Launch event December 9, 6pm
Guests: Vito Acconci, Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, Mary Ellen Carroll, Liz Diller + Ricardo Scofidio, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Dan Graham, Sarah Herda, Bjarke Ingels, Laura Kurgan, Michael Manfredi, Damon Rich, Michael Sorkin, Joshua Stein, Michael Webb and many others

Shortly after Storefront for Art and Architecture was born in 1982, founding director Kyong Park began circulating what he described as a "newsletter" among the gallery's friends and followers.

This newssheet, sent out by mail to a list of up to 3,000 people, served a dual purpose: as an update on exhibitions, events and programs in the gallery, and also as a "reader" of sorts, offering critical contextualizations to the exhibitions on display in the gallery. In the mid-Eighties, the newsletters evolved to acquire a precise format: large sheets of double-sided monochrome newsprint, folded down to the size of a postcard and distributed either by mail or for free in the gallery. Each show in the gallery has its own newsprint, and the tradition continues to this day.

Over time, the archive of Storefront's Newsprints grew to become the most complete historical documentation of the gallery's programs since its earliest days. Storefront Newsprints 1982-2009 is comprised of reproductions of over 154 newsletters, many of which contain otherwise unpublished texts by artists, architects and theorists such as Vito Acconci, Lebbeus Woods, Michael Sorkin, Beatriz Colomina, Michael Webb and Eyal Weizman, among others.

Additional content includes an in-depth interview by current director Joseph Grima with Kyong Park on the origins and history of the Newsprints project, an index of other Storefront publications and readers, numerous unpublished texts and essays, and a conversation with former director Sarah Herda.

Published by Storefront Books
1000 pages, 2 volumes with slipcase
Softcover newsprint, monochrome
Dimensions: 14.5" x 10.5" x 2.2"
Weight: 7lb

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