Thursday, November 25, 2010

Positively No Self Loathing, Joy Walker project at TYPE Books









Joy Walker has transformed the window of TYPE Book's Queen Street store by installing a large-scale photograph of a sign that says: "Positively No Self Loathing." In front of the photograph, she's set out a selection of books that were chosen by notable artists and writers whom she invited to contribute to the project. The contributors include: Stephen Andrews, Daniel Brooks, John Brown, Lynn Crosbie, Gary Michael Dault, Sheila Heti, Jeremy Podeswa, R.M. Vaughan and others.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

MoMA Acquires Another Bill Burns Edition













The Special Collection Library of the Museum of Modern Art has acquired Bill Burns’ new edition Ikea Guard Tower Plans, Prison Cell Plans and the Songs of Guantanamo Bay. The edition of was produced to benefit Art Metropole in Toronto. This edition joins several of Burns’ editions at MoMA including the special photo and book edition of Dogs and Boats and Airplanes that was published by MKG127 in 2008.

Burns is currently showing several of his editions at Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery in Paris