ARTnews Shelfie Project: Art-World Luminaries Pose With Their Books

Xu Bing in front of his personal library in Beijing.

To launch the Summer Reading Roundup, ARTnews asked Xu Bing and many other art insiders including Elektra KB (Artist), Jerry Saltz (Art critic, New York Magazine), Jiajia Fei (Digital Marketing Manager, Guggenheim Museum), Frohawk Two Feathers (Artist), Deborah Kass (Artist), Robert Storr (Dean, Yale School of Art), Janine Antoni (Artist),Thomas Lax, (Assistant Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem), Sofia Maldonado (Artist), John Zinsser (Painter, former co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary Art, 1988) Doreen Remen (Art Production Fund, Art Markit), Carlos Rolón/Dzine (Artist), Teresita Fernández, (Artist), Holly Block (Director, Bronx Museum), Manish Vora(Founder, Artlog.com), Cynthia Carr (Author, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz), Matthew Weinstein (Artist), Saya Woolfalk (Artist), Glenn Adamson (Director, Museum of Arts and Design), David Ross (Chair, MFA Art Practice, School of Visual Arts), Toyin Odutola (Artist), Laurie Simmons (Artist), and Pablo Helguera (Artist) to take selfies with their personal libraries.

Click here to view Xu Bing’s selfie.