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Round-Down: Ticket Books Promote Literacy On the Subway

Round-Down: Ticket Books Promote Literacy On the Subway

ByPeter Kispert

Brazil’s L&PM Editores recently launched an exciting new venture, Ticket Books–an inventive new way to get books to people: re-releasing ten beloved print titles that double as subway tickets in São Paulo. Each of the books, which were chosen across genres–from Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to collected Peanuts…

Round-Down: Artists’ Books Now On Display Online

Round-Down: Artists’ Books Now On Display Online

ByPeter Kispert

I have always loved artists’ books, though I didn’t until recently—embarrassingly—consider them part of their own genre. The Smithsonian Institution only weeks ago launched a new inter-institution project, digitally curating many gorgeous artists’ books online on a searchable platform. The Smithsonian is collaborating with the American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery Library, the Hirshhorn Museum…