Since 2007, Los Angeles artist Jonas Wood (born 1977) has been sketching Greek, Oceanic and African vessels at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His relationship with the Met began as a child accompanying his sisters and parents, and when he began to make regular visits to New York from L.A. in 2007, he resumed his relationship with the museum, acquiring the habit of sketching the Met's ceramic holdings using a ballpoint pen on hotel stationary. Following each of these visits, Wood then created large-scale versions of the drawings in his studio back in L.A., reworking them in charcoal or pencil on paper. A History of the Metis the first installment in the artist's multi-volume homage to the Met, a project that accords with his well-known visual diary style and his fondness for portraying objects and places related to friends and family.

Jonas Wood: A History of the Met

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

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This monograph on Brooklyn-based painter and draughtsman Eddie Martinez (born 1977) presents a collection of 40 ink drawings made between 2010 and 2012. Best known for his paintings and mixed-media works, Martinez's expressionistic works show the influence of Picasso, de Kooning, Guston and Hockney, to which he adds the edge of contemporary graffiti art.

Eddie Martinez: Studio Drawings

O´Brien, Glenn

The photographs of Mark Morrisroe (1959–1989) are steeped in fragility, both as material objects scored and pockmarked by the vicissitudes of time, and as forlorn commemorations of brief moments in all too brief lives. In this sense, the photographs are also objects of ephemera, of a piece with Morrisroe’s equally fragile magazines, collages and drawings, which this volume compiles for the first time. Containing much previously unpublished work, Mark Dirt includes spreads from Morrisroe’s punk zine Dirt (“he sort of invented the Boston punk scene,” Jack Pierson later recalled of his former lover), as well as correspondence and notes by the artist, sketches and even his last will and testament. All of these documents have been assembled by Morrisroe’s longtime partner Ramsey McPhillips, and represent the most complete survey of the artist’s non-photographic works.

Mark Morrisroe: Mark Dirt

Gangitano, Lia

McPhillips, Ramsey

Photography & Video

Despite its poor-that is, zero-rate of success (to date), predicting the end of the world has never ceased to be a popular sport throughout the history of humankind. If the turn of the millennium has appeared to provoke an uptick in this sport, this week- and month-at-a-glance calendar for 2013 shows that apocalypse speculation dates back at least as far as the first century AD. Compiled by artist Mark Hagen, Doomsdate provides more than 200 listings of doomsday predictions, from the writings of early Christian cults such as the Donatists to more recent lapses of sanity, such as Ronald Reagan's observation to James Mills in 1971, regarding the Libyan revolution: "For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ." Bringing an improbably apocalyptic twist to the homely format of the moleskin notebook, this leatherbound calendar contains approximately 16 doomsday predictions per month, as well as a lengthy notebook section at the back.

Doomsdate: 2013 Calendar: A Project by Mark Hagen

By popular talk-show host, Art Bell. ISBN 1-879706-53-9. Intensely private radio personality, Art Bell, who lives in a small spot of desert land west of Las Vegas, broadcasting his radio shows to 20 million listeners across the North American continent, has finally come forward with his fascinating autobiography. This is the story of the man behind the voice, the personality, and the talent that have become a regular habit for listeners everywhere. This is Art Bell in living color.

The Art of Talk

Bell, Art

Biographies & Memoirs

Smart Dating: A Guide for Men and Women

Romance

Donald Black

Contemporary

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