Exhibitions

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Center for Book Arts' Summer Exhibition

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Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembles artists' responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred on March 5, 2007, by a bomb explosion. Al-Mutanabbi Street had been the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, and the heart of the Baghdad literary community. This important and timely exhibition will be held in five New York City cultural venues. The Center for Book Arts is presenting the exhibition in collaboration with Alwan for the Arts, Columbia University Libraries, International Print Center New York, and Poets House.

 


 

The exhibition features approximately 250 artists' books and 50 prints by artists from around the world, and was co-organized by Beau Beausoleil, Founder of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition, and Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Fine Print Research in Bristol, UK. A comprehensive catalogue accompanies the show. 

Center for Books Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Telephone: (212) 481-0295

 

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Designers & Books Fair 2012

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The first Designers & Books Fair is set to launch this weekend in New York City. Designers & Books Fair 2012 is a live New York City event at the intersection where design, architecture, and books meet.

The Fair Exhibition Hall will include approximately 35 design book publishers and booksellers displaying and selling the newest titles for the upcoming holiday season as well as important backlist titles. Special Fair discounts (up to 40%) will be available on many books. 

 

There will also be rare and out-of-print book dealers; demonstrations of book arts, including calligraphy, letterpress printing, and bookbinding; and book signings. 

  • Saturday, October 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
  • Sunday, October 28 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Multimedia show at the CBA in NYC

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“Book as Witness: The Artist’s Response,” the current exhibit at the Center for Book Arts in New York City, is not for those looking for a bit of light-hearted diversion on a summer day. Organized by Maria G. Pisano, founder of the Plainsboro-based Memory Press, it includes work produced by nearly three-dozen artists in response to profound personal and global loss.

Artists represented in the show, which runs through September 22, include individual artists, like the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, as well as members of collectives like the Combat Papermakers, veterans who use the uniforms they wore in battle to create sheets of paper for new works of art.

Click here for more information and the full article written by Ellen Gilbert.

Center for Book Arts

For the past three years, the Center for Book Arts in NYC has been involved in a Collections Initiative, which involves the in-depth cataloguing and presevation of its fine art collections, amassed over a 35 year lifespan.  

Works by such artists as Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, Barbara Henry, Pablo Helguera, Carlos Motta, Karina Skvirsky, and many other established and emerging artists are counted among the Center’s collections.

This permanent collection is now on tour nationally, currently at the Museum of Printing History in Houston and heading to Lafayette College in the fall.

The exhbition of artist books, prints, catalogues and  ephemera demonstrates the breadth and caliber of its collection, which will stand as a valuable resource for artists, scholars, writers, educators and the general public.  Marking the culmination of the three-year initiative, Multipe, Limited, Unique offers an overview of the history and development of book arts over the past 40 years, and examines the role of the institution in both nurturing and promoting innovative artists and preserving traditional artistic practices.