The Museum of Modern Art Library

Assembling zines with Pau Wau Publications for their recent talk in the MoMA garden.

We’ll be having similar fun with zine maker, librarian, and organizer Barbara Calderón on Wednesday, August 30 at 3pm. Details here.

3 Dot Zine founder Devin N. Morris in conversation with MoMA Library staff member Sarah Hamerman in the MoMA garden today, launching the three-part series Zines: Collaborations and Publications in NYC.

The MoMA Library welcomes the new Instagram account momacontemporaryeditions, which keeps you up to date on this innovative artists’ books publishing program. -jt

"This home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright represents the finest of contemporary architecture. Just as the Futuramic Oldsmobile represents the farthest advancement in automotive design.”

The MoMA Library’s current show, Frank Lloyd Wright: Publishing the Self, examines the architect’s career-long engagement with print media. As this example shows, Wright made little distinction between editorial content and advertising.

Readers by Kandis Williams & CASSANDRA Press

Artist statement:

Part of a performance and collage based practice, artist Kandis Williams creates 'Readers' of scanned, copied, pasted and reproduced texts, and images. The Readers have informed the last years of Kandis Williams' aesthetic practice and research -the evolution of a long use of xerox toner as a medium and material. The Readers are text based collages that illustrate thematic bouts of research and struggle with philosophical and historical frameworks around social and political phenomenon that run concurrent to William's image making practice. Chiefly turned on by the re-arrangement and liquidation of photographic contents, Williams willfully subverts the finality and hermetic nature inherent to the image itself (even the collaged image) offering readers as a secondary or supplemental format for a body of visual or performative expressions. The Readers bind texts around her research to narrativize a stream of propositions found around race, class, gender and nationalism in the contemporary world; tracing a subjectivity molded into and out of the socio-cultural and legal expressions of these constructs.

In 2016, CASSANDRA Press was founded as a publishing project by Taylor Doran, Kandis Williams, and Jordan Nassar making lo-fi activist and academic texts, flyers, posters, pamphlets and readers, in hopes of spreading ideas and sharing perspectives, promoting dialogue, and inspiring further and wider-spread political and social activism.The Readers are just one facet of CASSANDRA founded by Williams, Doran, and Nassar who all produce and curate both as a team and independently of each other. CASSANDRA offers a hydra head approach to the content and dissemination of our publications, dedicated to incorporating our practices as artists into our means of discourse, to self-publishing, re-publishing, re-mix-and-publishing, and to telling the truth.

Looking for artists to work on at the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, either at MoMA or elsewhere? Here are some lists to delve into for articles to create, enhance, or add references to:

Black Lunch Table Women in Red WikiProject Women Artists

What’s your subject for this year’s Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons?

This Saturday at MoMA, I’ll be working on Elodie Courter, who organized MoMA’s traveling exhibitions in the 1930s and 1940s. She and her team helped to inform a worldwide interest in modern art, architecture, and design.

Here she is with Elements of Design, an exhibition of 24 bold panels that could be sent through the mail and installed virtually anywhere.

So pack up your laptop, travel on over, and install yourself at the Edit-a-thon for hands-on training as well as guidance from experienced editors. We’ll kick off with a panel discussion about activism, have trainings and breakout sessions throughout the day, and then end with cake and a toast. Child care, food, and caffeine provided. RSVP here. -jt