No One Is Reading, Except at the New York Art Book Fair
The overlooked, subversive, and playful currents of politics and queer culture flow freely at the fair’s 20th anniversary edition, held at MoMA PS1.
The New York Art Book Fair, an annual gathering organized by Printed Matter, draws over 300 exhibitors from around the globe to MoMA PS1 in Queens, creating a lively, chimeric bookstore. At the fair's 20th anniversary edition, staff provided attendees with folders, complete with lenticular Tweety Bird prints, to store zines, flyers, and artworks.
Precious Okoyomon's sculpture in the courtyard served as a focal point for the zine tent, a pocket-sized universe where subversive and playful political currents thrive. The fair also saw the Book Arts Solidarity Network, formed to challenge book institutions' silence on the Palestine genocide, launching its third annual MAKEREADY publication.
The organization, which collected artwork and reflections from artists in Gaza and South Lebanon, found a common thread in the color yellow. For the artists, creating the risograph-printed booklet was cathartic, a way to process the era of imperialism and dispossession, highlighting the artists witnessing these events.
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