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| | | RECENT POSTSCORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/8/2024 “Untitled (Vincent)” (1982) is reproduced from Silvana new release, The World of Tim Burton, featuring 200 color reproductions of rarely or never-before-seen materials—including early sketches from Burton’s childhood, paintings, drawings, photographs, concept art, storyboards, costumes, moving-image works, maquettes, puppets and life-size sculptural installations. “There are directors who build filmographies and others who create worlds,” Giona A. Nazzaro writes. “And others still who consciously, like architects, build cathedrals over time. Among the latter are the likes of Claude Chabrol or Fassbinder. Poetics is the product of a set of recurring signs, obsessions and refrains that enables in its accumulation of evidence a conversation with a filmmaker. Creators of worlds work differently. Poetics—which usually emerges midway through the career of a director, if the premise of the early works is retained—is already all there in that first image, in the first sign (in this sense Bertrand Mandico is the closest director to Tim Burton today). The world itself is motive force to the very existence of their filmmaking. Tim Burton is a creator of worlds.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/5/2024“Hands shaking, temperature 103. The days were not much different than the nights, then the fever lifted. I was still having difficulty breathing, but needed to move, get out of the house, go to where there’d be more than a glimpse of the sky. I barely remember my first days in Green-Wood. There were gravestones up and down the hills, bare branches floating overhead.” So begins Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery, noted American documentary photographer Eugene Richards’ contemplative new three-year study of the beloved Brooklyn landmark. Begun in March 2020, when he was recovering from an early case of Covid—long before the vaccine and during that eerie time when the world was first shutting down—this quiet, powerful volume reminds us that Richards is a living treasure whose vision can be as poetic as it has sometimes been searing. We are proud to have published this newest volume in his half-century output as a Magnum documentarian and master photography book maker.
 LACY SOTO | DATE 5/5/2024Join Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore Sunday, May 5 at 3PM in collaboration with David Horvitz’s Garden and author Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez to celebrate 'Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts: Based on Conversations with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Artists, Curators, Feminists and Mycologists' with a book-signing, readings and more! 🌱🍄
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/2/2024Thursday, May 2, from 5–6 PM, Paula Cooper Gallery and JRP|Editions present the launch of 'Dan Walsh: The Process of Painting.' Surrounded by his current exhibition of paintings, on view through May 18, Walsh will be in conversation with independent curator and critic Bob Nickas, who contributes the text for the book.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/1/2024Featured spreads are from new release Lee Quiñones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond, published by Damiani and launching this weekend at Artbook @ MoMA PS1. The first major monograph on Quiñones—considered by many to be the single most influential artist to emerge from the NYC subway art movement—this book features 180 color images and essays by a dozen leading lights including Franklin Sirmans, Isolde Brielmaier, Bisa Butler, Futura, Debbie Harry and Barry McGee, to name a few. Sirmans writes, “Dig if you will, a picture of early 1970s New York City when digital images were hard to come by except in Times Square, no one had a personal phone or even a beeper, unless you were a cop or a doctor. Drawing on walls may have originated more than 70,000 years ago and the tradition of muralism as a support for mark making is also long but, in the universe of 1970s New York City there was no greater canvas than the moving subway car, seen by millions every day. This is where Lee Quiñones got his start as a precocious, mercurial kid who loved to paint. As a teen¬ager, Lee was struck by the paintings he saw on this most readily available canvas, that of the public transportation system, where no one had to pay to see paintings, a free museum. After painting a car, the young artist would ride the train to watch and listen to people’s responses, a built-in critical apparatus to glean the public’s opinion. The newspaper critics would come later.…”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/30/2024Tuesday, April 30 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents renowned cinematographer Roger A. Deakins and his wife and collaborator James Ellis Deakins. They will be in conversation with filmmaker Matthew Heineman about Deakins' career and his photo book 'Byways,' followed by a signing. Please note: seating is limited and will be first come, first served.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/30/2024Tuesday, April 30 at 6:30 PM, Photobook Austin will host American photographer Danny Lyon in conversation with Bryan Schutmaat on the topic of Lyon's new book, 'This Is My Life I’m Talking About,' published by Damiani. Book signing to follow. This is a free-entry event at the Austin Community College Highland Campus, but seats are limited. Click through to RSVP.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/25/2024Featured spreads are from Loft Law, filmmaker and photographer Joshua Charow’s new book documenting the last of New York City's original artist lofts. “Walk through SoHo today and look up into the cast iron windows that line its cobblestone streets,” Charow writes. “Between tech offices, luxury storefronts and multi-million dollar condos, you might catch a glimpse of a space that commands your attention. The loft’s rawness stands out from its surroundings, with rusted tin ceilings and empty cans of paint lining the ground. Inside the loft, an 85-year-old artist is having their morning coffee while working on a painting. Behind them are thousands of other canvases stored in the wooden shelves they’ve filled up over the past 50 years. This person is not just a painter, but a time traveler. If you’re lucky enough to walk into one of their studios, you will be transported back to the year they moved in, to a New York that doesn’t exist anymore. However, due to the perfect storm of history, politics and enough of a fight, these artists remain today, giving us a peek into the wonderful worlds they’ve created and sustained in our ever-changing city.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/25/2024Join Artbook during Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, April 25–28, 2024! Our booth B29 will present a selection of books by artists, scientists, activists and theorists on the Climate Crisis. Artbook is proud to partner with DelMonico Books in managing their events in booth B6. Click through for information about book signings with Sarah Crowner, Christine Sun Kim and Stanley Whitney.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/25/2024Thursday, April 25 at 7 PM, the Strand Book Store presents documentary filmmaker and photographer Joshua Charow in conversation with 'Curbed' and 'New York Magazine' design editor Wendy Goodman on his debut photobook, 'Loft Law: The Last of New York City's Original Artist Lofts.' This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/24/2024Wednesday, April 24, from 6:30–8:30 PM, Lower East Side select shop Bungee Space hosts buoyantly critical Dutch publisher Set Margins’ for the group launch of six new titles. Join us for short author talks and a general celebration of like open minds!
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/21/2024 Sunday, April 21 at 2 PM, Time & Space Limited celebrates Siglio’s new printing of Bernadette Mayer’s 'Memory' with a special moving-image presentation of 'Memory' (created for the Museum of Modern Art in 2019).
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/20/2024Featured spreads are from Heads Together: Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–1973, Edition Patrick Frey’s enlightening 566-page compendium of marijuana graphics from the Underground Press Syndicate during the height of the American counterculture. UPS coordinator and cofounder of the East Village Other John Wilcock writes, “Pot was to become a significant part of the impending youth revolution, corresponding to the black flag of anarchy in the way that it rallied the troops. Even if it began as an act of defiance, it soon became the one thing shared by all sectors of the anti-establishment throughout the Western world. There wasn’t any underground newspaper that I visited—Zurich, Rome, Amsterdam, London, Paris, to name but a few where I wasn’t invited to share a friendly joint, just as we had shared pictures and stories… it was impossible to overestimate how important pot had been as a unifying banner and rallying point.”
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/18/2024 Featured image, titled “Rodeo Queen, Okmulgee, Oklahoma,” is reproduced from Oregon photojournalist Ivan McClellan’s critically acclaimed new release, Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture, published by Damiani. McClellan concludes the book with a letter to the culture that has taken hold of him and changed his life. He writes, “Cowboy culture has always been synonymous with hard times, and I have seen it firsthand in my journey with you. Losing friends and acquaintances along the way, sometimes taking the last photos of people before they were killed or arrested. This life attracts folks with the grit to push past the odds and continue, despite their trauma and pain. When I was young, I could never envision myself as an old man, but now I can quite clearly see myself as an old rodeo boss, perched on the fence, drenched in sweat under the blazing sun, and watching Eight Second [bull] rides until night falls and zydeco music battles the crickets for my ear. As I pass on this legacy to my children, I’m humbled by the realization that it’s a treasure trove that I never knew I had the right to possess, an inheritance lost to me, has been preserved for them. I’m overjoyed that when my kids color a cowboy in their coloring book, they color him brown. I hope they grow up loving you as I have, as this is their birthright, their legacy.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/18/2024Thursday, April 18, Howl! Arts/Howl! (HA/HA) presents a two-day happening, exhibition, celebration and book signing for 'We Started a Nightclub,' Damiani's highly anticipated history of NYC's notorious Pyramid Cocktail Lounge.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/14/2024It was very hard to choose an image from FUEL’s joy-inducing new release Audio Erotica: Hi-Fi Brochures 1950s–1980s—the newest vintage ephemera revelation from collector and Trunk Records founder Jonny Trunk. Featured here, an ad for “the one and only” Sony Walkman, one of the most ubiquitous innovations of the 1980s. Trunk describes the experience of being hit by a car the first time he wore his. “Wired for sound and deaf to the noise of the traffic, I had simply ‘strutted’ right into the road without looking—or even caring. Bang! Clatter! The Sony Walkman was a magic invention. The perfect poppy, portable, personal sound machine. According to legend, it was invented by the founder of Sony, Masaru Ibuka, when he spotted a guy at a Tokyo station, walking along holding a large ghetto blaster with a pair of headphones attached. He thought to himself: ‘that would be better if the cassette player was smaller.’ This may be an apocryphal story, but I like it anyway. The Walkman II I’d bought with hard-earned, saved-up cash, came with a belt hook—as well as cool-looking, comfortable headphones (these even had a button to mute the sound if you ever needed to hear the outside world). Supremely modern in its styling, it included a spare battery pack, so I could listen for hours on end. The Walkman II was the first piece of audio tech I’d bought myself …”
 LACY SOTO | DATE 4/13/2024Join Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore Saturday, April 13 at 3 PM for the launch of 'The Observable Universe: An Investigation.' Author Heather McCalden will be in conversation with Cyrus Dunham and will sign books following the talk.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/13/2024 Saturday, April 13 at 6 PM, Prospect Heights bookseller Unnameable Books celebrates Siglio’s reissue of 'Bernadette Mayer: Memory' with a reading of excerpts from the book by Brenda Coultas, Phil Good, Laura Henrickson, Bob Holman, Paolo Javier, Shiv Kotecha, Dorothea Lasky and Max Warsh.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/12/2024Join us April 12–16, from 9 AM–6 PM for Shoppe Object at High Point—bringing New York’s most refined independent home and gift show to North Carolina!
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/11/2024 Featured image is reproduced from noted American photographer Danny Lyons’ new memoir, This Is My Life I’m Talking About, releasing this week from Damiani and launching in New York with a signing at Mast Books. Lyons is of course noted for his New Journalism style documentation of the civil rights movement, the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club, the Texas prison system, and much more. He captions this image, which is from the body of work that became his iconic 1967 photobook The Bikeriders (set to release this summer as a major motion picture), with typical affection. “Cal, born in Canada as Arthur Dion, riding with Little Barbara. Cal, a former Hells Angel from San Bernadino, is my best friend in the Outlaws. In my Hyde Park apartment, he narrated many of the stories that became the text of the book. In the film Cal is played by Boyd Holbrook. A housepainter, Cal fell off a ladder and died in the 1980s.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/11/2024Thursday, April 11 from 6 to 8 PM, Mast Books will host photographer Danny Lyon for the signing of his new memoir, 'This Is My Life I’m Talking About,' published by Damiani.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/11/2024Thursday, April 11 through Sunday, April 14, join Artbook & MCA Store at EXPO CHICAGO. Located near the East entrance, our vibrant pop-up shop features exclusive products, limited-edition artworks and a hand-picked list of new and classic books on art, photography, design and pop culture. Book signing events for 'The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century' and 'The Guardians of Art.'
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/9/2024 “Woman with Dead Child,” state IV/X (1903), is from Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective, published to accompany the exhibition on view now at MoMA. Surely years in the making, this gut-punching gathering of rare drawings, prints and sculptures centered on motherhood, grief and resistance could not be more perfectly timed for those of us who are struggling to comprehend or even live with the turmoil and anguish of today’s military, social and political conflicts around the world and at home. (Read Aruna D’Souza’s recent review in The New York Times for more on this.) In the exhibition catalog, curator Starr Figura writes, “The five decades during which [Kollwitz] was professionally active were some of the most volatile in German history. From the 1890s through the early 1940s, as the country lurched from the upheavals of industrialization through the traumas of two world wars, she dedicated her art to advocating for those whose burdens were the most acute and underrecognized. ‘I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate,’ she wrote. ‘It is my duty to voice the sufferings of people, which are never-ending and as large as a mountain.’”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/7/2024Featured spreads are reproduced from Ed Ruscha / Now Then, the definitive survey of the revered west coast Pop artist’s work, published on the occasion of the career-spanning exhibition on view now in his adopted hometown. Collecting everything from his earliest works on paper to his classic, deadpan word paintings to his legendary self-published artist’s books, photographs, prints and rare installations, this is a book for life. “I’m not just looking for pretty flowers to paint,” he is quoted in the book. “There is a certain flavor of decadence that inspires me. And when I drive into some sort of industrial wasteland in America, with the themeparks and the warehouses, there’s something saying something to me.”
 SKUTA HELGASON | DATE 4/6/2024Saturday, April 6 at 5:30 PM, please join Artbook @ MoMA PS1 and MoMA PS1 for a reading by artist and poet Regina José Galindo. Galindo will read in Spanish from two of her books, 'telarañas' and 'Grito,' with simultaneous translation in English available.
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