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MoMA PS1 RELATED PUBLICATIONS


MoMA PS1 presents today’s most experimental, thought-provoking art. Founded in 1971, it is the first nonprofit arts center in the US devoted solely to contemporary art. This selection includes books and a tote bag published by MoMA PS1, alongside exhibition catalogs published to accompany MoMA PS1 shows and more.



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Faithful Unto Death

Pet cemeteries, animal graves, and eternal devotion
By Paul Koudounaris

SIGNED

The remarkable stories of beloved pets—from the famous and unusual to the everyday—memorialized at burial sites around the world, accompanied by a rich selection of archival photos and the author's evocative images of their final resting places.


When a little dog named Cherry died in 1881, his owners arranged for a grave in a nearby gatekeeper’s garden in London. At this time, the idea that a pet, even one that had lived as a family member, might be given a dignified burial was considered comical. But when other pet owners—likewise determined to memorialize their companion animals—followed suit, the world’s first urban pet cemetery was born. More soon followed across Europe, the United States, and then the rest of the world, resulting in a revolution in the way we consider animals. Faithful Unto Death tells the stories of people who gave their hearts to a disparate variety of species, yet were all united in one common belief: that the reward at death for a faithful animal companion should reflect the love it offered during life.

Losing a pet has always been a unique kind of pain. No set rituals exist to help provide closure when pets die, there are no readily shared passages from spiritual texts, no community of compassion to surround the mourner and help alleviate grief. And there is a sense of taboo, that it is somehow socially incorrect to mourn an animal as one would a person and feel the pain so intensely. Faithful Unto Death confronts this taboo by telling the stories of people who have memorialized their beloved animals.

The book addresses the moral and spiritual prejudices that have historically surrounded animals, and reveals how, in the face of these prejudices, a movement started in the nineteenth century to treat pets with dignity even in death. It is a fight that is still far from over, but the triumphs that are revealed as the book unfolds, found in burial grounds small to grand and on monuments humble to huge, possess the power to touch everyone who has ever cared for an animal companion. In tracing the historical evolution of pet cemeteries through the stories of the people and pets that have been integral to their development, this book reveals both similarities in the way we mourn animal companions and a stunning cultural diversity. From humble Cherry in London to pets of the rich and powerful, this is a history filled with inspiration, wild eccentricity, and eternal love.

Thames and Hudson
Hardcover | 256 pages | 7.1 in x 9.8 in

Paula Wilson
Toward the Sky’s Back Door

Edited with interview by Rebecca McNamara. Foreword by Ian Berry. Text by Taylor Renee Aldridge, Ebony Y. Rhodes, Stephanie Sparling Williams.

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This first major monograph features nearly two decades of work by American artist Paula Wilson (born 1975), who frequently intermixes her identity as a Black biracial artist, living in a rural desert town in New Mexico, with narratives and motifs across time and place.
Toward the Sky’s Back Door documents her wide-ranging career with essays by leading scholars Taylor Renee Aldridge, Ebony Y. Rhodes and Stephanie Sparling Williams, and a new interview with the artist. Wilson embraces a both/and approach to art and living, using the same techniques, materials and motifs to make rugs and clothing as she does for art on the gallery wall. Throughout her work, little to nothing is discarded, with scraps from one artwork recycled into another, reflecting both a practice of eco-sustainability and a model for creating something new from fragments left behind. This volume presents paintings, sculpture, prints, collages and videos, with different mediums frequently intermixed in a single work, ranging in scale from small paper-mosaic work to beyond-life-size female figures.

DelMonico Books 
8.75 x 11.5 in. | 184 pgs  

Jasmine Benjamin
City of Angels: A Book about L.A. Style

Edited by Sophia Dearborn. Art direction by Kilo Kish. Foreword by Chioma Nnadi.

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American photographer and costume designer Jasmine Benjamin represents the ease of Northern California, where she was raised, and the cosmopolitan pace of Hollywood, where she lives, and has brought her ever-creative spirit, considerable talent and infallible eye to music industry titans and anonymous citizens alike. 'City of Angels: A Book about L.A. Style' features more than 120 portraits of daring, expressive Los Angeles creatives shot in locations across the length and breadth of this vast metropolis. The project showcases the dynamic fusion of style, music, and art in Los Angeles, capturing the city’s distinctive identity and cultural importance.

Photographed exclusively by Benjamin, this book also features a unique illustrated map of Los Angeles by the artist Isaac Escoto, also known as Sickid, adding an exceptional artistic dimension. 'City of Angels' promises to be both a tribute to and an in-depth exploration of the essence of L.A. street culture. It celebrates the rich and diverse style scene of Los Angeles, highlighting a blend of celebrities, local figures, and everyday residents who embody the city’s authentic spirit and fashion. Notably, approximately 80% of the individuals featured in the book are native Angelenos or hail from the greater California region, offering an intimate, homegrown perspective that enhances the project’s authenticity. This body of work perfectly juxtaposes beauty with edginess, glamour with rawness.

Damiani | Hardcover | 6.5 x 9.5” | 160 pages 

Jasmine Benjamin has worked as a stylist and sometimes creative director for Miguel, Anderson .Paak, Donald Glover, Vince Staples, and Chaka Khan, as well as a costume designer for commercials by Nike, the WNBA, Apple Music, and Google. Benjamin has been featured in Vogue and Billboard and was named “Top Stylist of 2016” by i-D magazine.



Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné
Edited by Martin Harrison

$1,500 plus shipping


Martin Harrison, following his appointment by the Estate of Francis Bacon, has devoted over a decade to the creation of this magnificent publication, the first-ever complete catalogue raisonné of the work of the great British painter. Including many previously unpublished paintings, this five-volume set allows Bacon’s oeuvre to be seen and assessed in its entirety for the first time, with all works reproduced in full color. The only previous Bacon catalogue raisonné was published in 1964, gathering only 37% of Bacon’s ultimate oeuvre, and featuring only 27 color reproductions. Only about half of the 584 paintings that survive are accessible to the public in exhibitions and publications; with Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, the painter’s entire oeuvre can be seen and assessed for the first time.

The catalogue, containing around 800 illustrations across five clothbound, hardcover volumes, includes three books comprising the study of Bacon’s entire working history, which are bookended by two further volumes: the first including an introduction, chronology and an indispensible index and users’ guide, and the second a catalogue of Bacon’s sketches with an illustrated bibliography. Beautifully produced and printed, the five volumes of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné are boxed within a handsome cloth slipcase.

The Estate of Francis Bacon 
Hardcover | 5 vols | 9.5 x 12.25” |  1,556 pgs  







Explicit Snow Globe


An irreverent snow globe to celebrate any time of year. 
4 inch glass snow globe with plastic base. 

Pure Products USA | 4 x 3 x 6 in.

Marcel Duchamp: Boîte-en-valise (or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy)


One of the most important and enigmatic pieces of modernist art, "Boîte-en-valise" (Box in a Valise) was assembled by Marcel Duchamp between 19
35 and 1941.

This is the first ever reinterpretation of the legendary book-object, conceptualized by French artist Mathieu Mercier and now available to a broader audience. At once a work in and of itself, and a reproduction in the Duchampian spirit, this miniature museum contains 69 reproductions of Duchamp's most celebrated creations, including the famous "Fountain," Nude Descending a Staircase" and the "Large Glass." Mercier has reproduced the bulk of the contents of Duchamp's original box in paper form, designing everything to scale. Playful and accessible, the "Boîte" reflects Duchamp's desire to display his works outside the museum and gallery system.

Walther König, Köln 
Boxed | 14.75 X 14.75 “ | 69 replicas and printed reproductions


       
       Tosh Berman from Artbook unboxes Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise!









Hermès Pop Up
Text by Stéphane Foekinos


Every year, the iconic luxury brand Hermès chooses a new theme to celebrate its creative direction for the upcoming year. This practice began in 1987, marking the brand's 150th anniversary, and has since become a beloved tradition―a way to combine the house's proud, storied heritage with its creative vision for the future.

Hermès' Year Theme for 2018 was "Let's Play," and the brand  celebrated in style with this deluxe pop-up book.

Featuring a selection of 14 of the house's iconic square scarf designs, both old and more recent, this book brings the designs alive with exhilarating ingenuity. Delicate paper constructions bring out the depth and volume within the scarf designs; zebras rear up, delicately arching trees grow from the page and painterly strokes detach themselves from the paper surface. This is the Hermès carré as you've never seen it before.

For Hermès,

a brand associated with the highest quality luxury materials and design, "play is movement, freedom, imagination, fantasy, seduction, lightness." Impeccably produced, Hermès Pop Up gives readers the chance to play around in the brand's archives.

Hardcover | 8.5 x 8.5” | 26 pgs










Ed Ruscha
On The Road: An Artist Book of the Classic Novel by Jack Kerouac
SIGNED BY ED RUSCHA 

$9,000
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In 1951, Jack Ke
On the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120-foot-long scroll, feverishly recording in 20 days his road trips across the United States and Mexico. On the Road was finally published in 1957, and Kerouac was immediately acknowledged as the voice of the Beat Generation.

For almost 50 years, Ed Ruscha has recorded the evolving emblems of American life in the form of phrases and sentences, Hollywood logos, gas stations and archetypal landscapes. During the 1960s, he created a series of cheaply printed photographic books which can be seen in part as deadpan meditations on the romantic vision of the road epitomized by the Beats. In Royal Road Test (1967), he brought the word and the road together in a conceptual prank by documenting himself dropping a vintage typewriter from a speeding Buick.

In 2010 Ruscha turned his attention to On the Road, and has produced his own limited-edition version of Kerouac's Beat bible. Ruscha designed the book, illustrating Kerouac's text with 55 tipped-in photographs that the artist has either taken himself, commissioned from other photographers or selected from found images to refer closely to the details and impressions that the author describes, from car parts to jazz instruments, from sandwich stacks to tire burns on a desert road. The text is printed in letterpress on 220g Hahnemühle paper and every one of the 55 photo-plates is blind-embossed and tipped in by hand to create an exquisite and original edition. 

Steidl
The leather-bound book comprises 228 pages, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 350 and presented in a slipcase.











Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship
By Janice Shapiro 



SIGNED BY JANICE SHAPIRO AT ARTBOOK @ H&W 

Honoria, the daughter of Sara and Gerald Murphy, who invented the literary "summer on the Riviera" in the 1920s, is used to her parents' endless parties with such luminaries as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, at their splendid house at Cap d'Antibes. When sheltered and unsophisticated Ida visits for a summer, Honoria becomes both her mentor and tormentor, as well as her role model and, finally, her friend.
When Ida is sent away for the summer to stay with the Murphys — friends of her father, but also of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald — she travels from New York to France and, unknowingly, into the artistic epicenter of 1929. There, she meets their haughty, sullen, and precocious daughter, Honoria, and wonders if she can be friends with the prettiest girl in the whole world. In the "perfect inverted world" of adults, one of constant play and leisure — and inebriation, of course — it's the children who most acutely perceive the pervasive unhappiness bubbling beneath the surface gaiety.

Achingly sad and effortlessly funny, full of the kind of youthful sincerity unclouded by pretenses of age, short story writer and cartoonist Janice Shapiro's debut graphic novel, Honoria, is the complex story of the education of two young girls who have started moving slowly into womanhood.

Fantagraphics 
Hardcover | 352 pages | 8 x 10 

Mimi Lauter

Text by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Essay by Diana Nawi


The first comprehensive monograph devoted to Mimi Lauter’s work, this elegantly linen-bound hardcover offers an immersive exploration of the artist's distinctive creative process and vividly dynamic body of work. The catalogue spans Lauter's career, packed with rich colors and swirling textures, showcasing her visceral works created primarily in oil and soft pastels on paper. Alongside these works, intimate photographs of Lauter's home studio and garden invite readers into her universe. Lauter refers to her garden as an "ongoing, constantly changing epic mural" that deeply informs her palette and compositions. This monograph includes a text by Los Angeles-based writer and curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and an essay by LACMA Contemporary Art curator Diana Nawi, offering an in-depth understanding of Lauter’s artistic vision and evolution. 

Mimi Lauter (b. 1982, San Francisco, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in oil and soft-pastel. Channeling the natural world, influenced by painting’s rich history, and investigating the human spirit—its complexities and inherently elusive nature—Lauter examines the intimate, the existential, and the transcendent. Her practice proposes a secular relationship to spirituality in painting—belief in and devotion to the painting itself. Imagery of flowers, vases, the four elements, and other instances of iconography are meant to conjure the history of painting as well as the temporal. For Lauter, landscapes are a method by which to parse our journey on this planet, the heaviness of existence, and mortality. A number of the artist’s works point to the tradition of still-life painting, implicating interior and psychological spaces. Lauter is informed and influenced by artists such as Odilon Redon, Leonora Carrington, Hilma af Klint, Max Ernst, Louise Bourgeois, Florine Stettheimer, as well as members of the Nabis and Post-Impressionists, who impress upon the aesthetic foundation of her work.

Lauter received her BA at the University of California, Los Angeles and her MFA from University of California, Irvine. In 2012, Lauter was included in the first Los Angeles Biennial Made in L.A. 2012 organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration
with LAXART. Recent institutional presentations include the Kasteel Wijlre Estate, Netherlands (2022); Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2022); and participation in Prospect.5, New Orleans, LA (2021). Her work is represented in the collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.

The Grenfell Press
Hardcover 9 x 12 in, 180 pages.

Ticking Stripe
By Spencer Gerhardt



Noted mathematician and composer Spencer Gerhardt presents Ticking Stripe, a groundbreaking collection of essays linking notions of continuity and construction across the boundaries of math, art, music and philosophy. Gerhardt offers new, deeply informed analysis of the 1960s New York avant-garde, viewed through the lens of trailblazing artists such as La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Catherine Christer Hennix, Henry Flynt and Tony Conrad. Ticking Stripe pairs the spirit of L.E.J. Brouwer—a mathematician who sought to reconstruct the continuum in his own philosophical terms called intuitionism—with the ambitions of pioneering minimalists who combined continued constructions, idealized processes of introspection and conceptual world-building with a host of philosophical, scientific and spiritual concerns. Informed by his own work as a mathematician and composer, Gerhardt explores the depths of these disparate traditions, finding unlikely areas of commonality.

Spencer Gerhardt is a composer and mathematician. His music engages constructive, introspective, and romantic traditions. For more than twenty years, Gerhardt has written solo piano music, piano-based songs, and works of minimalism. He studied raga with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, piano performance with Sung-Hwa Park, and has collaborated with artists such as Thomas Ankersmit and Charles Curtis. Gerhardt has a record forthcoming on Blank Forms Editions. Gerhardt is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on algebraic groups, often viewed in connection with problems in finite group theory and representation theory. Prior to his work in algebra, he studied logic and philosophy in the Brouwerian tradition at the University of Amsterdam, where he received a Master of Science. Gerhardt has written about art and music in this context, in particular the philosophical underpinnings of minimalism.

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Philip Ording is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Science at the Pratt Institute. In addition to teaching mathematics at Columbia University, the City University of New York, and Sarah Lawrence College, he has worked as a consultant in art and design studios throughout New York since 2003. He is author of the award-winning book 99 Variations on a Proof (Princeton, 2019) and coeditor of Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts (Springer, 2017). His research and writing appear in the American Journal of Mathematics, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, Cabinet, Bulletins of the Serving Library, American Mathematical Society History of Mathematics series, and elsewhere.


Kate and Laura Mulleavy co-founded the fashion label Rodarte in 2005, subsequently infusing their distinctive visual language and approach to storytelling into areas such as film and opera costume design, writing, and film directing. Their designs reside in the permanent collections of museums nationwide, including the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum at FIT in New York. Institutional exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011), and a retrospective at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (2018). In 2017, the Mulleavys wrote and directed their first feature film, Woodshock, starring Kirsten Dunst. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and was distributed by a24. They are currently at work on their second film.

Blank Forms Editions
Paperback, 6 x 9.25 in. / 252 pgs / 5 bw.




Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation.



SIGNED by Qween Jean, Ryan McGinley, Ramie Ahmed, Caroline Mardok, Stas Ginzburg, and Erica Lansner
on the occasion of the book launch at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore on Saturday, December 10. Conversation with Qween Jean and Ryan McGinley, moderated by Elena Ketelsen González.

Aperture | Paperback / softback
224 pgs / 147 images | 6.75 x 9.25 x 0.81 inches



Revolution Is Love is the powerful and celebratory visual record of a contemporary activist movement in New York City, and a moving testament to the enduring power of photography in activism, advocacy, and community.

Qween Jean is a New York–based activist and costume designer who has designed for over fifty shows. In 2020, Jean founded Black Trans Liberation, an organization aiming to provide access and employment resources for trans and gender-nonconforming communities. In 2021, she was artist-in-residence at MoMA PS1, New York.

Ryan McGinley is a New York–based artist. His early photos displayed the unseen intersection of queer skateboard and graffiti culture. At the age of twenty-five, he became the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. For more than a decade, McGinley has road-tripped throughout the US to create work that incorporates the human body within the American landscape. You can always find him on the streets of New York photographing queer activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.

Elena Ketelsen González is an assistant curator at MoMA PS1. Previously, she served as curatorial assistant and program manager for the Gracie Mansion exhibition Catalyst: Art and Social Justice, and has formerly held positions in programming at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of the City of New York. While at MoMA PS1, she has worked to organize activations of Homeroom, a space that amplifies and celebrates the work of collectives, organizations, artists, and activists that are connected to PS1’s program. 






Irene V. Small
The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism


SIGNED by Irene V. Small
Zone books, 2024 | pp. 448
6 x 9 in. | 237 color illus.



What would it mean to treat an interval of space as a line, thus drawing an empty void into a constellation of art and meaning-laden things? In this book, Irene Small elucidates the signal discovery of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark in 1954: a fissure of space between material elements that Clark called “the organic line.” More than a history of a little-known artistic device, The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism is a user’s guide and manifesto for reimagining modern and contemporary art for the present.

Irene V. Small is an author, writing on topics ranging from Neoconcretism and radical pedagogy to social sculpture, restitution debates, free speech and the afterlives of slavery. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. 

Thomas Lax is Curator of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art. 
Both Sides of Sunset Photographing Los Angeles

$300 
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SIGNED BY ED RUSCHA

Los Angeles is a city of dualities—sunshine and noir, coastline beaches and urban grit, natural beauty and suburban sprawl, the obvious and the hidden. Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles reveals these dualities and more, in images captured by master photographers such as Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Daido Moriyama, Julius Shulman and Garry Winogrand, as well as many younger artists, among them. Taken together, these individual views by more than 130 artists form a collective vision of a place where myth and reality are often indistinguishable. 


Metropolis Books
Hardcover | 12.75 x 10.25” | 28 pages



Dayanita Singh: Museum Bhavan
Interviews by Aveen Sen, Gerhard Steidl

With Museum Bhavan, Dayanita Singh forges a new space between publishing and the museum, an experience where books have the same--if not greater--artistic value as prints hanging on a gallery wall. Consisting of 10 individual “museums” in book form, Museum Bhavan is a miniature version of Singh’s eponymous traveling exhibition, with prints placed in folding expanding wooden structures.
The images in Museum Bhavan have been intuitively grouped into lyrical chapters in a visual story such as “Little Ladies Museum” and “Ongoing Museum,” as well as more specific series such as “Museum of Machines.” As in Singh’s first project, Sent a Letter (2008), the books are housed in a handmade box and fold out into accordion-like strips which the artist encourages viewers to install and curate as they wish in their own homes. The exhibition thus becomes a book, and the book an exhibition.

Steidl 
Hardcover | 10 vols | 3.5 x 5.5” |  298 pgs







Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi’s evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi’s immediate environment. A powerfully arresting collection of work, Muholi’s radical statements of identity, race, and resistance are a direct response to contemporary and historical racisms. As Muholi states, “I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces―brave enough to create without fear of being vilified. . . . To teach people about our history, to rethink what history is all about, to reclaim it for ourselves―to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back.”

With more than twenty written contributions from curators, poets, and authors, alongside luxurious tritone reproductions of Muholi’s images, Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is as much a manifesto of resistance as it is an autobiographical, artistic statement.

Aperture
Hardcover  | 10.5 x 14” | 212 pgs



   




Daido Moriyama: Tales of Tono
Text by Daido Moriyama. Translation by Lena Fritsch. Afterword by Simon Baker.

Throughout his career, Daido Moriyama has produced a huge body of extremely influential photobooks, each demonstrating the variety and complexity of his work, from the blurred and grainy style of his early Provoke-era publications, to his more classic city- and object-based projects. Tales of Tono, appearing here for the first time in English, is one such book. First published in 1976, and taking its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, Tales of Tono is a compact little volume composed of black-and-white photo diptychs and spreads that were shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan. Faithfully reproducing the original edition, this book contains a text by the artist that offers the reader a typically honest and self-effacing account of Moriyama’s thoughts about his practice. More than 30 years since its original Japanese publication, Tales of Tono gives a fantastic insight into one of the world’s most original and provocative photographers. It is published to coincide with a survey of the artist’s work at Tate Modern, London.

D.A.P. | Tate
Paperback | 4.5 x 6.75” | 192 pgs





Francesca Woodman (DAP)

Artists who arrive fully formed at a young age always dazzle, and Francesca Woodman was one of the most gifted and dazzling artist prodigies in recent history. In 1972, the 13-year-old Woodman made a black-and-white photograph of herself sitting at the far end of a sofa in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her face is obscured by her hair, light radiates from an unseen source behind her out at the viewer through her right hand. This photograph typifies much of what would characterize Woodman's work to come: a semi-obscured female form merging with or flailing against a somewhat bare and often dilapidated interior. In an oeuvre of around 800 photographs made in just nine years, Woodman performed her own body against the textures of wallpaper, door frame, baths and couches, radically extending the Surrealist photography of Man Ray, Hans Bellmer and Claude Cahun and creating a mood and language all her own. In the 30 years since her untimely death, Woodman has gained a following among successive generations of artists and photographers, a testament to her work's undeniable immediacy and enduring appeal Amid a renewed intensification of interest in Francesca Woodman, this volume is published for a major touring exhibition of her photographs and films at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim. Containing many previously unpublished photographs, it is the definitive Francesca Woodman monograph.


Hardcover | 9.25 x 10.75”  224 pgs











Sohrab Hura: The Levee


SIGNED by Sohrab Hura

UNSIGNED

Ugly Dog, 2020 | English | 6.5x8.5 inches | Edition of 600 copies published in conjunction with Hura's exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Sohrab Hura on The LeveeBe careful, my father had written to me, It’s supposed to be unsafe out there, words interspersed with photographs from the cargo ship that he was working on as he made his way up the Mississippi river to the port right outside New Orleans. The immigration rules did not allow him to step on American soil and he had no choice but to remain on his ship. His short-lived glimpse of the country had remained only within those raised embankments on either side of the river. The America that lay on the other side was something he could only make sense of through a trickle of news and opinions that he had been heard from a distance. Guns, Violence, Racism, Trump, A certain loss of Tenderness…

A couple of months later in 2016 I made the journey on road down the delta from the confluence of Ohio and Mississippi rivers outside Cairo (Illinois), to Pilot Town, off Highway 23 that went further down from New Orleans. It was near here that the river opened into the sea and was the entry point into this part of the country for all ships including my father’s.

As it had been for sailors searching for land, birds now became my guides as I looked for the beginnings of water, leading me through the blues of the wetness of the land. The America I found on the way was not quite the same as the one that my father had imagined. Just as it had been with my father, there was always a levee between the river and me as well. My father had been on water but had not been able to touch land. I was on land but had barely been able to touch water. Together we got a glimpse of the delta from our own sides of the levee.

Ralph Lemon: Ceremonies Out of the Air




Published on the occasion of the first US museum exhibition of work by Philadelphia and Brooklyn–based artist, dancer and choreographer Ralph Lemon (November 14, 2024–March 24, 2025), the publication includes more than 60 works across media, including major ensemble performances, emerging in the afterlife of postmodern dance.

Texts by exhibition curators Connie Butler and Thomas Lax are accompanied by essays and contributions by Kevin Beasley, Adrienne Edwards, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Okwui Okpokwasili, Kevin Quashie and Kari Rittenbach.

MoMA PS1, 2024
Paperback featuring a dust jacket that unfolds into a poster | 6.75 x 9.5 in. | 168 pgs | 80 color


Ralph Lemon:
Modern Dance


Edited with text by Thomas J. Lax. Text by Doryun Chong, Adrienne Edwards, Saidiya Hartman, Deborah Jowitt, Ralph Lemon, André Lepecki, Fred Moten, Okwui Okpokwasili, Katherine Profeta, Will Rawls.

MoMA, 2016 | Paperback, 6.5 x 9.75 in. | 144 pgs | 60 color.$29.95


Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown dance and performance world in the past 40 years. A polymath and shape-shifter, Lemon combines dance and theater with drawing, film, writing and ethnography in works presented on the stage, in publications and in museums. He builds his politically resonant and deeply personal projects in collaboration with dance makers and artists from New York, West Africa, South and East Asia, and the American South.

Lemon, who was born in Cincinnati and raised in Minneapolis, describes his explorations as a “search for the forms of formlessness.” Absorbing and transmuting fractured mythologies, social history and dance techniques from multiple geographies and decades, Lemon’s genre-transcending works perform an alchemy of past and present, reality and fantasy. This book, the first monograph on the artist, features a wide range of texts by scholars and performers, an original photo essay by Lemon and an extensive chronology.

MoMA's Modern Dance is a series of monographs exploring dance makers in the 21st century. Each volume focuses on a single choreographer, presenting a rich collection of newly commissioned texts along with a definitive catalogue of the artist’s projects.


Sohrab Hura:
Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed


SIGNED by Sohrab Hura

UNSIGNED

In conjunction with Sohrab Hura: Mother, MoMA PS1's first US survey of the artist, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 is carryingThings Felt But Not Quite Expressed, a monograph collection of Hura's pastel illustrations made between 2022 and 2024 of everyday scenes of love, joy, family, and relationships.

Renowned for his self-published photographic books, here Hura departs from the fixedness of the photographic form, using technicolour soft pastel to imbue his portraits, still lifes, and quotidian scenes with fluidity and to charge them with feeling. These works originated in a period in which the artist felt unable to connect with the permanency of photographs. Pivoting to drawing enabled him to capture the whimsy and ephemerality of everyday life.

Sohrab Hura is a photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in New Delhi, India. The MoMA PS1 exhibition Mother showcases more than fifty works from the last two decades of his experimental practice, weaving together bodies of work across photography, film, sound, drawing, painting, and text that have never before been shown together. 

MACK books, 2024
Hardcover with padded cover
7 x 12 inches
160 pages

Pacita Abad



Edited with text by Victoria Sung. Text by Pio Abad, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Ruba Katrib, Nancy Lim, Matthew Villar Miranda, Xiaoyu Weng.
A comprehensive survey of Abad's visually dazzling and politically prescient works blending fabric and painting.

Walker Art Center, 2023
Clth | 9 x 11.75 inches | 352 pages | 344 color | 80 bw.




David Horvitz



Nostalgia 
Third Edition
by David Horvitz



This project is about erasure; memory, forgetting, data, archives, etcetera. The book ‘Nostalgia’ contains 300 image descriptions of deleted photographs taken on various digital cameras since the early 2000s and stored on computers, hard drives, and memory cards. Their diverse subjects range from personal moments, to visual note-taking as a mnemonic device, to photos used in artworks. This artists’ book questions tendencies to produce new images and instead moves in the opposite direction by deleting them and creating texts that produce images in the readers mind.

Edition Taube, Gato Negro, 2022, 304 p., 23 x 17 cm., Paperback | $30
(nostalgia)
First Edition

by David Horvitz


(Nostalgia) is a catalog of deleted photographs by David Horvitz.

Each page is labeled with a photo’s filename and date and a short description of what the photograph depicted. There’s great pathos in the simplicity of these descriptions. As Horvitz says, this is a world “over-inundated and amassed with photographs (mostly digital) and with eroded attention spans.” (nostalgia), then, becomes a way to mark the emotional content of this endless stream of photographs.

Edition Taube co-published with Gato Negro, 2019 | 124 p. | 23 x 17 cm. | Paperback
For Ruth, the sky in los angeles
by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and
David Horvitz

Signed by David Horvitz


An intimate, cross-generational conversation through mail art. American multimedia artist David Horvitz (born 1982) visited visual poet and mail artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (born 1932) in her native Germany while conducting research in 2014. There, Horvitz discovered her archives of “typewritings,” graphic works that Wolf-Rehfeldt had used for mail art and sent across the globe from her studio in East Berlin in the 1970s. Later, Horvitz invited Wolf-Rehfeldt to use a disposable camera to record images of her house and garden and, in return, he photographed his studio in Los Angeles. These snapshots and dialogues are presented along with Horvitz’s text-based watercolors—such as For Ruth, the sky in los angeles and For Ruth, the wind to you, which were original sent as mail art. Together they constitute a delightful dialogue.

Spector Books, 2022 | Paperback, 9 x 6.25 in. / 112 pgs / 50 color. | $35.00
How to shoplift books
David Horvitz




How to shoplift books by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic. This textbook is readable, but also shamelessly draws attention to its existence as an object, a conversation starter, a thing that can be acquired by fair means or foul. This is a book that turns a point of sale display into an intellectual and ethical adventure. A comprehensive guide to stealing books with its price printed on the cover, clearly visible, provokes the visitor of a bookshop to become aware of the unconscious decisions, pre-empted by others, that we make every day. The poetic, funny and paradoxical texts also bring to light some structural elements of the mechanics of bookselling and our relation to the exchange of goods. It inserts friction into the conditioned behaviour we display when we are moving through commercial spaces. All advertising tells us to buy things, we rarely come across a message encouraging us to steal – especially not one with the authority that print still carries.

Edition Taube, 2019, Softcover | 84 pages

Sophie Calle: Suite Venitienne




Calle’s first artist’s book documents her pursuit of one man through the streets of Venice

After following strangers on the streets in Paris for months, photographing them and notating their movements, Sophie Calle ran into a man at an opening whom she had followed earlier that day. "During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice. I decided to follow him," she writes at the beginning of Suite Vénitienne, her first artist's book and the crucible of her inimitable fusion of investigatory methods, fictional constructs, the plundering of real life and the composition of self. Over the course of almost two weeks in Venice, Calle notates, in time-stamped entries, her surveillance of Henri B., as well as her own emotions as she seeks, finds and follows him through the labyrinthine streets of Venice.

Her investigation is both methodical (calling every hotel, visiting the police station) and arbitrary (sometimes following a stranger—a flower delivery boy, for instance—hoping someone might lead her to him). This Siglio reissue is a completely new iteration of Suite Vénitienne (first published in 1988 and long out of print), designed in collaboration with Calle to be the definitive English-language edition. Printed on Japanese paper with a die-cut cover and gilded edges, this beautiful new Siglio edition allows readers to devour this crucial and compelling work.


Siglio, 2015 | Hardcover | 96 pages | 5.5 x 8 in | 4 color | 56 bw. |
9781938221095
 

SOPHIE CALLE




Sophie Calle Because




A stunning artist’s book containing loose photographs hidden between pages of text that tell the story of each image
Words have always been central to the practice of French artist Sophie Calle (born 1953), who is known for her photographic work that often includes panels of text of her own writing. In this project, Calle conceives of the internal thought processes behind her art-making as stories to be told. It is with these stories—alongside the external stories of the moments preceding a click of a camera shutter—that Calle opens Because. The volume chronicles her reasons behind capturing particular moments in time, but the corresponding photos themselves are revealed only later, hidden in the interstices of the Japanese binding. In this process, Calle reverses the relationship of natural primacy between an image and the words that accompany it, instead calling our attention to the influence that the latter may have on our perception of a photograph.
The new revised edition of this classic artist’s book contains 39 loose photographs inserted between the pages, alongside text and other imagery by Calle. A beautiful object in its own right, it features Japanese binding and an iridescent orange cloth cover.

Atelier Exb, 2024 | Hardcover | 6.75 x 9.5 in. | 168 pgs | 39 color.
| 9782365114097

Sophie Calle:
The Sleepers




Calle’s seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in English
In one of Sophie Calle’s first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in her bed. Twenty-seven people agreed, among them a baker, a babysitter, an actor, a journalist, a seamstress, a trumpet player and three painters. Calle photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any private conversations once the door closed. She served each a meal, and, if they agreed, she subjected them to a questionnaire that probed their personal predilections, habits and dreams as well as their interpretations of the act of sleeping in her bed: a curiosity, a game, an artwork, or—as Calle intended it—a job. The result, comprising her first exhibition in 1979, was a grid of 198 photographs and short texts.
Unlike the original installation, this artist’s book version of The Sleepers contains not only all the photographs and captions but also her engrossing, novellalike narrative, untranslated until now. From the single, liminal mise-en-scène of her bedroom, Calle reports in text and photos, as if in real time, as sleepers arrive, talk, sleep, eat and leave. Their acute and sometimes startling, sometimes endearing particularities merge into something almost like an eight-day-long dream. Many seeds of Calle’s subsequent works are embedded in The Sleepers: her exacting and transgressive methods of investigation, her cultivation of intimacy and remove, and her unrelenting curiosity. In this work, as she observes the sleepers, they observe her too—with reciprocal candor. The Sleepers, clothbound and pillow-like, unfolds as it opens, inviting the reader to join the others in Calle’s bed.

Siglio, 2024 | Clth, 6 x 8 in. | 304 pgs | 176 bw. |  9781938221347
$48.00

Sophie Calle:
The Hotel


A forensic conceptualist's inventory of the ordinary and extraordinary lives in a Venetian hotel
In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts through the evidence of the hotel guests' lives. Assigned 12 rooms on the fourth floor, she surveys the state of the guests' bedding, their books, newspapers and postcards, perfumes and cologne, traveling clothes and costumes for Carnival. She methodically photographs the contents of closets and suitcases, examining the detritus in the rubbish bin and the toiletries arranged on the washbasin. She discovers their birth dates and blood types, diary entries, letters from and photographs of lovers and family. She eavesdrops on arguments and love-making. She retrieves a pair of shoes from the wastebasket and takes two chocolates from a neglected box of sweets, while leaving behind stashes of money, pills and jewelry. Her thievery is the eye of the camera, observing the details that were not meant for her, or us, to see.
The Hotel now manifests as a book for the first time in English (it was previously included in the book Double Game). Collaborating with the artist on a new design that features enhanced and larger photographs, and pays specific attention to the beauty of the book as an object, Siglio is releasing its third book authored by Calle, after The Address Book (2012) and Suite Vénitienne (2015).

Siglio, 2021 | Clth | 6 x 8 in. | 224 pgs | 12 color | 180 bw.

Tim Davis


I’m Looking Through You

Photographs by Tim Davis.
Text by Tim Davis.

SIGNED BY TIM DAVIS IN-STORE AT ARTBOOK @ HAUSER & WIRTH LA! 

I’m Looking Through You is an expansive visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach.

Animating Tim Davis's wry observations and the mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of his images is the photographer and writer’s decades long, gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. As Davis states, “The camera is a machine that sees only surfaces. The world casts its spell, and the camera gobbles up its glamour, uncritically, with pure certainty, assuming there is nothing underneath.” Davis’s keenly observational images, interspersed with a selection of his writings on the medium—the joys and pitfalls of camera seeing—solidify I’m Looking Through You as an unabashed celebration of photography.

Aperture
Hardcover | 6.5 x 9”| 
256 pgs




Taryn Simon. The Color of a Flea’s Eye


Taryn Simon’s The Color of a Flea’s Eye presents a history of the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection—a legendary trove of more than one million prints, photographs, postcards, posters and images from disused books and periodicals. Since its inception in 1915, the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertising agencies.

In her work The Picture Collection (2012-20), Simon (born 1975) highlighted the impulse to organize visual information, and pointed to the invisible hands behind seemingly neutral systems of image gathering. Each of Simon’s photographs is made up of an array of images selected from a given subject folder, such as Chiaroscuro, Handshaking, Haircombing, Express Highways, Financial Panics, Israel, and Beards and Mustaches. In artfully overlapped compositions, only slices of the individual images are visible, each fragment suggesting its whole. Simon sees this extensive archive of images as the precursor to internet search engines. Such an unlikely futurity in the past is at the core of the Picture Collection. The digital is foreshadowed in the analogue, at the same time that history—its classifications, its contents—seems the stuff of projection.expansive conversation with the filmmaker Arthur Jafa.

Produced in direct collaboration with the artist, the book contains 57 individually hand tipped-in plates, numerous gatefolds and a variety of unique papers, as well as essays by Joshua Chuang, head of The New York Public Library’s Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, and Tim Griffin, executive director and chief curator at The Kitchen.

Cahiers D’Art, 2020 | Hardcover, 10 x 13.25 in. / 460 pgs / 57 color / 442 bw.

Taryn Simon. A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

SIGNED BY TARYN SIMON


A significant and extensive book on a major new body of work by the American artist Taryn Simon. Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, I-XVIII was produced over a four-year period (2008-2011), during which Simon travelled the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen "chapters" that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. Her subjects feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate. This volume accompanies the exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (May 2011), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (September 2011), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (May-September 2012).

MACK, 2011 | Hardcover

Taryn Simon: Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies 


In 1936 an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it "flat and colourless," a fitting choice for a character intended to be "anonymous ... a blunt instrument in the hands of the government." In Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, Taryn Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–89) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs and classifies all the birds that appear within the 24 films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. This taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality.

Hatje Cantz, 2016 | Hardcover, 7.5 x 11.5 in. / 608 pgs / 367 color.

Taryn Simon. Contraband


This publication reissues a much sought-after photobook. Taryn Simon is an American artist whose works combine photography, text and graphic design. Her practice involves extensive research, in projects guided by an interest in systems of categorization and classification. For Contraband, 1,075 photographs were taken at both the US Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the US Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. From November 16 to November 20, 2009, Simon remained on site and continuously photographed items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the United States from abroad. The list of items includes pork, syringes, Botox, GBL date rape drug, heroin, imitation Lipitor, Ketamine tranquillizers, Lidocaine, Lorazepam, locust tree seed, ginger root, deer tongues, cow urine, Cohiba cigars and Egyptian cigarettes. The volume is published in three differently colored covers.

Hatje Cantz, 2015 | Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 480 pgs / 1,075 color

Nan Goldin. The Other Side
 

This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other Side, originally published in 1993, featuring a revised introduction by Goldin, and, for the first time, the voices of those whose stories are represented. Published at a time when discourse around gender and sexual orientation is evolving rapidly, The Other Side traces some of the history that informs this new visibility.

The first photographs in the book are from the 1970s, when Goldin lived in Boston with a group of drag queens and documented their glamour and vulnerability. In the early 1980s, Goldin chronicled the lives of transgender friends in New York when AIDS began to decimate her community. In the ’90s, she recorded the explosion of drag as a social phenomenon in New York, Berlin, Bangkok and the Philippines. Goldin’s newest photographs are intimate portraits, imbued with tenderness, of some of her most beloved friends. The Other Side is her homage to the queens she has loved, many of whom she has lost, over the last four decades.

Steidl | 2019 | Hardcover | 9 x 10.75 in | 140 pgs 

Nan Goldin. The Beautiful Smile

 

2007 winner Nan Goldin is easily one of the most significant photographers of our time. Adopting the direct aesthetics of snapshot photography, she has documented her own life and that of her friends and others on the margins of society for more than 30 years, offering frank depictions of drug abuse, cross-dressing and alternative sexualities. Her intimate photographs depict urban lives in New York and Europe in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, a period massively determined by HIV and AIDS. Her practice of photography as memoir, as a means of protection against loss and as an act of preservation, as well as her use of the slide show, resonates in the work of photographers of recent generations.

This classic volume, which the photographer has called her favorite of all of her books, is a moving homage to the work of one of the most eminent artists of our time.


Steidl | 2017 | Hardcover | 9.75 x 10.5 in | 150 pgs

Nan Goldin. A Double Life
“David is the first person I ever took a picture of- and the last one I photographed today. He’s the one who named me Nan and showed me my personality. That was twenty-five years ago and we still live together now. “ 

-Nan Goldin 

“I used to think Nan and I were complete opposites and it was all about the complement. But it’s different from that. At the same time we’re identical- like our pictures. At first they seem to come from different plants but finally they arrive at the same place.” 

-David Armstrong



DAP | 1994 | Hardcover | 9.75 x 13 in | 184 pgs

Nan Goldin. I’ll Be Your Mirror
“David is the first person I ever took a picture of- and the last one I photographed today. He’s the one who named me Nan and showed me my personality. That was twenty-five years ago and we still live together now. “ 

-Nan Goldin 

“I used to think Nan and I were complete opposites and it was all about the complement. But it’s different from that. At the same time we’re identical- like our pictures. At first they seem to come from different plants but finally they arrive at the same place.” 

-David Armstrong


Scalo Verlag | 1996 | Hardcover | 8.5 x 11.5 in | 491 pgs

Niki de Saint Phalle




Niki de Saint Phalle, Nicole Rudick. What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle


A biography by Nicole Rudick told in Saint Phalle’s own words, assembled from rare and unseen materials. 

Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual, a performance—a process connecting life to art. This unconventional, illuminated biography, told in the first person in Saint Phalle's voice and her own hand, dilates large and small moments in Saint Phalle's life which she sometimes reveals with great candor, at other times carefully unwinding her secrets. Editor Nicole Rudick, in a kind of collaboration with the artist, has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle's visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches and writings, many previously unpublished or long unavailable, that trace her mistakes and successes, her passions and her radical sense of joy. Saint Phalle's invocation—her "bringing to life"—writes Rudick, "is an apt summation of the overlap of Saint Phalle’s life and art: both a bringing into existence and a bringing to bear. These are visions from the frontiers of consciousness."

Siglio Press
Hardcover | 7.25” x 10” | 268 pgs

Niki de Saint Phalle: Memory Game


Stimulate your memory with this matching game featuring 24 images by Niki de Saint Phalle! 

Il Giardino dei Tarocchi
48 cards (24 images)


Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life
Edited with text by Ruba Katrib. Text by Anne Dressen & Nick Mauss, Alex Kitnick, Lanka Tattersall.


A new exploration of Niki de Saint Phalle’s colorful and compelling public structures, with archival materials and more

This volume brings newfound attention to Niki de Saint Phalle’s work in architecture and public sculpture, and the commercial products such as perfume and jewelry that she produced to fund these ambitious projects.

Featuring a wide selection of images of her architectural works and rarely seen archival materials, this book places these projects within the context of her larger boundary-defying practice, drawing connections with politically charged works such as the films and books she made in response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

Charting Saint Phalle's many efforts to radically open her practice beyond the confines of the art world, it serves as a survey of her practice from the 1960s until the early 2000s. Edited and with an essay by exhibition curator Ruba Katrib, the publication features new scholarship by Anne Dressen and Nick Mauss, Alex Kitnick, and Lanka Tattersall.

MoMA PS1
Paperback | 6.75” x 9” | 232 pgs






Cao Fei: I watch that worlds pass by


Snoeck



Staff Favorites: Books on Film


Here are some of our favorite film books currently in stock at Artbook @MoMA PS1. What they share is a rich, contextual overview of each filmmaker's career.

Derek Jarman's Jubilee was a seminal film for many, though he's perhaps better known for Edward II, Sebastiane, and Blue. This book explores his diverse work, from experimental Super 8 films to queer painting and activism, with essays and photos accompanying each body of work. While their focus and mediums differ, Cao Fei’s work also features heavy social commentary and surrealism, evoking the feeling of entering a dreamlike world. In Fei’s case, she blurs the lines between the virtual and real as she explores the impact of globalization and internet culture on China. 'I Watch That Worlds Pass By' examines 3 major projects from her career, all delving into these themes. Hito Steyerl’s work also critiques the global capitalist system, with an emphasis on surveillance. In 'Broken Windows' (published alongside her exhibition of the same name) she teaches AI to recognize the sound of breaking glass, which feels especially timely as AI becomes more present. In contrast to 'Broken Windows', the protagonist in 'Memoria' struggles to recreate a sound that no one else seems to hear. While Weerasethakul’s meditation on memory feels spiritual, cyclical, and timeless, Steyerl’s work interrogates how the past is mediated through the digital archive. Weerasethakul is known for 'Uncle Boonmee', which won the Palme d'Or 2010.  'Memoria', was based off his own experience with Exploding Head Syndrome (EHS)—a condition where individuals hear loud noises in their sleep. Weerasethakul found the experience strange and dreamlike, and while making the film in Colombia, his symptoms mysteriously disappeared. This book offers a rare glimpse into his personal sketchbook as he explores a new country and makes this film. What unites these filmmakers’ works, for me, is their profound intersections between technology, memory, and identity.

Each of these books would be a happy addition to any film book collection.


Apichatong Weerasethakul: Memoria


Firefly Press


Derek Jarman


JRP Editions


Hito Steyerl
The City of Broken Windows



SKIRA


Shanekia McIntosh
A New Sense of Luxury




A New Sense of Luxury is the first full-length collection from poet & artist, Shanekia McIntosh.

“Shanekia Mcintosh’s A New Sense of Luxury is a lyric epic of presence, where being here and now is too often a choice between only Pleasurescrolling./Doomscrolling. - thus, not enough and too much at the same time. 21st-century luxury is such a muchness as that; up in imperial prolapse, what’s luxe ain’t nothing if the good feeling doesn’t cost someone some blood. Sometimes, the buyer’s. McIntosh spurns, reels, wants and winces in a tableau of cramped plentitude and roomy scarcity, taking inventory. This book tells us what’s extra and what’s missing.” - Douglas Kearney

Shanekia McIntosh is an interdisciplinary artist, with her work rooted in poetry, performance and installation. Her work is an exploration of memory and archives, guided by an insatiable curiosity and interest in philosophy and history, McIntosh uses her work to explore themes of time, dislocation, trauma, climate, passivity and action and connectivity through the lens of digital culture probing at the stories we tell ourselves and interrogating at who gets to tell them. In 2021, she released her debut chapbook, Spiral as Ritual, published by Topos Press.

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 is carrying the book in conjunction with a reading program for the current exhibition at MoMA PS1 “DON CHRISTIAN JONES: The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go”. The program features Martine Gutierrez, Morgan Bassichis, and Shanekia McIntosh.

Eureka! Press
5x8 inches | 111 Pages | Digital Print |Letterpress Cover | Perfect Bound | First Edition of 400
$17.99
    

On the Town: A Performa Compendium 2016-2021



Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2022 | ‎ English | Paperback | 384 pages | 6.5 x 0.7 x 9.5 inches 

Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019: Yvonne Rainer, Emily Coates, Nick Mauss 



Performa/Lenz/Wadsworth Atheneum | November 5, 2024  English| Paperback‏ |‎ 160 pages | 7 x 10 inches

Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done





MoMA, 2018 | Paperback | 199 pages | 8 x 10 inches

Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York



1955-1972 | University of CA Press, 2016 | Hardcover | 192 pages | 8.5 x  10.5 inches

sucking dick for syringes by Heather Edney



SDFS is debuting as part of Love Rules: The Harm Reduction Archives of Heather Edney and Richard Berkowitz at MOMA PS1, with copies shipping in the first week of May.

SDFS 
is a novel, an autobiography, a memoir, an autofiction, an ethnography, an anti-fiction; it is simultaneously all and none of these things. The text was written by Heather Edney between 1991-1998, spanning a period of time in which Edney was helming a needle exchange as a nineteen-year-old, raising a child whose mother had died from AIDS-related illness, publishing the zine junkphood, and presenting at national and international harm reduction conferences as one of very few people (perhaps the only one) openly public about her experience as a drug user. The text was written in small bursts, mostly at the site of a recurring complex trauma, which lends the text the urgency and honesty of life in the present. The title Sucking Dick For Syringes operates as a metaphor as well as a passionate call for transparency, asking what did you live through in your twenties? Who did you love and how did you love them?

Content note: contains mentions of drug use, sexual violence, and death

SDFS is a 110 page risograph artist book using Brick, Flo Pink, Light Lime, and Sky Blue inks on French Bubblegum paper and sew bound with a Singer series 7 at Chute Studio in Oakland California, Spring 2025.

Julien Ceccaldi
Braid Bag


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In conjunction with the first US solo museum exhibition of New York City-based artist Julien Ceccaldi (French/Canadian, b. 1987), Artbook @ MoMA PS1 is carrying a the Julien Ceccaldi Braid bag created by the artist in collaboration with Apogee Graphics and Ooga Booga.

This bag has a zipper at top, a silk lining, a zipper pocket on the inside, and comes with 2 sets of bow clips.

15" x 15" x 3" body; 30" handle | 15" Top zipper | Interior lining with a 5" x 7" zipper pocket | 100% Polyester | Sublimation Printing | Made in the US | $70.00

Julien Ceccaldi lives and works in New York City. With a fatalistic and genre-bending style—influenced by his early exposure to anime that aired on France Télévisions in the 1990s, the transgressive shōjo manga of the Year 24 group, and the autobiographical comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb—Ceccaldi’s work amalgamates the discomfort, melodrama, and romance of contemporary social life into shrewdly observed drawing, painting, and sculpture. Despite the smooth circulation promised by slick media technologies, Ceccaldi’s work maintains a handmade quality that mirrors the conflicting feelings of his characters.

The New Television
Video After Television



The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical practices. Open Circuits was an important event in establishing video art in American museums and articulated a range of conflicting teloses for the medium, some which materialized (like local cable television) and others that remain unrealized. The conference proceedings were published in 1977 as The New Television: A Public/Private Art, and the radical design of the book reflected the conference’s utopian aims.

This two-part publication includes a facsimile of the long-out-of-print conference proceedings and new essays and discussions by over a dozen scholars and artists. The new scholarly texts and previously unpublished archival documents in The New Television illuminate the network of institutional histories of video art, consider global televisual contexts and alternative critical approaches, and examine contemporary video art and its continued relevance from new perspectives.

The New Television: Video After Television is made possible through the generous support of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation.

The New Television: Video After Television by Rachel Churner (Editor), Rebecca Cleman (Editor), Tyler Maxin (Editor)
no place press, 2024 | Hardcover | 464 pages | 7.13 x 1.41 x 9.88 inches


Me @ You Tote



Back in stock in both of our stores!  Artbook @ MoMA PS1 and Artbook @ H&W LA. Our best-selling Artbook Product: The you @ me / me @ you Tote Bag.



Sonia Louise Davis:
slow and soft and righteous
improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one)



SIGNED by Sonia Louise Davis


Sonia Louise Davis, is a featured artist in Pass Carry Hold MoMA PS1's 6th Studio Museum Artists in Residence. The exhibition sets out to engage methodologies of endurance and wonder to explore themes related to ancestral and intuitive knowledge.

Her "Soft Paintings" and other work are currently on view at MoMA PS1. Davis takes a holistic and multi-sensory approach, exploring improvisation, sycopation and self expression, hallmarks of the Black Radical Traditions in Abstract Expressionism and Jazz. This book is a collection of texts from five years of writing and thinking on the concept of improvisation, provides an incredible insight into her artistic practice through manifestos, scores, poetic essays and prose poems. Slow and soft and righteous further explores this, as an invitation to slow down and reconsider our place in the world in a patient, compassionate and collective way. Davis' writing blends personal reflection with big picture thinking. This book will stay with you, as a gentle nudge towards a more thoughtful, intentional way of moving through the world.

Self published by Co-conspirator Press with the support of Feminist Center for Creative Work. Designed by MJ Balvanera, Riso-printed by Neko Natalia, 2020 | 5" x 7.5", 86 pages | Perfect bound | Edition of 500