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| | | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/19/2026Thursday, November 19 at 8 PM, Rough Trade and Prachtwerk present a Book Reading, Q&A and Signing with Melissa Auf der Maur. This unique event celebrates the release of her new photography book 'My '90s Rock Photographs,' published by DelMonico Books and Art Gallery of Ontario.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/13/2026Friday, November 13, from 6–8 PM, Yvon Lambert libraire éditeur, Paris, presents Melissa Auf der Maur reading from her new photography monograph, 'My '90s Rock Photographs,' published by DelMonico Books and Art Gallery of Ontario. Book signing to follow.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/10/2026Tuesday, November 10 at 7 PM, Rough Trade East presents an In Conversation with Melissa Auf Der Maur and Thurston Moore and signing from Melissa Auf Der Maur. This unique event celebrates the release of her new book 'My '90s Rock Photographs,' published by DelMonico Books and Art Gallery of Ontario, and 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My ’90s Rock Memoir,' published by Atlantic.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/9/2026Monday, November 9 at 7 PM, join Fashion Fiction, Ace Hotel Brooklyn and Artbook | D.A.P. in partnership with Serviette for an evening celebrating 'The Cultures of Perfume: Scents that Shaped History' by Saskia Wilson-Brown, founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Art and Olfaction.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/9/2026Monday, November 9 at 6 PM, go behind the scenes of David Lynch’s 1986 cult classic with on-set Polaroids taken by makeup artist Jeff Goodwin. Rizzoli Bookstore is delighted to welcome Goodwin to celebrate his book, 'Blue Velvet: A Polaroid Diary.' He will be in conversation with Reel Art Press publisher and film connoisseur Tony Nourmand, followed by a signing.
 SKUTA HELGASON | DATE 11/8/2026Sunday, November 8 from 4–6 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore invites you to join Matthew López-Jensen and Chiquita Brujita for a conversation on the role of tarot in their creative practices, followed by one-on-one tarot readings.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/8/2026Sunday, November 8, from 2–3:45 PM, during Pioneer Works' Second Sundays programming, please join author Saskia Wilson-Brown, author of 'The Cultures of Perfume,' for an interactive talk on 'Scent and Seduction' in the Science Studios.
 LACY SOTO | DATE 11/7/2026Saturday, November 7 at 3 PM, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents the Los Angeles launch of 'Eirik Johnson: Leviathan Rising,' published by MW Editions. Join Eirik Johnson in conversation with Sam Hockley-Smith.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/6/2026Friday, November 6 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents Saskia Wilson-Brown celebrating her new book, 'The Cultures of Perfume: Scents that Shaped History,' a richly illustrated survey of the history and origins behind the most well known scents in the world. She will be in conversation with Rachel Syme, followed by a signing.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/1/2026 Featured image is reproduced from Eighteen Publications’ new, revised edition of Myself: Timed Exposures, Mike Mandel’s first-ever photobook, now featuring a gatefold, sewn sections, an open spine book block and a Swiss-bound cover. “For the past year self portraits have been my constant passion,” Mandel wrote in 1971. “At every opportunity I would fasten my camera to its tripod and steal from the house out into the insane world of everyday people, in hope of recording a bit of real fantasy.… The people react to my presence, to the buzzing machine a few feet away, to the words I have to say—suddenly, click! The machine has made its ‘decisive moment’ and only the film knows what latent treasures it owns; for I was busy being the subject matter and will have to wait until after processing to see what all really happened…”
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/31/2026 When it comes to cinematic realism and horror, you can’t do better than Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 masterpiece, The Shining. Pictured here, from Halloween Staff Pick The Horror Show, Jack Nicholson as family man Jack Torrance on his steady descent into madness. “Psychological horror’s appeal makes it deeply personal,” Tananarive Due writes, “which is why so many modern horror classics use the characters’ psychological issues, including those rooted in familial and spousal relationships, as the engine even when a supernatural element is also present. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, adapted from the novel by Stephen King, chronicles the mental breakdown of an alcoholic writer, Jack Torrance, as he is possessed by the spirits in a haunted hotel. Jack’s history of alcoholism and child abuse makes him vulnerable to malevolent entities. The fantastic horror imagery of creepy twin girls or an elevator gushing blood is unforgettable, but many viewers are equally terrified when they watch his wife, Wendy, discover that ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ is the only sentence typed on page after page of Jack’s ‘novel’—a shocking illustration of his madness even before he picks up the axe.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/29/2026“’Why write?’ Constantin Brancusi asked the author Robert Payne in 1949. ‘Why not just show the photographs?’ The photographs Brancusi had in mind were his own. By the time of his conversation with Payne, the seventy-three-year-old artist had long been dissatisfied with the efforts not only of writers but also of other photographers to represent or interpret his sculptures. This dissatisfaction had led him, decades earlier, to become the exclusive photographer of his own work and his late-life remark to Payne underscores his fierce protectiveness over how his sculpture met the public eye and on whose terms. Although Brancusi did not consider his photographs works of art, they served multiple purposes: They were circulated to clients and friends, published in books and magazines, and employed as a private means of studying variation, movement, and change. The resulting photographic corpus establishes him as one of the twentieth century’s great sculptor-photographers, and his embrace of the camera reflects his singular modernity and relationship to machine-age technology. This, even as he used photography to document works that aspired to timelessness, universality, and transcendence of the particularities of time and place.” So begins Anne Umland’s essay in Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio, MoMA’s gorgeous new collection of 136 duotone photographs taken by the artist over the course of four decades, published to accompany the landmark exhibition of Brancusi’s relocated Paris studio, on view now through February 2027 at the Museum. Pictured here, Bird in Space (1927, polished bronze), glass negative c. 1929.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/27/2026Georges Hugnet’s remarkable cover for the 1934 Surrealist book Onan—a collaboration with Salvador Dalí, Georges Hugnet and Louis Christy—features dye-colored sand flowing between two sheets of lead glass. It is reproduced from new release The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors, published to accompany the exhibition on view at MoMA now through January 2027. “A book bound with panes of shattered glass. A manifesto enshrined in polished metal. Pages of love poems merging seamlessly with luminous dreamscapes. Pamphlets of antiwar poetry designed to be slipped into a pocket. For André Breton, Claude Cahun, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Toyen, and many other artists and writers associated with Surrealism, books and bookmaking were central and driving preoccupations,” curators Jodi Hauptman and Starr Figura write. “Artists’ books—books made as works of art, often collaboratively, by painters and poets—were perfect vehicles for subversive experimentation and for the promotion of Surrealism’s revolutionary tenets.”
 LACY SOTO | DATE 10/25/2026Sunday, October 25 at 4 PM, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents the launch of Theo Deutinger's 'All About U.S.: 250 Years of the United States of America,' published by Lars Müller Publishers. To celebrate the release, Deutinger will be in conversation with Los Angeles writer, photographer and educator Shane Reiner-Roth.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/24/2026Saturday, October 24, from 3–5 PM, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Lawrence Azerrad and Richelle Ellis, authors of 'Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand Earth,' in conversation with artist Lita Albuquerque and moderator Jori Finkel.
 SKUTA HELGASON | DATE 10/24/2026Saturday October 24 at 4 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents the launch of Theo Deutinger's 'All About U.S.: 250 Years of the United States of America,' published by Lars Müller Publishers. To celebrate the release, Deutinger will be in conversation with news editor and lecturer Daniel Jonas Roche.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/23/2026Friday, October 23, from 7–9 PM, artist Jin Mei will give a talk at Plot, Los Angeles, about her life and her practice, and the unexpected turn of becoming an artist in her sixties. Her talk will be interpreted live from Mandarin into English by her daughter, Chang Yuchen, followed by a Q&A and book signing. A selection of her new drawings will also be on view and available.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/22/2026“Of all the areas of human endeavor, perfumery might be one of the hardest to pin down,” scent sage and scholar Saskia Wilson-Brown writes in her Introduction to The Cultures of Perfume—perhaps the most highly anticipated and universally coveted book on our Fall 2026 list. “It is intangible, experienced in situ, and connected to human history in a complex tangle of mutual exchange. In the form of composed perfumes or raw aromatics, our olfactory experience has played into how we seduce and perceive attractiveness, how we worship our gods, experience magic, and navigate the world. It has helped us measure health, share culture, understand social status, and engage in trade. Scent is a concurrent narrative to everything we do, and everything we do is interconnected.” Bringing a contemporary sophistication to one of the oldest stories in the human book, Wilson-Brown has produced a volume spanning concepts as broad as evolution and as specific as the connection of brimstone to long-standing fears of the underworld, the wrath of God, Satan and witchcraft. Chapters on the intersection of perfume and the elements, sickness and health, seduction, magic and the supernatural, religion, power, trade paths, consumerism and storytelling are amplified by a notably playful and refined image selection, copious endnotes, a detailed index and a bibliography supported by additional suggested readings. Design is by Lamotte Studios.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/22/2026Thursday, October 22, from 7–8 PM, McNally Jackson Seaport presents Tom Cole, author of new release 'Chimes: A Monologue,' a confessional narrative melding black humor with sincere insight that speaks on class, queerness and addiction. Cole will appear in conversation with filmmaker Elliot Tuttle, followed by a book signing.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/19/2026For anyone interested in Japanese woodblock technique or the global history of landscape printmaking, MFA Publications has just released a book that is as exquisite as it is scholarly. Featuring 130 color reproductions spanning from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui: Japanese Landscapes in Print is drawn from one of the world’s finest collections of the genre. “The historical development of the Japanese landscape print can be seen through the comparison of these three major artists: Hokusai, the innovator; Hiroshige, the developer; and Hasui, who reinvented the field in modern terms,” curator Sarah E. Thompson writes. “Even today, some of the actual landscapes in the prints can still be seen by those who seek them out. Moreover, many popular contemporary works, such as the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, allude to the powerful appeal of the older Japan seen in the prints of Hokusai, Hiroshige and Hasui.” Pictured here: Hokusai’s “Fine Wind, Clear Weather” from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, about 1830– 31; details from Hiroshige’s “Plum Garden, Kamata” and “Ayase River and Kanegafuchi” from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1857; and a detail from Hasui’s “Hinomisaki in Izumo Province” from the series Souvenirs of Travel III, 1924.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/17/2026Saturday, October 17, at 2 PM, ICA Boston presents photographer and musician Melissa Auf der Maur—former member of bands Hole and Smashing Pumpkins—in a conversation with Naomi Yang, multi-disciplinary artist and former member of the ’80s indie band, Galaxie 500. Book signing to follow.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/16/2026Friday, October 16, at 6 PM, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents an artist's talk with Vanessa Beecroft & Chris Kraus celebrating 'Jane Bleibt Jane,' followed by a Q&A and book signing with Beecroft.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/15/2026Spreads from new release Knife Fork Spoon: Modernist Cutlery 1900–2025, published to accompany the exhibition on view now at Denver Art Museum. Drawn from the museum’s holdings in combination with the renowned collection of Dung Ngo, publisher of August Editions, this illuminating 600-page compendium features more than 500 designs via 600 color reproductions. Pictured here, on the title page, details from a 2014 Malmö brass set by Portuguese designer Miguel Flores Soeiro for Herdmar. Below that, wooden salad servers by Danish designer Kay Bojesen of Kay Bojesan Studio, opposite a Contour sterling silver and stainless-steel set by Robert J. King & John Van Koert for the American brand Towle—both from 1950. And last, a stainless-steel children’s cutlery set by German designer Hans Karl Rodenkirchen for the brand Paul Wirths, 1960–61. Other designers span from Heinrich Vogeler to Virgil Abloh, from Charles Rennie Mackintosh, to Carl Aubock II, III and IV, to Gio Ponti, Isamu Noguchi, Philippe Starck and Zaha Hadid, to name just a few.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/14/2026 Tai Ping Tien Kuo (Tai Ping Kuo) (1982) is reproduced from Martin Wong: Chinatown USA, the remarkable catalogue to the artist’s recent exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago. Featuring a fold-out poster cover over exposed Smythe-sewn, lay-flat binding, plus several gatefolds and paper changes, this beautifully produced volume pays a fittingly cacophonous/glamorous tribute to the artist and poet whose work explores ethnic and racial identity, queer sexuality, psychedelia, pop culture and the urban landscape. Referring to the nineteenth-century Chinese civil war the Taiping Rebellion, Tai Ping Tien Kuo (Tai Ping Kuo) precedes the majority of Wong’s Chinese-focused paintings, and uses “the artist’s forebears as the entry point to his imagining of the Chinese American community,” Margo Machida writes. “Its central panel features an ardent, albeit rather mischievous, double portrait of Wong’s entwined mother and stepfather soaring high above San Francisco’s Chinatown. Their ascending bodies are framed by the symbolic portal to Chinatown: a red ceremonial gateway (paifang) with an overhead placard displaying the legend “Tai Ping Kuo” (Country/Kingdom of Peace) in Romanized lettering.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/14/2026Wednesday, October 14, from 7–8 PM, McNally Jackson Seaport presents David Jacob Kramer, author of 'Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California,' in conversation with photographer and collaborator Michael Schmelling, for the NYC book launch.
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