HOURS AND LOCATION Preview Thursday, September 17, 6-9 pm Friday, September 18, 1-7pm Saturday, September 19, 11am-9pm Sunday, September 20, 11-am-7pm MoMA PS1 is located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books,… Continue reading ICP at the New York Art Book Fair
Month: September 2015
Freedom to Do and Undo: Cuba in Photo Books
The larger picture of Cuba that could be gleaned from our collection of photo books is limited by circumstances: the long-term sanctions against trade with Cuba by the United States and the cultural politics generated during the Cold War; and since the “end of history” as per Francis Fukuyama in 1989, referring to the collapse of the Soviet Union, we have to contend with the hybrid mappings of Cuba by the First World as an exotic theme park of old cars, great music, and an oppressed but sensual populace, stuck in a now impossible past.