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| | | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/10/2025Thursday, April 10, from 6:30–7:30 PM, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation branch of the NYPL presents documentary photographer and filmmaker Joshua Charow discussing his book 'Loft Law: The Last of New York City's Original Artist Lofts,' which offers a stunning visual journey through a bygone era of New York's downtown art scene.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/31/2025Monday, March 31, from 6–8 PM, New York's Poster House is pleased to mark the publication of 'Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line' with a conversation between Tomoko Sato, Curator of the Mucha Foundation and the book’s editor; Mỹ Linh Triệu Nguyễn, graphic designer, founder of STUDIO LHOOQ, and the book’s designer; and Angelina Lippert, Poster House’s Executive Director and Curator.
 LACY SOTO | DATE 3/29/2025Saturday, March 29, at 3 PM PST, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth in Downtown Los Angeles presents a conversation between 'Fantasy' translator Jeffrey Schnapp and writer and educator Peter Lunenfeld on the first-ever English translation of 'Fantasy: Invention, Creativity, and Imagination in Visual Communications,' Bruno Munari's classic treatise on creativity.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/29/2025Saturday, March 29, from 12–5 PM, please join us at Ursula Bookshop for a sample sale of books pulled from the shelves of our NYC offices; all priced at $5, $10 or $20. There will also be a raffle for out-of-print and rare titles. Hauser & Wirth Publications and 'Ursula Magazine' back issues will be discounted by 20% for the duration of the event.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/27/2025Just 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.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/27/2025Featured 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.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/20/2025Thursday, March 20, at 7 PM EST, 192 Books presents ARO principals Stephen Cassell, Kim Yao and Adam Yarinsky in conversation with Miko McGinty about the new book, 'Architecture. Research. Office.,' published by DelMonico Books. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. The discussion will also be streamed directly on PCG Studio.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/20/2025Published 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.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/18/2025“A new generation of architecture must arise—with forms and spaces which seem to reject the precepts of ‘Modern.’” Pictured here, the single typed and hand-diagrammed interior page of Archigram issue 1, May 1961 (folded and wrapped cover not shown.) According to Helen Castle, Director of Publishing and Learning Content at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), this issue, produced in an edition of just 400 copies, was printed off a copy machine across from the office where Archigram founders Peter Cook and David Green were working in 1961. Famously, a piece of a potato was used to print the red dot. While our forthcoming facsimile edition will not call for cutting up potatoes to print color on issue 1, it will faithfully reproduce all 9.5 original editions of the magazine in all its cooky, experimental, manifesto-positive glory according to the standards of the remaining members of the collective—including Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton, who helped enormously with the production of this and every other issue before his death in January 2025.
Our Kickstarter campaign to bring Archigram back to life comes to an end tonight, Wednesday, March 19, at 6 PM. Thanks so much to all who have contributed so far. And to those who would still like to join, we welcome you to our publishing adventure!
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/16/2025 “Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia” (2004) is from new release Mitch Epstein: American Nature, collecting the noted American photographer’s most recent series, American Power (2003–9), Property Rights (2017–20) and Old Growth (2020–24). “It represents both a political portrait of the nation during this pivotal time and an existential warning about a potentially cataclysmic future,” editor Brian Wallis writes. “Even though the threat of climate change is very real and it affects us daily, the causes and consequences are often hard to articulate, much less represent. Mitch Epstein’s monumental achievement in his overarching work of the past two decades has been to communicate the intangible networks of production and power that threaten our environment and to listen to and record the visions of people in protest, as well as the gentle thrum of the enduring forest.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/15/2025Certain people just know. They know! And we love to see what they see when they are just looking. Drawn from the Instagram feeds of interesting observers including Mimi Thomson, Eileen Myles, Nick Hornby and David Byrne, pictured here, the new book Just Looking: Snapshots, Close-ups and Portraits of the Everyday invites readers to pause and contemplate the extraordinary within the everyday. “This book will try to make you look at the world anew. To actually really see it,” Jarvis Cocker writes in the Introduction. “The photographs in this collection are simple, unaffected representations of the way certain people alive at this point in history perceive the world around us. There are no right or wrong ways to see the world: there’s just your own way. And once you combine many different people’s views of this one world that we all inhabit, you might just start to get an inkling of the brilliant complexity of life on Earth. The beauty of it. The majesty of it. And how very funny it can be.” Also including work by Roz Chast, Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Matthew Higgs, Shirin Neshat, Nicole Eisenman, Keith McNally, Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, among many others.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/14/2025Friday, March 14 from 6–8 PM, BOOKMARC New York presents legendary editor, publisher, curator, big idea person and 'Paper' magazine founder Kim Hastreiter launching 'STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos,' published by Damiani Books and Amazing Unlimited.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/13/2025Art educator in need of inspiration? Look no further. Wicked Arts Education: Designing Creative Programmes is here! Brought to us by the team behind the 2021 pedagogical blockbuster Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education, this new book stresses meaningful connection between the culture of the student, the arts and society and it's appropriate for primary to higher education. ”Where the book Wicked Arts Assignments presented a loose collection of arts educational recipes, Wicked Arts Education is a full-blown contemporary arts educational cookbook,” the authors writes. “And yes, culinary metaphors do seem to be accurate with regard to arts educational curriculum design: Wicked Arts Education helps you to create exciting arts educational eating experiences, consisting of varied dishes in a coherent menu. Rather than settling for cookie cutter art or artistic fast food, this workbook stimulates you to cook curricula that are experienced as fresh, tailor-made and satisfying. And finally, Wicked Arts Education supports you to cater to your guests’ preferences, acknowledging dietary preferences, restrictions or allergies.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/12/2025Wednesday, March 12, from 6–8 PM, together with co-publishers Gregory R. Miller & Co., The Church, Sag Harbor, and the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, NYC's FLAG Art Foundation presents the launch of 'Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing.' Artist and curator Eric Fischl will moderate a panel discussion featuring artists John Ahearn, Zoë Buckman and Cheryl Pope.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/9/2025Perhaps best known for the bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that he produced for the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in 1986, Boston artist John Wilson was a master draftsmam, printmaker and painter, as well as a sculptor. And yet, his work is only now getting the attention that it deserves with the opening of John Wilson: Witnessing Humanity, the first major retrospective of his work, ever. On view now at MFA Boston, it will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in the fall. Featuring approximately 110 works across all media, it explores the many ways Wilson called attention to racial, social and economic injustices through his art. “I am a [B]lack artist,” Wilson is quoted in the substantial, beautifully designed, clothbound exhibition catalog. “I am a [B]lack person. To me, my experience as a [B]lack person has given me a special way of looking at the world and a special identity with others who experience some injustices … I don’t sit down and think, ‘Well, I have to do a picture on [B]lack people today.’ What I’m doing to some extent in my art is exercising some of these conflicting kinds of messages that this racist world has given me. … Some of the themes I have dealt with are not because I sat down and said I wanted to make a political statement but because of emotional experiences.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/6/2025"Untitled (Woman Standing Alone)" is reproduced from Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series, MW Editions' deluxe monograph presenting Weems' seminal 1990 photo and text series depicting the agonizing and inevitable arc of a relationship, alongside the growth of the protagonist's voice as a woman. "No really, she fussed, fussed all day long; he was worthless, not a man but a chump, couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag, she fucked with him all day long, and all day long he quietly took it all in, and then he quietly exploded. Before she could collect her wit or make a dash for the door, he seized her and hung her upside-down out of their seven story apartment window and said, 'Talk shit now, goddamnit!!' One day he placed a match-box on her clothes. It was time to book."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/4/2025The Storm (2021) is from Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors, published to accompany the renowned Cree Canadian artist’s upcoming show at the Denver Art Museum—his first major museum exhibition in the United States. Coming to us at what might be the best—or worst—possible moment given the current political situation, the work (generally organized around Monkman’s alter ego, “Miss Chief”) takes on issues of colonization and queerness, dark histories and corrective imaginations, with dark humor and pointed fury. “The subjects of Monkman’s paintings range from brutal scenes of oppression to moments of lament and celebrations of triumph and valor,” John P. Lukavic and Léuli Eshroghi write. “They challenge authority, or rather authorship, of the official colonial histories that many have learned and perpetuated. Some of these works are allegorical or metaphorical, while others are of known moments in history. If you find Monkman’s work challenging, enlightening, offensive, affirming or validating, it is absolutely meant for you.” They conclude: “A little mischief can lead to monumental change.”
 LACY SOTO | DATE 3/2/2025Sunday, March 2, from 3–4 PM, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents the LA launch of 'Ticking Stripe' with composer, mathematician and author Spencer Gerhardt in conversation with Philip Ording and designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy. Book signing to follow.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/1/2025Featured spreads are from eye-popping new release Timeless Mucha, published to accompany the exhibition on view now at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, en route to Santa Fe, Boca Raton, Kansas City (MO) and Mexico City through 2027. Gathering works by the undisputed master of Art Nouveau illustration alongside generations of cool-as-hell graphic works made under his influence—from Grateful Dead posters and album covers to Japanese manga and street murals—this 240-page, STUDIO LHOOQ-designed, clothbound hardcover with tipped on front and back cover images, gorgeous stamping and pattern-printed paper edges is a sensual delight that is, to some extent, about sensual delight itself. In her essay on “Locks of Liberation” and Mucha’s “new” New Woman, Aimee Marcereau DeGalan invokes renowned psychedelic poster artist Bob Masse. “Art Nouveau was a bohemian revolution against the uptight previous art world. When the hippies started doing it [psychedelic art], they started using the style that they did at the turn of the century in Paris. … This was like a second bohemian revolution.” DeGalan concludes, “And it was groovy.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/25/2025Please join us at Table 33, Tuesday, February 25 and Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at the ABA’s 20th Annual Winter Institute in Denver, Colorado! Artbook | D.A.P. will be part of “Meet the Presses,” taking place in the Plaza Exhibit Foyer in the Sheraton Denver Downton Hotel.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/19/2025About two years ago, we were approached by Steve Kroeter of Designers & Books, publisher of the cult 2017 facsimile reprint of Italian futurist Fortunato Depero’s 1927 “bolted book,” Depero Futurista, about the possibility of collaborating on a different, even more ambitious facsimile reprint. When we heard the project concerned Archigram, one of the rarest, most ingenious and influential small press serials of the 1960s, we were immediately all-in. Inspired by Pop art, psychedelia, comic-book culture, sci-fi, Constructivism and the space race, Archigram magazine was founded in London by architects Warren Chalk (1927−88), Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton (1935−2025), Ron Herron (1930−94), David Greene and Michael Webb. From its launch in 1961 to issue 9 ½ in 1974, Archigram challenged and dazzled the international avant-garde across the worlds of architecture, design and art, and it is now considered a key, highly cited but rarely seen document of the creative counterculture. Only a handful of publicly accessible full sets are known in the world, including at Hong Kong’s M+ museum, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Columbia University’s Avery Library. Now on Kickstarter, for publication in October 2025, Archigram: The Magazine—the first-ever authorized facsimile of all 9.5 issues—will contain all the surprises and idiosyncrasies of the original issues, from flyers and pockets to posters, gatefolds, a pop-up centerfold and even an electronic “resistor.” Also included, a Reader’s Guide featuring essays by Peter Cook, David Grahame Shane and Reyner Banham; 28 tributes from architectural luminaries; an index of key concepts, projects and names; a scrapbook of previously unseen archival images; and more. Housed in a clamshell box, this faithful facsimile will be brought to life by book designers Julia Ma and Miko McGinty.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/18/2025Based on the anonymous flea market photography collection of Jochen Raiß (1969–2022), Women in Trees highlights a motif that had, until the first edition of this beloved 5 x 7 hardcover, previously gone unremarkedupon, but which is immediately recognizable to all who encounter it now. “Ostensibly, the photographers didn’t have any particular aesthetic intention,” Raiß writes, “and yet, a number of them have created images that possess a remarkable depth and beauty: looking at the camera, a woman is standing a little bit higher than the photographer in the fork of a branch. She is leaning back in the tree and because of the interplay of light and shadow her body virtually melts into it. Is it the pattern of her dress or the shadows of the leaves that we see on her skirt? When looking at the photo, it becomes a hidden-image picture. Boundaries seem to dissolve, and the branches and arms, the woman and the tree, overlap. The chance composition of this picture is perfect. The tree’s obstinacy does not allow for the woman to take any other position; surely, she wasn’t deliberately arranged in the tree in that manner. That an image of such fascinating aesthetic quality has been created from this chance arrangement is why I consider it a masterpiece.”
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/17/2025 Leading up to President’s Day, under the current president, we notice that many global relationships are changing. And so are the explanations, and so is media coverage. What better book to feature, then, than Propagandopolis, FUEL’s visually fascinating collection of twentieth-century propaganda images from around the world, friend or foe. Or friend, or foe? Featured here, a 1976 painting from the Soviet Union, by Dorzhiev Lubsan, who was later appointed People’s Artist of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. “It celebrates the Apollo–Soyuz mission of 1975, when the US Apollo module docked with the Soviet Soyuz capsule and astronauts from both countries spent two days together in orbit. General Stafford, leader of the US crew, told his Soviet counterparts, ‘I’m sure we have opened up a new era in the history of man.’”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/15/2025Now through February 22, the work of Barkley L. Hendricks is on view at Jack Shainman gallery (with a corresponding "Space is the Place" playlist from Soul Jazz on Spotify), so we're acknowledging one of our favorite artists and a Black History Month staff pick with this powerfully positive portrait from Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid! Titled "Have You Met Ms. Jones" (1979), the painting is referenced in editor Zoé Whitley’s essay, “For the Love of You: Barkley L. Hendricks’s Reasons for Painting.” In it, Whitley cites Toni Morrison’s noted 2019 essay on “The Source of Self-Regard” in Black culture, which Morrison traced in music, lyrics, “the literature, the language, the custom, the posture…” and other evolutions in how “the possibility of personal freedom, and interior imaginative freedom […] could be engaged.” “Like Morrison,” Whitley concludes, “Barkley L. Hendricks took in all of these aspects and translated physical bodies into a body of work too often reduced to cool surfaces, but in reality teeming with heart, humor and humanity.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/15/2025Saturday, February 15, from 9–10 AM, Palm Springs Modernism Week presents "Boys in the Sand: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction," a talk with architect and historian Christopher Rawlins, whose new, expanded edition of the bestselling 2013 book, 'Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction,' releases in April 2025. For lucky attendees of the talk, advance copies will be available for signing!
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