Sotheby’s upcoming book auction in London on May 21, organized with charity English PEN and titled “First Editions, Second Thoughts,” features an eclectic mix of titles from top contemporary authors ranging from heavyweights Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwen, and Tom Stoppard to lighter fare from “Harry Potter” series writer J.K. Rowling and “Bridget Jones” author Helen Fielding. (more…)
Photographer Paul Salveson has been selected as the winner of the National Media Museum’s 2013 First Book Award. The award, which is in its second year, supports an emerging photographer by publishing his first book. Salveson’s book, “Between the Shell,” will be published this year by UK publisher MACK. (more…)
Australian artist James Gulliver Hancock’s idea is not necessarily a new one, but it’s garnering him well-earned attention for his delicate, stylized drawings and paintings of New York buildings, which have recently been turned into a book published by Rizzoli.
One of just 11 copies of the Bay Psalm Book that were printed by pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1640 is coming up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York on November 26 with an estimate of $30 million — the current record for auction record for a book belongs to “Birds of America” by John James Audubon, a copy of which fetched $11.5 million in 2010. The last time a Bay Psalm Book came up for auction, in 1947, it sold for $151,000, which was a record at the time, BBC News reports. (more…)
You know it, we know, entire internet forums are devoted to discussions of the fact that you need more art books on your bookshelves, but what they won’t tell you in those forums is that tomorrow and Sunday the Artists Space bookstore at 55 Walker Street in Tribeca is having a huge sale, including books for as low as $2, in addition to all kinds of vintage Artists Space schwag that your few friends left unimpressed by the new additions to your book collection will find hella sweet. (more…)
Duke Riley, who was most recently seen giving away free prints at the Armory Show — to anyone who was willing to make their own print — has been keeping busy since the art fair by designing the cover for a book of Nick Cave’s collected lyrics from more than 35 years of songwriting (detail above, in full below). That’s Nick Cave, the Aussie rocker, known to perform with The Bad Seeds, not Nick Cave the Chicago-based visual artist known for his Soundsuits and the mass equine performance taking place this week in Grand Central Terminal. (more…)
The writings of Jayson Musson — the artist behind the internet-famous alter-ego Hennessy Youngman (pictured) — from between 2007 and 2010, which originally appeared in the Philadelphia Weekly, on the website Mad Decent, in his short-lived 2008 zine, and a selection of unpublished pieces, are being published in the new limited-edition book “Black Like Me,” which is being printed in 150 signed and numbered editions by indie publisher Social Malpractice. (more…)
The late and beloved children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak is having an exceptionally good year, all things considered. His book, “My Brother’s Book,” has been published to the praise of book critics far and wide, and now he’s having his first posthumous museum retrospective, titled “Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons,” which will make the first of many stops on its national tour at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California. (more…)
Now that art dealer Chris D’Amelio has decided to join David Zwirner and shut down D’Amelio Gallery — the Chelsea space he originally opened with Lucien Terras in 1996 and has been operating on his own since late 2011 — he’s clearing out the gallery’s library with a book sale, today only.
If you want to avoid spoilers for Starz’s upcoming art historical adventure series “Da Vinci’s Demons,” we’d recommend not attempting to decipher Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, some of which the British Library has just digitized and made available online. The beautiful, hand-written, and sketch-filled notebook pages feature the artist and inventor’s famous left-handed mirror-writing, and comprise some 570 images. (more…)
