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The 2018 NY Art Book Fair

By Peggy Roalf   Monday September 24, 2018


The global arts intelligentsia descended on the NY Art Book Fair over the weekend, proving beyond doubt that printed matter of artistic origins is, more than ever, a viable and visible form of expression. Printed Matter, the organizer, pulled out all the stops, attracting what had to be record-breaking crowds to the twelfth edition of the fair. 

This year’s NYABF included 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. 

Everywhere throughout MoMA PS1, the former schoolrooms vibrated with verbal cues printed on paper, Kevlar, Lucite, T-shirts, tote bags, and the newest message medium, socks—sock it to me? The “IF YOU READ SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING” tote bag had a special appeal for me.

Following is a sampling of booths from the classrooms to the courtyard. Photos © Peggy Roalf
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Left: Gianluca and Gianmarco Gamberini of L’Artiere Edizione, Bentivoglio, IT. L’Artiere previewed Greg Miller’s Unto Dust, launching this fall. Center: 
At Colophon Foundry of London and LA, nothing speaks louder than type: The Future III poster, with split fountain printing. Right: Jason Burstein and Christine Labey of Conveyor Editions, Jersey City, NJ, with the Time Travel issue of the magazine.



In the VW Dome, protest and small press editions prevailed


 

Left:  Mathieu Renard of Lendroit éditions, Rennes, FR, with Ilan Manouach’s compendium of Franco-Belgian comics. Center: Lesley A. Martin of Aperture (right) with representative of SVA's Riso Lab. Right: Bruno Cechel of Self Publish Be Happy with In Bloom by Jean-Vincent Simonet.

 

 

 


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