Artbook at MoMA PS1

07/30/2021

Today, Friday, July 30, NY PopsUp is hosting a free reading of Brontez Purnell’s ‘100 Boyfriends’ on Rashid Johnson’s Stage in the Courtyard at MoMA PS1. Brontez Purnell is a writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist from Triana, Alabama based in Oakland, California.

Visit the Bookstore or link below to pick up a SIGNED copy of ‘100 Boyfriends’ and join us on July 30 at 5:30 PM to hear excerpts read by the author himself. Tickets to the event are included in Museum entry. Visit momaps1.org to reserve your spot!

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‘100 Boyfriends’ shares intimate and humorous recounts of fictional, though entrancing, gay relationships: childhood bullies/crushes, long-term partners, friends with benefits, co-worker’s husbands, Satanist hookups… These relationships– no matter the extent– are each told from the perspective of a new narrator, all Black, all q***r, and all longing for a sense of belonging and care. As Purnell has been called “a living archive of the Bay’s q***r and punk scenes,” the stories he creates are reflective of his own experiences and those of the q***r communities in the American South and the San Francisco Bay Area. Through each voice, Purnell’s tone shifts between desire, tenderness, eroticism, curiosity, naiveté, pain, and countless more emotions all can identify with. His characters are heroes in their own ways, even as they “tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure,” With each page revolving around the “boyfriend,” we can’t help but wonder: What classifies as a boyfriend?

“My mother had explained to me that buildings needed human breath in them to keep them moist and held together,” one character recalls. “Abandoned buildings are like abandoned people — they die sooner.” –Brontez Purnell, ‘100 Boyfriends’

Rashid Johnson’s Stage, the location of Friday’s reading, is a participatory installation that draws from the history of the microphone as a tool for protest as well as a lyrical reference in hip-hop since the 1980s. This yellow powder-coated stage is sprawling with Johnson’s signature markings and supports five SM58 microphones that echo throughout the exterior of the museum. Any and all guests are welcome to speak, sing, protest, or rejoice by means of the Stage and MoMA PS1 is ecstatic to welcome Brontez Purnell.

03/25/2021

Surprising absolutely nobody, the National Book Critics Circle recently picked ‘Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,’ by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, as one of the best books of criticism published in 2020, and on the shortlist for their Criticism prize, to be announced tonight, Thursday, March 25, at 7PM EST.

For the last six months we have been humbled and honored to be the home base bookstore for Dr. Fleetwood's visionary exhibition catalogue, which serves not only as a guide to her landmark show but also as a manifesto in imagining, practicing, and proliferating creativity and freedom despite and beyond duress. We’re with her every step of the way, all the way to abolition. Dr. Fleetwood comes into the Bookstore sometimes to sign books and check in and chat for a while. She signs every book “To art & freedom!”—the most important things in the world, which she knows and means.

Signed books are available, which you will want to have when 'Marking Time' wins the National Book Critics Circle award. Visit our Bookstore or click below to order signed copies online. With love and solidarity from Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore.

https://artbookstores.com/Marking-Time-Art-in-the-Age-of-Mass-Incarceration-SIGNED

03/10/2021

Order the exhibition catalog here!
https://artbookstores.com/Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Structures-for-Life

03/10/2021

Order 🐍 here: https://artbookstores.com/Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Structures-for-Life
Book launch details below!

🐍 Pre-order the exhibition catalogue "Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life" from Artbook at MoMA PS1 and support independent bookstores. A new exploration of Niki de Saint Phalle’s colorful and compelling public structures featuring archival materials and more, this volume brings newfound attention to 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. Get yours at mo.ma/order and stream the book launch online Thursday at 1 p.m. EST at mo.ma/launch

With a wide selection of images of her architectural works and rarely seen archival materials, this book places these projects in 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.

03/07/2021

New release! 'Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life' is published on occasion of the eponymous MoMA PS1 exhibition, opening March 11, 2021. Edited and with an essay by exhibition curator Ruba Katrib, with new scholarship by Anne Dressen, Nick Mauss, Alex Kitnick and Lanka Tattersall.

Click link below to order with free media mail shipping or $3.50 priority mail shipping in the U.S.
https://mailchi.mp/artbook/new-release-niki-de-saint-phalle-structures-for-life

02/26/2021

Artbook Stores @ Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair
HAPPENING NOW TILL FEB 28!
https://artbookstores.pmvabf.org/

Art Monographs | Cookbooks | Children's Books | Ecology Design | Theory | Occult | Literature | Music
Limited Editions | Signed/OP Books | & much more!

Artbook Stores' Booksellers will be on live chat every day
from fair opening, noon till 8PM.

Register for our PMVABF Event 'Fab Fem Collab: Three Artists' Books: Johanna Drucker & Susan Bee' and purchase signed artists' bookplate copies of their three collaborative artist' books here: https://artbookstores.pmvabf.org/EVENT-BOOKS-THUMBNAIL

12/27/2020

Dear young artists, thinkers, book worms: Artbook stores @artbookhwla and @artbookps1 are seeking interns who are interested in how independent bookstores are coming to terms with the 21st century retail reality. The internship is remote with the possibility of in-store tasks if agreed upon and as circumstances allow. The stores follow the Covid-19 guidelines at all times at both locations. The virtual internship allows for a long-distance internship experience, an unusual situation given that independent bookstores are, by nature, rooted in a specific place and therefore engage with local residents and culture.

For more information about the internship and how to apply, visit our website: https://www.artbook.com/jobs-ny-artbook.html

12/23/2020

🗓 Holiday Hours: the Bookstore is OPEN Thursday, Dec 24, 12-4PM, and as always, entrance is FREE! Reserve a free timed entry ticket by choosing your date and time and “Pay what you wish”: https://www.moma.org/ps1?_ga=2.32773246.117768981.1608739121-1127907404.1608739121

📚 Come shop our newly-restocked children’s book wall, packed with beautiful and engaging new books for babies to tweens!

🎁 Take advantage of our free gift wrapping station and free shipping in the U.S. for purchases of $25 or more.

🗓 The Bookstore is closed, Friday, December 25. Our normal hours resume on Saturday, December 26.

12/20/2020

Signed copies of Hal Foster's latest title, "Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg," are available now!

Limited availability, order here: https://mailchi.mp/artbook/hal-foster-signed-book-brutal-aesthetics-dubuffet-bataille-jorn-paolozzi-oldenburg

12/18/2020

"This is for you." Send a personalized Artbook Gift Card from me @ you & you @ me.

You know that they like books, but it is hard to select which book to give when you cannot visit a bookstore and look at the books, to find the special book that speaks for you, says “this is for you.” Online ordering doesn’t give you the ability to discover titles like in store, where staff has selected titles to be discovered. Or you might want to give a book to someone who you know likes books, but what book? Then the me @ you & you @ me gift card is perfect to speak for you.

Buy online, for instant usage, or order a physical gift card, mailed to you or yours with free U.S. shipping. Both options can be used online at artbook.com and in our stores in NYC, LA, and pop-up and fair stores around the country. Order here: https://mailchi.mp/artbook/send-a-personalized-artbook-gift-card-custom-amount-custom-message-perfect-gift

12/17/2020

It's a snow day! The Bookstore and MoMA PS1 are closed today, Thursday, December 17, but you can still shop Artbook's newest releases online and take 25% off PLUS free U.S. shipping! Click below for our full list of specially-priced, just-released titles. Perfect for treating yourself this holiday season! https://www.artbook.com/momaps1-store.html

12/15/2020

A limited number of signed copies of Amy's SIllman's newest book, "Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings," are now available in the Bookstore!
Click below for order details and to watch a recent video of Amy Sillman in conversation with writer Lynne Tillman. https://mailchi.mp/artbook/antwaun-sargent-signed-books-young-gifted-and-black-the-new-black-vanguard-979916

12/10/2020

Invite | Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood | Virtual Book Signing + Q&A | Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Dr. Fleetwood, author of 'Marking Time' and curator of the eponymous MoMA PS1 exhibition, now on view, will be signing copies of the book and taking your questions.

Sun | Dec 13 | 3-3:45PM EST | 12-12:45PM PST | LIVE ON ZOOM

Register and order the book for signing here:
https://mailchi.mp/artbook/invite-dr-nicole-r-fleetwood-virtual-book-signing-qa-marking-time-art-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration

12/08/2020

We are OPEN for in-store shopping AND we are here for those of you who are staying home: recommending, wrapping and shipping holiday gifts books far and wide! 🎁

Click below to browse our favorite books to give as gifts that are just a little bit different, inspiring and unusual. 15% discount when ordering two titles. 25% discount on three titles or more. 📚

https://mailchi.mp/artbook/holiday-curbside-pick-up-special-25-off-selected-titles-979960

12/06/2020

Our Holiday Gift Lists for You!
We, the booksellers of Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore, have compiled a selection of recommended reading lists selected from hundreds of books and gifts which we would have carried in our bookstore during a normal holiday season. We encourage you to please check out our selection and support your favorite independent booksellers for your seasonal needs.
So we will be here for you post-pandemic.

https://mailchi.mp/artbook/holiday-curbside-pick-up-special-25-off-selected-titles-979948

11/29/2020

🖤 Happy Museum Store Sunday from all of us at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore! We're open today until 6PM. Grab your favorite mask and come pick up a new book to cozy up with tonight! 📚

Let's hear it for #museumstoresunday !! Here are some recent pics from our renowned museum bookshop, @artbookps1 ⁠⠀
Reserve timed tickets to see 'Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,' organized by guest curator Dr. @nifleetwood @momaps1 and drop by the bookstore on the first floor. We've got books!⁠⠀
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@museumstoresunday

11/29/2020

Support independent Bookstores and enjoy free shipping on books, totes, puzzles and games, now through Cyber Monday, by clicking the link below to shop online!

We've just updated our curated book and gift lists for kids, activists, art lovers, and bookworms. Add gift wrap and you're good to go for the holiday season.

Proceeds from sales go directly to support independent bookstores like Artbook @ MoMA PS1 & Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA. Happy shopping!
https://bookshop.org/shop/artbookps1

11/27/2020

Read on for signed and specially-priced books by Antwaun Sargent, editor of this year's "Young, Gifted and Black" (D.A.P.) and author of last year's "The New Black Vanguard" (Aperture). Quantities are limited, click link below to order!

"Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art" surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art.

"The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion" presents artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries and open up conversations on the representation of the Black body and Black lives as subject matter.

Antwaun Sargent is a writer and critic living in New York. He curated the exhibition The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion at Aperture Foundation and co-curated the traveling exhibitionYoung, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.

https://mailchi.mp/artbook/antwaun-sargent-signed-books-young-gifted-and-black-the-new-black-vanguard

09/17/2020

MoMA PS1

Read on for another great reason to visit MoMA PS1, reopening today, September 17--and come back for the Bookstore reopening on Saturday. September 26!

Here's a preview of what you might experience at PS1 after our reopening on Thursday 👂

“Stage" is a new interactive installation by Rashid Johnson, offering a place for the public to speak their mind, or to simply 🎷. Audio from the mics is broadcast throughout the courtyard live and will be recorded and rebroadcast intermittently. We invite you to get onto "Stage" and contribute to this expanding collaborative and participatory audio repository.

In this moment of vast uncertainty and widespread protest, the work also points to the tension between the power of the voice as a tool for change, and fear of the voice as a potential transmitter of illness. The work is sanitized between each use, and visitors are required to wear face masks when interacting with the installation and throughout their visit. mo.ma/stage

09/17/2020

We're so excited for the opening of the "Marking Time" exhibition TODAY at MoMA PS1, and the Bookstore opening on Saturday, September 26!
To order a copy of Nicole R. Fleetwood's book, "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration," with free U.S. shipping, email [email protected].

"A thoroughly researched and heartbreakingly personal look at prison art and the broader visual culture of incarceration, and the way art becomes a mode of relationality among prisoners who use it to combat the imposed isolation of imprisonment." – ARTnews

Opening Thursday, "Marking Time" features art made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment. The exhibition is organized by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood in conjunction with her new book "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration."

Read more about the book at mo.ma/artnews and order your own copy from Artbook at MoMA PS1. More: mo.ma/markingtime

Installation view of Rowan Renee, “No Spirit For Me,” 2019. Photo by Matthew Septimus.

08/12/2020

NEW and Back in Stock: Suzanne Jackson, Barkley L. Hendricks, Aruna D'Souza: 'Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts' + 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power'!

Take 25% Off + Free U.S. Shipping: click link for details and to order: https://mailchi.mp/artbook/new-and-back-in-stock-suzanne-jackson-barkley-l-hendricks-aruna-dsouza-soul-of-a-nation-take-25-off-free-us-shipping

08/12/2020

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

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