The Stage
The courtyard of the Fair will feature a lineup of music, poetry, and performance organized in collaboration with Lydo Le of X-TRA.SERVICES. Founded in 2017 by Lydo, X-TRA.SERVICES is a label that curates a subaquatic space for extraterrestrial sound.
Daniel Rincon
Mister Water Wet (Live)
MASAAKI
Dorothy Carlos
Juan Fortun (SalsaResistencia)
The Classroom
Third FloorSMLXL: Publishing by Artists, Collectives, Institutions, and Networks, with Laura Coombs, Yusuf Hassan, Siddhartha Lokanandi, Manuel Raeder, and Rachel Valinsky
Ulises, a Philadelphia-based bookshop and project space dedicated to artists’ books and independent publishing, hosts a conversation around present conditions of independent publishing and cultural production through the lens of scale—from a single artist and the collective, to institutions and networks. This session brings together Yusuf Hassan (BlackMass Publishing), Manuel Raeder (BOM DIA), Rachel Valinsky (Wendy’s Subway), Siddhartha Lokanandi (Hopscotch Reading Room), and Laura Coombs (designer of Cyberfeminism Index and A Sexual History of the Internet). Inspired by the iconic, unruly Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau book S,M,L,XL, the panel interrogates the ways in which scale affects and bleeds across categories in contemporary publishing, often informing the core identities of those involved. Presented by Ulises and The Goethe-Institut-New York.
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History, with Ali Karimi and Jack Murphy
This program marks the launch of Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History, a book that revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The session addresses the book’s central provocation that the oil economy’s narrative overwrites older traditions of landscape and territory. Highways cutting across the desert, reclamation works reshaping the shoreline, and agricultural land cleared for new cities renders earlier spatial narratives as a distant pre-history, more fable than precedent. Against this mono-myth, Ali Karimi of Civil Architecture, in conversation with Jack Murphy of The Architect’s Newspaper, traces an alternative genealogy of the region drawn from instances of pre-oil planning: from desert kites to fish traps to water channels, and from narratives of geology, agriculture, mariculture, and seasonality. This genealogy upends conventional methods of thinking through architecture’s relationship to its context, and instead opens onto possible interventions into the spatial history of the Peninsula. Presented by Kaph Books.
How We Practice, with Carmen Winant and Drew Sawyer
For artists, everything has become “practice.” It is the way we work, make, and move through the world. In this collection of essays—part cultural criticism, part memoir—Carmen Winant draws on a decade of competitive long-distance running to consider athletic practice as analogous to artistic practice. Winant explores the demands of both forms of practice and asks: How can one term hold so much? And what might the terms of athleticism have to offer the world of artists? Presented by Dancing Foxes Press.
Designed to be Red, with Brian Johnson, Kathleen Sleboda, and Christopher Sleboda
This conversation brings two projects on Indigenous graphic design into dialogue. Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Graphic Works (DelMonico Books), edited by Brian Johnson (Monacan Indian Nation), is the first publication dedicated to Indigenous typography, poster design, lettering, and graphic arts across the Americas. Spanning nearly two centuries and more than 80 tribes and nations, it reveals a rich lineage of Native graphic art made alongside, despite, and in resistance to dominant colonial narratives, coinciding with an accompanying exhibition at NYC’s Poster House (September 25–February 21). Johnson, a partner at the design studio Polymode, is joined by Kathleen Sleboda (nłeʔkepmx / Nlaka'pamux), a contributor to the book, and Christopher Sleboda, who together run the design and publishing studio Draw Down Books. Their forthcoming publication in Fillip's Supplement series traces the evolution of several Indigenous writing systems and their intersections with modern typography, proposing future-looking methods and approaches. This session considers Indigenous graphic design as a living practice, and the work of publishing it into a field that has long overlooked it. Presented by DelMonico Books and Fillip.
Parapraxis: Publishing as a Practice of Knowledge Production, with Aurélia Niat Toundji, Salwat Idi, Esther Hien, and Neals Niat
Parapraxis is a critical theory of publishing developed by Aurélia Niat Toundji and Salwat Idi, founders and directors of cahiers manufactoriel. It treats publishing not as the end of research, but as a mode of exploration in which editing, assembling, and sequencing produce knowledge in circulation. Rooted in African oral and performative traditions, parapraxis understands knowledge as relational and in motion rather than fixed. It embraces non-linear and rhizomatic thinking, where meaning emerges through constellations of texts and images. In this program, Toundji and Idi are joined by artists Esther Hien and Neals Niat to discuss this theory and how it informs both their multidisciplinary practice and their approach to artist collaborations. Presented by cahiers manufactoriel.
Continental Censorship and Circulatory Concerns, with merath, kimi malka hanauer, Kennedy Jones, Christian Nyampeta, and Pascale Obolo
What does it take to move a text, and who decides? Censorship is rarely a straightforward ban. More often it is a logistics problem. The book is not simply forbidden; rather, its process is slowed, made expensive, suspicious, hard to pay for, and easy to intercept in transit. Racial and political control has generally worked on distribution before it works on content. It is easier to strangle a route than to argue with a book. This program invites artists and publishers to discuss censorship as both structural modality for publishing of all kinds, as well as a circumstance that affects some localities more acutely than others. Presented by merath.
The Surrealist Book: Radical Ideas, Revolutionary Forms, with Jodi Hauptman, Starr Figura, Abigail Susik, and Barbora Bartunkova
For artists and writers of the Surrealist movement, the book was the perfect medium—a vehicle for subversive experimentation and a testing ground for revolutionary ideas. Working collaboratively to unlock the unconscious, they transformed the bound volume into a provocative new art form, whether through illustrated volumes of poetry, manifestos, or antiwar pamphlets. To celebrate the launch of The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors, published in conjunction with the exhibition opening at MoMA on October 4 and featuring artists' books from the Helen and Sam Zell Collection, this conversation between curators Jodi Hauptman and Starr Figura and art historians Abigail Susik and Barbora Bartunkova explores the books of André Breton, Claude Cahun, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Georges Hugnet, Toyen, and Unica Zürn, among others. The discussion considers how the Surrealists, working against conventions, embraced the book as a way to challenge the strictures of contemporary society. Presented by The Museum of Modern Art.
Reading Room
Reading Ecology: Transforming Publishing in Africa, with iwalewabooks, TJ Benson, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Esé Emmanuel, Nadine Siegert, and Pascale Obolo
This conversation centers on Reading Ecology: Transforming Publishing in Africa, a project exploring contemporary independent publishing and knowledge circulation across the African continent. Part of the We Make Books initiative, it highlights researchers, writers, and cultural actors reimagining how books are produced and distributed in Africa. Participants discuss the challenges of this evolving ecology, including alternative models and solidarity networks. Reading Ecology proposes the publication as a site of resistance, dialogue, and collective imagination rather than just a finished object. By examining current publishing practices, the conversation reflects on how reading and transmission serve as vital acts of cultural reappropriation, envisioning new territories of knowledge and the construction of shared futures. This program is made possible through funding from The Goethe-Institut in Lagos, Nigeria, as a part of the We Make Books project.
Carte blanche with Nontsikelelo Mutiti: a conversation with sound artists and musicians, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, Mbali Mthethwa, mukhtara ayọ̀tẹ́jú adékúnbi yusuf, and Alvin Ashiatey
This program proposes knowledge production outside of the paradigm of the printed book—considering the origins of print media within an African context. It foregrounds forms of messaging such as Zulu/Ndebele beading and other symbols that appear on surfaces beyond paper, including textiles, walls, the body, and the voice. Like print, these are ways of recording and projecting knowledge. This program offers new ways to think about orality.
Jam conversation with the Fantastic Four Double Dutch: Delores Brown Finlayson, De'Shone Adams Goodson, Robin Oakes Watterson, and Adrienne "Nikki" Adams Howell
This special conversation brings together the legendary Fantastic Four Double Dutch, the pioneering New York team that turned Double Dutch from a neighborhood practice into an international phenomenon. The iconic group’s first appearance in Paris as part of the New York City Rap Tour marked a decisive moment in hip-hop's transatlantic history, inspiring curator and filmmaker Pascale Obolo to found Dutch Force System in 1983, the first Double Dutch crew in France. This jam session revisits that shared history while restoring the central role of Black women whose contributions have too often been invisible in dominant narratives of hip-hop. Through conversation, archival memories, and rap classics from the early 1980s, the program reconnects New York and Paris, revealing Double Dutch as a practice at once athletic, choreographic, musical, and political. It emphasizes the significance of cultural transmission and resurfaces overlooked genealogies of the women whose creativity helped shape the global language of hip-hop.
About the Reading Room
The Pan-African Library, curated by Pascale Obolo, draws from the ten-year archive of the African Art Book Fair (AABF) to present various histories of independent publishing across Africa and its diasporas. This Reading Room traces how autonomous infrastructures of knowledge operate beyond institutional geographies that have historically organized visibility, legitimacy, and circulation.
We begin with the simple proposition: books never exist alone. Every publication carries with it conversations, oral traditions, friendships, political struggles, acts of translation, and communities of care. The Reading Room creates a map of these ecologies of social relations and argues that publishing is an infrastructure that enacts cultural repair and epistemic disobedience.
The installation features a curated selection of contemporary independent African titles, archives of important publications, listening stations, artwork, and importantly—space to read and rest. Alongside the 10th anniversary of the African Art Book Fair are histories of the magazine Peuples noirs, Peuples africains, founded by the Cameroonian thinker Mongo Beti; the 15th anniversary of the journal Mosaïques; a history of the Nigerian cultural center The Mbari Club; and the 5th anniversary of the double-dummy édition newspaper. NYABF exhibitors are also invited to contribute thematically relevant titles to a non-circulating library available for browsing throughout the weekend.
The daily program schedule in the Reading Room features collaborations with local and international writers, artists, and activists, including Station of Commons, iwalewabooks, the Fantastic Four Double Dutch, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, FLEE Project, We Make Books, and AFRIKADAA, among many others. This interdisciplinary format—with programming ranging from listening sessions, group discussions, and performances—emphasizes collaboration as a primary method uniting independent publishing practices. In doing so, The Pan-African Library refuses the silence traditionally associated with libraries, while contrasting the rapid pace of the Fair with an opportunity to engage in downtime, close reading, critique, and reflection.
As a partner of the Reading Room, Station of Commons, a transdisciplinary collective of artists, designers, and coders working on digital commons, will broadcast from the Fair on their own radio infrastructure at stationofcommons.org and on the Printed Matter website.
This Reading Room: The Pan-African Library is supported by Aalto University School of the Arts, Design and Architecture; Consulate General of Finland in New York; Consulate General of Switzerland in New York; Finnish Cultural Foundation; Frame Contemporary Art Finland; Goethe Institut; Silence Please; and is part of Villa Albertine post-residency program in partnership with Albertine Foundation.
Project Spaces
Dark Entries Editions (I8) Dark Entries presents Darian Newman's archive of matchbooks from gay bars and bathhouses, alongside the debut photo exhibition of William Howell documenting the final chapter of queer cruising on Manhattan's westside piers. Before mobile phones and indoor smoking bans, queer communities used matchbooks as marketing tools. These everyday disposable objects, often decorated with muscled Adonises and raunchy puns, were passed hand to hand with a phone number scrawled inside. Now, with so many of these bars and bathhouses closed and apps like Grindr in their place, these small objects have become treasured artifacts that tell a tale of subcultures and the utility of graphic design. Together these works by Newman and Howell capture an era of urban culture eventually upended by gentrification and demolition of the mid-1990s.
grama/naipe (PR 4) presents a multi-channel installation surveying sound poetry and voice works by Latin American writers and artists. Spanning nearly a century, the selection moves from Vicente Huidobro's works of the 1930s through the Brazilian concrete poetry movement and up to a range of contemporary artists from Central and South America, as well as the Latino diaspora in the United States. grama/naipe is a ghostly imprint created by artist David Medina that uses algorithmic, combinatorial, and generative techniques to produce strange and absurd books. At NYABF 2026, the imprint presents a selection of older works, new launches, and sound works edited by the grama/naipe label.
Magazzino Italian Art Museum (PR 2) presents Arte Povera: Medium and Message, a bibliographic exhibition by Magazzino Italian Art that draws from the Archival and Special Collections of its Research Center. Bringing together artist books, gallery brochures, avant-garde journals, posters, and landmark exhibition catalogues, the project traces how Arte Povera—the late-1960s Italian movement that rethought the concept of “fixed artwork” through matter, energy, language, and transformation—was shaped and circulated through print. Publications by artists, gallerists, and curators reveal the movement’s engagement with typography, graphic design, and the relationship between word and image. Together, these materials offer a parallel history of Arte Povera, showing how print served not merely to document artworks and exhibitions, but as a space for artistic and critical experimentation.
In the Duplex of MoMA PS1, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (PR 1) presents an installation that expands upon the artist’s seminal publication, I Don’t Think About Being Great: Selected Writings, and explores the vibrant artist communities and collaborative activism that emerged in New York from the 1960s to early 2000s. The exhibition centers on the ideals of peace and mutual support of artists, utilizing a rich array of primary source materials—including original writing manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and printed ephemera—to trace Rauschenberg's deep-seated commitment to the support of fellow artists, artist-led networks, and advocacy. This includes his significant efforts to secure financial rights for artists, his pivotal work in AIDS advocacy, his backing of and participation in artist collaborations, and the continued fight for arts funding and freedom of speech. On view is documentation of Rauschenberg's legacy as an interdisciplinary visionary who used collaborative philanthropy to empower artist communities, with highlights from influential collaborators and peers, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jerry Brown, Trisha Brown, William Burroughs, David Byrne, John Cage, Tina Girouard, Deborah Hay, Marion Javits, Jasper Johns, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, and Sylvia Palacios Whitman.
Roma Publications (E8) and Martens & Martens present Cloakroom Tickets (1–250), an exhibition of printed work by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens, marking the launch of the eponymous new publication of prints made on the pages of a booklet of numbered cloakroom tickets Martens kept in his studio for years. In 1993, Roma founder Roger Willems, then a student, began working for Martens as an assistant. Their first publishing collaboration was in 2013 with the title Full Color, and since then they have produced twenty publications, plus special editions, tote bags, T-shirts, postcards, posters, and other ephemera. Now, for the 20th anniversary of NYABF, Willems and Martens return to their archives to share a wide range of collaborations, Roma publications, and rare copies of first editions from the past 30 years of publishing.
Three Star Books (PR 5) presents four new limited-edition artists’ books by Raffaella Della Olga, Daniel Gordon, Ruby Sky Stiler, and Diego Marcon. The installation will transform the space into a meditation-like setting, with books displayed on a long table in the center and benches lining the perimeter. Visitors are invited to sit, spend time with the publications, and engage with each project in a quiet, contemplative environment.
In 1983, the art dealers Holly and Horace Solomon sent a personalized postcard to museum director and art historian Rudi Oxenaar, inviting him to the opening of their New York gallery. Fifty years later, Anniek Brattinga came across this invitation on Sanie Irsay’s desk. She shared its phrasing with Jana Sofie Liebe and Johanna Gratzer, who were looking to curate a group exhibition centered on primary source material.
In response to the increasing homogenization and anonymity of communication technologies, Werkplaats Typografie (PR 3) presents May I Request the Pleasure of Your Company—a return to the announcement as a site of encounter that reclaims the specificity of address in relation to a particular recipient. This invitation travels back to New York in several forms for the 20th NY Art Book Fair, all of which will be enacted and on view in this special project.
Signings & Launches
A46 Book Arts Solidarity Network (BASN)
Launch of MAKEREADY Vol. 3.
S6 Further Reading
Launch of How to Book in Indonesia, Design After Design, Serving Suggestion issue #03, and Double Take: In Transit.
T76 New Poetics Publishing
Launch of Effigy of Man by Jatin Gulati, and Kept Time by Kat Shannon.
A23 Shadowbanned Press
Launch of RFK Jr. As Recalled Food Zine.
T16 Simple Project NY
Launch of Burma/Myanmar Memories of War 2019−2024 by Kameyama.
A36 Ungovernable Study
Launch of Drawing our own terms: on doodles without borders in L.A. by Հայկ/Hayk Makhmuryan and Anna Cho-Son.
T41 19Editions
Launch of INprint 004 with Nima Nibavi.
J1 Center for Book Arts
Signing of AN IMAGE OF AN IMAGE by Kathy Wu.
E1 Gnomic Book
Launch of museum by Sayler/Morris and Christina Seely.
H4 Palermo Publishing
Signing of Whereupon by Allen Frame.
I7 Workshop Arts
Signing of First Stop Last Stop by Rita Nannini.
T41 19Editions
Launch of INprint 005 with Roya Haroun.
T8 Allied Productions / Petit Versailles
Signing of Kokeshi こけし Studies by Helen Oji.
C4 Chose Commune
Launch of Son Pictures by Trent Davis Bailey.
C5 Kaph Books
Signing of Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History by Ali Ismail Karimi and Hamed Bukhamseen with Jack Murphy.
H4 Palermo Publishing
Signing of Portraits and Places by Steve Turtell.
B Printed Matter, Inc.
Signing of Torbjørn Rødland: Dim Revelations by Torbjørn Rødland.
A24 Return to Library
Signing of Pigeons & Hydrants by CeCilia Yang.
G2 TBW Books
Signing of Double Player by Peter Tomka.
I7 Workshop Arts
Signing of Reservoir by various photographers.
H5 Deadbeat Club
Signing of To Skip a Sinking Stone by Daniel Dorsa.
P4 Set Margins’ publications
Launch of Maisa in Webland by Maisa Imamovic.
G2 TBW Books
Signing of Not a Cookbook by Robby Reis.
S2 Tropic Editions
Launch and signing of Our Bodies are Memories of Our Bodies by Dan Taulapapa McMullin.
I7 Workshop Arts
Signing of Pulses: A Memoir through Art by Jennie Evans.
G5 KGP MONOLITH
Launch of Venas Abiertas by Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano.
N7 Zolo Press
Signing of MIMES by Torbjørn Rødland.
T41 19Editions
Launch of INprint 001 with Sabri Sundos.
T8 Allied Productions / Petit Versailles
Signing of That Same Wind by Chuna Chugay.
I3 Datz Press
Signing of encounters by Minny Lee.
H5 Deadbeat Club
Signing of Mixedness is my Mythology by Farren van Wyk.
G5 KGP MONOLITH
Launch of Ganges River by Sara Hylton.
G1 Loose Joints
Signing of You Are What You Do by Daniel Arnold.
PR2 Magazzino Italian Art Museum
Exhibition tour of Arte Povera: Medium and Message and Magazzino publications with Beatriz Cifuentes and Nicola Lucchi.
M3 MAGIC HOUR PRESS
Signing of FREDDIE by Rory Mulligan.
I2 MAKAN
Launch and signing of Everything I Can Offer to the World at this Moment by Angela Lian.
S1 Metabolic Studio
Signing of Crisis Archive with Lauren Bon, Richard Nielsen and Red Rotkopf.
A48 Minigolf Deportivo
Launch of 10 years 10 zines (Work in Progress) by Fernanda Aránguiz, Corentin Gros, Santi Nam, Renato Norambuena, Papo333, Paloma Palomino, and Catalina Bu.
M8 Nightboat Books
Signing of B-Dragon Suite by Stine An.
T24 nos:books
Launch of Book Inferno by Chihoi.
L6 Perimeter Editions
Signing and launch of Some Voices Carry by Arini Byng.
T46 Pomegranate Press
Signing of Snow in July by Taryn Segal.
P4 Set Margins’ publications
Launch of Slow Earth Companion by Ayana Young.
G2 TBW Books
Signing of The Marble by David Brandon Geeting.
Q11 Terminal Ediciones
Launch of TAXIS: Iconography and visual language of taxi culture in Latin America by Evan Marcus & Jaime Nuñez del Arco.
M7 Ulises and Friends
Book launch and signing of Fair Catch (Second Edition) by Madison Carroll, published by Pharmacy Books.
I7 Workshop Arts
Signing of My Mother’s Tender Script by Asiya Al Sharabi.
J1 Center for Book Arts
Signing of These Books are Poison by Ash Reeder.
Q7 Kayfa ta
Launch of How to live from fire to fire by Olivier Marboeuf.
G5 KGP MONOLITH
Launch of Ije by Ike Edeani
T72 ‘cademy
Signing of All These Feelings by Ana Vallejo.
T28 Chinatown Basketball Club / NEUTRAL COLORS
Signing and launch of LowQ Magazine.
I3 Datz Press
Signing of A Conversation with the World by Lonnie Graham.
H5 Deadbeat Club
Signing of Billions Served by Richard Renaldi.
C2 DelMonico Books
Launch and signing of Designed to be Red: Native American and Indigenous Graphic Work by Brian M. Johnson.
O5 Divided Publishing
Signing of In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities by Joy James.
T9 Good Neighbour
Signing of Musée Légitime’s Shikishi Boards by Martín La Roche and more.
C6 GOST Books
Signings of El Sur by Julio Mitchel and The Holdouts by Ben Marcin.
T12 La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop)
Signing of Álbum El Informador - Archivo Luis Cobelo (1996–1999) by Luis Cobelo.
F5 MACK
Signing of How About Never by Jerry Hsu.
H7 Middle East Archive
Signing of Cairo Portraits by Stefan Ruiz.
T76 New Poetics Publishing
Signing of Somos Animales Poéticos by Cristina Velásquez, published by Dust Collective.
M8 Nightboat Books
Signing of The Hummingbird by Matt Longabucco.
B Printed Matter, Inc.
Signing of Joseph Rovegno: 030426 / 0526 by Joseph Rovegno.
T4 Shlag Lab
Launch of Snail Goes Around in Circles by Edern van Hille.
F2 SUPER LABO
Signing of GUTS by Shaniqwa Jarvis.
I6 The Eriskay Connection
Signing of The Marches by Terry Ratzlaff.
H9 The Ice Plant
Launches and signings of Rehearsals for Departure by Tim Carpenter and Walking in Place 3: TOKYO by Mike Slack.
G2 TBW Books
Signing of Asunder by S. Billie Mandle.
F3 TIS Books
Signing of An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture by John Gossage, Mango Season by Jenia Fridlyand, and A Commonplace Book by Raymond Meeks.
M7 Ulises and Friends
Book launch and signing of I Come Creeping by Ian Byers Gamber, published by Pharmacy Books.
T55 Unity Press
Signing of Full Heart Message / A Place I Know by Jeffrey Cheung.
I7 Workshop Arts
Signing of A Murmur in the Trees by Suzanne Revy.
N7 Zolo Press
Signing of Fournez by Brice Guilbert.
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore
Signing of New York Then 1986-1992 by Vivienne Maricevic, in conversation with Scott Ewalt.
G5 KGP MONOLITH
Launch of Yonkers by Matt Licari.
T41 19Editions
Launch of INprint 003 with Youmna Chlala.
T35 Altana
Signing and launch of Mirage Hotel by Francesco Villa.
I3 Datz Press
Signing of in the midday silver by Sal Taylor Kydd.
H5 Deadbeat Club
Signing of Avalanche by Andrew D McClees.
A68 Hurrikan Press
Launch of In the Light of Kasper the inventor of the human No and Yes by Peter Schumann, published by Hurrikan Press in collaboration with Bread & Puppet Press.
G5 KGP MONOLITH
Launch of The Porous Border by Jules Slutsky.
E3 KWY Ediciones
Signing of Arqueología del rebusque by Juan Arias.
G1 Loose Joints
Signing of I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine by Pacifico Silano.
M8 Nightboat Books
Signing of The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao.
T46 Pomegranate Press
Launch and signing of Trace of Warmth by Grade Solomon.
F2 SUPER LABO
Signing of SORRY, NOW YOU SAY SORRY by Alain Levitt.
G2 TBW Books
Signing of Swan Moon’s Swan Moon by Swan Moon.
H1 Terrible Baby Books
Signing of Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold my Body Down by Stacy Kranitz.
PR5 Three Star Books
Signing with Marc Azoulay, published by Just an Idea Books.
M7 Ulises and Friends
Book launch and signing of Hole to Hole by Connie Yu, published by Many Folds Press.
Q12 Wendy’s Subway
Signing of Gerund Violence by Claudia Pagès Rabal.
I7 Workshop Arts
Signing of Close to the Bayou by Dimitri Staszewski.
T64 ZOETROPE ATHENS
Launch and signing of the unresolved, the unconsoled by Rahul Majumdar.
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore
Launch of Diorama by Abbey Frederick and Theodóra Helgason.
G5 KGP MONOLITH
Launch of The Tides We Carry by Gia Han.
T65 Balam
Launch of Balam Issue N12: Caribbean Mermaids with Carlos Martiel and Luis Alberto Juárez.
Q3 cahiers manufactoriel
Signing of Pow by Esther Hien.
O5 Divided Publishing
Signing of Disorganisation & Sex by Jamieson Webster.
T51 For the Birds Trapped in Airports
Signing of Sugar Honey Iced Tea by Sara J. Winston and Ileana Ramirez.
T9 Good Neighbour
Launch of Be My Ghost by Arefeh Riahi.
A68 Hurrikan Press
Launch of the zine ...we swallowed an air like earth... by Kateryina Aliinyk and Dominika Trapp.
G5 KGP MONOLITH
Launch of Futures Past by Spencer Lowell.
E3 KWY Ediciones
Signing of Cuando hay Luna Llena, la marea sube by César Rodríguez.
G1 Loose Joints
Signing of Made of Smokeless Fire by Camille Farrah Lenain.
PR2 Magazzino Italian Art Museum
Exhibition tour of Arte Povera: Medium and Message and Magazzino publications with Beatriz Cifuentes and Nicola Lucchi.
A48 Minigolf Deportivo
Launch of 10 years 10 zines (Work in Progress) by Fernanda Aránguiz, Corentin Gros, Santi Nam, Renato Norambuena, Papo333, Paloma Palomino, and Catalina Bu.
M8 Nightboat Books
Signing of Perverts by Kay Gabriel.
B Printed Matter, Inc.
Signing of Bricolage Magazine #7 by Tom Sachs.
F2 SUPER LABO
Signing of ON A MISSION by Craig Costello (KR).
H1 Terrible Baby Books & Images Vevey
Signings of Sugar Paper Theories and Beggar’s Honey by Jack Latham.
I3 Datz Press
Signing of Only the Bones by Valerie Yong Ock Kim.
H5 Deadbeat Club
Signing of across the street from Heaven by Taylor Galloway.
Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore
Panel discussion of You Weren't There: 1990's NYC Graffiti, followed by tagging copies of the books.
E3 KWY Ediciones
Signing of Quiulacocha by Marco Garro.
J5 The Museum of Modern Art
Signing of The Surrealist Book by Jodi Hauptman and Starr Figura.
Offsite Programs
New Openings Against Old Surfaces: On Gordon Matta-Clark’s Walls Paper
Printed Matter, Inc., 231 11th Ave., New York, NY 10001
This is the first exhibition focused specifically on the publishing output of pioneering artist Gordon Matta-Clark, with a particular focus on his project Walls Paper. On view from September 9th–November 29th, the show offers an in-depth consideration of the 1973 publication, situating the work as a key experiment within the artist’s diverse and ambitious practice, and with the artists’ book medium at large.
BUILDING BOOKS
SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133/141 W. 21 Street, New York, NY 10011
Building Books. Corraini Edizioni: Children, Art, Design, and Everything Else traces over fifty years of publishing adventure through books, projects, authors, and installations that have crossed the boundaries between publishing, art, design, and illustration.
ICP Photobook Club: Re'al Christian on (Dis)continuous Archives
ICP's Library, 84 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002
Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club! This session of Photobook Club is hosted by Re'al Christian, writer, editor, art historian, and the Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
Hverdag Books x 118 Chambers: Mother Tongues with Alva Mooses
118 Chambers, Tribeca, New York, NY 10007
Alva Mooses will lead a multi-language participatory sound activation based on a poetic prompt from the publication Mother Tongues. Structured as a collective language score and call-and-response, visitors are invited to record a saying, phrase, or sound connected to their mother tongue(s). The activation traces how language is repeated, altered, and remade as it moves between voices. It surfaces the gaps and negotiations through which language takes shape, transforms, and acquires meaning.
Registration is required for this event, please email hei@hverdagbooks.com to RSVP. Brought to you with support from the Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Kulturrådet.
Hverdag Books x 118 Chambers: Breaking Bread and Language with Makda Embaie
118 Chambers, Tribeca, New York, NY 10007
Breaking Bread and Language carves out a space where people can practice language without being aligned with, compared to, or corrected in accordance with language as defined by nation states. Specifically, this workshop is for people with a connection to the Tigrinya language and diasporic experience to translate texts together. Since 2025, in Sweden and Norway, Makda Embaie has been developing a methodology of translating poetry that doesn’t require the participants to be able to read or write in the language they are translating from.
Registration is required for this event, please email hei@hverdagbooks.com to RSVP. Brought to you with support from the Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Kulturrådet.
cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement, book signing and intro to intuitive & participatory movement
cinema antiplastique, 68 Jay St. Brooklyn NY 11231
cinema antiplastique is a unique movement practice, housed within an arts and movement space of the same name in DUMBO, Brooklyn. In this book signing and gentle participatory movement event, Rania Lee Khalil (DFA, MSW) will host a signing of her new book cinema antiplastique: movement for the movement. The publication is a culmination of twenty years of artistic practice in dance, video, healing, and anti-colonial ecological thought for the people.