PAGE PREENING AND COSTUME TURNING

Recently landed: Page preening and costume turning

Whether In the headdress of a Maiden from The Rite of Spring, 1913, with an Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) or In the borrowed costume of Prince Charming from The Sleeping Princess, c. 1921, with a Black-bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas), you’re all invited to a Paper Universe.

We are delighted that several of our artists’ books, from the collection of the State Library of New South Wales, will be shown alongside other pieces from their collection. Keep your eye out for the Spring edition of the library’s Openbook.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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6th of August, 2025

Upon the table, the conceptual giddy feast, catalogued piece by piece by Cathy Leahy, Senior Curator, Prints & Drawings, presented as part of Chance Operations: Conceptual Art and the Artist’s Book, at the NGV. Our journey began with Ed Ruscha’s irresistible Twentysix gasoline stations, the required milk after chilli of Various small fires, Nine swimming pools with broken glass full stop, and Some Los Angeles apartments, before Cathy wended our way, anticlockwise, to the ingenious choose-your-own-adventure reading of John Baldessari’s concertina foldout in cross formation Fable.