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Featured spreads are from D.A.P. and Edition Patrick Frey’s highly-anticipated, 496-page new release Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California, collecting oral histories by Heads Together author David Jacob Kramer and photographs by Michael Schmelling. Featuring more than 780 reproductions, this is a true labor of love by lovers of idealistic, homegrown labor. “In pursuit of something better, back-to-the-landers radically reappraised what a home could and should be—and how it might inform the lives of its inhabitants,” Kramer writes. “Though the vast majority eventually retreated to more conventional urban and suburban lives, a handful have stuck it out and remain on-the-land today. Their homes have evolved according to need and available resources, their means of construction reflecting their aspirations and dissensions. This generation is now in their seventies and eighties. Their homes are remote, far from grandchildren and healthcare. Living off-grid is hard work. In rural NorCal, storms take down ‘widowmakers,’ deadly branches that block roads and wreck roofs. Climate change has meant more wildfires, longer droughts and dried-up wells. The legalization of pot has caused a core source of the community’s income to shrivel. New buyers don’t always want the liability of a home built in defiance of building codes. Many of these houses are strange and impractical, never constructed for their resale promise, anticapitalistic to their foundations.”

Printed Matter presents Hugo Martinez, Danielle Becker, DIP, Octavio Zaya and Kevin Monaghan launching 'You Weren't There: ’90s Graffiti in New York'

Thursday, August 20, from 6–8 PM, Printed Matter presents the launch of 'You Weren't There: ’90s Graffiti in New York' with a panel discussion featuring Hugo Martinez, Danielle Becker, DIP, Octavio Zaya and Kevin Monaghan, followed by a Q&A and signing.

MASS MoCA R&D Store presents 'three six five' author Lucy Ives in conversation with Lauren Levato Coyne

Saturday, September 12 at 5 PM, R&D Store at MASS MoCA presents a conversation with the creator of 'three six five,' a generative guide to exploring the writerly self, moderated by Lauren Levato Coyne.

“Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith were close friends of mine from 1967 to 1972,” photographer Albert Scopin writes in this collection of recently rediscovered photographs. Taken while Scopin was living at NYC’s infamous Chelsea Hotel, collectively the pictures capture a distant, uninhibited bohemia populated by artists, Superstars, drag queens and runaways. “Everyone could have a stab at their own idea of a ‘free life,’” he writes. Here, Mapplethorpe is pictured in his studio on the ground floor of the Chelsea annex. “The first time I visited him there in 1970 he was working on erotic collages that were fantastically bold. The next year he started experimenting with Polaroid material. Later he said of that experimental phase: ‘I began to understand that photography can be art.’”

What happens when graphic design icons become open works? The answer can be found in Set Margins’ new release Logo in Real Life by Italian graphic designer, researcher and @logo_irl Instagram account founder Michele Galluzzo. A book about the meanings and functions of corporate logos and how those change when absorbed, appropriated and hacked into real-life, critical, humorous or semi-reverent contexts, Logo in Real Life concentrates on “the social life of logos and the active engagement of end users,” with chapters on the adaptation of the Pirelli “P”, Fiorucci and plagiarism, vagabond logos, the anti-authorial graphics of LGBTQIA+ movements, and more.

“IT IS A REVOLUTION. The FUTURE will favor materials which best solve the problems propounded by the new man. I understand by the NEW MAN the type of individual who keeps pace with scientific thought, who understands his age and lives it: The Aeroplane, the Ocean Liner and the Motor are at his service; Sport gives him health; His House is his resting place. WHAT IS HIS HOUSE TO BE? Hygiene must be considered first: Soap and water. Tidiness: standard cupboards with partitions for these. Rest: resting machines for ease and pleasant repose. Beds: armchairs: chaises longues: Office chairs and tables: Stools, some high and some low: Folding chairs. The French word for furniture, ‘MEUBLES’ comes from the Latin, ‘mobilis’: meaning things that can be moved about. The only things that come into this category are chairs and tables. We have stated the problem; now we must solve it.” This excerpt and 1938 photograph—of French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand’s Montparnasse studio—are from new release Charlotte Perriand: The Art of Dwelling, published to accompany the exhibition on view at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, through September 13, 2026.

This late-1990s promo poster for the King Tubby heavy dub album At the Controls is reproduced from new release Vintage Reggae Poster Scrap, notably subtitled All You Need Is Dub. Part of the influential Tokyo music label and select store Grand Gallery’s highly collectible Poster Scrap series, this 256-page compendium collects more than 200 rare vintage posters, flyers, advertisements and press photographs from the collection of music producer and DJ Yasushi Ide. “There’s a tactile power in these pages,” British filmmaker, DJ and musician Don Letts writes. “Before social media algorithms and endless event listings, posters and flyers were the way the culture spoke. They were street-level transmissions, as essential as the basslines. They had to grab your attention and pull you in. The smudged ink, the off-register colors, the urgent typography—they weren’t imperfections. They were the pulse and Yasushi captures that vibration perfectly. You can practically hear the bass just by flipping through the pages. And let’s be clear: this isn’t just a book of pretty pictures. It’s resistance at work. Reggae has always been the music of the people, the music of truth, the soundtrack of the marginalized. These posters carry that same spirit. They weren’t polished—they were powerful. They weren’t curated—they were created out of necessity and passion. And they speak louder today because of it.”

For anyone who has ever visited The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and walked out with one of MoMA’s iconic Artist Quote Totes wishing you could have bought one in every color, with a citation by every artist, MoMA has just answered your call. Featuring short philosophical statements by more than thirty artists—including Ruth Asawa, Constantin Brancusi, Louise Bourgeois, Hilma af Klint, Ed Ruscha, Betye Saar, Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Whitten—Artists Speak: Iconic Quotes on Modern Art is the perfect gift for any art lover. At 6 x 6 inches, it features details from eighteen emblematic artworks from the collection.

New 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.

“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.

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