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In addition to a thriving street art practice that includes putting hearts and cute doodle faces on everything from farm silos to city walls, artist Chris Uphues also makes little printed goods. This week, we're checking out two of Uphues' zines as well as a selection of day-glo colored hearts print
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Birdsong is a collective of artists, writers, printmakers and publishers, but it's also a zine press, and it's also a cultural moment. You may have noticed editor-in-chief Tommy Pico's place on the L Magazine's “Young New Yorkers Who Are Better Than You” feature. Self-consciously confessional, diari
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Dutch photojournalist Geert van Kesteren’s Baghdad Calling is unique in photojournalism first for its innovative use of the book medium, a compendium of newsprint interspersed with smaller, glossy pages with text and photos. But the content of the book is just as surprising as the format it comes in
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Scott Blake's rectangular, black two-inch wide and one-inch tall flipbook looks pretty harmless. It's small enough to fit in a pocket and has two normal, plastic covers bound by staples. The shock comes on the first flip through the book: it presents a moving image of the airplane hitting the second
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A Perfect Home: The Bridge Project was produced in conjunction with Korean artist Do Ho Suh's exhibition of the same name at Storefront for Art and Architecture here in New York City, which ran from September 14 through December 7 2010. Excellently edited by Yasmeen M. Siddiqui, the volume is more a
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Harmony Korine is known chiefly as a filmmaker, best for writing Larry Clark's 1995 cult hit Kids. His most recent movie, Trash Humpers, was variously decried and praised for its unabashedly gritty commitment to a certain kind of disturbing, voyeuristic realism. Bill Saylor is an artist who works in
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Alison Young is a lawyer and a professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, but don't let that intimidate you. She has also extensively covered the Australian street art world, writing and teaching on the “intersection of law, crime and culture.” In Street|Studio: The Place of Street Art in
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The New Adventures of Grossmalerman is a pulpy dime-store comic jaunt through the art world, suitable for anyone with a sense of humor, but especially for those with an underlying cynicism about their own art world adventures. Which makes pretty much all of us. The comic, published by Regency Arts P
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Public [http://publicjournal.ca/about.htm] is a Canadian journal founded in 1988 that comes out twice yearly, a compendium of art, design and writing projects centered around a single theme for each issue. Public's latest issue, number 42, is called Traces, and centers around the physical traces his
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Readers will probably figure out that Anne Beck's artist book State is inspired by the apocalyptic before they read the editorial note that comes at the end of the small volume. The first hints come through in the opening pages: a stark “STATE” in heavy hand lettering that does a horizontal flip on
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In the history of street art, New York's Dan Witz is a pioneer and one of the only names in the field that continues to enjoy an impeccable reputation based on skill, reinvention, and innovation. Yet, his monograph In Plain View is more than your conventional street art book. Its 220+ pages document
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Triple Canopy is an online art publication that funds, produces and publishes some of the most interesting digital contemporary art projects around. Less journal than showcase, Triple Canopy still doesn't lack for critical dialogue. Art projects coexist with written text and the whole package is wra