75th anniversary of the bridge's construction.

Printable custom catalogs
These are GREAT. When you arrive, make sure you get one of these cards and a pen. The reverse side has a field of numbers next to bubbles which, while they do give me flashbacks to standardised tests in high school, are used for a much more fabulous purpose here. Every work in MoA has a number, and if you like something, just fill in the corresponding dot. At the end of your visit, there’s a spot in a wall in the main hallway where you insert your filled-in card, press a reassuringly old-fashioned button, and voila:
It’s a print-out list of the titles and names behind the stuff you liked, plus a custom URL that contains details on all of those pieces.

In the exhibition “Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language,” which opened on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, words are treated as tools and as totems. Gathering text-based work by artists from Marcel Duchamp to Tauba Auerbach alongside contemporary designers like Paul Elliman and Dexter Sinister, the show offers varied takes on how to make meaning out of language, and also how to make a beautiful mess of it—sometimes at the same time... Pick up one of three black telephones sitting on a shelf, and you’ll suddenly be on the line with Frank O’Hara or John Giorno or Robert Creeley, who generously recite a poem just for you (or in Allen Ginsberg’s case, chant incoherently in your ear)... But the conceptual heart of the show, and the highlight, is Found Fount, by the London-based designer Paul Elliman. Elliman has long been experimenting with deconstructions of language and objects—creating alphabets from photobooth portraits, for example. Whereas some artists in the show disassemble language into its physical forms or turn it into sculptures drained of immediate linguistic meanings, Elliman conjures words from ordinary objects. “Dead Scissors,” for example, collects broken-off scissor handles that look like the letter P.

Exhibition with photos of myself.

From the site: “The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum is proud to present the work of Paul Brown. His broadsides, books, and other letterpress printed works will be on display May 1st through June 30th, 2012. Please join us on the evening of May 19th for an artist’s reception. This event marks the end of Paul Brown's three-year tenure as Artist in Residence at the museum. We are grateful for the knowledge and support that he has given to us.”

Cleveland Mueum of Art
Call for Entries: DIY: Photographers & Books
Deadline: Thursday, May 31, 2012

“Barbara Tannenbaum, curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art, invites submissions for the first museum exhibition to focus on print-on-demand books. DIY: Photographers & Books will be on view August 11th – December 30th, 2012.

A new golden age of the photobook has dawned, thanks to digital printing technology and web-based distribution services that allow rapid, inexpensive production of books in quantities from one copy to thousands. This exhibition is the first museum show to focus on the impact of print-on-demand publishing on contemporary photographic practice. Instead of images on the wall, the room will be dominated by a long table where a visual banquet of more than 75 photobooks will await the visitor. Several examples of historic and unique books will be in cases, but for most of the volumes, touching, reading, and re-reading will be encouraged. The books will be by regional, national, and international artists. Plans include a computer station where visitors can try their own hand at producing a photobook. This exhibition honors the 60th anniversary of Aperture magazine and press.

Submit your print-on-demand photography book to the following address before May 31, 2012:

DIY: Photographers & Books
The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
USA

Visit the museum website for complete details.

Further questions: E-mail photography@clevelandart.org.

Please do not send one-of-a-kind or handcrafted books. Not all submissions will be included in the exhibition. Books will not be returned. Following the exhibition, all submissions will be donated to the library of the Cleveland Institute of Art.”

One of the artists that caught my eye at the Avant/Garde Diaries: Transmission LA: A/V CLUB was Sage Vaughn… take a look at some of the moth covered drip paintings on the next page!

“Why Asian advertising is strong and mystic” was the theme of AdFest 2011, an exhibition of the best ad work in Asia. Commissioned by the Yoshida Hideo Memorial Foundation/ Advertising Museum Tokyo to promote this pan-Asian event, Dentsu Inc. in Osaka developed a poster series with lavish illustrations that reminds one of a reflexology foot chart or, in the case of the open palm, like a spiritual mudra (a hand gesture that symbolizes divine manifestation).

In their creative brief, the Dentsu team explained that it came up with the concept of a life-sized Asian and “aimed to describe how history, culture, technology and trends of Asia turn into the flesh and blood of an Asian, which is why ideas from Asia are strong.” A close look at the many elements that comprise each poster illustration covers the gamut from Chinese dragon and panda bears to pagodas and daruma dolls to symbols of technology and medicine. All of these concepts are integrated into the body of man.

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