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ARTISTS’ BOOKS AT THE GETTY

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A book with a Plexiglas exterior stands upright with the cover open to reveal distressed pages of plastic-sealed cheese. The title poetrie appears in lowercase letters across the top of the first page.

A beautiful new exhibition of artists’ books is up now at the Getty Center.

The exhibition includes books by Nobuyoshi Araki, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tauba Auerbach, Raffaele de Bernardi, Sandow Birk, Andrea Bowers, Chris Burden, Jan Činčera, Johanna Drucker, Dave Eggers, Felipe Ehrenberg, Olafur Eliasson, Timothy C. Ely, Barbara Fahrner, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Jennifer A. González, Katharina Grosse, Robert Heinecken, Leandro Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Daniel E. Kelm, Anselm Kiefer, Monika Kulicka, Sol LeWitt, Russell Maret, Didier Mutel, Katherine Ng, Clemente Padín, Felicia Rice, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell, Barbara T. Smith, Keith A. Smith, Buzz Spector, Beth Thielen, Gustavo Vazquez, Cecilia Vicuña, Ines von Ketelhodt, Zachary James Watkins, William Wegman, and Tian Wei.

 

ARTISTS AND THEIR BOOKS–BOOKS AND THEIR ARTISTS, through October 28.

GETTY CENTER—RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.

getty.edu/event

Above: Poetrie, Dieter Roth, 1967. The Getty Research Institute. © Dieter Roth Estate. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

Below: Stab/Ghost, Tauba Auerbach, 2013. The Getty Research Institute. © Tauba Auerbach. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

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PARTY FOR McSWEENEY’S 50TH

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Join Kevin Moffett, Corinna Vallianatos, Sarah Walker, Carson Mell, and Brian Everson (who will all give readings) at the release party for Issue 50 of McSWEENEY’S, the quarterly founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers. The new issue—in a hardcover book format—includes contributions by Carrie Brownstein, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Thomas McGuane, Sheila Heti, Kevin Young, Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Davis, Sherman Alexie, Etgar Keret, Diane Williams, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, and Steven Millhauser.

McSWEENEY’S 50th ISSUE PARTY, Tuesday, August 29, 2017, at 7:30 pm.

SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles.

skylightbooks.com/event/mcsweeneys-50th-issue-release-party

McSweeney’s, issue 50.

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