Get your bookworm butt off the couch next week and check out all these great art-book opportunities!
Stack them high at Phaidon
Phaidon—the publisher that regularly comes out with art books large enough to break your coffee table—is opening up their first stand-alone bookstore in the U.S. at 100 Wooster Street in Soho. Starting Monday, November 2, get your Vitamins P, D, Ph and 3-D (Painting, Drawing, Photography and Sculpture, that is), to complement your Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture. With more than 100 artists per book, you are bound to leave satisfied!
A sweet and sour book signing with Peter Schjeldahl
Ever been curious to see what the enigmatic and wry New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl is like in person? Join Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers for a reading and book signing on Tuesday, November 3 at 8pm (218 Bedford Ave at North 5th St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn). Enjoy refreshments while Mr. Schjeldahl reads from his recent book, Let’s See: Writings on Art from The New Yorker.
Get out on the town, 1970s style, at Gagosian Shop
For those of you who have gazed longingly at the sleek art in Gagosian’s various galleries, wishing you could afford a piece of the action, your time has finally arrived! Gagosian has opened retail store at 988 Madison Avenue. On Wednesday, November 4 5–7pm, the store will host a launch party and signing by Bob Colacello for his new book, Out. This collection of photographs, taken in the ’70s and ’80s while Colacello was writing for Interview magazine and editing Warhol’s biography, chronicles the extravagant openings, parties and balls that were frequented by everyone from Robert Rauschenberg to Jack Nicholson to Henry Kissenger.—Emily Bauman
