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ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 4/10/2025 NYPL presents Joshua Charow on 'Loft Law: The Last of New York City's Original Artist Lofts'DATE 3/31/2025 Poster House presents Tomoko Sato and Mỹ Linh Triệu Nguyễn launching 'Timeless Mucha'DATE 3/29/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents Jeffrey Schnapp and Peter Lunenfeld launching Bruno Munari's 'Fantasy'DATE 3/29/2025 Artbook | D.A.P. Sample Sale at Ursula BookshopDATE 3/27/2025 “Johanssonian democracy” from a true photographer’s photographerDATE 3/27/2025 Long live 'STUFF'!DATE 3/20/2025 192 Books presents Stephen Cassell, Kim Yao, Adam Yarinsky & Miko McGinty on 'Architecture. Research. Office.'DATE 3/20/2025 She Knows Who She Is…DATE 3/18/2025 Say yes to utopia! Last day to support 'Archigram: The Magazine' facsimileDATE 3/16/2025 Mitch Epstein's take on power and climate changeDATE 3/15/2025 See the world anew with 'Just Looking'DATE 3/14/2025 BOOKMARC presents Kim Hastreiter launching STUFFDATE 3/13/2025 Chef's kiss for 'Wicked Arts Education' | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 3/27/2025 “Johanssonian democracy” from a true photographer’s photographerFeatured image is from Gerry Johansson: Maine, releasing this week from The Ice Plant. Collecting 180 duotone reproductions made during the octogenarian Swedish photographer’s 2023 sojourn through the Pine Tree State, it’s entirely what it says it is, nothing more and nothing less. “When you consider Johansson’s photography and bookmaking together, his output is a beacon of consistency,” Blake Andrews writes in Collector Daily. “No cropping, no motion, no color, no artist statement, no design experiments, digital interventions, or frills of any type. Just a series of identically sized straight photographs, channeled into a monograph with encyclopedic detachment. Some might discount his cool Scandinavian style as reserved and predictable. The counter argument is that Johansson communicates in a strong and distinctive voice. His photobooks are identifiable at a glance, and they’ve staked out a photographic style—which might be branded a ‘Johanssonian democracy’—which is his alone.” DATE 3/27/2025 Long live 'STUFF'!Just a little—and we mean infinitesimal—detail from Kim Hastreiter’s home office, inside her maximally kitted-out Fifth Avenue apartment, reproduced from her over-the-top visual memoir, STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos—in which mementos from dear friends like Phyllis Diller, seen here, rub shoulders with artworks, fashion, objects, trinkets, souvenirs, snapshots, archival materials and anything expressive of an idea by luminaries, players and makers from across the spectrum of all NYC cultural classes of the past fifty years. John Waters, Jim Walrod, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Paige Powell, Carlo McCormick, Keith Haring, Tauba Auerbach, Stephen Sprouse, Duro Olowu, Jeffrey Deitch … she tries her best to namecheck her friends, collaborators and inspirations, but the book is only 448 pages, after all. “I am a fanatical collector and curator of ‘stuff,’ Hafstreiter writes. “Mostly stuff that I think is amazing, important, tells a good story or just grabs my heart. After decades of obsessive collecting and brutal editing, I eventually came to realize that the objects I chose to keep told the best stories of my pretty crazy life so far—reflecting the way I’ve seen my unique slice of history evolve. There’s a reason I describe this as ‘more than a memoir.’ Looking back, I now see that this big chaotic archive also shows the influence of the radical history, and important people, and subcultural markers I’ve witnessed and participated in over the past 50 years, living as part of a maverick creative community in the greatest city on earth.” She concludes with advice for the new generation: “Please don’t leave it up to a generation 50 years from now, or, God Forbid, AI (!) to reinterpret what you are witnessing. Document it! Write about it! Film it! Make art about it! Collect important stuff that tells stories! Because when you are sitting many decades from now watching the 25-year-olds make art, music, films and books about it, you can bet you’ll be shaking your head wishing you had.” DATE 3/20/2025 She Knows Who She Is…Published out of Chicago during the DIY heyday of 1989 through 1993, THING magazine circulated throughout queer Black underground culture the old-fashioned way: by hand, mail and word of mouth. Today, like many of its early contributors—including Vaginal Davis, Larry Heard, Essex Hemphill and RuPaul—it is legendary. Built around the explosive early-90s house music scene, THING featured musicians, DJs, writers, artists, activists, performers and gossip alongside crucial information about the HIV/AIDS crisis that was decimating the community. Now, for the first time, all ten original issues of the magazine have been brought together in one facsimile reissue. Published by Primary Information, this pitch-perfect 460-page paperback arrives at just the right moment, as we find so many of our most beautiful, irrepressible, self-defined cultures again under pressure and in crisis. Contributions by editors Robert Ford, Trent Adkins and Lawrence Warren, plus likeminded luminaries including Lady Bunny, Bill Coleman, Dennis Cooper, Deee-Lite, Lyle Ashton Harris, Steve Lafreniere, Michael Musto, Ultra Naté, David Sedaris, David Wojnarowicz and Hector Xtravaganza, among many others. |
