Art
Newsstands as these highly individual, cluttered points of information in a personal dialogue with the street have almost totally disappeared from New York City. A huge reason was the raising of annual vendor fees from the hundreds to the thousands in the 1990s, and the replacing of the old booths t
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AA Bronson, the internationally recognized artist and former president of New York's Printed Matter artist-book store, is currently in LA to launch the first ever LA Art Book Fair at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary space in downtown LA. Bronson, who is also the director of the NY Art Book Fair, says he's
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To my pleasant surprise this weekend, while going about my business I was stopped by several New Yorkers, from various walks of life, all advertising information about the Occupy Wall Street protests. Occupy Wall Street seem to be on the top of everyone’s mind these days or at least the tips of thei
Art
This past June, artist and curator Aimee Lusty [http://aimeelusty.com] took over as Booklyn’s gallery director. Lusty proposed a program that promotes artists primarily working in print: each show she curated would include print artists showing fine art work, and each show would result in a zine cat
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Screaming Females are one of those bands who are just that good; they have an unwavering idea about who they are and what they want to do, have worked relentlessly to get where they are and have retained their weirdo aesthetic throughout. In the past two years, the band has gained the attention of i
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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
Books
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