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1976’s Los Angeles Barrio Calligraphy, a long out of print book by Jerry & Sally Romotsky photographed for Self Learn LA.
Steven· 01/19/12 
Excursus I: Reference Library
Up On My Back, and I Will Take You Thither
Opening, Wednesday, September 14, 6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Excursus is a new series at ICA that invites the public to come together, converse, and peruse archival material in the context of the present. Designer Andy Beach, known for his blog and curatorial interventions under the name Reference Library, inaugurates the series with Up on My Back, and I Will Take You Thither, a project that takes inspiration from the Centaur Book Shop, Philadelphia’s own Prohibition-era radical press, record store, and bohemian meeting place.
On Wednesday, September 14 at 6:30pm come celebrate the opening with a talk about the Centaur by curator Lynne Farrington of Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To be followed by an after hours reception on the ICA terrace.
Throughout the season return for a game of chess, roundtable discussions, workshops, and other free events. Find out more at: www.icaphila.org/excursus
Mark· 09/12/11 
James Goggin, Design Director
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
4 April F200 7pm CalArts
CONTRA MUNDUM I-VII BOOK RELEASE
Sunday, Dec. 5, 7pm
Mandrake
Featuring music by Dallas Acid
and films by Matt Anderson.
e-mail your order (or order online) and receive 15% off ALL books, catalogs, editions, magazines, monographs, multiples, objects, and videos, in our Distribution Catalog and Bookshop, between November 26 and January 2, 2011. All orders placed by December 10, will be delivered by December 24. If ordering online, please include ‘book sale’ in the ‘add instructions’ field of the checkout (we will refund 15% of your total). Free shipping on all (domestic) orders over 200 dollars.
Happy Holidays!
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Ooga Booga
943 N Broadway
Los Angeles CA 90012
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Ceramic sculpture, glazed stoneware, dimensions variable
Edition limited, each unique
Published by Anna Sew Hoy
$400.00 · buy here
Anna Sew Hoy has produced a limited edition of ceramic sculptures entitled Magic Number Rattle Rock; unique objects at 400 dollars each to support her forthcoming artists book project. Each rattle has its own set magic numbers, with an object embedded in each sculpture which makes a very special noise. Purchase a sculpture above to support, or contribute to the project here at different tiers: limited edition poster signed by the artist and designer ($25); signed copy of the book + signed poster ($100); limited edition sculpture + signed book + signed poster ($500); personal thank you in the book + limited edition sculpture + signed book + signed poster ($800).
Anna Sew Hoy has produced a limited edition of ceramic sculptures entitled
Magic Number Rattle Rock, unique objects at $400 each to support her forthcoming book project. Buy one through LAXART.
Magic Number Rattle Rock
Ceramic sculpture
Dimensions variable
Each unique
My friend Anna Sew Hoy and I are working on a new artists book — contribute to the project if you can.
Jonathan· 09/29/10 
955,000 — An Unconventional Exhibition Catalogue
Click on pencil for Exhibition/Catalogue information; via Making Known.
via Reference Library.
Thursday August 5, 2010 at 7 PM
235 Bowery
New York, NY
The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the Middle East. Arrayed along the library’s shelves are pulp fictions and propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and pamphlets and periodicals, representing the oil boom and the Dubai bust, the Cold War and the hot pant; depicting Pan-Arabs and Black Muslims, revolutionaries and royals, Orientalism and its opposites.
For the opening night Bidoun will present selected readings and video clips from the collection. In addition, for the opening day of the project, Bidoun has invited booksellers usually found outside the New York University library to set up shop outside the New Museum.
Join us afterward for dancing and drinks at:
Sweet and Vicious
5 Spring Street
9pm
Music by Tim DeWitt (Gang Gang Dance)
For information visit bidoun.com or newmuseum.org
Tiffany· 08/02/10 
“After his arrest, neighbours painted a colourful picture of Raymond polishing his Ferrari
in his silk dressing gown before taking the bus into town to go shopping.”
The Wallis Annenberg Photography Department is pleased to celebrate new and recent publications including Bananas for Moholy-Nagy by Patterson Beckwith, Four Over One by Phil Chang, the Aperture edition of Words Without Pictures edited by Alex Klein, and the limited edition of The Sun as Error by Shannon Ebner. A conversation moderated by Britt Salvesen, Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, with artists Patterson Beckwith and Phil Chang will begin promptly at 4:20 pm. Reception to follow. Light refreshments will be served. Signed books will be available for purchase.
Reception and Conversation
Sunday, May 23, 4-6pm
Art Catalogues at LACMA
Art Catalogues at LACMA is located in the Ahmanson Building near the Tony Smith sculpture Smoke.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
5:00pm-7:00pm
Printed Matter
195 Tenth Ave
New York, NY 10011
In Four Over One, the Los Angeles based artist Phil Chang employs the format of an artists book to explore ideas of economy and obsolescence. In collaboration with designer Jonathan Maghen, Four Over One is structured around Chang’s interest in how new outcomes arise from an antagonism between perceived and actual forms of value. The photographs that appear in the book were created using expired photographic materials exposed by an archival book scanner. Through a sparse display of color, black and white, and half-tone photographs, in conjunction with a restrained typographic treatment, Four Over One employs an economy of scale in order to consider the roles of abstraction, methods of art production, and modes of distribution in our contemporary culture.
Published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department , in association with Textfield, Inc.
Distributed by RAM Publications
Softcover, 16 pp., mimeograph/laser 1/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 300
ISBN 978-0-9562605-2-9
Published by Occasional Papers and FormContent
This booklet is published as part of I Wonder What The Silence is About, a body of work, speculating on the (temporary?) disappearance of Art In Ruins. This English collaborative art practice was formed in 1984 and created a radical stance towards the art world, based on critical post-modern thinking. They have been for a short period omnipresent in the London/Berlin art scene before they fell silent in 2001. I contacted Art In Ruins and asked for permission to reprint one of their publications as part of my project. This they rejected but suggested to publish this interview instead, which was initially written for Frieze Magazine in 1994. It has not been printed until today.
—Eva Weinmayr
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8 April–7 May 2010
70 Franklin St (between Church & Broadway)
New York, NY 10013
Tagbanger· 04/15/10
Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 350 x 480 mm
Insert, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0-9738133-7-1
Published by Fillip Editions, Roma Publications
Sheets from Manders’ Traducing Ruddle form the central element of the artist’s Window with Fake Newspapers project, a site-specific public work on view through March 28th.
Distributed in North America by Textfield, Inc.
above: 1:1 scale, Waste Bookmark
Jonathan Maghen, Waste Bookmark
Bookmark, offset 1/0, 2 x 5.5 inches
Edition of 11 + 2 proofs, unnumbered
Published by Textfield
Card used by Pressman to indicate any waste, errors, bad sheets, etc., on a printed job to the Bindery; typically made from the waste sheets of other printed jobs. Re-reused as a bookmark; part of an unfinished book, used to bookmark the pages of a finished book.
Textfield· 03/02/10
mosaicism.org by Daniel Ingroff, 4 March — 1 April 2010
Reception on Thursday, March 4th from 6-7:30pm at the library
A work inspired by photographs and paraphernalia taken from the Art department’s “picture files” — a unique collection of newspapers, magazine clippings and ephemera collected by librarians prior to the advent of the Internet. Made up of three distinct parts: a website, video and display, mosaicism.org investigates both digital and analogue forms of the “picture” by framing some of the aesthetic and emotional assumptions associated with these binaries.
Art, Music & Recreation Dept, 2nd Floor
Central Los Angeles Public Library
630 W Fifth St
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Hours: M-Th 10-8, Fri & Sat 10-6, Sun 1-5
Parking available on Flower between 5th and 6th streets
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 2/1, 140 x 230 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9562605-1-2
Published by Occasional Papers
A collection of essays on book design by Catherine de Smet, James Goggin Jenni Eneqvist, Roland Früh, Corina Neuenschwander, Sarah Gottlieb, Richard Hollis, Chrissie Charlton, Armand Mevis.
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Slavs and Tatars & Ooga Booga present the west coast debut of Kidnapping Mountains. Featuring a selection and sale of Slavs and Tatars posters, editions, and printed matter.
Ooga Booga
943 N Broadway #203
Los Angeles CA 90012
14 January — 7 February 2010