Gallery N, NYABF14. Photo courtesy BJ Enright Photography.
There’s nothing so scintillating as the smell of ink on paper, page after page, caught between two covers, awaiting your gaze. It is the art book that makes best use of the form, and to celebrate this, Printed Matter presents the tenth annual New York Art Book Fair, from September 18 to 20, 2015, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 17.
Free and open to the public, the N.Y. Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines. This year, the fair features over 370 booksellers, antiquarians, artists, institutions and independent publishers from twenty-eight countries. With last year’s fair was attended by more than 35,000 people, the N.Y. Art Book Fair is one of the most celebrated events in the illustrated publishing world.
Cody Defranco at NYABF14. Photo courtesy BJ Enright Photography.
This year’s exhibitors are an eclectic blend, gently mixing the traditional with the avant garde, from the Guerilla Girls to Gagosian Gallery. With local New York favorites like Dashwood Books, Boo-Hooray, and Blonde Art Books to institutions including Artforum, BOMB Magazine, and Yale University Press, the N.Y. Art Book Fair brings together the best publishers every year.
NYABF15 will also host an array of programming and special events: in its seventh year, The Classroom is a curated engagement of informal conversations, workshops, readings, and other artist-led interventions. Highlights include:
- Good 70s by Mike Mandel, with Sharon Helgason-Gallagher & Jason Fulford (Friday, September 18 at 4:00 pm). The Good 70s is a box of facsimiles of Mandel’s original publications, long out of print, including the cards, photographic artist’s books and previously unpublished work and ephemera.
- untitled anonymous (Saturday, September 18 at 1:00pm). To coincide with the launch of a limited edition from PPP Editions, Andrew Roth hosts a talk between author and critic Vince Aletti, and artist Leigh Ledare discussing ideas of authorship and sexuality. untitled anonymous reproduces two sequences of images and an essay by Aletti.
- SELF PUBLISH BE HAPPY: A DIY PHOTOBOOK MANUAL AND MANIFESTO (Sunday, September 20 at 3:00pm). Bruno Ceschel is joined by David Senior, bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library and contributor to the book, to discuss the history and legacy of artists who self publish.
- Jimmy DeSana (Sunday, September 20 at 4:00pm) A panel discussion about the artist’s life and work moderated by Laurie Simmons. Panelists include Grace Dunham, Johanna Fateman, Carlo McCormick and Matt Wolf. Jimmy DeSana (1949 – 1990) was a photographer working in the downtown art and music scene of New York in the ’70s & ’80s. His new book Suburban published by Aperture is out this fall with essays by Laurie Simmons and Elisabeth Sussman.
Badlands Unlimited (2011).
HOURS AND LOCATION
Preview Thursday, September 17, 6-9 pm
Friday, September 18, 1-7pm
Saturday, September 19, 11am-9pm
Sunday, September 20, 11-am-7pm
MoMA PS1 is located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY.
Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer, curator, and brand strategist. There is nothing she adores so much as photography and books. A small part of her wishes she had a proper library, like in the game of Clue. Then she could blaze and write soliloquies to her in and out of print loves.
