Gina Wynbrant’s comics are pleasantly uncomfortable and brash.
Megan N. Liberty
Megan N. Liberty is the Art Books section editor at the Brooklyn Rail and co-founder of Book Art Review. Her writing on artist books, ephemera, and graphic novels also appears in Artforum.com, ArtReview, frieze, and elsewhere. Find her on twitter @meganlib.
A Comics Newspaper for the Women’s Resistance
Dedicated mostly to female voices, the comics newspaper RESIST! was distributed for free at marches across the US on January 21.
A Spin Through the History of Photographic Album Covers
Though revisiting the vinyl record is in danger of becoming little more than an act of nostalgia, ‘Total Records’ explores the art of the album cover within the context of our thoroughly modern practice of image sharing.
The Documents Left Behind from Live Performances
An exhibition explores how the remains of performance art memorialize the past and re-perform for new audiences.
A New Bookstore in Philly Offers Much More than Books
The Ulises bookshop, which opened this past weekend in Philadelphia, focuses on books as a lens onto contemporary art.
Personal Stories from Shakespeare and Company, Paris’s Beloved English-Language Bookstore
Sylvia Whitman, who now runs the shop, and Krista Halverson, who edited the book, discuss a new publication that tells an in-depth history of Shakespeare and Company.
“The Ephemeral Moment of Exchange” in Barbara Bloom’s Wrapping Papers
Bloom’s papers mine the histories of gift rituals, interrogate the meaning objects are endowed with as gifts, and place value on an object that is meant to be used once and then discarded.
In His New Book, Daniel Clowes Explores Our Urge to Change the Past
Imagine confronting past versions of yourself — would you recognize your present self in them or feel completely alienated?
A Publisher of Artist’s Books That Isn’t Bound by Convention
For over 30 years Granary Books, under the direction of Steve Clay, has explored the possibilities and limits of artist’s books and collaborative publishing.
Mastery and Missteps in Matisse’s Books
The Morgan Library & Museum’s current exhibition Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts demonstrates the artist’s well-deserved reputation of having produced some of the most prominent livres d’artistes.
An Autobiography in Notes and Edits
Poet, pianist, and visual artist Anne-Marie Levine’s collected memoir, Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter: The Complete Works Volumes 1–12 (Project Projects), takes the form of a collaged scrapbook.
At the New Museum, Jim Shaw Plays Artist and Curator
The title of Jim Shaw’s current retrospective at the New Museum, The End is Here, comes from the title of his first zine made in 1978, displayed in a vitrine on the first floor of the exhibition.