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture' by Chika Okeke-Agulu and Okwui Enwezor. Join Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, for a panel discussion featuring Okeke-Agulu, Jason Farago of 'The New York Times' and Julian Lucas of 'The New Yorker,' who will discuss the artistic practice and life of world-renowned, Ghanaian-born sculptor El Anatsui. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/22/2022'Temperature's Rising' — a new oral history of Galaxie 500"I always think the band was like a movie star or a musician that died young—part of the mystique afterwards was that we never had a chance to grow old and for people to get bored of us." So says Naomi Yang, bassist and vocalist of the legendary late-80s / early-90s punk band, Galaxie 500, which she joined with drummer Damon Krukowski and guitarist and vocalist Dean Wareham. Featured spreads are from Galaxie 500: Temperature's Rising, the highly anticipated oral history re-release with text by noted music journalist Mike McGonigal, who interviewed not just the members of the band, but dozens of fellow musicians, critics and others from the scene. The book is filled with rare and never-before-seen photographs, posters and ephemera from Yang's personal collection, which she describes in a running commentary.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/22/2022On view now at Howard Greenberg Gallery, 'Baldwin Lee' is a revelation"Charleston, South Carolina" (1984) is reproduced from Baldwin Lee. Edited by photographer-publisher Barney Kulok of Hunters Point Press, this gorgeous monograph collects 88 black-and-white images from Lee's archive of more than 10,000 negatives, all made between 1983 and 1989, when Lee, a first-generation Chinese-American, began traveling through the South with his 4x5 camera in hand. In an interview with Jessica Bell Brown, Lee says, "A lot of the interior photographs show what it is that everybody surrounds themselves with, regardless of their economic circumstances. When Walker Evans photographed inside a sharecropper’s home, one of his favorite places to photograph was the living room. On the mantle there would always be certain personal objects, and above the mantle there would always be an image—and likely the image was a calendar. When I taught, I would always compare one of those sharecropper interiors with a photograph that Evans made in his friend Muriel Draper’s apartment in New York City. It was the aftermath of a party, and in the foreground was a table with white tablecloths and a million abandoned glasses and empty bottles; behind the table was a carved marble fireplace and there was a felt hat on the mantle and then above, where a picture would have been hung, there was a dead skull of a deer or a cow, or something. This was an artsy person who could afford to have original artwork on her wall, but because she was a bohemian, she decided to put this up as a statement to her otherwise well-to-do friends. My point is that regardless of what your station in life is, no matter what you have as money, the notion of what you pick for that place where you spend the most amount of time, that gives you the most comfort, security, and peace—everybody does the same thing, except if you are poor, you have what you can afford. It’s not about the difference between rich and poor, it’s really about the similarity, that for whatever reason we all want to surround ourselves with something whose symbolic significance allows us to feel that it is home." CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/19/2022Featuring a pull-off poster cover, 'Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight' is a New Release this week!"Memory of Fire" (1987), from Betye Saar's 1998 House of Fortune installation, is reproduced from Serious Moonlight, the catalog to Saar's recent exhibition at ICA Miami. In House of Fortune, Saar combines a variety of spiritual and religious traditions that deal with fate and future. She is quoted: "It is not that I’m emulating Haitian Vodou or New Orleans Hoodoo or Chango or Santeria. I just take a little bit from each one. … It’s one planet and how everybody contributes to that through their ethnic origins or their cultural practices." CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/17/2022Peter Fetterman Gallery presents Roger A. Deakins exhibition and 'Byways' signingSaturday, September 17, from 3–5 PM, Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, presents the inaugural exhibition of acclaimed photographer and filmmaker, Roger A. Deakins, who will be signing copies of 'Byways,' now in its fifth printing, from Damiani. Works on display will include photographs featured in 'Byways,' as well as new, never-before-seen photographs. CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/17/2022Museum Store of the Month: MFA Boston ShopAll hail the MFA Boston Shop, our Museum Store of the Month, September 2022. Housed in one of the greatest and most comprehensive art museums in the world—with a collection that encompasses nearly 500,000 works of art—the MFAShop reflects all of the complexity, scholarship, experimentation, history and discovery of the MFA's renowned collection, "telling a multifaceted story of the human experience—a story that holds unique meaning for everyone." CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/16/2022'Julie Blackmon: Midwest Materials' is NEW from Radius Books"Sidewalk" is reproduced from Julie Blackmon: Midwest Materials, the photographer's third monograph with Radius Books. Collecting 45 color images that exemplify Blackmon's experience of Springfield, Missouri, where her large extended family still lives, this evocative and beautifully-produced hardcover focuses on "home and the rituals that unfold in backyards, attics and garages," Leah Ollman writes. "Each frame in her ongoing epic is an absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slice of ethnographic theater starring a tribe of scuffed and shirtless nieces, nephews, neighbors, and friends. If the enjoyment of theater requires us to suspend disbelief, to temporarily accept as true the artifice we’re presented, the fullest appreciation of photography asks of us the opposite: to suspend our reflexive belief, to accept (and further, to embrace) as artifice what appears to be truth. Since Blackmon practices photography as theater, she traffics in the seductive illusions and entrancing deceptions of both mediums. Hers is an elaborate and sophisticated act of make-believe. An act of serious mischief. Also, perhaps, an act of frustrated faith, an act of longing."CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/14/2022Dashwood presents Mitch Epstein signing 'Recreation' and 'Silver + Chrome'
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