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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

 

The Luca Barcellona Collection


Our friends at LA's Modern Multiples Fine Art are very proud to present The Luca Barcellona Collection featuring Barcellona’s finest and most elegant works of contemporary calligraphy art printed on 100% cotton Coventry Rag. This impressive collection is a rising platform where design and the execution of lettering flourish as a canvas for fine art.  

Luca is MM's latest artist in residence who just completed the 6 amazing serigraph prints.  You can purchase them here.

Little Rude Girl

From our friends at Poster Child Prints:

"Little Rude Girl" is part of a series of original artwork Tim created for his latest project, Tim Timebomb & Friends. Starting last winter Tim started writing, recording and releasing one song a day with original artwork to accompany each single. Over 135 songs have been recorded to date and can be found on TimTimebomb.com.

Three-Color Hand Pulled Silk Screen on Coventry Rag, 100% Cotton Archival Paper.  Edition of 150.


Letterpress on Saunders Waterford

The following is blatantly pinched from For Print Only, because they write better than we do:

Designer Lionel Scholtes could not resist the temptation to design his daughter’s birth announcements and have them letterpress printed...these announcements feature Brownstone’s soft monoline strokes and decorative swash characters with bold colors to achieve a nontraditional, ornamental but unfussy girly feeling that the designer and printer were going for.

Printed on Saunders Waterford

Pinted by Elegante Press