Center for Book Arts
28 W 27th St
3rd Fl
212.481.0295
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Artist as Publisher
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Opens Wednesday July 9, 2008 (6–8pm)
July 10, 2008 – Sep 13, 2008
Mondays–Fridays (10–6pm)
Saturdays (10–4pm)
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In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means of shaping and sharing their work. The Center for Book Arts highlights this alternative approach in its Artist as Publisher show, establishing three separate "reading rooms," each curated by a different team of book-arts experts. The exhibition features works by established multimedia artists such as Paul McCarthy (remember those chocolate Santas with butt-plugs?), Devendra Banhart, and Brendan Fowler (aka BARR), as well as a slew of lesser-known practitioners of the craft.
