Fiction. URBESQUE is a collection of short (in the sense that most, though not all, of the pieces are shorter than forty pages) fiction (because they are untrue except, of course, for the parts that are). The characters who populate these stories do not travel to India or hang out with matadors. They do, however, go to job fairs, make furniture, leave their swords in the lockers at work, write letters to the objects that surround them and take pictures of it all, years after the fact, to remind them not to forget. If, one day, a copy of URBESQUE should appear unannounced on your doorstep, looking a little worse for wear, with whiskey on its breath, invite it in. Make room for it on your couch or bookshelf. Or, better yet, read it.

Urbesque

Literature & Fiction

Moshe Zvi Marvit

Contemporary

The Green Lantern Press

Fiction. There comes a time in the lives of people of a certain disposition when following any path other than that of an artist seems unthinkable. They read books with titles like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and see something of themselves in their pages. They begin painting or writing poetry. They throw themselves into such a life with passion and fury that seems reserved for such an age and then, usually, they stop. They grow up, leaving that life behind them. And yet books wherein the protagonist overcomes all obstacles to become an artist, books where, in the final pages, one learns that the young man or woman picks up a pen and begins to write that very book, books with titles like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, continues to be written. GOD BLESS THE SQUIRREL CAGE is not one of those books.

God Bless the Squirrel Cage

Nicholas Sarno III

Cultural Writing. Art. Just as an artist must defer to his or her idea, the curator of an exhibition must defer to the art. And, for the same reasons that an artist's sketches, revisions, and failures don't hang on the wall next to the finished project, a curator's notebooks, memos, and emails should remain behind the scenes. SKETCHES illustrates what ideas look like when they are forming. Green Lantern published this book with the hope that arts administrators of all kinds can pick it up, flip through its pages and become inspired. It is also great in that non-arts administrators can see the mess behind the Wizard of Oz. This communal collection of "sketches" will pass ideas for exhibitions, organizational structures, or academic projects between colleagues and strangers in an effort to connect people and expand thinking on arts administration.

Sketches: Organizing Arts

Arts & Photography

Cultural Writing. Art. Essays. Because a space heater and good friends can be a million times warmer than central heating and track lighting, PHONEBOOK is an invaluable, yet by no means exhaustive (yet) guide to America's finest alternative artspaces. These are the galleries you are unlikely to find in your average tourist guide, the ones located in basements, in lofts, off of alleys, in suburban back yards. These are the movies Moviefone won't tell you about and the lecture series you won't find among your course guides. These are the places that will remind you why you liked this stuff in the first place.

Phonebook 2007/2008

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Paper & Carriage No. 1

History & Criticism

Paper & Carriage No. 2

Fiction. Things can happen when a man falls in love with a sweater. This book is about an unrequited love limited to self-imposed doctrines of propriety. Any number of intellectual conclusions can be drawn, but even the most serious will have to negotiate the gutter, which plagues Jon McManus and eventually the reader. It is divided in three parts, beginning with a Cinderella story. The first part is a straightforward narrative, the second a play of absurd humor and the third a choose your own adventure.

Lust and Cashmere

Simns, A.E.

Paper & Carriage No. 3

Fragments

Carl, David

Cultural Writing. Art. Reference. Edited by Caroline Picard, Nick Sarno, and Shannon Stratton. Back by popular demand, PHONEBOOK is the essential travel guide to artist-run centers, small not-for-profit, fringe galleries, and other exhibition and presentation projects. This new edition adds over 50 news spaces in the United States and over 40 Canadian centers alongside updated entries, periodical listings, a series of essays from across the country and some road-trip tips from the editors. PHONEBOOK is a valuable resource for artist and audience alike, connecting a web of makers and projects while acting as an archive of work by smaller organizations and groups throughout the visual arts community. Use PHONEBOOK 2008/2009 as a research tool, as a travel guide to the visual arts, for networking, for exhibition proposals or to facilitate artistic exchanges.

Phonebook 2008/2009

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