Interview
A Talk With Christopher Kardambikis, Artist's Book Enthusiast
Every great museum has at least a few vitrines dedicated to the remarkable object that is the artist's book.
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Art
1980s Counterculture, and Its Legacy, in Zines
Self-published, cheaply-made, and disseminated after running through copy machines, zines — short for "fanzine" — have existed as simple and cost-effective creative soapboxes. Zines+ and the World of ABC No Rio, a current exhibition at the Center for Book Arts, presents publications from the archive
Books
Library Workers Zine a Bastion for Brooklyn Bookworms
Though the internet may have upended the physical dimension of recorded knowledge, The Borough is My Library zines, created by library workers in the New York City area, harness that accessibility and create a dialogue around the future of such brick-and-mortar institutions amid the swell of digital
Books
8 Finds from the 2014 LA Art Book Fair
LOS ANGELES — This year's Los Angeles Art Book Fair was by all accounts a success. The four-day event certainly shattered the previous year's attendance record, 24,450 visitors, and everyone I spoke to was excited by the quality and diversity of exhibitions, booths, and programming.
Art
Your Handy Guide to the 2014 LA Art Book Fair
LOS ANGELES — Shannon Michael Cane knows he has big shoes to fill as the new director and curator of the highly anticipated second edition of the Los Angeles Art Book Fair (LAABF). "Taking over the fair from someone like [artist and curator] AA Bronson, who is a mentor to me, is a lot of pressure to
Art
The Rise of the Artist Newsstand
This summer several art newsstands are bringing independent media to the city streets and subways, with piles of zines and DIY publications offered in the tradition of newsstands. Handsomely constituting a small trend, the newsstands currently installed in New York and Los Angeles are looking to eng
Opinion
A New Way to Create Shareable, Collaborative Digital Zines
When it comes to sharing content online, we’re spoiled by choice. You can post pictures to your Tumblr or Facebook, videos to YouTube or Vine, and words to … pretty much anything. But what those formats lack is a way to control the narrative of what you post. The Facebook photo album, it should be s
Art
A Print-based Resistance Movement
One of the most difficult things to evoke in an art show is a snapshot of a culture. On the other hand, when I write about zines, I find it difficult to separate the object itself from the ephemeral culture that surrounds it. In Samizdat: The Czech Art of Resistance, 1968-1989, curator Daniela Snepp
News
Zine Grab Bag: From Race to NY Pizza
Zines — the independent publications Xeroxed most often by their authors and distributed by small, independent DIY networks — are known for their broad spectrum of topics. They can be about anything and everything, and my 24 hours totally attested to this.
Opinion
Printing Is for Punks
Secret Project Robot hosted the 6th annual Prints Gone Wild fair November 4 and 5 in their new location in Bushwick.