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A.rt R.esources T.ransfer is thrilled to announce Joseph Grigely as our twelfth annual artist honoree. In 2026, A.R.T. is honoring Joseph Grigely by distributing 25,000 free art books to 625 public libraries, schools, and prisons in his name. A.R.T. will also produce an online teaching guide in our Reading Resources series that shares his methods and ideas among students and readers. Joseph Grigely’s practice transforms material traces of communication—handwritten notes, documents, and publications—into installations probing how language, memory, and social exchange are shaped through their physical supports, especially in the absence of hearing. His sustained engagement with books, publications, and archival collections activates the library as a living site of artistic inquiry, where literacy becomes not only a mode of reading but a way of assembling memory and public life. As A.R.T.’s 2026 honoree, Joseph Grigely follows Adrian Piper, Julie Ault, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luis Camnitzer, Walid Raad, Studio K.O.S., Kara Walker, Roni Horn, Lawrence Weiner, Glenn Ligon, and Martha Rosler. We are proud to create more egalitarian access to the arts by collaborating with artists whose work is committed to reading and the printed book. Please consider adding your support to theirs by making a tax-deductible contribution today. @josephgrigely @art_resources_transfer #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess #publiclibraries Image: Joseph Grigely, “Songs without Words (Andrea Bocelli),” 2012, framed digital pigment print 70 × 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston.

A.R.T. Press is thrilled to announce the publication of “Between Artists: Paul Chan / Devin Kenny.” In this spirited conversation, Paul Chan and Devin Kenny engage bootlegging as a lens to unpack wide-ranging concerns around technology, access, and power. Probing its entanglements with copyright, racialized dynamics of data extraction, and large language models, they ask, among other things, what it means to appropriate our means of production in a moment when, as they suggest, “the tools we use also, very much, use us.” The title is the first in A.R.T.’s re-initiated “Between Artists” series, featuring conversation-based books that document different positions and strategies in contemporary critical visual practices. “Between Artists” provides an opportunity for artists to speak clearly about their practice and give readers a better understanding of the power and relevance of the artists’ voice in the discussion of larger social issues. Series edited by: Alejandro Cesarco and Kylie Gilchrist Design supervised by: Stoodio Santiago da Silva, Ana Cecilia Breña Published by A.R.T. Press 2026, 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.8 cm), 56 pgs. Softcover, ISBN 978-0-923183-22-6 Price: $12 #paulchan @crashingwavy #betweenartists #artresourcestransfer @stooooooodio @ceciliabrev @kylie_y_g @alejandrocesarco

A.R.T. needs your support — please help us create more egalitarian access to the arts. As the year comes to an end, we are immensely proud to have connected thousands of readers to the ideas, words, and images of hundreds of artists and publishers by distributing 21,488 books to 392 public institutions, free of charge. We are equally thrilled to have gifted these books in the name of our 2025 honoree Adrian Piper. Each of these books, as Adrian tells us, offers a “different world” that shows “you different Yous you can become, and different pathways for getting there.” At a time when fear and division narrow whose stories are told and which futures feel possible, the A.R.T. Library Program keeps those other worlds, and other futures, within reach. Please help us continue our work by making a tax-deductible contribution today. [Link in bio] “When you open a book, you step into a different world that the author offers you; a world full of surprises, insights and inspiration on every page. The more intently you read it, the more deeply that world becomes part of you – part of your range of dreams and plans, and part of the travel kit for your journey into possible futures. It shows you different Yous you can become, and different pathways for getting there. No matter how small your room, no matter how narrow the walls that surround you, you can leap out of them and beyond them by diving into a book, and letting it transform and enlarge your comprehension of the vast palette of options that in fact await you. Take the first step and open that book. Let the A.R.T. Library Program lead you there.” — Adrian Piper #artresourcestransfer #equalaccess #literacythroughthearts #adrianpiper

As the year comes to an end, we are immensely proud to have connected thousands of readers to the ideas, words, and images of hundreds of artists and publishers by distributing 21,488 books to 392 public institutions, free of charge. We are equally thrilled to have gifted these books in the name of our 2025 honoree Adrian Piper. Each of these books, as Adrian tells us, offers a “different world” that shows “you different Yous you can become, and different pathways for getting there.” At a time when fear and division narrow whose stories are told and which futures feel possible, the A.R.T. Library Program keeps those other worlds, and other futures, within reach. Please help us continue our work by making a tax-deductible contribution today. [Link in bio] “When you open a book, you step into a different world that the author offers you; a world full of surprises, insights and inspiration on every page. The more intently you read it, the more deeply that world becomes part of you – part of your range of dreams and plans, and part of the travel kit for your journey into possible futures. It shows you different Yous you can become, and different pathways for getting there. No matter how small your room, no matter how narrow the walls that surround you, you can leap out of them and beyond them by diving into a book, and letting it transform and enlarge your comprehension of the vast palette of options that in fact await you. Take the first step and open that book. Let the A.R.T. Library Program lead you there.” — Adrian Piper Image: Adrian Piper, “Everything # 2.8,” 2003 (detail). Photocopied photograph on graph paper, sanded with sandpaper, overprinted with inkjet text. 8.5” × 11” (21,6 cm × 27,9 cm). Collection Nicola Ferrero and Marzia Migliora. © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation. #artresourcestransfer #equalaccess #literacythroughthearts #adrianpiper

The A.R.T. Library Program is proud to distribute “Richard Foreman: No Title” donated and published by Further Reading Library and Christine Burgun Publications, for free to public libraries, schools and prisons across the country. Richard Foreman (1937–2025) was a primary catalyst in the vital downtown NY theater scene that emerged in the 1960s. He wrote and directed more than forty verbally and visually singular productions with his Ontological-Hysteric Theater company in a career that spanned forty-five years. While Foreman published many of his scripts in his lifetime, Richard Foreman: No Title is a text unlike anything preceding it. Handwritten on a series of note cards, these aphoristic declarations and philosophical asides hover between being a stream of consciousness dialogue and a message sent from another world. Foreman’s wonderfully elliptical words are counterposed with photographs of the mystifying diorama-like maquettes that he created while staging a number of his plays. #richardforeman @furtherreadinglibrary #christineburgin #jenniferkrasinski #artresourcestransfer #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess

Dear Teachers and Librarians, We are pleased to announce 2 NEW Box Sets for Fall 2025. We hope these collections will help you easily identify and order books on topics of interest. Both of these box sets are recommended for General Readership. As always, books are free and shipped free of charge. #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess #publiceducation #publiclibraries #artbooks #artresourcestransfer

The A.R.T. Library Program is proud to distribute “Marina Abramović: Interviews 1976-2018” donated by Sean Kelly Gallery, for free to public libraries, schools and prisons across the country. “Marina Abramović: Interviews 1976-2018” is a survey of the artist’s best interviews throughout her career. In this volume, the artist’s perspective on her work, life, teaching, and the future of performance art develop and change over time. @abramovicinstitute @seankellygallery #artresourcestransfer #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess

The A.R.T. Library Program is proud to distribute Johan Grimonprez’s “Looking for Alfred,” donated by Sean Kelly Gallery, for free to public libraries, schools and prisons across the country. Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary cameos in his own films are the starting point for “Looking for Alfred,” a highly acclaimed project by Belgian artist and filmaker Johan Grimonprez. This homage to the “master of suspense” also demonstrates an equal amount of reverence for the visual world created by Surrealist painter René Magritte. Including sketches and collages, the publication documents the creation of Grimonprez’s film installation “Looking for Alfred” that plays with various levels of reality, and with simulations and deceptions. #johangrimonprez #alfredhitchcock #renemagritte @seankellygallery #artresourcestransfer #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess

Thank you letter from Books Through Bars, PA. Books Through Bars sends quality reading materials to prisoners in the United States and does education and outreach about prison issues in a variety of ways including using work by artists in prisons. The many letters we receive from teachers and librarians are a testament to the immediate impact the A.R.T. Library Program has on participating communities. To read more please visit the Testimonial section of our website. #artresourcestransfer @btb_philly #equalaccess #literacythroughthearts

The A.R.T. Library Program is proud to distribute Garry Winogrand “Color” published and donated by Twin Palms Press for free to public libraries, schools and prisons across the country. Garry Winogrand is known primarily for his spontaneous and energetic street photography in black-and-white. What is lesser known is that Winogrand also shot more than 45,000 color slides between the early 1950s and late 1960s. He routinely photographed with two cameras strapped around his neck, one loaded with color film, the other with black and white. Winogrand Color presents 150 photographs selected from the archives at the Center for Creative Photography, it is the first monograph dedicated to the artist’s rarely seen color work. #garrywinogrand @twinpalmspublishers #artresourcestransfer #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess

The A.R.T. Library Program is happy to distribute Simon Sellar’s “Applied Ballardianism: Memoir From a Parallel Universe” — published by @urbanomicdotcom and donated by @sequencepress — for free to public libraries, schools and prisons across the country. An existential odyssey inextricably weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global technological delirium is the norm—a world becoming unmistakably Ballardian. #simonsellars #jgballard @sequencepress #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess #artresourcestransfer

The A.R.T. Library Program is happy to distribute Marta Minujín’s “Arte! Arte! Arte!” published and donated by @thejewishmuseum for free to public libraries, schools and prisons across the country. Published on the occasion of the Jewish Museum’s retrospective of the Argentinian artist Marta Minujín . Celebrated for her performance art, happenings and large-scale public works, Minujín has long been a leading figure of the Latin American avant-garde. Arte! Arte! Arte! provides an overview of her career, tracing her intersections with American, European and Latin American developments in postwar art and exploring her relevance for subsequent generations of artists. #martaminujin @thejewishmuseum #literacythroughthearts #equalaccess #artresourcestransfer