Long Live Print: Report from NY Book Fair 2017 - Arthurious

If you’ve ever been skeptical about the future of print — you’re about to change your mind at NY Art Book Fair that’s held yearly at the MoMA’s P.S.1 outpost in Queens. Hundreds of publishers, artists and book connoisseurs from around the world exhibit their best new titles. I stopped by to browse through some of them.

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This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is ny_art_book_2017-1734.jpg — For an early Friday afternoon in September the crowd was phenomenal

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This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is ny_art_book_2017-1744.jpg — A book of works by American painter Lee Lozano published by Artbook

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This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is ny_art_book_2017-1763.jpg — Latest titles by New York based publisher Gregory R. Miller & Co.

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This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is ny_art_book_2017-1771.jpg — One of the multitude of cassettes spotted at the show

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Here’re some of the things people bought.

NY Art Book Fair

Open Saturday, September 23 11—9 and Sunday, September 24 11—7. Free admission

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City

nyartbookfair.com

@PRINTED_MATTER

@printedmatterinc

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