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Artists’ books, multiples and stuff at the Miami-Dade Public Library‘s Reading Room

Subject: TOMORROW: New Arrivals at The Reading Room, 12-2pm

The Reading Room
A Temporary Space for Artists’ Books, Publications and Multiples
Friday, May 14, Noon – 2 p.m.
Main Library Children’s Room, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami
Featuring: New Arrivals Reading Session

This week we’ll take a break from special guest discussions to do some actual reading. The Reading Room will be stocked with 25 artists’ books, multiples and publications added to the Library’s permanent art collection this year. Many of them are heavy on text and demand closer inspection. The most recent batch includes vintage artists’ publications like Avalanche Magazine No. 4 – the Lawrence Weiner issue, from 1972; handmade objects such as Ellen Knudson’s Wild Girls Redux, which won the Florida Artist’s Book Award; zines by Özlem Altin; Black Noise: A Tribute to Steven Parrino, a box set of 32 artist’s books in comic book format, edited by John Armleder, Amy Granat, and Mai-Thu Perret; Nava Atlas’s Love and Marriage, an altered comic; and Poemas, a 1969 livre d’artiste with lithographs by Raoul Veroni and poems by Delmira Agustini, an early 20th century Uruguayan poet whose sensual work made her a trailblazer for later feminist poets.

So take advantage to stop by and read; normally you’d have to make an appointment to see these books and publications. As always, there will be coffee and cookies. There may be music.

On the second Friday of each month, a secret room in the Children’s Room at the Main Library becomes The Reading Room. Visitors can stop by any time between 12 and 2pm to get up close and personal with selections from the Library’s collection of artists’ books, publications and multiples.