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Melissa Ip’s newest zine, UFO Frisbee!

Perfect for a mid-October balcony frisbee sesh.

Speaking of Ip, she just sent us these awesome pictures from her recent trip to Mexico City…

Zine release!

Reminder — we will be releasing five new zines out of a Slow and Steady Wins the Race piñata tomorrow Saturday October 3rd, at 2pm in the lobby of PS1 at the New York Art Book Fair!

Ree Morton

For those of you in NYC, the Drawing Center’s exhibition of artist Ree Morton (1936-1977), opens this Friday! The show’s title, “At the Still Point of the Turning World,” takes its name from a T. S. Eliot poem Morton kept above her studio desk. This exhibition highlights Morton’s influential body of work, remarkably all produced between her decision to turn to art full-time in the late 1960s and her tragic death shortly before her 41st birthday. While reflecting many of the currents of Postminimal and Conceptual art of the 1970s, Morton’s work also looked to a pioneering use of personal narrative, intimacy, humor, and poetic imagination. Yet the scope of her artistic production remains largely unrecognized, as does her vital contribution to feminist art practice and the importance of drawing to her development as an artist. Fortunately, there has been a recently revitalized interest in her work, with her inclusion in MOCA’s WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, and her solo exhibition at Overduin and Kite in Los Angeles two years ago.

You can also check out The Mating Habits of Lines, a publication containing pages from Morton’s sketchbooks and notebooks, compiled by Allan Schwartzman and Kathleen Thomas. This book is a poignant insight into the relentless and methodical curiosity that characterized the artist’s short-lived career. Morton, who claimed her life’s work to have begun at age three, springing from a fascination with “watching ant hills and protecting lady bugs,” was encouraged by her family to pursue science. It wasn’t until she had already started a life as a nurse, married with three children, that she realized her passion for observation was at its core an artistic instinct. Within six years she received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from the Taylor School of Art, and moved to New York to teach and work as an artist. This left her only nine years of postgraduate work before a car crash took her life in 1977. Morton’s sketches and notes, which are composed mainly of lists, quotes, visual patterns, and explorations of unresolved motifs, seem to insist a commitment to observation over analysis, to playfulness as the guiding principle behind her sculptures, drawings, and installations. These pages feel open-ended and intimate in a way that can’t help but inspire.

Last Sunday at Ooga Booga

Thanks to all who came out last Sunday to celebrate the debut of Motherwell journal and Pearl Hsiung’s awesome new window installation

The party was heavily attended by kids…

and even more dogs

Here’s the new journal:

Each copy is hand-bound and seared with a hot iron brand by the editor, Paige K. Johnston

If you let her brand you, you might even get a free copy

Congrats Paige and Pearl!