NEW YORK CITY.- D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. has been invited by the non-profit curatorial organization X-Initiative to install and operate a bookstore focusing on contemporary art and culture in the location that once housed the Jorge Pardo-designed Dia art book store at 548 West 22nd Street, between 10 – 11th Avenue, New York City. The store will be called ARTBOOK at X, continuing the development of ARTBOOK, a curated art bookstore concept created by D.A.P. with an outpost at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City and recurring installations at The Armory Show, New York, Art Basel Miami Beach and Art LA, among other venues.
ARTBOOK at X will open on Saturday, May 16th, 2009 with an event featuring Kembra Pfahler and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, celebrating the publication of Pfahler’s new monograph, Beautism (published by Deitch Projects and distributed by D.A.P.). The operating hours will be Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm. The bookstore is scheduled to operate through March, 2010.
ARTBOOK at X will present an exiting calendar of book-related events throughout the year.
Established in 1990 with only four client publishers, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. now distributes more than 2,500 titles--from over 200 international publishers, museums, alternative spaces and institutions--to bookstores, wholesalers, cataloguers, universities, galleries, museum shops, libraries and individuals worldwide. The publishers represented by D.A.P. range from distinguished European commercial houses such Hatje Cantz Publishers in Stuttgart, Steidl Verlag in Göttingen, Walther König in Cologne and JRP|Ringier in Zurich to such esteemed American independent and museum publishers as Visionaire, Aperture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The complete D.A.P. catalogue is available online at www.artbook.com.
X is an initiative of the global art community, with a goal to inspire and challenge us to think about new possibilities for experiencing and producing contemporary art. In the creation of the not-for-profit organization X, artists, curators, museum professionals, gallerists, collectors, art historians and critics are reaching across traditional boundaries to form a consortium interested in responding quickly to the major philosophical and economic shifts impacting culture. Organized into four phases starting from Spring 2009 through Winter 2010, the programs at X will feature durational artist interventions, site-specific projects, historical in-depth exhibitions, one-night performances, lectures and weekly events. Questions posed in the form of programming will address relevant and pressing issues pertaining to the changing landscape of contemporary art.
