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NY Art Book Fair @ P.S. 1, October 1 - 4, Benefit opening October 1, 2009

The NY Art Book Fair is Printed Matter's annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogs, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 200 international publishers, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent artist/publishers. Admission to the fair is FREE.

PREVIEW 6 - 8 pm
Thursday, October 1, 2009
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center

22-25 Jackson Ave (intersection 46th Ave)
Long Island City, NY 11101

BENEFIT
Following the preview, Deitch Studios, Long Island City, hosts a benefit for Printed Matter, featuring industrial punk-and-dub duo, I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance and Sadie Laska of Growing). DJs Tim Lokiec and Gary Murphy play vintage house.

Benefit tickets, available here, begin at $20 and include limited artist editions by Elmgreen & Dragset, Jutta Koether, Tom Sachs, and Mungo Thomson.

$20 Available here: benefit plus ticket edition by Tom Sachs in a numbered edition of 450

$150 Available here: benefit plus edition by Jutta Koether signed and numbered edition of 150

$150 Available here: benefit plus edition by Mungo Thomson signed and numbered edition of 150

$3,000 Available here benefit plus portfolio of 26 prints by Elmgreen & Dragset signed and numbered edition of 26

FAIR HOURS
Friday/Saturday, October 2 & 3, 2009, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, October 4, 2009, 11am - 5pm

The NY Art Book Fair is FREE and open to the public.

Printed Matter, the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists, presents the fourth annual NY Art Book Fair, October 1 - 4 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens.

The Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent artist/publishers presenting a diverse range of the best in contemporary art publications.

The Fair will occupy all three floors of P.S. 1 with exhibitors, special project rooms, and an exhibition of books, posters, and ephemera by Richard Prince - remarkable in scale, and perhaps an improbable partnership under other economic circumstances. It is an interesting move for P.S. 1, perhaps the kind of artist-driven, inclusive programming that P.S.1 will be doing in the post-Alanna era.

Featuring more than 200 exhibitors from 26 countries - roughly 60 more participants than in 2008 - the Fair has grown in scale while many other fairs seem to be scaling back.

Entire projects rooms will be transformed by artist-publishers Dexter Sinister; EAI, who will present "Free Trade," a screening on global exchange; Peres Projects/DADDY, presenting a solo exhibition of works by Bruce La Bruce in a blacked-out gallery; Dutch school Werkplaats Typografie and its entire student body who will conduct courses; and Gallery 360º from Tokyo will present a survey of Japanese Pop.

Also new to this year's Fair is The Classroom, a special programming series curated by David Senior (MoMA Library): three days of 45-min presentations by artist and publishers, including Bruce High Quality Foundation, Ugly Duckling Presse, Red76, Jennifer Sullivan, Haim Steinbach, and many others.

Printed Matter presents a special exhibition of books, posters, and ephemera by Richard Prince, curated by John McWhinnie, as well as screenings, book signings, and performances. Other events include the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, cosponsored with the Art Libraries Society of New York (ARLIS/NY); and The Classroom, a full-schedule of informal artist talks, performances, and screenings.

Philip Aarons, Chairman of the Board at Printed Matter, said: “Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair re-establishes New York City as the heart of art publishing. This extraordinarily democratic and far-reaching project brings together ground-breaking and unique exhibitors, speakers, and events from twenty-one countries.”

NY ART BOOK FAIR COMMITTEE
Philip Aarons, AA Bronson, Skuta Helgason, Catharine Krudy, Carolina Nitsch, Richard Prince, Dieter von Graffenreid, John Waters, Matthew Zucker

Peter J. Russo, Coordinator
peter@printedmatter.org
Jared Ray, Assistant to the Coordinator

FEATURED EXHIBITION
Richard Prince Calling All Readers (Books & Posters)
John McWhinnie curates a survey of the books and posters of Richard Prince, from the 70s to today.

FRIENDLY FIRE
This curated selection of exhibitors features the young and the restless: artists, collectives, and others who independently self-publish in a free-spirited range of formats, including books, zines, CDs, and DVDs.

CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS' BOOK CONFERENCE
In collaboration with the NY Art Book Fair, the Art Libraries Society of New York (ARLIS/NY) presents the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference on October 3rd and 4th. Sessions will focus on recent developments in artists' books, zines, data-oriented artworks, reprints, print-on-demand, and criticism. The keynote features Maria Eichhorn, Seth Siegelaub, and Christophe Cherix discussing Eichhorn’s recent publication, The Artist’s Contract. Other participants include: artists Jacqueline Hassink and William E. Jones; publishers Paul Schiek (TBW Books), Stacy Wakefield Forte (Evil Twin Publications), and Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner and Soner Ön (The Holster). Updates will appear on the events page.

BOOK SIGNINGS
There will be a schedule of book signings throughout the NY Art Book Fair. Updates will appear on the events page.

THE CLASSROOM
The Classroom is a full-schedule of informal artist talks, performative lectures, and other lessons of impromptu spirit with free, continuous enrollment for all fair-goers. The faculty includes: Center for Book Arts, Dexter Sinister, Fillip, free103point9 with Brett Ian Balogh and Tarikh Korula, Friends of the Fine Arts (FFARTS), Jason Fulford, Rick Myers, Michalis Pichler, Red 76, Carson Salter, Jennifer Sullivan, Three Star Books with Haim Steinbach, Triple Canopy, Ugly Duckling Press, Western Exhibitions with Miller & Shellabarger, and others. The Classroom is curated by David Senior, Museum of Modern Art Library.

PROJECT ROOMS
- Gallery 360 (Tokyo) presents JAPANESE POP THEN & NOW, with works by Kiyoshi Awazu, Suzy Amakane, Keiji Ito, Erika Kobayashi, Yutaka Kuriyama, Keiichi Tanaami, Tadanori Yokoo, and Aquirax Uno.
- Werkplaats Typographie (Arnhem), the Dutch super-school, bringS all 19 students to New York City to undertake an onsite project: an exhibition/project/event/book stall.
- Dexter Sinister (New York)
- Peres Projects/DADDY THE MAGAZINE (Berlin, Los Angeles) presents new publications and artist editions.
- Electronic Arts Intermix (New York) presents a new video program.

...AND MORE
- Gareth Long and Derek Sullivan present Long's sixth iteration of Bouvard and Pécuchet's Invented Desk for Copying. The desk-sculpture, pulled from the unfinished pages of Flaubert's incomplete last novel, is where Long and Sullivan work on their on-going project to illustrate (and re-translate) Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas.

Exhibitors:

032c
1301PE
2nd Cannons Publications
38th Street Publishers
A-Jump Books
A.R.T. Press (Art Resources Transfer, Inc.)
Adam & Kate Davis, Booksellers
Alias
AM Bruno
Amy Prior / Juncture
ANARTIST
Anteism
Antic-ham
Aperture
Archive Books/Archive Journal
Argobooks
Art Lies
Art Metropole
Art Papers
Artbook / D.A.P.
ARTFORUM
Artists Space
artonpaper
Artspeak
Banana Books
Bernhard Cella, Salon für Kunstbuch
Bidoun Magazine
Black Cat Bones
Boekie Woekie
Bongout
Book Works
Booklyn Artists Alliance
BorderCrossings
BravinLee programs
BUTT
Bywater Bros. Editions
Böhm/Kobayashi Publishing Project
Cabinet
Capricious
Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art
Casa Vecina / Libros de la Meseta
Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory
Catia Whitmore
Central Booking
Charles Clough
Charles Lane Press
Conundrum Press
Coracle
DADDY THE MAGAZINE
Dalhousie Art Gallery
Dashwood Books
Dazibao, centre de photographies actuelles
de Appel
Decathlon Books
Decode Inc.
Deitch Projects
Dia Art Foundation
DISPATCH
Dobbin Books
e-flux
Ediciones La Cartonera / México
Ediciones Menta
Edition Patrick Frey
Editorial Diamantina
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
Emily Carr University Press/Charles H. Scott Gallery
ese diseño
Evil Twin Publications
Exit Art
Eyelevel Gallery
Fillip
FOIL
Frieze
FUKT
GAGARIN
Galería Myto
Gallery 360
Goteblud
Gottlund Verlag
GRAPHIC (Propaganda)
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
Harper's Books
Hassla Books
Hecho en Oaxaca
Hurricane Publishing
Iconoclast
Idea Books
Invisible-Exports
Islands Fold
J&L Books
j. morrison
Jeremy Sanders @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
Joachim Schmid
John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
JRP|Ringier
Jörg Koopmann
Kaiserin
Kayrock
Kodoji Press
La Curtiduría
Last
Le Edizioni Della China
Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery
Lines & Shapes
Lubok Verlag
Marcus Campbell Art Books
Mark Wangberg
mediabus
MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Metropolis M
MFC-Michele Didier
ModLit Books
MoH/08
MoNDao Ediciones
Motto
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery
MUSAC
Mörel Books
Name Publications
No Coast
NSCAD University Press
O.H.W.O.W.
Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
onestar press / Three Star Books
Parkett
Paula Cooper Gallery
Peres Projects
PictureBox
PIN-UP
PINUPS
Plug In ICA/Plug In Editions
Point d'ironie
powerHouse Books
Presentation House Gallery
PRESSPOP, INC.
Primary Information
Princeton Architectural Press
Printed Matter, Inc
Pyramid Power
r.a.m. publications + distribution, inc.
Raketa
Red Fox Press
Regency Arts Press
Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ)
Revolver Publishing by VVV
RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications)
Ryan Dodgson Illustration
Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
SCB ART BOOK COLLECTION
Schaden.com Buchhandlung
Seems
Silverbridge Editions
Sister
Soberscove Press
Sternberg Press
steven harvey fine art projects
Stop Over Press
Straight to Hell: The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts
Susan Happersett
Susan Mills
TAGA
Taller Ditoria
TBW Books
TEXTE ZUR KUNST
Textofilia
The Art Newspaper
The Center for Book Arts
The Green Box
The Ice Plant
the journal
The Thing
THEY SHOOT HOMOS, DON'T THEY?
Tony Calzetta / Fabulous Fictions
Torpedo
Tumbona Ediciones
Ugly Duckling Presse
Unas Letras
USELESS
Visual Studies Workshop Press
VisualBooks
Volker Zander
Werkplaats Typografie
Western Exhibitions
White Columns
Witte de With
Wodger
Women's Studio Workshop
X-ING BOOKS
YYZBOOKS
Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
Zing Magazine
Zucker Art Books

FRIENDLY FIRE, a curated selection of independent
publishing by artists:

alLuPiNiT
BAS
Cinders Gallery
Dale Wittig
Darin Klein
Deep Dish TV
Edie Fake
Fluens Forlag
free103point9
Golden Age
James Prez
Kate Glicksberg
Kingsboro Press
Lovely Daze
Michalis Pichler
Nieves Books
Noah Lyon / Retard Riot
Ooga Booga
Paper Tiger Television
Red76
Rollo Press
Serps Press
The Holster
World War 3 Illustrated
X marks the Bökship
ZINE'S MATE
[ 2nd floor projects ]

[All images from the 2006 NY Arts Book Fair held at the Dia Foundation in Chelsea.]