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Scope and Contents "In 1999, the Public Art Fund invited Lawrence Weiner, a lifelong New Yorker, to create an artwork for the city's public spaces. Almost immediately, Lawrence raised the possibility of the urban manhole cover as a potential site. Simple, utilitarian and quintessentially New York, the Con Edison manhole cover is a ubiquitous yet unassuming participant in the streetscape. Lawrence Weiner's nineteen manhole covers were installed in November 2000, the last permanently commissioned work in New...

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Packaged like a gift, this book shows enchanting animal characters tending a plant that grows into a bigger plant and then into a tree as the book is opened and becomes a a poster.

Scope and Contents "At the invitation of the Public Art Fund, [Mark] Dion has created the Urban Wildlife Observation Unit, a multifaceted installation (including this guide) that takes Madison Square Park as its focus. Inverting his more common procedure, here Dion asks the viewer to explore the park through the lens of his 'observation unit,' sited near the southwest entrance. Built in the tradition of a bird watcher's hide, the unit is the second version that Dion has created; the first was shown in the...

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A small booklet of snapshots of rural Vermont.

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This small booklet consists of stills of a scene set in a library from a black-and-white film starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

Scope and Contents "After a 25-year hiatus from making artist's books, Ed Ruscha produced this intriguing book of altered book covers in conjunction with his exhibition at the James Kelly Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2001. Each page presents a vintage monochromatic book cover, with the letter S emblazoned across it in different typefaces. It appears that various methods (scraping) and materials (bleach and paint) have been employed to etch the letter onto the covers, giving them a scarlike...

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"Charles Thomas 'Chuck' Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter, artist and photographer. He makes massive-scale photorealist portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera. Even though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint."--from wikipedia.org

Scope and Contents "In 2001, the artist collective Temporary Services launched the Library Project, in which 100 books were surreptitiously placed on the shelves at the Harold Washington Library Center. Some of the books were previously published works by artists and small presses. Others were artists' books, unique works of art in book form. The donated books were altered with call numbers, stamps, and other identification so that they would pass as regular library books. Also included in this collection is...

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"This is a book that richly illustrates various avatars of the evil eye and thankfully offers several cures. The book is bound using a black thread that is typically used to ward off the evil eye. Interestingly, every single page of the book is formatted such that every part of the book is protected from the evil eye."--from pixiebks.com

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Handmade and colorful, this artists' book by Mark Pawson uses paper ephemera, sketches, and collages.