We have already wrote about artists interested in the afterlife of books. They cut through the pages searching for the hidden images and new forms. Now you can compare different approaches from a score of creators: on the 5th of February a new exhibition opens at the Everhart Museum in Scranton (PA, USA).
In the end of November, the 2nd International Book Art Fair (2a Feria Internacional de Libro de Artista) will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico. Fair starts 29th of November and ends 2nd of December, 2015.
A bookbinding exposition at the Brussels’ Fine Arts Academy of St. Gilles opens 19th of November, 2015. It was proposed to celebrate 20th anniversary of creation of the binding and guilding workshop here at the Academy.
An exhibition devoted to female printmakers is open now at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library.
It took 15 years to gather Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers’ Bindings. Its hallmark being that books were chosen for their covers and arranged by decades. That way of organization gives a unique chance to see how the historical events affected book decoration and book production in general. It truly makes books a subject of an interdisciplinary study of art, history, design and commerce.
