Now in its sixth year, this curated series of informal conversations, workshops, readings and other artist-led programs is also an informal venue for artists, writers and publishers to feature new releases and present their publications. Participants include: Isla Leaver-Yap with Happy Hypocrite (London), David Reinfurt (New York), Lawrence Burney with True Laurels (Baltimore), Ishiuchi Miyako with Andrew Roth (New York), Album with Primary Information (New York), Istvan Ist Huzjan with MER. Paper Kunsthalle (Belgium) and many others. The Classroom is organized by David Senior, Museum of Modern Art Library.

Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference (CABC) The seventh annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference presents two full days of lively debate on emerging practices and issues within art-book culture. This year’s conference will feature keynote addresses by the artist R. H. Quaytman in conversation with her mother, poet and scholar Susan Howe. May Castleberry, Editor of Publications of the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, will moderate a discussion about the new collaborative publication Tom Tit Tot. The work knits together sixty-seven poems by Howe, with design elements and original prints by Quaytman. Additional conference sessions will include panel discussions on such topics as design authorship, fashion publications, narrative photobooks, contemporary livres d’artistes, and graphic novels. This year will also see the return of the Pecha Kucha session, featuring ten speakers presenting for five minutes each. See the full Conference schedule here.

The Conference is organized by the CABC Committee, a national group of art library professionals. Funding for the Conference is supported by generous donations from Phil Aarons, Peter Norton, and David Teiger. Additional support has been provided by the Art Libraries Society of New York.

All sessions are free but space is limited. General admission is first-come-first-seated.

XE(ROX) & PAPER + SCISSORS, and The Small Press Dome A lively selection of international artists, zinesters, and small presses will represent independent publishing at its most innovative and affordable in the MoMA PS1 courtyard. Select exhibitors include: Bodega (New York, NY); Lovely Daze (Taiwan); Wild Life Press (UK); Lodret Vandret (Denmark); The Song Cave (Northampton, MA), among many others.

Friendly Fire
This diverse group of politically-minded collectives and presses focused on the intersection of art and activism, includes: Red76 (Minneapolis), Research and Destroy New York (NY), Women's Center for Creative Work (Los Angeles), and others. Curated by Printed Matter’s Max Schumann.

NORWAY FOCUS: KUNSTNERBØKER
This year the NY Art Book Fair, with support from the Norwegian Consulate General in New York, presents KUNSTNERBØKER, a curated selection of 23 Norwegian booksellers, institutions, artists and independent publishers, accompanied by programming, screenings, exhibitions and interventions related to this cross-section of Norway’s artist book community.

Focus: Photography
A curated cross-section of photo-based artist’s books and magazines, this year’s Focus: Photography includes: A-Jump Books (Ithaca, NY); SUPER LABO (Japan); Edition Patrick Frey (Switzerland); Études (Paris); Libraryman (Sweden); SPBH Editions (London); TBW Books (Oakland, CA), and more.

Exhibitor Project Spaces
Fulton Ryder (New York, NY) presents Intercommunal No-Sock-Hop; Three Star Books / onestar press (France) will collaborate with Westreich Wagner Publications and TWAAS Publishers of Artists’ Books (New York, NY); Werkplaats Typografie (The Netherlands), a fair favorite, presents a collaborative project by its entire student body for the sixth year running; Know-Wave (New York, NY) broadcasts live from the fair continuously throughout the weekend; Karma (New York, NY) launches their new publication 1 month ago by Wade Guyton.

A full calendar of events can be seen here.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
Printed Matter proudly presents an exhibition of Dorothy Iannone's artists’ books, with support from Air de Paris, Peres Projects and Siglio Press. The American-born, Berlin-based artist is famous for her whimsical, colorful and, perhaps most importantly, explicit depictions of female sexuality - which have, since the 1960s, often fell prey to censorship. This exhibition, in the Dome at PS1, showcases a selection of Iannone’s artist books and printed ephemera (More here). On the occasion, Printed Matter and Dorothy Iannone have produced a Fundraising Edition, featuring a 1976 drawing by the artist screenprinted in white ink on black museum board.

Andrew Roth in association with PPP Editions presents two new books: Watanabe Katsumi’s Rock Punk Disco 1960s – 1980s including black-and-white photographs shot at night in dance and strip clubs in Shinjuku, along with excerpts of Watanabe's writing from Discology, published in 1982. Here and Now: Atomic Bomb Artifacts, ひろしま/Hiroshima 1945/2007—is a new limited edition artist book by Ishiuchi Miyako printing 230 color photographs of clothing and personal effects that survived the blast and were gifted to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Archive by the families of the deceased.