James Carl | T-shirt

James Carl
T-shirt 
Toronto, Canada: Self-published, 2002
Sizes vary
Unlimited Edition

Ed Ruscha, Mason Williams, Patrick Blackwell | Royal Road Test

Ed Ruscha, Mason Williams, Patrick Blackwell
Royal Road Test
Los Angeles, USA: Los Angeles, 1967
60 pp., 24 x 16 cm., spiral bound
Edition of 1000

Photo-documentation of a Royal manual typewriter thrown out of the window of a 1963 Buick traveling at ninety miles per hour. Ruscha drove the car, Williams (best known for the instrumental song "Classical Gas") threw the typewriter, and Blackwell (who once shared a studio with Ruscha) took the photographs.

The title was produced in an second edition of 1000 copies in 1969, a third edition of 2000 copies in 1971, and a fourth edition of 1500 copies in 1980.

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Max Dean | The Thumb Chair

Max Dean
The Thumb Chair
Toronto, Canada: Runaway Bunny, 2007
7.6 cm
Edition of 300

A pocket-sized version of Dean's Robotic Chair (below), that is thumb-activated, causing the chair to collapse and spring back.

Available at Art Metropole, here, for $400.00 CDN.

Lawrence Weiner | Afloat

Lawrence Weiner
Afloat
Milan, Italy/London, UK: Massimo De Carlo Gallery, 1992
16.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm. (box)
Edition of 500 initialed, dated and numbered copies


A ballpoint pen featuring a text from Weiner’s 1988 book Towards a Theatrical Engagement: Ducks on a Pond floating inside water. In 2012 Printed Matter released a book bag using the same text as a fundraiser to recover losses caused by Hurricane Sandy (which included another Lawrence Weiner tote bag, produced only months earlier).

AGO Library

Beginning last September, the Art Gallery of Ontario Library has been hosting monthly drop-in presentations of artists' books and multiples from their permanent collection. Tonight librarian Donald Rance presented Pop-ups, Peep-shows, Accordions, and Pretzels, to coincide with the current exhibition SuperReal: Pop Art from the AGO Collection, which features work by Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Alongside Oldenburg's NYC Pretzel and Warhol's Index Book were works by Yoko Ono, Maurizio Nannucci, Tauba Auerbach, Ed Ruscha, Mitch Robertson, Barbara Kruger, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lawrence Weiner, James Carl, Carol June Barton, Dan Graham, Sylvie Fleury, Bruno Munari, and many others.

The events take place on Wednesday evenings from 5 to 7pm, in the E.P. Taylor Research Library & Archives. The evenings are free and open to the public, and visitors are encouraged to handle the materials (many of which are rare and valuable). For more information, visit the AGO website, here.

The next several posts (to compensate for a two-week hiatus) will feature items from this presentation, tagged AGO Library.

Art Metropole announces new Shop Manager / Curator

Last month Art Metropole announced the departure of Bookstore Manager/Curator Jesse Huisken, who is returning to school in the fall. Today they issued a press release announcing his replacement, Nasrin Himada.

Nasrin is a writer, editor, and curator from Montréal. Her interdisciplinary research interests focus on Palestinian cinema, art and poetics, and the militarization of urban space through prison infrastructure and police surveillance. She has lectured extensively on these topics, including presentations at California Institute of the Arts, Georgetown University, and INCA Seattle. Her curatorial work has been exhibited at DHC/ART: Foundation for Contemporary Art, Echo Park Film Center, 16 Beaver, and Image + Nation. From 2011 to 2016, Nasrin co-edited the journal Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy. Currently, she is co-editor of the inaugral issue of Moving Image Culture Etc, on the theme of invisible labour.

Nasrin begins on May 26, 2016.

Printed Matter Membership Drive

Above: letters of support for Printed Matter/artworks by Harmony Korine, Jenny Holzer, John Waters, Lucy Lippard, Paul Chan, Raymond Pettibon, Thurston Moore, and Yoko Ono.