http://www.umbrellaeditions.com Umbrella is the most comprehensive online quarterly covering the arena of artists' books, art books and other multiple editions, including audio and video tapes. http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/i/logo6.png http://www.umbrellaeditions.com http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=102&issue=10 As we start our 31st year, I hope some of you will be participating in the Ninth Annual International Edible Book Event, which probably will be scheduled for the end of March or the beginning of April. Right now, if you go to books2eat.com (we are now directed by web services in Montreal), you can see who has registered for participation. I am sure there will more institutions coming in at the last minute. Saveur Magazine had…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=102&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=103&issue=10 News Focus on Artists’ Books IV was held in Mackay, Australia in February 2008. The sessions involved workshops and masterclasses, with an exhibition from 9 February - 23 March 2008; Australian Artists’ Books Forum. For more information, contact artspace@mackay.qld.gov.au or go to www.artspacemackay.com.au So Multiples - Newsletter #6. Research website for multiples and other artists’ publications can be see at www.so-multiples.com Miriam Schaer was seen in refuse/refuse at Pochron, Brooklyn for one week in September-October…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=103&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=104&issue=10 Most of the books reviewed here are available at Printed Matter, at 195 10th Ave. (between 21st and 22nd St.), New York, NY 10011. www.printedmatter.org REFERENCE How to Make Books: Fold, Cut & Stitch Your Way to a One-of-a-Kind Book (New York, Clarkson Potter, 2007, Potter Craft, $25.00 hardcover) is the result of more than 25 years that Esther K. Smith and Dikko Faust have operated…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=104&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=105&issue=10 Brief Review of March 13th-14th symposium at Yale University “Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book” By Joan Stoltman Day One: The symposium began with a keynote by Johanna Drucker, as many artists’ book events are known to do. She spoke of spacing, line and “the opening up of sense” that poets have mastered as a capability and awareness particularly suited to publishing. Her considerations for the physicality of the codex book (its “concrete reality”, ordered elements, aesthetic features,…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=105&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=106&issue=10 MONOGRAPH Allan Kaprow: Art as Life, edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann, Andrew Perchuk and Stephanie Rosenthal (Los Angeles, GRI, 2008, $55.00 hardcover) is more than an exhibition catalog, since it uses all the resources of the artist’s archives which are housed at the Getty Research Institute. While this was intended to complement the exhibition which is an international traveling retrospective, by using the resources of the archives, it becomes a revelatory portrait of an artist who has been called the best…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=106&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=107&issue=10 MAIL ART CALL Images Against War. Any medium, no deadline. Jpegs or any snail mail. No jury, no returns. Exhibition in the web: Image Gallery Against War from Boek 861. Send to:Taller del Sol, Apartado 861 43080 Tarragona, España. Put your own image in: boek861.com/no_war/index.htmlhttp://boek861.com/no_war/index.html Brain Cell Fractals. Ryosuke Cohen. Send him 150 stickers, artistamps, rubberstamps, etc. and he will send you a list of participants, a beautifully produce color print of all participants’ work. Send…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=107&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=108&issue=10 AWARDS George Tooker and Andrew Wyeth were two artists among nine recipients of the National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest honor for artistic excellence. Brian Selznick won the Randolph Caldecott award for top picture book of 2007 for “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” a 500-plus page hybrid of a graphic novel and traditional illustrated story about an orphan boy and a robot in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. He was influenced by George Mélies’s early movies,…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=108&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=109&issue=10 Art on Paper for September/October is my kind of journal–full of artist books, avant-garde, and ephemera–what more can you ask for? Jean-Noël Herlin talks about his “junk mail” which is the guts of art history of the last half of the 20th century–with an archive of 300,000 items on more than 50,000 artists, runing 600 linear feet, and weighing five tons. As I have lectured throughout the past 30 years, the detritis in the waste basket is really the bones…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=109&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=110&issue=10 By Mark Bloch, Whitehot Magazine, New York Robert Delford Brown. 2007. Official portrait of the artist/religious leader. “Robert Delford Brown : Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics” at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina from March 28 to August 3, 2008 will be a museum exhibition to celebrate this extraordinary artist’s lifetime of social, political and aesthetic activism with a selection of his creative production over…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=110&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=111&issue=10 The Collections of Barbara Bloom through 4 May at the International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of th Americas at 43rd, New York City. Jasper Johns: Gray through 4 May at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan. Moore at Kew, the largest outdoor show of the British sculptor ever seen in London through 30 March Superheroes and Shlemiels at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, an exhibition of Jewish artists who have brought their collective memory to comic art ,…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=111&issue=10 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=112&issue=10 Umbrella Hapi Coat: Miriam Schaerhttp://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=112&issue=10