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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 with AI-generated portraits of the artist.
The aptly-titled
Wet Jazz, by Cali DeWitt, is described as a “salute to the music of the Pacific Ocean”, featuring: “a combination of sharks and sandpipers and jellyfish and seals and dolphins and sea slugs and screeching bros all of whom tap the source in unison.”
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 in book form to the broadest public possible”.