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News

The Cardiff Tapes (2019) in Sculpture Journal

Interview with Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics translator Rebecca Kosick in Asymptote Journal

Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics in Chicago Review

Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics in Review: Literature and the Arts of the Americas

Hello We Were Talking About Hudson is a New York Times Best Art Book of 2024

Hello We Were Talking about Hudson in Artnet

Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics in The Boston Globe

Hello We Were Talking About Hudson in the Chicago Reader

David Robbins on Hello We Were Talking About Hudson at Artbook

Chicago Mysteries on WTTW focuses on the mystery of the Bullets for Dead Hoods manuscript with John Corbett and Julia Klein (First aired 4/16/24)

Cable Street on Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics

Hello We Were Talking About Hudson is an "April Book Bag" selection in The Art Newspaper

PN Review on Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics

The Brooklyn Rail on Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics

Los Angeles Review on Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics + Interview with translator Rebecca Kosick

Asymptote Journal on Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics

Harriet Books/Poetry Foundation on Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics

Hyperallergic on Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics

Preview of Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics in Latin American Literature Today

Excepts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer is one of Art Desk's Best Books of 2022

Jordan Stein talks about Rip Tales on the LA Review of Books podcast

Lastgaspism is one of Hyperallegic's Best Books of 2022

ASAP Journal Lastgaspism Editors in Conversation with Avi Alpert

Rain Taxi on Rip Tales

The Brooklyn Rail on Wolf Tones

The Brooklyn Rail on Rip Tales

Moore College of Art & Design interviews Daniel Tucker about Lastgaspism and Exhibition.

Newcity on Lastgaspism

art-agenda on Rip Tales

Watch the 1/5/22 recording of Jordan Stein and Hilton Als in conversation, hosted by 192 Books & Paula Cooper Gallery

Jordan Stein and Bruce Hainley in conversation about Rip Tales in Frieze

"Jesse Murry: Remarks on Criticism (1980)" from Painting Is a Supreme Fiction in Caesura

East Bay Express on Rip Tales

Nicole Rudick on Rosemary Mayer in NYRB

KQED on Rip Tales

BOMB on Painting Is a Supreme Fiction

Backstory on WGN TV focuses on the mystery of the Bullets for Dead Hoods manuscript with John Corbett

"Landscapes of the Imagination" by Jarrett Earnest in The New York Review of Books.

Jarrett Earnest and Lisa Yuskavage discuss Painting Is a Supreme Fiction on the Talk Art podcast

"Expressionism: 1980" from Painting Is a Supreme Fiction excerpted in The Brooklyn Rail

 Felix Bernstein on An Excess of Quiet in Entropy

An Excess of Quiet has been selected by Lambda Literary as a Lammy finalist in the LGBTQ Nonfiction category

Conversation between Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Jarrett Earnest on the Visual AIDS blog

Bullets for Dead Hoods is one of John Warner's favorite non-fiction books of 2020 in the Chicago Tribune
Windy City Times interview with Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
The Expanded Field on An Excess of Quiet
Newcity on Bullets for Dead Hoods
Hyperrhiz on The World's Worst
Chicago Tribune on Bullets for Dead Hoods
An Excess of Quiet is on Lambda Literary's list of November's Most Anticipated LGTBQ Books
Art Papers on Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
The Nation on Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
The Wire on The World's Worst
The Brooklyn Rail on Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
Tosh Berman on The World's Worst
50% of profits from June sales will be donated to BYP100 and Semicolon Bookstore in Chicago.
The Washington Post on The World's Worst
Burlington Contemporary on Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
THE WORLD'S WORST PLAYLIST: A series of tracks by and in the spirit of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, compiled by the editors of The World's Worst
FREE PDF Deliverance
Ursula on The World's Worst
Voyage Chicago (July 2019) interview with publisher Julia Klein
X-TRA interview between Allyson Vieira and Brooke Holmes
Ta Nea on On the Rock: The Acropolis Reviews
Bryn Mawr Classical Review on On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews
The second printing of Starting from 'I Don't Know': Interviews on Architecture and Craft is now available.

Craftsmanship Podcast Episode 07 - Allyson Vieira: Ancients Allyson Vieira discusses her book, On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews.

We are pleased to announce that Soberscove titles will now be distributed worldwide by Artbook D.A.P.
The revised third printing of Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35 (1950) is now available!
Hyperallergic review of Temporary Monuments: Work by Rosemary Mayer, 1977-1982 
LA Review of Books on That Was the Answer: Interviews with Ray Johnson 
Artblog review of That Was the Answer: Interviews with Ray Johnson 
Rosemarie Beck: Letters to a Young Painter and Other Writings was included in the Washington Post's summer roundup: What to read next? A summer book list like no other
June 2-3 Philadelphia Art Book Fair 23rd Street Armory 22 S 23rd Street
The Dynamic Library in artblog
William Tucker on The Cardiff Tapes (1972) in art critical
Interview in Entropy about Soberscove
The Cardiff Tapes(1972) made it on Small Press Distribution's Staff Picks 2015 List.
TWO artists from the Soberscove catalog are included in the MoMA PS1 Greater New York exhibition: Nancy Shaver | Henry at Home and Scott Burton | Collected Writings. This highly respected survey of NYC area artists is on view Oct 11, 2015–Mar 7, 2016.
We are delighted to announce that David Getsy is the 2015 awardee of the prestigious SAIC Jean Goldman Book Prize for Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965-1975.
We are pleased to announce that our international distribution is now being handled by Anagram Books.
Sept 18-20 (Sept 17 Preview) New York Art Book Fair MoMA PS1
Friday, Sept 18 PEN Translation Presents: Expressive Expedients Moderated by Alta Price, translator of The Dynamic Library (forthcoming) and including DL contributor Hans Witschi. A Public Space
Hyperallergic on LAABF
Deliverance in Chicago Tribune
Deliverance in DNAinfo Chicago
Read our Fall 2014 Newsletter!
We're delighted to have partnered with the D.U.C. Library Program.
Learning By Doing at the Farm in The Los Angeles Times
Learning By Doing at the Farm in Newcity
Two new distributed titles now available: Self-Reliance Library Revolution as an Eternal Dream
Learning by Doing at the Farm in Architects+Artisans
Learning by Doing at the Farm in Archinect
Mountain Ocean Sun in Detroit Metro Times
Learning by Doing at the Farm in the OC Register
Hyperallergic on Artists' Sessions at Studio 35 and Subject Matter of the Artist
Dunes at Noons featured in The Los Angeles Review of Books
Los Angeles Magazine Q&A with the editors of Learning by Doing at the Farm
Dunes at Noons in the Austin Chronicle
Please help yourself to a PDF of Soberscove's 2014 Catalog!
Soberscove Press Q&A in Gapers Block
Available now: Post-Industrial Complex published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit!

Events

May 15–18, 2025
Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair 
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena

January 28, 2025 
Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics Book Talk and Reading by Rebecca Kosick / Et al. Gallery / San Francisco / 7pm (doors open at 6pm)

July 18-21
2024 San Francisco Art Book Fair
Minnesota Street Project

September 7
Printers Row Lit Fest
Chicago

September 14
South Side Lit Fest
Bridgeport/Richard J. Daley Branch | Chicago Public Library

April 18
Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics Book launch / University of Bristol, England / 6 pm

April 25–28
Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair 2024
548 W. 22nd St

April 28
Hello We Were Talking About Hudson Book Launch with Darinka Novitovic Chase, Jimi Dams, Nancy Shaver, and David Shaw, moderated by Jordan Stein / Dia Art Foundation, 537 W 22nd St / 1pm *Presented as part of The Classroom at the New York Art Book Fair. RSVP requested, not required

May 4
Hello We Were Talking about Hudson Book Launch with Richard Rezac, Kay Rosen, Susan Snodgrass Tony Tasset, moderated by John Neff / Corbett vs Dempsey (Chicago), 3pm

March 2
Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics: Presentation by Rebecca Kosick & conversation with Cosmic Shelter curator Daniela Mayer / Hunter College Art Galleries / 12pm EST Online Event > Register

March 16
Transits in Poetry: International Reading of Poetry and Translation incl. reading by Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics translator Rebecca Kosick / Founderie Darling, Montreal, Quebec / 4:30pm / Register

March 18
Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics: Rebecca Kosick and Pedro Erber in conversation / Cornell University, Ithaca, NY / 4:45PM

February 14–17
2024 College Art Association Conference

January 20, 2024
Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics Book Launch
with translator Rebecca Kosick and scholar Irene Small
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
42 Franklin Street New York, NY / 3pm
RSVP

January 22, 2024
Rebecca Kosick on "The Secret Art of Poetry: Hélio Oiticica"
University of Chicago Department of Visual Arts OPC
Logan Center for The Arts, Penthouse Rm 901 / 6pm

November 12
Hélio Oiticica: The Body Poetic workshop led by Secret Poetics translator Rebecca Kosick at the De La Warr Pavilion

July 12-16
2023 San Francisco Art Book Fair

August 10–13
2023 LA Art Book Fair

Jan 28–May 13, 2023
Wolf Tones: A Many-Sided House
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON

Oct 13–16 
NY Art Book Fair / 548 W. 22nd Street, NYC

July 14–17 
San Francisco Art Book Fair / Minnesota Street Project / 75 Minnesota Street

July 18
Jordan Stein with Dena Beard on Rip Tales / San Francisco Art Book Fair / 1–2pm

July 18
Lastgaspism Panel Discussion with co-author Dan S. Wang and contributors Kimberly Bain, Cheryl Derricotte, and Pato Hebert / San Francisco Public Library / Additional details to come

May 26–June 26
Wolf Tones Exhibition: Rivers, Threads, Folds, Art Cake, 214 40th St., Brooklyn, NY / Exhibition Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26, 8:00 pm.

May 7
Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic: A Symposium, with Lastgaspism co-authors Anthony Romero and Daniel Tucker, featuring Ayako Maruyama (Design Studio for Social Intervention), Dr. Kelli Morgan, Pato Hebert, Damon Locks / Drexel University’s Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1:00-5:00 pm, RSVP via link

April 10
Soberscove Press at EXPO Chicago with Printed Matter, Booth 134, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL on Sunday, April 10, 11:00-6:00 pm.

April 4
Jordan Stein on Rip Tales, Department of Visual Arts OPC, University of Chicago, IL / Logan Center for The Arts, 8th floor / 6:00 pm

March 31-May 25
Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic, Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University,
Philadelphia, PA / Exhibition Opening Reception: Thursday, March 31, 5:00-7:00 pm.

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April 3
Lastgaspism book event at Woodbine, Brooklyn, NY, 5:00 PM/ Details to come [in person].

March 8
Clear bright edges of the horizon: New Perspectives on Jesse Murry, organized by Lisa Yuskavage & Jarrett Earnest with panelists TBA / New York Studio School / Details to come [online]

Dec 8
Rip Tales Book release, screening, and signing / San Francisco Art Institute / Osher Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street / San Francisco, CA / 6:30 pm [in person]

Jan 5
Jordan Stein and Hilton Als in conversation about Rip Tales / 192 Books, New York, NY / 7pm EST [online]

POSTPONED
Rip Tales Reading and Screening / Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY / Details to come [in person]

Jan 27
Rip Tales: Jordan Stein and Bruce Hainley in conversation / City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco / Register for online event

Feb 24–28: Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair

Jan 27 - March 12 College Art Association Online Book and Trade Fair
Dec 7
An Excess of Quiet Book Launch: Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué in conversation with Jarrett Earnest / Printed Matter / 7pm EST / Virtual

Nov 20 An Evening with Bullets for Dead Hoods featuring a reading of selections by John Corbett, Mickle Maher, David Isaacson, Diana Slickman, and Terri Kapsalis, with alto sax by Nick Mazzarella. Co-hosted with Experimental Sound Studio/Quarantine Concerts . 7pm CST / Virtual
Oct 22 The History of Art & Feminism: Where the Future Came From | Editor Meg Duguid and contributors Joanna Gardner-Hugget, Tempestt Hazel, Nicole Marroquin, Jennifer Scott, and Melissa Potter will explore the collaborative, participatory and activist history of feminist artist-run projects in Chicago. Hosted by Jane Adams Hull-House Museum. Video of the event 6–8 pm CST
Aug 8 The World's Worst editors in conversation with Tosh Berman| Presented by Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore 5 pm PST / 7 pm CST / 8 pm EST Register
May 26 The World's Worst Book Release A live variety show broadcast in the spirit of the Portsmouth Sinfonia https://www.twitch.tv/lumpenradio 8–10pm CST
Soberscove publisher Julia Klein in conversation with Siglio publisher Lisa Pearson
Feb 12-15 College Art Association Hilton Chicago 720 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL
Nov 10 Allyson Vieira on On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews The Dr. Arthur G. Nikelly Annual Lecture for the Preservation of Hellenic Heritage and Culture National Hellenic Museum *This is a ticketed event 333 South Halsted Street, Chicago
Nov 15-17 Chicago Book Fair 2019 Chicago Athletic Association 12 S. Michigan Avenue.
October 12 +13 Detroit Book Fair 2019 Trinosophes 1464 Gratiot Ave
Sept 20-22 New York Art Book Fair 2019 MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Avenue Long Island City Opening Sept 19
Sept 14 "Tinos marble carvers at the Acropolis," an event celebrating On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews Tinos Festival 2019 Allyson Vieira, Carolos Megoulas, Dimitris Foskolos, Michael Tzanoulinos Cultural Foundation of Tinos Tinos, Greece 8pm
Sept 12 Athens Book Launch: On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews Allyson Vieira with Mihalis Janoulinos and Pericles Pravitas (Acropolis Restoration Project) / Translators: Andrea Gilbert and Hilda Papadimtriou Lexikopoleio 13 Stasinou Street, Pagrati Athens, Greece 7:30pm
July 19-21 San Francisco Art Book Fair 1275 Minnesota Street
June 3 On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews A Conversation between Allyson Vieira and Shelley Hornstein TYPE Books 883 Queen Street West Toronto, Ontario
June 27 On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews A Conversation between Allyson Vieira and Terri Kapsalis Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts 4 West Burton Place, Chicago 6pm
April 12-14 LA Art Book Fair The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Opening April 11
Feb 26 ON THE ROCK: THE ACROPOLIS INTERVIEWS: Book Launch / Conversation between Allyson Vieira, Jarrett Earnest, & Brooke Holmes McNally Jackson Williamsburg 76 N. 4th Street, Brooklyn 7pm
Feb 13-16 College Art Association Conference Hilton Hotel, New York
Nov 16-18 Chicago Art Book Fair Chicago Athletic Association
Oct 13 +14 Detroit Art Book Fair Trinosophes - 1464 Gratiot
Sept 21-23 New York Art Book Fair MoMA PS1 Opening Sept 20
July 20-22 San Francisco Art Book Fair 1275 Minnesota Street
Feb 21-24 College Art Association Conference  Los Angeles Convention Center 1201 S. Figueroa St.
Nov 16-19 Chicago Art Book Fair Chicago Athletic Association 12 S Michigan Ave
Oct 14 & 15 Detroit Art Book Fair Trinosophes
Sept 21-24 NY Art Book Fair MoMA PS1 Long Island City, NY
July 21-23 SF Art Book Fair Minnesota Street Project San Francisco, CA
June 2-4 Fifth Annual BABZ Fair Knockdown Center 52-19 Flushing Ave Maspeth, NY
April 1 + 2 Open Space PMF VIII Baltimore, MD
Feb 24-26 (preview Feb 23) LA Art Book Fair The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 152 North Central Avenue Los Angeles
Feb 16-18 2017 College Art Association Conference Book Fair New York Hilton Midtown 1335 Avenue of the Americas NYC

Nov 19 Curbside Splendor Book Fort Fair Revival Food Hall 125 S Clark, Chicago Noon-4:00pm

 
Nov 13 Chicago Book Expo Columbia College Chicago 1104 S. Wabash  Noon-5:00pm
Oct 8 & 9 2016 Detroit Art Book Fair Trinosophes 1464 Gratiot Ave, Detroit Sat, Oct 8th: 12P-6P Sun, Oct 9th: 12P-4P

Sept 23 The Poetics of Self-Determination: Organize Your Own book launch Slought 4017 Walnut St Philadelphia, PA 19104 6.30-8.30pm

Sept 16-18 THE NY ART BOOK FAIR MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY *Preview: Thursday, Sept 15, 6-9pm
Sept 8 Double Book Release: "The Social Practice That Is Race" + "Organize Your Own" Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell 5-7pm

July 16+17 BABZ FAIR 2016 SIGNAL 260 Johnson Avenue Brooklyn, NY 1-7pm Saturday and Sunday

April 8+9 Open Space Seventh Annual Publications & Multiples Fair Baltimore Design School 1500 Barclay Street 12-6pm Saturday and Sunday

Mar 15  Book Launch: The Dynamic Library Swiss Institute 18 Wooster Street New York City 7:00 pm

Details TBA

Mar 14  The Dynamic Library: Organizing Knowledge at the Sitterwerk Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO): METRO Training Center, 4th Floor 57 E. 11th Street New York City 4:00-6:00 pm

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Feb 25  An Evening in the Art Library | The Dynamic Library Launch: Between Pixel and Print– Physical Archives in the Digital World Sitterwerk St. Gallen, Switzerland 7:00pm 

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Feb 12-14  Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Los Angeles Booth I17 Feb 14 (12-1pm) In the CLASSROOM: The Dynamic Library: Organizing Knowledge at the Sitterwerk- Precedents and Possibilities

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Feb 4-6  College Art Association Conference Book Fair Washington D.C. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Booth 300

Nov 27-28 South London Gallery Children's Book Fair South London Gallery 65 Peckham Road, London, UK Free Admission (Fri: 3-9pm / Sat: 11am-6pm)
Nov 21-22 Medium Cool Book Fair Prairie Production 1314 W Randolph St., Chicago (Sat: 12-6 / Sun: 11-5)
Nov 14 Book Launch The Dynamic Library: Organizing Knowledge in Chicago The Arts Club of Chicago 201 E Ontario St 1-3pm
Oct 18 ORGANIZATION, ACCESS, AND USE: Hamtramck Free School, Art Resources Transfer, and Soberscove Press in conversation Trinosophes  |  Detroit (part of the Detroit Art Book Fair)
Oct 22 Panel: "Our Legacies, Ourselves" *In conjunction with Laura Davis’s Threewalls solo exhibition, Legacy of Loneliness, and her Soberscove publication, The Elsen Drawings Threewalls  |  Chicago
Oct 17-18 Detroit Art Book Fair Trinosophes  |  Detroit
Sept 23 Book Launch: The Cardiff Tapes (1972)  Garth Evans in conversation with Jo Melvin Central St. Martin's  |  London
June 6+7 Printers Row Lit Fair
April 24+25 Philadelphia Art Book Fair
Jan 29-Feb 1 Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Dec 9 Public Reading/Performance of Deliverance by Marc Fischer and a group of special guests (TBA) Richard J. Daley Branch Library / 3400 S. Halsted Chicago 6.30pm
Dec 6 Chicago Book Expo Columbia College | 1104 S. Wabash Chicago
Nov 9 Pop-Up Bookfair hosted by Curbside Splendor Empty Bottle Chicago
Sept 26-28 2014 New York Art Book Fair MoMA PS1 | 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue Long Island City, NY NYABF launch event for Marc Fischer's Deliverance: Saturday, Sept. 27  2-3pm
Sept 13 + 14 DittoDitto Detroit Art Book Fair Trinosophes | 1464 Gratiot Avenue Detroit
July 26-27 Spudnik Press/Printers' Ball Small Press Book Fair Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Aug 10 Medium Cool 2014 Prairie Production | 1314 W Randolph St Chicago 11-8pm
May 3+4 ARLIS/NA Conference + Book Fair Grand Hyatt Washington Washington, DC 9am-5:30pm
April 12 Pop Up Book Fair Hosted by Curbside Splendor, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation, Oak Park Library, and 826CHI Hemingway Museum 200 N Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL 11am-6pm
March 11 (Los Angeles) Learning by Doing at the Farm Book Launch with Film Screening and Q+A with the Editors A+D Museum 6pm
Mar 29 (Chicago) Learning by Doing at the Farm Book Launch with Film Screening and Q+A with the Editors  @ The Nightingale, co-hosted by Threewalls 1084 N. Milwaukee 7pm
Mar 15 (Chicago) Children's Bookmaking Party/ABB Launch The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, co-hosted by Poetry Magazine 2pm
Feb 13-15 (Chicago) CAA Conference Book Fair
Feb 6 (Berkeley, CA) Learning by Doing at the Farm Book Launch with Film Screening and Q+A with the Editors University Press Books 6pm
Feb 4 (Irvine, CA) Learning by Doing at the Farm Book Launch with Film Screening and Q+A with the Editors University of California, Irvine Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1517 6pm
Jan 30-Feb 2 (Los Angeles) LA Art Book Fair