Printed Thing, Inc. presents THE NY ART BOOK FAIR, September 21-23, 2018. Preview: Thursday, September 20, 6-9pm

NY Art Book Fair 2018Printed Matter presents the thirteenth annual NY Fine art Book Fair, from September 21-23, 2018, at MoMA PS1. The NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is the leading international gathering for the distribution of artists' books, celebrating the full latitude of the fine art publishing customs.

Free and open up to the public, the outcome draws more than 35,000 individuals including book lovers, collectors, artists, and fine art world professionals each year.

In 2018, the NYABF will host 365 exhibitors from around the world featuring a wide diverseness of works – from zines and artists' books to antiquarian books and contemporary art editions. The NYABF offers countless opportunities to nourish complimentary programs including creative person-led discussions, performances, interactive workshops, and curated exhibitions.

Encounter a full list of exhibitors participating in the 2018 NY Art Book Fair hither

THE NY Fine art Book Off-white PREVIEW

Join us on Thursday, September xx from vi–9 pm, at MoMA PS1 for the opening night preview. The evening will feature special live performances from DJ Monchan, Roe Enney and Odwalla1221, presented by Blank Forms.

Preview tickets are $20 and include a limited edition work by artist Ryan Gander. Read more well-nigh this work and purchase your NYABF preview ticket here.

Preview ticket sales support Printed Matter'southward year-round piece of work of providing resource to artists and championing the artists' volume medium through programs like the NY and LA Art Volume Fair.

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING

The Classroom

Celebrating its 10th year! The Classroom provides space for informal lectures, readings, screenings and other activities past artists, writers, designers and publishers. The program highlights exciting new releases at the Fair and fosters dialogue around important themes for contemporary fine art publishing and the broader community. Participants include: Ann Butler, Johanna Drucker, Lia Gangitano, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Tammy Nguyen, Jeanine Tang, Lynne Tillman, Ruth van Beek, and Martha Wilson, amongst many others. Organized by David Senior, Head of the Library and Archives, SFMOMA.

Gimmicky Artists' Books Briefing (CABC)

This year the Conference relocates to the newly opened Book Culture space at 26-09 Jackson Ave, simply a few blocks abroad. Join u.s. on Friday and Saturday for lively debate on hot topics and emerging practices. Planned session topics include queer and trans perspectives in artist publishing, migration and diasporic community-based publishing, vernacular photography with poesy and prose, the history and influence of Avalanche magazine, and the relationship of comics and graphic novels to artists' books and the fine arts.

Friendly Fire

A component of the NYABF since its inception in 2006, Friendly Fire features presses and artists' collectives that do different forms of cultural, social and political activism. This twelvemonth's participants include 8-Ball Community, Allied Productions, Inc, Interference Archive, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, True Laurels, and Visual AIDS amid others. Curated past Printed Thing'due south Executive Director Max Schumann.

Shannon Michael Cane Honour

The Shannon Michael Cane Award is granted to four first-time NYABF exhibitors (artists, artists' volume publishers, or collectives) in the early on stages of their career. The inaugural year winners are backbone books, Ian Giles, MonoRhetorik, and Sming Sming Books.

Courtyard Stage

The Courtyard Phase has a x year history of showcasing emerging talent aslope legendary artists and volition host performances from musicians and audio artists to poets and performance artists running throughout the fair weekend. This year's programs are presented by Blank Forms, Printed Matter, Inc., Heavy Trip, and Pioneer Works.

A History of Zines!

Printed Matter proudly presents a wide-reaching historical exhibition of zine publishing across the 20th century and onward, beginning with science-fiction and undercover horror publications of the 1920s, and last with new works created on occasion of this yr's NYABF. A History of Zines! gathers more than 400 self-published works and related archival materials, spanning genres and offering an unmediated view into diverse subcultures and grassroots activism, including LGBTQ, punk, hip-hop, the Mimeo Revolution, photography, skateboarding, the Beats, and feminism. A selection of zines will exist available for browsing.

A History of Zines! is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Shannon Michael Cane, a beloved member of the Printed Matter staff who played an indelible office in developing the NY and LA Art Book Fairs during his time as Curator of Fairs & Editions.

Curated past 8-Ball Customs and Johan Kugelberg/Boo-Hooray

EXHIBITOR PROJECT SPACES

iii Dot Zine will create an immersive interactive reading room featuring an installation of The Gratuitous Black Women'southward Library, an interactive Black Feminist mobile trading library and interactive biblio installation that features a collection of 1000 books written by Black women.

The Yellow Jackets Collective and iii Dot Zine are tabling new zines and printed affair sourced from a various group of artists and zine makers effectually the country. Khari Johnson Ricks volition share zines and prints from his ongoing printmaking practice. Amoss Eff'southward article of clothing hand printed textiles collection, Warefamos, will be bachelor within a special brandish created for 'Welcome, A Space'.

Post-obit in the tradition of the 3 Dot Zine's Brown Newspaper Zine & Small Press Fair for Blackness and PoC Artists, this environment and all artists and collectives who will accept function in setting the intentions and possibilities of this space are of colour. Zines from Margot Terc, Cósmica, Subject Press and more will also be bachelor.

Alden Projects™ presents Richard McGuire: Art for the Streets New York 1979-82, a special exhibition and volume launch, featuring Richard McGuire'southward original "Ixnae Naught" street drawings. Described by Glenn O'Brien equally "cryto-mystical" in his review of the New York/New Wave show at P.S.1, Queens in 1981, McGuire returns again in 2018 with vintage, spray-painted works depicting his "Ixnae Naught" shadow grapheme surrounded by enigmatic texts fatigued in crayon. Also present: McGuire's distinctive original art for posters for the influential mail service-punk band Liquid Liquid, of which he was a founding fellow member. McGuire's imperceptible art is accompanied by black-and-white photographs of the downtown streetscapes where they originally appeared. Published by Alden Projects™ with an introduction by Luc Sante and an interview by Todd Alden, the volume is also bachelor in a deluxe edition of 100, containing unique fine art by Richard McGuire.

Gagosian participates with a special project infinite conceived in collaboration with choreographer William Forsythe, exploring visual and notational approaches to dance and movement.

Forsythe is a radical innovator in choreography and trip the light fantastic who has redefined the very syntax and praxis of his field. In the class of his singular career spanning five decades, he has developed an extensive repertoire of groundbreaking ballet choreographies and experimental, non-proscenium-based dance-theater works, as well as an open-access digital platform for dance analysis, notation, and improvisation. He has also been working for more than twenty years on installations, film works, and discrete, interactive sculptures that he calls "choreographic objects", which are the subject area of a survey exhibition at the ICA Boston this autumn.

At the NYABF, printed materials and videos by Forsythe will be featured alongside selected Gagosian publications, as well as boosted books and ephemera that reveal Forsythe'southward wide-ranging influences and interests including Chris Burden, Katharina Grosse, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread.

Martos Gallery presents an exhibition of works and notebooks by Dan Asher. Asher passed abroad in 2010 and left behind studios filled with paintings, sculpture, video, and works on paper. In March 2018, Martos Gallery had its first solo exhibition with The Estate of Dan Asher which presented an array of piece of work and included a zine fabricated in collaboration with RATSTAR Printing. The zine presented a selection of pages from hundreds of Asher'due south notebooks. Asher'south borderline hoarding is reflected in his obsessive compulsive product of thousands of works, including notes, listen maps, phone numbers, doodles, and ideas; his thoughts, scribbled down similar quick-fire, spill over the edges of the pages, and for this special presentation at NYABF, they spill onto the walls.

onestar press and Three Star Books are pleased to nowadays new limited edition artists' volume editions by AA Bronson, Gabriel Kuri, Ebecho Muslimova and a new fiberglass tray edition from Rirkrit Tiravanija. Daniel Gordon will be featured by onestar press this year, taking his digital and analog works to a new level with a dedicated exhibition projection presented aslope his new CAMERA Artist portfolio projects.

Karma will present 2 new screenprint portfolios by artists Shio Kusaka and Nicolas Political party.

Marian Goodman Gallery will nowadays a special selection of new impress editions, objects and books by their artists, including Leonor Antunes, Christian Boltanski, Ettore Spalletti, and Danh Vo.

Press Press volition release their newest publication, Sentiments: Expressions of Cultural Passage, a compilation of conversations, creative person projects, and writings exploring cultural passage, immigrant identity, and notions of sanctuary, with an interactive exhibition and series of programs in MoMA PS1's courtyard project space. The space will characteristic artworks produced past Sentiments contributors and display Printing Press's Manifesto for Sanctuary-Building and Sanctuary-Keeping, a collaboratively-built manifesto Printing Press has created with immigrants and immigrant-side by side people through workshops in Baltimore, New York City, and Chicago that highlights diverse visions of sanctuary and proposes strategies for creating and protecting those visions. Visitors can attend a number of programs hosted past the group, including Readings on Sanctuary in the projection infinite, where contributors volition declare their manifesto and more, and a console conversation with the project's editor, Kimi Hanauer, and co-organizers, Valentina Cabezas, Bomin Jeon, and Bilphena Yahwon, as part of The Classroom.

Nosotros the News is a series of story circles with Black immigrants and first-generation Black Americans that are documented in zines and distributed publicly through a newsstand. The project is by Lizania Cruz, with support from The Laundromat Projection in collaboration with BAJI.

Werkplaats Typografie is taking shelter in the basement, seeking condolement amongst glowing golden conduits and generously thick brick walls. How are yous dealing with the temperatures in PS1? Do you lot need a break? A hot chocolate? A coating perhaps? Did you know that warm air rises to the ceiling? We read somewhere that if one is feeling cold, 1 should put their ceiling fan on its lowest setting, in clockwise direction, to push the hot air back to the floor where one tin experience it. Boiler rooms are not usually known to be the most suitable spaces for simmering downwards, nevertheless we'd love to warmly welcome yous to come downwards to our Humid Room for Hot Reading, where you volition be provided with some freshly forged (pre)texts and plenty other excellent reasons to chill.

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NEW FUNDRAISING EDITIONS

Printed Thing presents new express-edition artworks by Laylah Ali, Ryan Gander, and Eileen Quinlan. Fundraising editions support Printed Matter's year-round work of providing resources to artists and championing the artists' book medium through programs including NY and LA Art Book Fair.