A Brief History of John Baldessari, narrated by Tom Waits.
Robert Indiana’s largest painting—the basketball court for the Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center Arena (MECCA), unveiled in October, 1977. (source: Robert Indiana by Carl J. Weinhardt, Jr.)
The Big Four (Four Fours), by Robert Indiana, 1964.
“Four, Indiana explained to Arthur C. Carr, was an unhappy number and ‘not a lucky number by common superstition’.” (From Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech by Susan Elizabeth Ryan.)
Uh-oh.
Fold Four is excited to begin work on The Essential Robert Indiana catalogue for the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I recently spent some time in the Milwaukee Public Library’s art reference library poring over past publications devoted to the artist.
Sample chapter opening of the Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity catalogue, which Fold Four is currently designing for the Art Institute of Chicago.
The kiln at Studio Touya. Proprietors Hitomi and Takuro Shibata moved to Seagrove, North Carolina from Shigaraki, Japan in 2005.
While visiting family in North Carolina, Michelle and I had the opportunity to visit several potters in the Seagrove community. Pictured here is Luck’s Ware, with fifth generation potter Sid Luck seated at the wheel in the background.
Text detail from the Quay Brothers catalogue that Fold Four is designing for MoMA. Going to press soon!
Interior and exterior views of Jasper Johns’s studio in Edisto Beach, SC. Photographs by Ugo Mulas, from Jasper Johns: A Retrospective.
Fold Four is designing the “Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years” catalogue for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The cover, pictured here, is intended to evoke the outsized effect that Warhol has had on subsequent generations of artists. The placement of the type also centralizes and thus lends prominence to the other fifty artists featured in the exhibition.
Conti, the Italian company that will be printing the Roy Lichtenstein catalogue, made this dummy to showcase the paper stocks and three-piece binding. The front and back cover boards will be wrapped in paper and laminated, while the spine will be red cloth. We plan to submit files to the printer by the end of the month; the exhibition opens May 16th at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Fold Four is working with the Museum of Modern Art on the catalogue for their upcoming Quay Brothers exhibition and film retrospective. The book will be similar in size and scope to the Tim Burton publication I designed for MoMA several years ago.
This music video is one of several that the Quay Brothers made for His Name is Alive.
