Bonhams New York is pleased to present the Arnold Smoller Collection of Contemporary Livres d’Artiste. A wonderfully astute and varied assemblage of nearly 200 volumes, the collection spans several decades of American and international art. It includes experimental works made of such surprising materials as lead, hair, plastics, and rubber. […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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For the first time in the two centuries of photographic history, a book has been produced that celebrates both the camera and the art of the photograph — displaying images alongside the cameras that created them. George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film launches this month “Camera: The […]
DC Moore Gallery announced that the first comprehensive monograph on the American artist, Jane Wilson, has been published by Merrell, London. Jane Wilson: Horizons celebrates her sixty-year career, from her immersion in the vibrant New York art world of the 1950s and 1960s to her current work, which has brought […]
Royal Collection Publications has appointed the University of Chicago Press as their new distributor in the United States and Canada. From 1 January 2010, UCP will be responsible for the fulfilment of all new and backlist trade titles. The Royal Collection produces between ten and twelve new publications a year, […]
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own […]
The first comprehensive book on the life and work of acclaimed American artist Stanley Meltzoff has just been released. Stanley Meltzoff – Picture Maker was nearly done when Meltzoff passed away in 2006 and the project was put aside. Now, angler and IGFA historian Mike Rivkin has completed the job […]
Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview from 1971 to […]
On Wednesday, November 4, TASCHEN New York will launch a new graphic design anthology, Design for Obama. Curated by Aaron Perry-Zucker and Spike Lee with an introductory essay by New York Times design columnist Steven Heller, this book is a collection of the best works submitted by graphic designers to […]
Skate’s Art Investment Handbook: the Comprehensive Guide to Investing in the Global Art and Art Services Market, by Sergey Skaterschikov, will be released by McGraw-Hill in November 2009. (Hardcover, 304 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-07-162572-2, $65) Skate’s Art Investment Handbook is an essential resource for investors interested in alternative investment assets. It […]
Hypergallery is proud to present a beautifully-produced portfolio box set containing 10 signed limited edition photographs of Michael Spencer Jones’ iconic artwork as well as a large format book of mainly previously unseen images of Oasis as you’ve never seen them before. The box-set represents a publishing first and offers […]