ARTBOOK at X
D.A.P. AND X-INITIATIVE TO OPEN
NEW CONTEMPORARY ART BOOKSTORE MAY 16TH, 2009
ARTBOOK@X, CHELSEA, NEW YORK CITY
April 27, 2009, 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 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. To sign up for special news and event announcements related to ARTBOOK at X, please email: artbook@x-initiative.org
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.