Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists' Books: Mondays at Beinecke 9/29/25

This week, co-curators Jessica Pigza and Bill Landis discuss their new exhibition, “Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books.”

The exhibition is on view at Beinecke Library through March 1, 2026. Artists’ books are a creative medium in which the conventional materials and approaches of book production—for instance paper and ink, graphically compelling combinations of illustration and text, and structures that invite exploration—are deployed and sometimes subverted to create tangible, interactive, surprising works of art. Some of the featured works in Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books invite viewers to imagine the voices of people and communities about whom little or no documentation survives; others share unique personal responses to the world we live in today. From the intricate opening of a locket, to embroidered fabric pages, bold calligraphic swirls, colorful landscape photography, and more, these books communicate documentary evidence and experimental perspectives in visually engaging ways.

The exhibition is on view at Beinecke Library through March 1, 2026.

Mondays at Beinecke online talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and Q & A beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm. For more information, visit beinecke.library.yale.edu