Printed Matter, Inc. presents the NY fair for immediate release september 8, 2010 5–7 november 2010

NOVEMBER 5–7 AT MoMA PS1 PREVIEW: NOVEMBER 4, 6-9 p.m. www.nyartbookfair.com

“Smart, weird, engrossing, beautiful…” —The New York Times, 2009

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(September 8, 2010 – New York, NY)

Printed Matter, the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications by artists, presents the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. Free and open to the public, the Fair hosts over 230 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and publishers from twenty-one countries, offering the best in contemporary art-book .

Philip Aarons, Chairman of the Board for Printed Matter, said: “The NY Art Book Fair is the premier venue to find what’s new in art publishing. While it has spawned a new generation of independent art book fairs world-wide, it remains the biggest, the best, and by far the most fun.”

The NY Art Book Fair includes special project rooms, screenings, book signings, and performances, throughout the weekend. Other events include the third annual Contemporary Artists’ Conference and The Classroom, a curated series of informal conversations between artists, together Press Inquiries: with , workshops and other artist-led events. Peter J. Russo [email protected] A list of exhibitors, event schedule, and more information is available at www.nyartbookfair.com. Tel. 240 472 7260

About Printed Matter, Inc. To join a list to receive Printed Matter’s Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art press releases by email, please write: workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and [email protected]. other artists’ publications. Printed Matter, Inc. 195 Tenth Avenue FAIR HOURS AND LOCATIONS New York, NY Tel. 212 925 0325 Printed Matter, Inc. presents Free and open to the public: Fax 212 925 0464 The NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7, 2010 Thursday, November 4, 6-9 p.m. www.printedmatter.org Preview: November 4, 6-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, November 5 & 6, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. www.nyartbookfair.com MoMA PS1 | 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection Sunday, November 7, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. of 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY Printed Matter is open to the public Tuesday to Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The NY Art Book Fair thanks its sponsors for their generous contributions to these events:

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Generous support also provided by Mondriaan Stichting (Mondriaan Foundation) Printed Matter, Inc. presents the NY art book fair for immediate release september 8, 2010 5–7 november 2010

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING

Artist’s Project Leidy Churchman takes over the lobby with a large set of facsimile book on wood. upon the stacks at the Library with friend and librarian David Senior, Churchman traces a unique and fetching portrait of artists’ publications from the last hundred years.

Special Project Rooms Select exhibitors take over entire galleries: AA Bookstore with Bedford Books (London), Electronic Intermix (EAI; New York), Fillip and AAAARG.ORG (Vancouver; Los Angeles), and Picturebox Press Inquiries: (Brooklyn). Andrew Roth (New York) exhibits a retrospective of PPP Publishing. Goteblüd (San Peter J. Russo Francisco) presents an exhibition of more than six hundred Riot Grrrl zines, with a working photocopy [email protected] station. Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem), the Dutch super-school, brings its entire student body to Tel. 240 472 7260 design, produce, and sell books while you watch. To join a list to receive Printed Matter’s The Classroom press releases by email, please write: [email protected]. The Classroom is a curated series of informal conversations between artists, workshops, readings and other artist-led events, with continuous enrollment for all fair-goers throughout the weekend. Participants include: Printed Matter, Inc. Casco (Utrecht), f.ART magazine (New York), Golden Age (Chicago), J&L Books with Jason Fulford 195 Tenth Avenue (Atlanta), Kodoji Press with Erik Steinbrecher (Zurich), Little Joe (London), The New Dreamz with Rose Luardo and Andrew Jeffrey Wright (Philadelphia), Onomatopee (Eindhoven), Roma Publications with New York, NY Jo Baer (Amsterdam), Seems (San Francisco), Sumi Ink Club (Los Angeles), Swill Children (Brooklyn), Tel. 212 925 0325 Triple Canopy (New York and Los Angeles) and Alexis Zavialoff of Motto (Berlin), among others. The Fax 212 925 0464 Classroom is organized by David Senior, The Museum of Modern Art Library. www.printedmatter.org www.nyartbookfair.com Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference The Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference is a dynamic, two-day event focused on emerging practices Printed Matter is open to the public Tuesday to Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday to and debates within art-book culture. This year’s sessions address a wide array of subjects, including: Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. experimental , the so-called zine renaissance, fusion of art and design in typography, contemporary criticism, and new pedagogical approaches to the ever-expanding field of artists’ books. The first day of the conference ends with a lively pecha kucha, a rapid-fire event in which invited speakers have just five minutes to comment on an artwork. Full-conference registrants receive a specially commissioned book by Emily Roysdon, an interdisciplinary artist and writer who examines the intersections of choreography and politics. Roysdon’s book is a meditation on vintage photographs of the New York piers by queer photographer Alvin Baltrop. Printed Matter, Inc. presents the NY art book fair for immediate release september 8, 2010 5–7 november 2010

HIGHLIGHTS

Featured Countries This year, the NY Art Book Fair celebrates eighteen cutting-edge publishers from The Netherlands, including a project room by Kunstverein Amsterdam (Amsterdam) and Witte de With (Rotterdam), together with a variety of book launches and informal presentations in the Dutch Pavilion. Other countries represented include: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States.

Antiquarian Dealers Exhibitors present collections of rare , , Fluxus, and the avant-garde from Japan, Europe, and North America. Exhibitors include: John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz (East Hampton), Harper’s Books (East Hampton), Marcus Campbell (London), Steven Leiber (San Francisco), Sims Reed (London), Stefan Schuelke (Cologne), and others. Press Inquiries: Artists & Activists Peter J. Russo This diverse group of politically minded artists and collectives focus on the intersection of art and activism. [email protected] Exhibitors include: Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (Los Angeles), GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand (New Tel. 240 472 7260 York), The Yes Men (New York), Bread and Puppet (Glover, Vermont), Center for Urban Pedagogy (Brooklyn), and Temporary Services (Chicago), among others. To join a list to receive Printed Matter’s press releases by email, please write: Zines by Artists [email protected]. A lively selection of international zinesters will represent independent publishing at its most innovative and affordable. Exhibitors include: The Holster (Brooklyn), Nieves (Zurich), Ooga Booga (Los Angeles), Printed Matter, Inc. and ZINE’S MATE (Tokyo), among others. A special section of queer zines includes our favorites, from 195 Tenth Avenue Original Plumbing (San Francisco) and Girls Like Us (Amsterdam) to PINUPS (Brooklyn). New York, NY Tel. 212 925 0325 Limited Editions Fax 212 925 0464 Printed Matter presents new limited editions by artists Rachel Harrison, Christian Holstad and Misaki www.printedmatter.org Kawai, published on the occasion of the NY Art Book Fair 2010. Purchase of these editions supports the www.nyartbookfair.com Fair, ensuring the event remains free and open to the public. Printed Matter is open to the public Tuesday to SUPPORT Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The NY Art Book Fair Committee Philip Aarons, AA Bronson, Skuta Helgason, Catherine Krudy, Carolina Nitsch, Richard Prince, Dieter von Graffenreid, John Waters, and Matthew Zucker

Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City, Department of Cultural Affairs, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, the Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Gesso Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary, Arts, the Morris B. and Edith S. Cartin Family Foundation Inc., the Mondriaan Foundation, and individuals worldwide. Printed Matter, Inc. presents the NY art book fair f mmor i ediate release september 8, 2010 5–7 november 2010

P ARtiCIPATING EXHIBITORS BY COUNTRY

Australia Little Joe Foam Magazine Basking Ridge, NJ Banana Books Marcus Campbell Art Books Girls Like Us Heather Benjamin Bidoun Magazine Melbourne Mark Pawson Idea Books BTFA Serps Press Me and My Friends Kunstverein (Amsterdam) Boston, MA Center for Book Arts Mörel Books Roma Publications F.A. Bernett Books Charles Lane Press Austria Ridinghouse SKOR Creative Time Sims Reed TRUE TRUE TRUE Brooklyn, NY D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Graz Studio Alabaster Valiz 6 Decades Book Dashwood Books Camera Austria X marks the Bökship Autonomedia Dispatch Arnhem Badlands Unlimited e-flux Belgium Southend-on-Sea Werkplaats Typographie BOMB Magazine EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix) Focal Point Gallery Booklyn Artists Alliance Gregory R. Miller & Co. Antwerp Eindoven Cabinet GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand Gagarin finland onomatopee Capricious Hassla Books Cinders John McWhinnie @ Brussels Helsinki Maastricht Dobbin Books Glenn Horowitz Bookseller mfc-michèle Didier Napa Books Jan van Eyck Academie Publications Eric Doeringer Opening Ceremony Fluens Forlag Parkett Gent France Rotterdam Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Paula Cooper Gallery MER. Paper Kunsthalle Post Editions Gareth Long Primary Information Lyon Witte de With Publishers j. morrison Princeton Architectural Press Canada JSBJ - JE SUIS UNE BANDE James Prez / Back East Press Printed Matter, Inc DE JEUNES Utrecht Kayrock Screenprinting, Inc. Regency Arts Press Halifax BAK, basis voor actuele kunst Kingsboro Press Rosemary Sheridan Dalhousie Art Gallery Montreuil Casco – Office for Art, Design NOAH LYON / RETARD RIOT RxArt Eye Level Gallery Silverbridge Editions and Theory PictureBox Seems Mount Saint Vincent University Metropolis M PINUPS steven harvey projects llc Art Gallery Paris powerHouse Books Stop Over Press The Press of the Nova Scotia onestar Press New zealand Small Anchor Press Straight to Hell College of Art & Design Palais de Tokyo The Holster Susan Mills Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery POINT D’IRONIE Auckland The Journal The Yes Men / The Yes Lab split/fountain Ugly Duckling Presse White Columns Montreal Germany World War 3 Illustrated B&D Press Norway Cambridge, MA Drawn & Quarterly Berlin The MIT Press Oakland, CA Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery 032c Workshop Oslo TBW Books RCAAQ ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative Torpedo Press Chicago, IL Archive Books / Archive Journal Edie Fake Pittsburgh, PA Toronto argobooks scotland Golden Age Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative Art Metropole Bongout Half Letter Press / Temporary Services Bad Day Magazine Fukt Magazine Selkirkshire No Coast Portland, ME Bywater Bros. Editions Michalis Pichler Weproductions Renaissance Society Lines & Shapes Derek Sullivan mono.kultur Sara Ranchouse Publishing Hunter & Cook Motto slovenia Soberscove Press Portland, OR Jesjit Gill Revolver Publishing by VVV Red76 Parasitic Ventures Sternberg Press Ljubljana Cincinnati, OH Patrick Kyle Texte zur Kunst Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Iconoclast Editions Queens, NY Ryan Dodgson The Green Box Michael Lowe Showpaper YYZ Books south korea Cologne East Hampton, NY Rosendale, NY Vancouver Stefan Schuelke Fine Books Seoul Harper’s Books Women’s Studio Workshop Artspeak Antic-Ham Emily Carr University Press / Dusseldorf Gardena, CA San Diego, CA Charles H. Scott Gallery Böhm / Kobayashi Publishing Project Sweden SCB ART BOOK Louis M. Schmidt Fillip Presentation House Gallery Leipzig Stockholm Glover, VT San Francisco, CA Pyramid Power Lubok Verlag Raketa Bread and Puppet Press Dale Wittig Spector Books Goteblüd Victoria Switzerland Ithaca, NY Handbook Anteism Munich A-Jump Books ModLit Books Volker Zander Baden Original Plumbing Winnipeg Kodoji Press Kutztown, PA park life Cliff Eyland and Guy Maddin Ireland Gottlund Verlag Steven Leiber Treyf Books Geneva The Thing County Mayo Boabooks Los Angeles, CA Wolfville Red Fox Press 2nd Cannons Publications Santa Monica, CA Conundrum Press Zurich Clenched Fist RAM Publications U.S.A. italy Fink Darin Klein & Friends Denmark Edition Patrick Frey Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Seattle, WA Milan Most Beautiful Swiss Books Ooga Booga Decode Inc. Copenhagen FANTOM Nieves Books The Ice Plant Hurricane Publishing Mousse Magazine Urbana, IL Pork Salad Press USA Marietta, GA Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects Space Poetry Japan J&L Books Acra, NY Waccabuc, NY england Kanagawa free103point9: transmission arts Miami, FL Appledore Books SUPER LABO [Name] Publications Birmingham Astoria, NY Woodbridge, CT Eastside Projects Tokyo K48 New York, NY Derringer Books Presspop, Inc. 38th Street Publishers London ZINE’S MATE Atlanta, GA Adam & Kate Davis, Booksellers Afterall Art Papers anartist Bedford Press & AA Bookshop The Netherlands Andrew Roth, Inc. Frieze Austin, TX Aperture Foundation Gandt Amsterdam RYEBREAD RODEO Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T. Press) Jane & Jeremy Boekie Woekie Artforum / Bookforum Kilimanjaro Magazine de Appel