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Urban Knits, a small book of colorful photographs, explores a relatively new kind of graffiti called “urban knitting,” self-proclaimed to be the most “inoffensive” type of urban graffiti. Like most books of its kind, a collection compiled by theme, Urban Knits unintentionally shows the wide discrepa
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A Hedonist’s Guide to Art may as well be called A Hedonist’s Guide to the Art World. Released last winter, the book is a collaboration between Artica, an eGallery for contemporary art, and Hg2, a series of luxury travel guides. It’s comprised of short essays from about 60 people from various reaches
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The author Penelope Przekop’s second novel, Centerpieces, is a novel that bravely tries to be a historical fiction about Van Gogh, art and the creative drive, but instead turns out to be a twisted narrative that describes a stifling world of corporate ladder-climbing.
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Birdsong, the local Williamsburg zine now in its 15th issue, is a blend of short stories, poems, drawings, collages and photographs: it is primarily a literary magazine that features artwork woven between each written piece. Birdsong’s appeal can be summed up nicely by the resumes of the artists and
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The goal of MoMA’s Print & Illustrated Book department’s latest show entitled Impressions from South Africa: 1965 to Now, is simple: to explore how various printmaking techniques have been used in South African art since the 1960s, when the museum first began collecting African art.
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Reading through detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s blog, recently translated by Lee Ambrozy and published as an eponymous book by MIT Press, isn’t fun, and it’s not for the faint of heart. A carefully selected culling of the artist’s massive production of posts between 2006 and 2009, the volume is
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You may know Steve Martin from being one of our time's defining comedians, actors and celebrity figures. But along with those first few titles, the man is also a renowned collector of contemporary art, as well as a novelist and a playwright. These pursuits could be called hobbies if they didn't requ
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The Studio Museum in Harlem's Fall 2010 Studio magazine, a publication that functions as newsletter, press release and behind-the-scenes peek at the museum's operation, doesn't exactly look institutional. This edition is covered by a mottled, fibrous layer of paper that obscures the magazine itself.
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US-focused graphic novel publisher Tokyopop, founded in 1997, has announced that it will be closing the doors on its American operation on May 31. Tokyopop was the first to publish Japanese manga (comics, or graphic novels) in their original, un-flipped state and did much to popularize what has been
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Lapham's Quarterly is a quarterly (duh) publication edited by Lewis Lapham (also duh), former Harper's Magazine editor from 1976 to 1981. Each issue of the staid, stately magazine focuses on a single theme; previous themes have included “The City,” “Sports & Games,” and “About Money.” Drawing on wri
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After stopping in to Hyperallergic's local coffee shop one morning, I noticed something interesting in the newsstand next to the Village Voices and L Magazines. I took a closer look. MoMA's logo? On a newsprint publication? The Museum of Modern Art is refreshing an old form of advertising to get the
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Japanese author Haruki Murakami's latest book, 1Q84, has become a blockbuster hit in the author's native country, but the English edition is still forthcoming. As a preview, Knopf has released images of the book's cover, by famous graphic designer Chip Kidd. Using transparent vellum as a jacket, the