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=113&issue=11 It’s been quite a spring season with five memorials in six weeks. Life is short, only art is long. I have lost some very good friends and some colleagues. It’s not even my age group. It came in waves. And now we are experiencing a very strange summer–hot for some, strange weather for others, floods in Iowa and other states, lightning that creates 1000 fires just in California, a glorious spring of brilliant bougainvillea, vivid jacaranda trees that one…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=113&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=114&issue=11 by Mark Bloch Champe Smith, an artist and printmaker in New York City who works in letterpress and collage, decided it would be a good idea to host a mail art show at the Center for Book Arts. Her idea was quite interesting, actually. She chose the name “Mapping Correspondence” and it is a good concept and the show she put together does justice to it. Her vision was to invite people to participate and then track the spreading…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=114&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=115&issue=11 NEWS Ruud Janssen did a series of Mail Art interviews from 1994 - 2002 which he named the Mail-Interview Project, now included in a series of books with the complete interviews of 50 Fluxus and mail-artists . Those books are available at www.lulu.com At Lulu you can also read the specifics and have a preview of the first pages. E-mail: info@iuoma.org blog: iuoma.blogspot.com books: stores.lulu.com/iuoma MAIL ART CALL Images…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=115&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=116&issue=11 NEWS Claire J. Satin will be showing her books in an International Biennial in Chartres, France April/May 2009. And she will be in residency in Venice, Italy for 7 weeks March 27 - mid May 2009 sponsored by the Emily Harvey Foundation. She has also been offered a one person exhibition at the Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN July/August 2009. SHOWS JUST PAST Life is a Page, which closed on 5 July was dedicated to Ruth Laxson’s 30th artist book,…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=116&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=117&issue=11 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 Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing collection, edited with an introduction by John M. Bennett, with additional introductions by Bob Grumman and Dr. Marvin A. Sackner (Columbus, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University Libraries, 2008, $30.00 paper) showcases some of the highlights of the Avant Writing Collection I which many…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=117&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=118&issue=11 Meeting the World’s Stories Through Books 2nd Seongnam International Book Arts Fair,April 19 - 26, 2008 It is the 2nd year of Seongnam International Book Arts Fair this year and it is very meaningful event since it is in commemoration of World Book Day and the 2nd anniversary of Book Theme Park and since it reflects the growing interests of people’s Book Arts in Korea. In Korea, since 2004, Book Arts…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=118&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=119&issue=11 Conceptually Bound 3: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books Mohr Gallery - Community School of Music and Arts Mountain View, CA Mountain View — Now in its third incarnation since 2001, Conceptually Bound 3 took another look at the artist’s book through the lens of both form and function. In the past 7 years, 170 works from over 90 local, national and international artists have been shown through the Conceptually Bound exhibitions. Curator Nanette Wylde, an Associate Professor…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=119&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=120&issue=11 AWARDS Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly divrse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize, at 62. Guggenheim Fellowships for 2008 were given in Fine Arts to Martin Kersels of Sierra Madre, CA; Anthony McCall, New York; Rebecca Morris, Los Angeles; Ruben Ochoa, Los Angeles’ Jeffrey Schiff, Brooklyn; Marc Trujillo, Los Angeles; Rachel P. Youens, Brooklyn, among others.In…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=120&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=121&issue=11 GENERAL The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibiity and other Writings on Media (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2008, $18.95 paper) reflects Benjamin’s most salient thoughts on media and on culture in general in their most realized form, still maintaining an edge under the skin of everyone who reads it. The visual arts morph into literature and theory and then back to images, gestures and thought, Here the editors have situated this essay as the cornerstone of…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=121&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=122&issue=11 NY Times Magazine for 8 June was dedicated to Architecture. It included how the future of cities was dictated by sets in older movies (thanks to A.O. Scott), a view into Bernard Tschumi’s Chelsea loft, Dutch architects create multiple housing with high-rise residential living and much more. In the 18 May issue, there is an article by Virginia Heffernan entitled “Pixels at an Exhibition” on how visual artists use YouTube. New Yorker for 26 May features a profile of Paul…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=122&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=123&issue=11 Drawing on Film with films by Len Lye, Harry Smith, Norman McLaren, Pierre Hébert as veterans with contemporary artists Jennifer West, Amy Granat and many more at The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., SoHo through 24 July. Earl Cunningham’s America at American Folk Art Museum, New York City through 7 September. “Bill Wood’s Business” at International Center of Photography through 7 September. Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan at International Center of Photography through 7 September. Warhol’s Jews…http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=123&issue=11 http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=124&issue=11 Beach in Morocco — photo by Rose-Lynn Fisherhttp://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=124&issue=11