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On Kawara: I Am Still Alive

25 Oct.-9 Nov. 2025

NYC
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Woodblock used to print a broadside promotion offering eggplant seeds for sale. The species are described and shown in five columns, from left to right, they are called: “Round White”; “Long White”; “Bear Cub Hole”; “Bashō’s Dragon”; and “Round Miyako (Kyoto).”
August 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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‘Turning information into something physical’
Houghton exhibit looks at how punched cards — invented 300 years ago to streamline weaving — led to modern computing 📚📜
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How punched cards led to modern computing
Houghton exhibit looks at how punched cards — invented 300 years ago to streamline weaving — led to modern computing.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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We'll eventually need a full account of Pontus Hultén's crimes, but for now we can add straight-up stealing four Duchamp drawings from Yale to his previously known scandal, forging 100 posthumous Warhol Brillo boxes [h/t Yoshi Hill's IG] greg.org/archive/2025...
When You’re Pontus Hultén They Let You Do It – greg.org
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August 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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An artists’ book on display in the Cary Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has a salmon parchment binding.

Sara Pines, “I Sing the Salmon Home - Poems from Washington State” (2024)
July 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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turns out the Cy Twombly watermark on the paper made for On Kawara's CODES artist edition is "Yvon Lambert's name, written by Twombly. Whether he wrote it special for the watermark, or Lambert just used the design from his Twombly ex libris is still unknown. to me. greg.org/archive/2025...
July 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Just sent out the new issue of “Two Half Sheets” the newsletter that I write with Rhiannon K! Subscribe, and here’s a link to the new issue, which chats about the bibliographical concept of “sophistication”: open.substack.com/pub/twohalfs...
On Sophistication
or, what's in a word?
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July 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Caring for Artists’ Books: Art Librarians

Join us for a roundtable discussion between five librarians on how they’re preserving, activating and reimagining artists’ books in today’s libraries.

3 July | 7–8:30pm | 📍Warburg Institute

Book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/carin...
Caring for Artists’ Books: Art Librarians
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June 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Our 250th catalogue is now out on our website!

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June 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New Japanese printing woodblocks up on our website!

1/ Woodblock (248 x 470 x 35 mm.) for leaves 19 & 20 of Oie hyakunin isshu senzai bunko 御家百人一首千歳文庫 [Senzai Bunko’s Anthology of One Hundred Poets & One Poem Each] [1865].
June 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"i am still alive / on kawara"
June 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Woodcut illustrations in Fukuro musubi [Tying the Tea Caddy Silk Storage Bag] (1801), a lavishly illustrated book on the art of wrapping tea ceremony implements using decorative knots, all part of temae 手前, the precise and choreographed procedures involved in preparing and serving tea
May 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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"14,906 – 14,910 Days" by @greg.org
14,906 – 14,910 Days – greg.org
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May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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There's a very rare, and very moving, show of the work of the great first-generational conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn up for a few more days in Manhattan. You should see it.
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February 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
stanley brouwn: in a certain direction

due to the strong response we have decided to extend the exhibition through 3 march, viewings are now **by appointment only** between 12 and 6

portal 5
373 broadway, suite 511 (in the tribeca spaces building)
new york, ny 10013
February 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
stanley brouwn: in a certain direction
13-28 February 2025

Location:
Portal 5 (in Tribeca)
373 Broadway, Suite 511
New York, NY 10013

Hours:
Weekdays 12-7
Weekends 11-5

Contact:
timothy.y.hill@gmail.com
646.420.4652

Appointments preferred
February 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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stanley brouwn show opening next week at portal 5 in tribeca, if you need me to, i can draw you a map greg.org/archive/2025...
February 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Hi! I’m Claudia de la Torre, an artist, publisher, and the founder of backbonebooks. I create, design, and distribute concept-driven books.

In my Berlin studio, I run the Artists Books Workshop, where I work with artists to turn their creative ideas into tangible, publications.
January 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“I Saw Picasso Here on His Knees”

An unrecorded announcement for Man Ray’s landmark 1929 presentation of “Rayographs,” at which, the artist claimed in an interview, Picasso fell to his knees in awe.
January 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmoduleia (1583), finely colored and complete with the anatomical flaps

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October 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Hi everyone, I've made my first starter pack for Rare Books and Spec Coll folks. I am completely sure I've missed folks, so please speak up in a reply and I'll add you to the pack! follow on, friends! 📜 #bookhistory go.bsky.app/4fvc2XS
September 26, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Pleasant surprise to see an "old friend" highlighted on the Harvard-Yenching Institute blog (written by Juhee Kang): a collection of equine medicine and management from the Edo period.

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田中家秘傳書 (Tanaka ke Hidensho) - Harvard-Yenching Institute
Original images held by the Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard University Tanaka ke hidensho, 1800-1867 (bulk), Vernacular title: 田中家秘傳書 Variant title: Equine medicine, T...
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September 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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How did artists & writers depict the earliest US-Japan interactions?⛵ Today’s #NCCSpotlight is a dive into digitally accessible sources of the Pacific Encounters collection by Cameron Penwell (LOC): “Exploring Early US-Japan Encounters at the Library of Congress”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
August 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM