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Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 22nd, 6 -8 pm. Dweck Center Lobby, Brooklyn Public Library.

This exhibition of children’s book illustrations, curated by John Bemelmans Marciano, features the work of 34 illustrators who live and work in Brooklyn, from the most exciting newcomers in publishing to the legends of the business. View schedule.

The bad boy of fashion and the darling of haute couture, Alexander McQueen is honored in this illustrious and artful publication. Order your copy here.

The Same River Twice

“All too often literary excellence and suspense coexist in inverse proportion within the pages of novels. But The Same River Twice is that very rare beast–a literary thriller. I would have loved the book for the limpid beauty of the prose and the quirky sophistication of the characters, but my infatuation turned to compulsion as I became obsessed with unraveling the intricate skeins of conspiracy in which Ted Mooney ensnares his Parisians. Patricia Highsmith couldn’t have done it better.” – Jay McInerney

TED MOONEY, the author known for Easy Travel to Other Planets, Traffic and Laughter, and Singing into the Piano, has received grants from the Guggenheim and the Ingram Merrill foundations. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Granta, and The New American Review. Read the rest of this entry →

by Mina Cheon
Atropos Press 

“Rereads new media theory and shamanism itself, specifically in South Korea. Perhaps most radically, it proposes a new theory of “media mourning” to help us see and hear shamanism colliding with contemporary media art worlds, collapsing time and space, updending gender and racial categories, and confounding the boundaries between East and West.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book. For more than twenty-five years, he was the keenest observer of the global theater of human affairs—and one of the great portraitists of the twentieth century.

 The exhibition is on view to the public April 11–June 28, 2010.

Trace the evolution of Pablo Picasso’s creative process and artistic vision through decades of experimentation in etching, lithography, and linoleum cut, from the artist’s Blue and Rose periods to his discovery of Cubism. Thematic groupings of works illustrate how printmaking inspired new directions by allowing the artist to build and document his compositions in various stages—one print series, for instance, shows Picasso progressing, step by step, from a realistic depiction of a bull to one that is completely abstracted—and how his imagery underwent a constant process of metamorphosis.

The exhibition is on view to the public March 28–September 6, 2010.

AGENDA is an architecture book that occupies the territory between a monograph, a diary, and a collection of essays, interviews, and conversations. At its most harmless AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent.

Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude – of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. “Change”, the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape. Read the rest of this entry →