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| | | RECENT POSTS CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/25/2025Wednesday, June 25, from 6�7:45 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents 'Fire Island Invasion' photographer Anderson Zaca in conversation with essayist Thom (Panzi) Hansen, leader of the original 1976 invasion. The discussion will be followed by a book signing.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/21/2025Saturday, June 21, from 1�2 PM, the International Center of Photography presents photographer Anderson Zaca speaking about his practice and his new release�'Fire Island Invasion: Day of Independence,' published by Damiani�at ICP�s Photobook Club. This event is free to attend.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/9/2025�So I have done what I wanted to do, I have seen everything, misery, celebrity, the beautiful people, the wicked ones, generosity and hatred. But I think I have gone beyond my vision.... In the heart of my own life, in the heart of other people�s lives. Perhaps that is the most important thing I have done.� So noted nonagenarian American documentary photographer Bruce Davidson is quoted in the new Steidl monograph, The Way Back, collecting four decades of previously unpublished images from Davidson�s archives, selected by the artist himself. Pictured here, �East 100th Street, New York� (1966).
 LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 6/8/2025Sunday, June 8 at 4 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents J. Hoberman discussing 'Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde�Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop.' To celebrate this new work Hoberman will be in conversation with Melissa Rachleff Burtt.
 LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 6/7/2025Saturday, June 7 at 4 PM, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents a conversation about Jeanette Spicer�s 'To the Ends of the Earth.' The event will include a discussion between Jeanette Spicer, her mother Marcia Buckley, and partner Sara Duell, moderated by contributor to the publication Keren Moscovitch.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/5/2025Featured spreads are from MFA Publications� new release, Robert Frank: Mary�s Book, a facsimile reprint of the photographer�s poetic 1949 Paris photobook, made for an audience of one. In its new incarnation, this stitched, 7 x 9.5-inch volume with spot varnished images and faithful reproductions of the original paper�stains, notes (English and French), erasures and all�comes housed in a larger clothbound hardcover book that features additional photographs, essays by Frank scholar Stuart Alexander and MFA curator Kristen Gresh, and annotations transcribing and translating Frank�s notes in the photobook that he produced for his beloved, Mary Lockspeiser, just one year before they would marry, in 1950, in New York City. �On the book�s cover is its simply written raison d��tre,� Alexander writes: ��This is for you. It is not much but I promised you a little story. Maybe this is not a story.� Mary�s Book, a love letter from Robert to Mary, is a series of unbound pages nestled within one another, filled with handwritten notes and hand-cut prints. The book is more than a keepsake of their burgeoning love affair. It was an important exercise in bookmaking for Frank, evidence of his maturing artistic vision, which led to one of the most influential photobooks of the twentieth century, The Americans (1958).�
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/2/2025June 3, 4 and 5, please join publishers Naomi Yang and Damon Krukowski and editor Isabel Ochoa Gold to celebrate the publication of 'Immemory: Gutenberg Version.'
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/1/2025Out now from MASP and KMEC Books, Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is, unfortunately, perfectly timed for this moment in America�not only looking back to our recent pandemic, but applied to the current administration�s epic war on diversity, gender freedom and civil rights. The first major survey of the game-changing NYC activist artist collective whose late-80s to mid-90s graphic artworks fearlessly demanded change around the outrages of the AIDS epidemic, this indispensable catalog includes 156 reproductions of artworks, documentary photographs, pamphlets, manifestoes and other rare ephemera, alongside previously unpublished essays and historical interviews. Above: Read My Lips (Men�s version) on T-shirt. Original artwork, photocopy on paper, ACT UP, Spring AIDS Action, 1988.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/29/2025Out now from Damiani Books, Chromotherapia is edited by artist and Toilet Paper publisher Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdz�, who together have taken Rome by storm with this exhibition of outrageous, sweet, sexy, Surrealist and Pop color photography by some of the most interesting figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries�from Yevonde Middleton to William Wegman. Featured here is American mid-century cat photographer Walter Chandoha�s Long Island (1952).
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/28/2025Wednesday, May 28, at 7 PM, Aeon Bookstore presents series editors Andrew Lampert and Christine Burgin in conversation with experimental filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh for the launch of the first five books in The Further Reading Library.
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/28/2025"Turn the lights off and dance." "Look into someone's eyes for five minutes without talking." "Cut up a piece of junk mail and make a collage." "Memorize a poem." These are just a few of the 52 suggestions in Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford's best-selling, tear-off coupon-style booklet, Offline Activities. Measuring just 5 x 2.5-inches, this adorable, perfectly provocative, pocket-sized publication encourages users to seek the kinds of surprising, intimate experiences that can only really happen IRL. So follow the instructions. Pick a page at random. Rip it out. Do the activity on the page. Repeat until the book is empty!
 LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 5/24/2025Saturday, May 24, at 4 PM EST, Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Heide Hatry, Leonard Schwartz, Jonathan Hollingsworth and David Gessnera for a triple book launch in tribute to Flaco, the Central Park Owl.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/23/2025 Dreamy and lush, Louis Fratino�s �You and your things� (2022) is reproduced from Satura, out now in its second printing with a new, 27x37-inch fold-out poster cover of this very artwork. Published to accompany the artist�s recent exhibition at Centro per l�arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Florence, the book itself is also oversized and printed on two deluxe papers. �Louis Fratino�s painting cannot do without poetry, but it is not literary,� Chiara Portesine writes. �In his works, the covers of books are scattered over tables, desks, even kitchen sinks. Fratino�s domestic microcosm seems to teem with writings and writers, and yet his figures, those totems of uncouth tenderness, rarely tell a story or present a neat plot of actions. Rather, they are an expression of the static and absolute moment of an epiphany.�
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/20/2025 �Our capacity for joy is intimately connected to our ability to play. Comics tap into that joy.� Featured spreads are from Drawn to MoMA: Comics Inspired by Modern Art, MoMA�s new, 200-page, 12 x 6-inch collection of comics inspired by visits to the Museum, featuring illustrated stories by two dozen graphic artists, plus one collectible foldout poster by Chris Ware. Alongside Ware are works by Jon Allen, Gabrielle Bell, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Jessica Campbell, Roz Chast, Ted Closson, Liana Finck, Ali Fitzgerald, November Garcia, Anna Haifisch, Mari Kanstad Johnsen, Patrick Keck, Lee Lai, Ellen Lindner, John Vasquez Mejias, Danica Novgorodoff, Tommi Parrish, Ben Passmore, Weng Pixin, Anna Sarvira, Walter Scott, Bishakh Som, Karl Stevens and Erin Williams.
Quote above is from �Words in Pictures, Pictures in Words,� by Alex Halberstadt and Arlettee Hernandez. Spreads feature work by Weng Pixin, Ted Closson and Anna Haifisch.  LACY SOTO | DATE 5/17/2025Saturday, May 17, from 4�5 PM, photographer and 'City of Angels: A Book about L.A. Style' author Jasmine Benjamin will appear in conversation with artist, director and Born x Raised creative director Alex/2Tone at Printed Matter's L.A. Art Book Fair as part of the Printed Matter Classroom series. Please join us immediately following the Classroom talk in Artbook Booth C19 for a 'City of Angels' book signing with Jasmine Benjamin!
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/16/2025Featured spreads are from the catalog to Rashid Johnson�s critically acclaimed, three-decade-spanning retrospective on view now at the Guggenheim Museum, en route to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and MCA Chicago, 2026�2027. Spanning from Johnson�s early self-portraits to his site-specific installations, this beautifully produced volume, printed with gold block edges, takes its title from a poem by Amiri Baraka and features writings by curators Naomi Beckwith and Andrea Karnes, Guggenheim Director Mari�t Westermann and a host of luminaries including Nana Adusei-Poku, Hendrik Folkerts, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Kevin Quashie, in addition to an interview with Odili Donald Odita. Beckwith quotes the artist: �The subject of my work is freedom.� But she distinguishes this statement from the work�s purpose. �He has learned � that the instrumentalization of Black artists� work toward the purpose of freedom rarely ends well. The purpose of his work is to help him walk the razor�s edge between dichotomies�being and nonbeing, community and individualism, past and future, particularities and capaciousness�and to give form and format to a way of both seeing the world and being in a world of infinite, intertwining possibilities. For Johnson, freedom means an autonomous zone of uninhibited creativity, a tapping into an unconscious flow and getting �lost� in that; of being removed from instrumentalization. � As a scholar of Black cultural history, from slave narratives to Afrofuturism, from Beat poetry to hip-hop, Rashid Johnson is familiar with the neutering effects of Black resistance and brilliance when it is absorbed and packaged by a dominant culture: to be captured is a fate far worse than death.�
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/12/2025Published to accompany the upcoming exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California collects more than 100 quilts by nearly 90 individual African American quilters working during the Second Great Migration, 1940 to 1970. These are drawn from BAMPFA�s renowned collection of more than 3,000 quilts, most of which were produced by women with ties to the San Francisco Bay Area. �At its foundation, Routed West is about an ethic of care that underlines the flow and flourishing of quilts within African American communities,� Elaine Y. Yau writes. �It is an ethic that guides how fabrics are salvaged and chosen, puts hands to work to fill physical or emotional needs, tends to past memory as much as it does to present and future kin, and calls forth the quiltmaker�s own image of beauty from the sovereign space of the imagination. That the stories gathered here include California as part of their journey is specific to these quilts, but they are not exclusive to the Golden State; in terms of their other destinations and travels, one need only look at a map of other African American migration routes for a view of where quilts, made and kept for sustaining Black life, can likely be found.�
ABOVE: Susan Pless. Before 1944; Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. �Untitled (Strip).� Corduroy, cotton, cotton / polyester blend, velveteen; machine pieced, hand quilted 82 x 75 in. Bequest of the Eli Leon Living Trust, BAMPFA. Photo: Kevin Candland.  LUCIA ZEZZA | DATE 5/10/2025Saturday, May 10 at 4 PM, Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents an experimental, participatory book launch that plays with different ways of experiencing books collectively. Designer and curator Prem Krishnamurthy�s 'Past Words'�a new anthology of his selected writing and exhibition projects spanning fifteen years�will form the basis for a suite of collective activities incorporating reading, writing, movement and dialogue. Come for connection with people, ideas and words�plus karaoke!
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/8/2025Featured image is reproduced from new release Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers. Collecting a rare portfolio of exquisitely rendered botanical watercolors made during spring and summer of 1919 and 1920�just a few years after she completed her secret, groundbreaking Paintings for the Temple series that would, a century later, take the world by storm�this gorgeous, 272-page hardcover accompanies the first public exhibition of this body of work. �There are no obstacles to man�s ascent if he is capable of controlling his thinking,� Af Klint wrote in the essay, An Attempt to Explain What Stands Behind the Flowers, �directing his thoughts to the realm of light, overcoming the body�s resistance with his thought. When we turn our gaze toward the plant kingdom, it gives us information about the composition of our own being.�
ABOVE: Sheet 9. Fragaria vesca (Woodland Strawberry), Oxalis acetosella (European Wood Sorrel), Antennaria dioica (Catsfoot), Taraxacum officinale (Common Dandelion). June 2�3, 1919, and May 24�25, 1920.
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/6/2025 Nina Chanel Abney�s 2022 diptych collage on panel, Mama Gotta Have A Life Too, is reproduced from new release Big Butch Energy/Synergy. Published by DelMonico Books in conjunction with ICA Miami and moCa Cleveland, this dynamic, affirming and fearlessly humorous body of work is centered around gender perception and performance in representations of college Greek life. Black butch energy/synergy �is what I yearned for,� Abney is quoted, �that camaraderie among like-minded queer community in these experiences that cater to straight people. Luckily, in my current life, I�m in community with queer individuals where I feel like my needs are centered and seen. I wasn�t for such a long time.� Big butch energy is the confidence to do whatever the hell you want. The move forward is being your true self no matter how difficult, exist as you want to be. I think that�s what we have to continue to do.�
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/4/2025"Style is about the freedom to be oneself, to authentically express oneself, and in doing so reject limitations imposed by others," Jason Jules writes in the classic Reel Art Press survey, Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style. "When it comes to this period and these clothes, it's often mistakenly argued that Black men appropriated this style out of a desire to be white, coming from a deep sense of inferiority. In reality, the urge to wear these clothes was in no small part borne of the desire to demonstrate that equality which had been so fiercely denied them in other ways. Countering racist preconceptions, the goal was to be recognized as at least equal to the rights they were fighting for, not only in the eyes of the American mainstream but throughout the world. Rather than a sign of conformity and compliance Black Ivy was a kind of battledress, a symbolic armor worn in the nonviolent pursuit of fundamental change. Making society treat them differently meant making the mainstream see them differently first. And they did."
 CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/1/2025Behold, spreads from early Fall 2025 release, After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960�2025, drawn from the deep collection of legendary Granary Books publisher Steve Clay and published to accompany an exhibition curated by Clay and new Granary co-publisher MC Kinniburgh, on view at the Grolier Club in NYC through July 2025. A thematic journey through the history of recent experimental poetics�including cut-up, collage, sound poetry scores, performance scripts, practices of �writing through,� erasure, glyph systems, calligraphy, experimental typography, non-Western alphabets, assemblages and beyond�this humble but mighty collection spans from Kenneth Patchen�s The peacock when placed (1955) to Lois Elaine Griffith�s You See What You See (Granary, 2025). Clay and Kinneburgh conclude their introductory essay by touching on the significance of manifestoes across the decades of visual poetry covered here. �A new way of looking, a new way of being. Now more than ever, we continue to live in text-based environments that are increasingly image-heavy�social media, email, the Internet. We continue to share the anxieties that haunted the first generations of concrete and visual poets�war, nationalism, ecological destruction. May our turning of ears and eyes towards these poets chart new ways forward in political and aesthetic life, and may the evidence of their efforts inspire us to create works and communities that sustain us.�
d.a. levy, The Tibetan Stroboscope, Ayizan Press, 1968. Taii Ashizawa and Takehisa Kosugi, guest eds, Japanese Schmuck, no. 8., Beau Geste Press, Spring 1976. Mary Beach, ed, Fruit Cup, no. 0., Beach Books, Texts & Documents, Inc., 1969.  CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/30/2025Wednesday, April 30, from 6�8 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents the NYC launch of the new, expanded edition of 'Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction,' published by Metropolis Books and Gordon De Vries Studio. Author Christopher Rawlins will be in conversation with Charles Renfro, who contributes the Afterword, followed by a signing. Drinks and refreshments will be served.
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