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Over a hundred thousand years ago—by which I mean last May—I began to see photographs on Instagram of what appeared to be a beautifully-designed book by Molly Young. The cover was a closeup of Jean Honore Fragonard’s “The Love Letter,” in which an ingenue, in an absurd ribbon hat, clutching a bouquet and love letter, hunches forward and grins. The Things They Fancied, read its buttery yellow title. It was both not a book and so much better than one: a zine. The Things They Fancied is a collection of researched essays on the ridiculous things rich people have fetishized throughout ...

Email Address On Thursday, February 25, as part of Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, Paper Monument guest editors Daisy Nam and Christopher K. Ho spoke to contributors Mel Chin, Aruna D’Souza, Hyperlink Press, and Patrick Jaojoco about Paper Monument’s new anthology, Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts.

This week (February 25), the London-based mixtape label Fanfare launched at Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, with a series of releases compiled by artists Cali DeWitt, Luke Overin, and Eddie Langham. The limited edition mixtapes arrive on cassette tape, complete with artwork designed by the respective artist. The tapes themselves represent a variety of genres, ranging from Overin’s ambient Peninsula – which revolves around a fictional journey across Great Britain during the Solar Eclipse of 1999 – to the harsh disco of Langham’s The Leather Apron Gave Me Fits, illustrated...

A selection of David Zwirner Books publications available to buy at the fair Courtesy of PMVABF Prompting by the global pandemic, galleries and art fairs have migrated online in the past year to provide new commercial and curatorial digital platforms to view and sell art. Now art books are getting their place in the virtual sun with the launch of Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair (25-28 February), an online event comprising more than 400 exhibitors from more than 40 countries. Printed Matter, a New York-based non-profit founded in 1976, pledges to bring “artwork i...

Adriana Varejão. Photo by Vicente de Mello, courtesy the artist and Gagosian. 3. “Artist Spotlight: Adriana Varejão” at Gagosian, New York Gagosian continues its weekly Spotlight series, highlighting one work from one artist, with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, ahead of her May show at the gallery’s 522 West 21st Street location. On Wednesday, the gallery is releasing a new time-lapse video of the artist creating one of her tile paintings, inspired by the Portuguese art of azulejo, traditional glazed terracotta tiles brought to Brazil in colonial times. The new work will be un...