Abe's Penny

kidscornerlibrary: Title: Abe’s Peanut (Vol.17)

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:46:47 -0500

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Title: Abe’s Peanut (Vol.17)

Abe’s Penny 3.5.2 Image: Jason Fulford / Text: Adam...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:58:44 -0400

Abe’s Penny 3.5.2

Image: Jason Fulford / Text: Adam Gilders

Abe’s Penny issue 3.3 celebration at End of Century with...

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:04:00 -0400

Spencer and Kristin Tunick

Spencer's posters

Alina Simone

Alina Simone's limited edition vinyl

Abe’s Penny issue 3.3 celebration at End of Century with contributors Spencer Tunick and Alina Simone.

Part 1 of Abe’s Penny Issue 3.4 Image: Cara...

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:59:00 -0400

Part 1 of Abe’s Penny Issue 3.4

Image: Cara Phillips

Text: Dave Landsberger

Last card from issue 3.3.4. Image: Spencer Tunick Text: Alina...

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:16:00 -0400

Last card from issue 3.3.4.

Image: Spencer Tunick

Text: Alina Simone

Open Call for Miami-Dade photographers

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:03:00 -0500

In partnership with O, Miami, a county-wide poetry festival inaugurating in April 2011, Abe’s Penny will host “Abe’s Penny Live” at Miami’s Artseen Gallery. The exhibition will consist of four Miami photographers showing four photographs each and poetry submissions inspired by the sets of photographs.

Abe’s Penny Live
Photo Submission Guidelines

Please submit four lo-res jpeg images via email to tess@abespenny.com.

All types of photography and multimedia (video stills, etc.) are acceptable mediums for submission. Accepted submissions will contain a strong narrative thread and unique point of view. As you choose your submission, please keep in mind that if your series is chosen to be published as an issue of Abe’s Penny, the images must be cropped in a 4x6 ratio.
Should your submission be accepted, you will be notified via email. At that time, we will send delivery guidelines and specifications for exhibition prints.

Please include your full name, studio address, phone number and email with your submission.

Deadline for submission is February 15, 2011.

"‎I drink champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m..."

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:38:00 -0500

“‎I drink champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty.”

- Madame Lilly Bollinger

Happy New Year from Abe’s Penny!

Abe’s Peanut 1.7 featuring Ashley Soliman and Kari-Lynn...

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:51:26 -0500

Abe’s Peanut 1.7 featuring Ashley Soliman and Kari-Lynn Winters

Abe’s Penny 2.10 featuring Dan Chaon and Flora Hanitijo

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:13:45 -0500

Abe’s Penny 2.10 featuring Dan Chaon and Flora Hanitijo

From Jho In the City Why didn’t Google Alert alert me...

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:55:29 -0500

From Jho In the City

Why didn’t Google Alert alert me about this back in October?

"We should look to culture as a storehouse of useful ideas about how to face our most pressing..."

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:59:30 -0500

“We should look to culture as a storehouse of useful ideas about how to face our most pressing personal and professional issues … It should be the job of a university education to tease out the therapeutic and illuminative aspects of culture, so that we emerge from a period of study as slightly less disturbed, selfish and blinkered human beings. Such a transformation benefits not only the economy but also our friends, children and spouses.”

-
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Wall Street Journal

Happy Holidays! our newsletter from yesterday

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:35:00 -0500

Happy Holidays!

our newsletter from yesterday

"…Vanity Fair plans to introduce “digital replica editions” of its magazine using Adobe..."

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:23:00 -0500

“…Vanity Fair plans to introduce “digital replica editions” of its magazine using Adobe software, and this will improve the reading experience. That sounds grand. But can I get a deluxe mascara sample or something for hanging in there all this time and trying to help save magazines, paying and reading and enduring all of this hazing for being a dolt American through platform changes and defections by advertisers and other readers?”

- Vanity Unfair by VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN in NYT Magazine

"To feel truly passionate about a work of art means connecting it up, consciously or unconsciously,..."

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:49:53 -0500

“To feel truly passionate about a work of art means connecting it up, consciously or unconsciously, to a way of thinking, an existential world, a social reality. That is why a particular art gesture at one historical moment can seem heroic, while at another, the same gesture might seem cheap.”

- Ben Davis on ArtNet

"With such high-profile power creatives on its mast-head, this magazine belongs more on your walls..."

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:32:22 -0500

“With such high-profile power creatives on its mast-head, this magazine belongs more on your walls than on your coffee-tables.”

- Jinal Shah of Constant Beta

"I remind people that civilizations are not remembered by their business people, bankers or lawyers...."

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:41:44 -0500

“I remind people that civilizations are not remembered by their business people, bankers or lawyers. They’re remembered by the arts, whether it’s architecture, whether it’s the visual arts, performing arts and the like.”

- Eli Broad speaking at the American Folk Art Museum

"And so I pinned up the image of a naked man on my kitchen wall, until the next one arrived the..."

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:45:52 -0400

“And so I pinned up the image of a naked man on my kitchen wall, until the next one arrived the following week. Then for the following 3 weeks, I’ve been coming home to receive a similar postcard in my mailbox and each one with a slightly different photo and poem.”

- Helen Homan Wu on ARTCARDS

Gabriel Byrne on postcards

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:24:12 -0400

In the eighties, when he lived in London, Byrne collected hand-embroidered postcards from World War I. “In the banalities people wrote to each other, there were all kinds of stories,” he says, and performs a lilting imitation: “We’re having a fine time here at Tremore. Gertie says she feels better today. The sea air is doing her good, I’m sure. Well, that’s all for now.”

In their pith and semi-public display, he points out, postcards might be the grandfather of Twitter. “And of course, there were the ones that flighty girls could send to timorous men,” he adds, using his hands to draw a postcard in the air, one designed so a woman could press her lipstick to an outline. “If you were a man receiving that, it must have been highly erotic.” He smiles. “That’s one thing you can’t get with Twitter.”

(excerpt from New York Mag)

Judd Apatow likes Dan Chaon! So do we. His Abe’s Penny...

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:20:28 -0400

Judd Apatow likes Dan Chaon! So do we. His Abe’s Penny issue (a collaboration with Flora Hanitijo) comes out in December. Subscribe now to receive it!

(Clip from New York Mag, Nov 1 issue)

Not mentioned by name, but Abe's Penny mentioned in New York Times!

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:23:05 -0400

The first showcase included 823 entries. This year organizers have gathered close to 2,200 books of, and about, poetry: anthologies; chapbooks; translations; poetry-related prose (essays, memoirs, academic works, biographies); poetry objects (poetry baseball cards, a series of poetry postcards); and multimedia titles published in the 14 months since the 2009 showcase. Maggie Balistreri, the Poets House librarian, is careful to avoid vanity presses (which publish books at an author’s expense) but embraces the pliable notion of the book as an art object, playful and tactile: poems are hidden in matchbooks, wrapped in cloth, rolled to resemble cigarettes, or, in the case of Dana T. Lomax’s “Lullaby,” curled inside a plastic prescription bottle. A good chunk of the exhibition’s appeal is its tangibility, an increasingly precious commodity in an era of virtual consumption.