Printeresting is working serious overtime this week. On the docket Friday was the Editions/Artists’ Books Fair! The Fair is located this year at the X Initiative on West 22nd Street. The smaller space made it much more intimate affair than in past years- tight quarters led to close examination of the printed matter. It may have just been the layout but there actually seemed to be more booths than last year. The periodical publishers dropped in number (no Thing Quarterly, no Esopus this year) and the international print publishers went up in number, no doubt reflecting the shift of global capital away from Brown and Berkley graduates with keen ideas for experimental quarterly publications toward international fine print publishers. The other strange internal economy we noted was whether the publishers had bowls of free Werther’s Orginals candy, buttons or take-away print ephemera, but we could draw no conclusions from these observations (hello! Planet Money are you listening? Here’s your art world scoop!).
Lots of pictures and commentary after the jump.
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