THE NY ART BOOK FAIR 2015
Printed Matter, Inc. presents
THE NY ART BOOK FAIR September 18–20, 2015 Preview: Thursday, September 17, 6-9pm MoMA PS1
NY ART BOOK FAIR
Printed Matter presents the tenth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 18 to 20, 2015, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 17.
Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines.
This year, the fair features over 370 booksellers, antiquarians, artists, institutions and independent publishers from twenty- eight countries. Last year’s fair was attended by more than 35,000 people.
THE NY ART BOOK FAIR PREVIEW
Join us on Thursday, September 17 from 6 to 9 pm, at MoMA PS1 for our opening night preview. The evening will feature special live performances on the steps of PS1 by DROOID5$Z (Lost Soul Enterprises, NYC) and Bookworms (L.I.E.S. Records, NYC).
Entry to the Preview will cost $10, proceeds going to support NYABF15. The first 2,000 visitors to pre-pay online or to pay at the door will receive a Ticket Edition by Paper Rad. Purchase here
NY ART BOOK FAIR OVERVIEW
This year’s NY Art Book Fair includes an ever-growing variety of exhibitors – from the zinesters in (XE)ROX & PAPER + SCISSORS and the Small Press Dome representing publishing at its most innovative and affordable, to rare and antiquarian dealers offering out-of-print books and ephemera from art and artist book history, plus the NYABF-classic Friendly Fire, focused on the intersections of art and activism.
NYABF15 will also host an array of programming and special events: in its seventh year, The Classroom is a curated engagement of informal conversations, workshops, readings, and other artist-led interventions. The Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference (CABC), in its eighth year, will feature two full days on emerging practices and issues within art-book culture. See the full list of exhibitor projects and events here
Printed Matter will also present an exhibition of work by Providence-based trio Paper Rad, curated by Paul Bright. The show in the PS1 Dome features the zines and printed ephemera created by the group between 1997 and 2009, most of which has not been seen publicly.
Full exhibitor list here
HOURS AND LOCATION Preview Thursday, September 17, 6-9 pm Friday, September 18, 1-7pm Saturday, September 19, 11am-9pm Sunday, September 20, 11-am-7pm
MoMA PS1 2-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY