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From Burke's Guide to the Royal Family

Perfect day for Ian Bostridge's Anatomy of an Obsession to arrive.  Buy a copy and curl up with the storm....

The collage practice of Richard Hawkins is inherited from the cut-up legacy of Brion Gysin, aggressively mining collapsed myths of Stateside counterculture: collage as ostensible basis for the artist's entire œuvre, whether painting, sculpture, assemblage, fiction, poetry, vintage erotica — point of view focuses on fantastical, diffused links to narratives, levels of indulgence, little joys of being fascinated and getting carried away. #richardhawkins #fragileflowers #spoonbillandsugartown

Transformations: manifold entanglements of African + Western culture are a central motif in the oeuvre of the Algerian-French artist Kader Attia. Installation, video + photography unearths connection between Europe’s handling of its own colonial history, current migration politics + urbanistic realities. #kaderattia #spoonbillandsugartown

'Birds of Paradise: Costume as Cinematic Spectacle.' Gorgeous. Covers early "marvelous" film of the turn of the twentieth century, popular exotic spectaculars of the 1910s / 20s + underground queer cinema of the 1960s. Dynamic displays of movement, time, transience + gender identity. #photography #cinema #costume #spoonbillandsugartown

Not to brag, but we have a carton of signed Billy Idol memoirs right now.  Get 'em while they're hot.

Neue Schriften: New Typefaces. Thousands of fonts spec well on-screen, but how do they really feel when they hit the page? 70 progressive type designs present an overview of trending developments. #blauermontag #typography #graphicdesign #spoonbillandsugartown

Reluctantly instasafe shot of our @brooklynrail fullpage ad, plectrum selection courtesy @maindragmusic. Wild + kind since '99! #books #fungi #spoonbillandsugartown

From handwriting to analog displays + digital type, numerals have evolved, marking names, time, sum + coding messages. As the first-ever focused review of modern digit design, "Graphic Digits" profiles more than 100 inspirational approaches, giving numbers a magnified position in daily communications. #typography #design #spoonbillandsugartown

Photographing around his home in 1950s Memphis, using b+w 35mm film, William Eggleston declared, “I couldn’t imagine doing anything more than making a perfect fake Cartier-Bresson.” Eventually developing his own style which later shaped his seminal work in color, Eggleston's "From Black + White to Color" portrays the development of an original vision of the American everyday with its icons of banality: supermarkets, diners, service stations, automobiles, ghostly figures lost in space — all definitive traits of the photographer who famously proclaimed, “I am at war with the obvious.” #williameggleston #spoonbillandsugartown

Gratuitous Type is the premiere limited zine of typographic smut. Celebrating the letter in all its forms, highlighting exciting contemporary design + art from around the world, offering a voyeuristic look into the practices of our favorite letter-makers ... and presented in a silkscreened acetate cover. Edition of 2000. #gratuitoustype #typography #design #spoonbillandsugartown

Just in! Three new books. Quantities limited. It is about the only contemporary imperative: Don't live like pigs, with apologies to the actual animal. The pertinent analogy would be to opening scenes of Miyazaki's Spirited Away. The OOP book is actually a sustained refutation of OOP. Speculative Aesthetics is a new branch of Speculative Realism.

Our Lady of Eternal Chic: Chloe Sevigny at Rita Ackermann's curatorial powerhouse 'Freezer Burn' (Hauser + Wirth NY) in PURPLE magazine, available in our Periodicals section. Photo Elise Gallant. #purplemagazine #chloesevigny #ritaackermann #spoonbillandsugartown

Josef Bauer: Works 1965–Today. Experiments in language, color, spatial context. Perception of words + colors are expanded beyond mere “carriers” of meaning. Letters become objects through tactile poetry — a radical embodiment of ’60s Concretism. Bauer is a master of letters and their contours. #josefbauer #sternbergpress #spoonbillandsugartown

WAX Magazine no. 6 is all about "Secrecy." And that's all we're gonna say. #waxmagazine #periodicals #spoonbillandsugartown

The Puppet and the Modern just arrived from Arbor Vitae, and wow, is it fantastic.

Finally, the latest Apartamento Magazine is here.