The Incunabulum and the Plastic Bag
A Manual for the 21st Century Art Institution, 2009
The Incunabulum and the Plastic Bag is an essay thinking through the oddness and importance of the bookshop in art galleries, commissioned for A Manual for the 21st Century Gallery, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Institutions So Different, So Appealing?.
Twelve authors – artists, curators, academics and directors of international galleries and museums – trace a trajectory around each typology of space, using them as springboards for wider investigation.
Contributors include: Bruce Altshuler, Iwona Blazwick, Chris Dercon, Maria Fusco, Caro Howell, Charles Merewether, Mark Nash, Brian O'Doherty, Niru Ratnam, Sukhdev Sandhu, Adam Szymcyzk and Nayia Yiakoumaki.
A Manual for the 21st Century Art Institution
ISBN 978 3865606 181 - published by Koenig Books, Köln and Whitechapel Gallery, London