The ninth annual NY Art Book Fair runs from Friday through Sunday at MoMA PS 1. Organized by Printed Matter, the event will bring together over 230 exhibitors from 29+ countries in high-ceilinged galleries that would otherwise sit empty, awaiting installation of PS 1’s fall exhibitions.

Join another 25,000 artists, book buyers, collectors, dealers, curators, independent publishers, DIY book-makers and other enthusiasts at the fair—to browse, shop, schmooze, swap, and snack—and to attend the wall-to-wall panels, workshops, readings, book signings, and other artist-led programs.

This year’s NY Art Book Fair includes an ever-growing variety of exhibitors – from the zinesters in (XE)ROX & PAPER + SCISSORS and theSmall 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.

NYABF-classic Friendly Fire focuses on the intersections of art and activism, and with the support of the Norwegian Consulate General in New York, the NYABF and Printed Matter presents NORWAY FOCUS: KUNSTNERBØKER, a curated selection of 23 Norwegian booksellers, institutions, artists and independent publishers.

NYABF14 is also host to an array of programming and special events: now in its sixth year, The Classroom is a curated engagement of informal conversations, workshops, readings, and other artist-led interventions. The Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference (CABC), now in its seventh year, features two full days on emerging practices and issues within art-book culture. The stage at the top of the stairs will have continuous musical performances programmed by Printed Matter, Showpaper, and Know-Wave Radio.

New York Art Book Fair, Moma PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY.

In addition, Aperture Foundation’s PhotoBook Awards Short List will be announced by juror Todd Hido on Friday at 6 pm. Recently returned from the launch of the PhotoBook Museum in Cologne, Hido will speak briefly on the current state of the photobook before announcing the thirty-five finalists for the PhotoBook Awards in each of the following categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year, which was introduced this year. Information. Aperture is also hosting a series of artist talks over the weekend, at the Bookstore in Newyork, in conjunction with new releases from Larry Towell, Jeff Lieo and Joachim Schmidt. Information.

Creative Time invites you to spend this summer-ilke weekend at Brooklyn’s Weeksville Heritage Center for three days of Black Radical Brooklyn: Funk, God, Jazz and Medicine.

On Saturday, bike over with a blanket to enjoy a moving afternoon talk with the artists, curators, and local partners. On Sunday, try pairing your visit to Bradford Young’s sanctuary installation with an early-evening BBQ supper, including an authentic fish fry from Alabama Joe’s drum grill.

Step up to OJBK FM, the Cadillac radio station by Otabenga Jones & Associates. Take a free “Afrocentering” Pilates class inside Simone Leigh’s transformation of grand Stuyvesant Mansion. Tour the historic Weeksville houses and peek into the next stage of Xenobia Bailey’s continuously evolving funk-tional installation. Information.

Meanwhile, in Rennes, France, the fourth edition of Biennial Off kicks of tomorrow at the new Lendroit Editions. Contemporary art in all its diversity is celebrated at 14 venues, through December 20th, with exhibitions, installations, performances, panel discussions and more. AtLendroit Editions, edition prints and artists books are installed, with special gifts for people who supported Mathieu Renard’s KissKissBankBankfundraiser.

Lendroit editions, 24 bis place du Colombier, 35000 Rennes. Information.