Copy Machine Manifestos

Artists Who Make Zines

Published in association with the Brooklyn Museum and edited by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer

The first publication dedicated to artists’ zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice

Copy Machine Manifestos captures the rich history of artists’ zines as never before, placing them in the lineage of the visual arts and exploring their vibrant growth over the past five decades. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, this expansive publication focuses on zines from North America, celebrating how artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in community building and transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all media since 1970.

Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University.

Drew Sawyer is Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum.

With contributions by Gwen Allen, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tavia Nyong’o, Alexis Salas, and Mimi Thi Nguyen.

Accompanies a major exhibition curated by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer, opening at the Brooklyn Museum in November 2023, and then touring

Fully illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors alongside work in other media, such as painting, photography, film, video, and performance

Features brief bios for more than 100 zine-makers including Beverly Buchanan, Mark Gonzales, G.B. Jones, Miranda July, Bruce LaBruce, Terence Koh, LTTR, Ari Marcopoulos, Mark Morrisroe, Raymond Pettibon, Brontez Purnell, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Kandis Williams

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ISBN: 978-1-83866-511-1

Open Questions

Thirty Years of Writing about Art

Helen Molesworth

An illustrated reader featuring a collection of essays from trailblazing curator and writer

Helen Molesworth

Over the past three decades, Helen Molesworth’s singular voice and lively curatorial vision has established her as one of the most dynamic and influential voices in the art world. This generously illustrated reader – the first ever collection of her writings – presents 24 essays from the past 30 years, gathered from exhibition catalogs and art publications such as Artforum, Documents frieze and October The volume opens with a new essay that lays out Molesworth’s belief in art’s unique capacity for merging knowledge and feeling. It also includes new critical and reflective commentary on her past writing, an innovative approach that will position Open Questions as an indispensable volume for viewing and thinking about contemporary art for generations to come.

Helen Molesworth is a writer, curator, and podcaster based in Los Angeles. Her major monographic exhibitions include Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Amy Sillman, and Luc Tuymans. Molesworth, a prolific and award-winning author, is the recipient a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Clark Art Writing Prize, and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence.

Edited by Donna Wingate.

The first book of collected writings by Helen Molesworth, one of the most influential curators working today

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In a new introduction Molesworth considers the complex nature of the art world, exploring why she writes and what art means to her -

Molesworth’s writings are dynamic, engaging, informative, and accessible. This book is for audiences with a general interest in art and culture, students of art history and curatorial studies, as well as those who have followed her work for years

The essays are grouped into thematic sections, each with a new introductory text – select essays also include new commentary by Molesworth that reflects on her writing and reconsiders her ideas in the context of the present moment

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