THE NY ART BOOK FAIR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 14, 2008 24–26 OCTOBER 2008 THE NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR – October 24-26, 2008 at Phillips de Pury & Company PRINTED MATTER, INC., the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to the pro- motion of publications made by artists, presents the third annual NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR on October 24-26 at PHILLIPS DE PURY & COMPANY in New York City. The only fair of its kind, the New York Art Book Fair attracts over 120 publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers from Berlin to Beijing to present a diverse range of the very best in contemporary art books, art catalogs, artist’s books, art periodicals, and ‘zines. Outgrow- ing its original site, the Fair now occupies a new, 18,000 square foot space provided by PHILLIPS DE PURY & COMPANY at its 450 West 15th St. location. The New York Art Book Fair is FREE and open to the public. Events/highlights at this year’s Fair include: ARTISTS BOOKS—THEA WESTREICH AND ETHAN WAGNER host a special exhibition of their impressive publishing history, featuring works by MIKE KELLEY, RICHARD PRINCE, CHRISTOPHER WOOL, RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA, JAN DE COCK, and others. MICHÈLE DIDIER presents her newest project by ON KAWARA. ANTIQUARIAN DEALERS, from Japan, Europe, and North America, present rare docu- ments of Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Minimalism, and the Avant-Garde. UP-AND-COMING PUBLISHERS show the latest innovations in art book publishing from Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Nether- lands, Sweden, and Switzerland—not to mention Cambridge, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, and San Francisco. FRIENDLY FIRE, a curated section of the Fair, features the young and the restless: artists and art collectives who independently self-publish in a free-spirited range of forms from books and ‘zines to CDs and DVDs, many with a DIY, homemade aesthetic. QUEER ZINES—this special exhibition of gay ‘zines from the last 50 years, curated by AA BRONSON and PHILLIP AARONS, features more than 60 hard-to-find titles, together with twelve exhibitors from the cutting edge. A comprehensive catalogue will be available. ARTISTS’ BOOKS CONFERENCE—librarians from all over the world attend the Artists’ Book Conference for Art Librarians, co-presented by Printed Matter Inc. and the Art Libraries Society of New York, with events at the NY Art Book Fair, the MoMA, the New York Public Library, and other locations throughout the city. The keynote presentation features a public interview by HANS ULRICH OBRIST with JOSEPH GRIGELY and RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA. AND MORE: Hu Fang, Zhang Wei, and Xu Tan of Beijing’s Vitamin Creative Space present their take on a “reading room”; Peres Projects and DADDY Magazine take over a project space; a video room programmed by Electronic Arts Intermix; a jam-packed schedule of book launches, readings, panels, and performances; and non-stop book signings by artists Marina Abramovic, Michel Gondry, Slava Mogutin, Gary Panter, Ben Jones and others. BENEFIT PREVIEW A ticketed BENEFIT PREVIEW on the evening of Thursday, October 23 will benefit For further information please contact PRINTED MATTER, INC. Tickets start at $20 and come with a special edition artwork Mo Johnston: Tel. 646 342 5935 by JONATHAN MONK. Providing participants with the first look at all Fair offerings, the [email protected] preview evening also features a special performance organized by Monk and other nyartbookfair.com / printedmatter.org surprise events. THE NY ART BOOK FAIR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 14, 2008 24–26 OCTOBER 2008 PARTICIPATING EXHIBITORS BY COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA Vitamin Creative Space Ediciones Originales DENMARK Kink Melbourne THEY SHOOT HOMOS Copenhagen Madrid DON’T THEY? Fluens Forlag Galeria Estampa Pork Salad Press BELGIUM SWEDEN FRANCE Antwerp Landskrona Gagarin Nice Bengtsson Fine Art Jean Michel Wicker Brussels SWITZERLAND Michèle Didier Paris Christophe Daviet-Thery Zurich Ghent onestar press/Three Star Books Beni Bischoff Mer. Paper Kunsthalle Edition Fink GERMANY Nieves CANADA Berlin TURKEY Halifax Basso Dalhousie Art Gallery Passenger Books Istanbul Eye Level Gallery Peres Projects/DADDY BAS Mount Saint Vincent Magazine University Art Gallery Michalis Pichler UNITED KINGDOM The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design IRELAND London Saint Mary’s University Afterall Art Gallery Dublin Art Newspaper Printed Project Book Works Montreal Conor Donlon Books Drawn & Quarterly JAPAN Eleanor Brown RCAAQ Four Corners Books Tokyo Mark Pawson Pender Island Gallery 360 PAPERBACK Magazine Islands Fold Utrecht Sims Reed USELESS Toronto THE NETHERLANDS Bywater Bros. Yarrow Art Metropole Amsterdam Weproductions BUTT Vancouver Girls Like Us USA ARTSPEAK Charles H. Scott Gallery Heemstede Brooklyn Emily Carr University Press Artists’ Books Johan Deumens Autonomedia The Fillip Review Booklyn Presentation House Gallery NORWAY Cabinet Pyramid Power Capricious Oslo Cinders Gallery Winnipeg Torpedo Books Dobbin Books Plug In ICA Free103point9 For further information please contact SPAIN fusetron Mo Johnston: Tel. 646 342 5935 CHINA Heavy Tapes [email protected] Barcelona j. morrison nyartbookfair.com / printedmatter.org Beijing Actar D James Prez THE NY ART BOOK FAIR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 14, 2008 24–26 OCTOBER 2008 K48 Parkett Kate Glicksberg PIN-UP Kingsboro Press Pinups LTTR Primary Information Our Mouth Records Printed Matter, Inc. Picturebox Purgatory Pie Retard Riot Regency Press Spoonbill & Sugartown Specific Object USELESS stop over press Straight to Hell Cambridge Susan Happersett MIT Press THE JOURNAL Visionaire Chicago Thea Westreich and Ethan Edie Fake Wagner Sara Ranchouse Publishing White Columns World War 3 Illustrated Cincinatti Zucker Art Books Michael Lowe Philadelphia East Hampton Bobo Harper’s Books Portland Los Angeles Red 76 2nd Cannons Arkitip Rochester Darin Klein Scott McCarney Ooga Booga Visual Studies Workshop Peres Projects/DADDY Magazine San Francisco RAM Publications Dale Wittig modlitbooks New York Steven Leiber A.R.T. Press (Art Resources Silverman Gallery Transfer, Inc.) The Thing Actar D Anartist Valencia Andrew Roth Afterall Art Newspaper Art on Paper Artforum Artists Space Banana Books Bookforum BUTT Center for Book Arts D.A.P./Art Book David Krut Dia Foundation Electronic Arts Intermix Exit Art Freight + Volume For further information please contact Gregory R. Miller Mo Johnston: Tel. 646 342 5935 John McWhinnie [email protected] Lovely Daze nyartbookfair.com / printedmatter.org.