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| | | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/20/2024Featured 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 4/30/2024Tuesday, 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 4/30/2024Tuesday, 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 4/25/2024Join Artbook during Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair, April 25–28, 2024! Our booth B29 will present a selection of books by artists, activists, scientists and theorists expanding on the notion of the natural and the magical, and addressing time travel. 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 4/18/2024Thursday, 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 4/18/2024 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 4/14/2024It 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 …”
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.
 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 4/12/2024Join 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 4/11/2024Thursday, 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 4/11/2024Thursday, 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 4/11/2024 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 4/9/2024 “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.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/4/2024Featured spreads are from Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning, published to accompany the pioneering performance and video artist’s career retrospective on view now at MoMA. Perhaps the most written-about exhibition of the spring season, Good Night Good Morning collects five decades of playful and poetic videos, drawings, notebooks, photographs, major installations and performances at a moment when the culture is finally ready to stop, watch and listen to the elusive artist, who has been feeding back prolifically from the sidelines—and the frontlines—virtually undetected, while simultaneously influencing everybody and saying everything—but quietly.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/1/2024“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” So said Dutch graphic artist and geometric-mathematical savant M.C. Escher, known throughout the world for his disturbing, enigmatic works featuring tessellations, perspectival paradoxes, twists of logic and visual puzzles. In this bold new silver-covered monograph, published to accompany a major exhibition of the artist’s work in Italy, all of Escher’s most important and classic woodcuts, lithographs, linocuts, mezzotints and wood engravings are collected, with a special emphasis on works produced during his formative twelve-year period in Italy, where he lived from 1922 until 1935. “This exhibition is all about technique, beauty, illusions and dreams,” M.C. Escher Foundation President Mark Veldhuysen writes, reminding those of us who grew up in the age of computers, smartphones, video games and now AI, “in Escher’s days, computers didn’t exist and everything you see is handmade.” New from Skira, read more about the book here.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/31/2024Featured spreads are from surprising and enlightening staff favorite Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work, published by DelMonico Books and the Jay DeFeo Foundation. Collecting almost 200 photo collages, photograms, photographs and photocopies—many published here for the first time—by the legendary Bay Area artist, this beautifully produced hardcover features writing by an all-star cast including Leah Levy, Judith Delfiner, Corey Keller, Justine Kurland, Dana Miller, Catherine Wagner and Hilton Als, who writes, “And what would we do without Jay DeFeo, who is only partly alive because she dares us to look at the work and make sense of that sofa covered in netting, or the empty picture frame with the broken wire, or the telephone with the white bulb that burns brightly in the imagination? What can any of these images mean? Are they images of DeFeo’s idea of sculpture, or sculptural elements? What can she mean by those teeth, that shoe? Let us enter her pictures subtly and swiftly together and take from them what we will, freely, as we revel in the eye of DeFeo the beholder. Behold.”
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/30/2024Saturday, March 30, at 3 PM CDT, Seminary Co-op presents photographer Danny Lyon discussing his memoir 'This Is My Life I’m Talking About,' published by Damiani Books. A Q&A and signing will follow the event.
 LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 3/30/2024Saturday, March 30, at 4 PM, please join Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore to celebrate 'Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice'—published by Valiz and Source Type—presented by graphic designer and editor Ben Schwartz with Shanzhai Lyric, Nat Pyper, Hassan Rahim and SHIRT. Book signing with Schwartz to follow.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/27/2024 New publisher on our list No More Rulers is coming out strong with two books in its accessible, collectible and highly giftable Handbooks series. We are thrilled to announce the Jean-Michel Basquiat Handbook—an affordable, compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20th-century art, featuring texts by NMR publisher Larry Warsh, Henry Geldzahler and Henry Louis Gates Jr.—and the KAWS Handbook—an essential guide to the emblematic New York street artist turned pop culture sensation, featuring writing by Warsh and Carlo McCormick. Measuring just 4.5 x 7 inches, these brightly-colored, vinyl-bound volumes couldn't be more enticing, affordable or portable. Welcome No More Rulers!
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