Sophie Calle | Wahre Geschichten

Sophie Calle
Wahre Geschichten
Munchen, Germany: Prestel Verlag, 2002
83 pp., 10x19 cm., hardcover
Edition size unknown

36 short stories chronicling the artist's life.

Jonathan Monk | Picture Postcard Posted from Post Box Pictured (Tokyo)

Jonathan Monk
Picture Postcard Posted from Post Box Pictured (Tokyo) 
Toronto, Canada/Tokyo, Japan: Paul + Wendy Projects/Taro Nasu, 2016
4 x 6"
Edition size unknown


A postcard featuring the image of a Tokyo postbox is addressed and signed by the artist, then sent in an envelope to the Taro Nasu gallery in Tokyo, who affix a local stamp and mail it to the buyer from the postbox pictured on the card.

Available from Paul + Wendy Projects, for $50.00, here. See previous examples (Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Mexico City, Paris, San Francisco, Toronto and Winnipeg), here.

John Cage

John Cage died of a stroke on this day in 1992, a few weeks before his 80th birthday. I recently found this obit (from the Toronto Star?) tucked into a copy of his book A Year From Monday.

This week on Tumblr

This week on Tumblr: Books (and a few objects) designed by Bruno Munari.

http://artistsbooksandmultiples.tumblr.com/tagged/Bruno-Munari

Rachel Whiteread | Secondhand

Rachel Whiteread
Secondhand 
London, UK: Counter Editions, 2004
]11 x 10 x 16 cm.
Edition of 400 signed and numbered copies


A collection of vintage doll house furniture was arranged by Whiteread to mimic displays outside of furniture stores. This arrangement was then 3D-scanned and output as laser sintered white nylon, at a reduced size.

Available from the publisher, here, for $1,100.00.

Franz Mon | Ainmal nur das Alphabet Gebrauchen

Franz Mon
Ainmal nur das Alphabet Gebrauchen
Stuttgart, Germany: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1967
33 x 33 cm., spiral-bound
Edition of 200 signed and numbered copies

Available here for $785 US.

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber book bag and enamel pins

A two-sided book bag and a pair of small enamel pins by Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier. Both projects are produced by Paul + Wendy Projects, for Warby Parker, the eyeglass company that launched their first Canadian store in Toronto yesterday (see Micah Lexier post, below).

I believe that the bags are being given away with each purchase this weekend. The store is located at 684 Queen Street West and is open daily, from 11am to 7pm.