An artist whose beautiful, restrained and often mutable works are abundant in compelling contradictions, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957−96) was committed to a democratic form of art informed as much by aesthetic and conceptual concerns as by politics. ... Read more →

Complete text and over 1100 images In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film and kept a daily journal. The result was a conceptual work that ... Read more →

Siglio publishes revelatory anthology of Madeline Gins's previously unpublished and hard-to-find writings edited by Lucy Ives, April 2020 “For anyone who wants to experience directly the uncharted regions of inner and outer space in which language, perception, thought, ... Read more →

A repository of observations, anecdotes, proclivities, obsessions, jokes and koan-like stories, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) registers John Cage’s assessment of the times in which he lived as well ... Read more →

In 1960 George Heard Hamilton published the first complete typographic translation of Duchamp’s The Green Box in English. A trade edition of 1000 copies, the landmark publication circulated and translated Duchamp’s notes and conceptual ambitions for ... Read more →

NYC Higgins book launch & conversation: November 8, 6–8pm  Conversation about Higgins's legacy with Alice Centamore, Steve Clay, Lisa Pearson, and Christian Xatrec. Printed Matter, 231 Eleventh Avenue, NYC 10001 Passwords: a tribute to Dick Higgins: December 4, 7pm Panel with poets Joshua ... Read more →

“What a beautiful, strange book—found objects and fictional prose brought together to tell the real and imagined story of Constance Gale, through letters to her sister, letters from young men at war. From the beginning to ... Read more →

A labyrinthine inquiry into the Pharos Lighthouse that maps the impossible desire to reconstruct this wonder of ancient Egypt. Over 2,000 stone remnants of the fabled Pharos Lighthouse lie in the murky waters of the Mediterranean. Although ... Read more →

2018 marks Siglio’s tenth year of of fiercely independent publishing, driven by its feminist ethos and its commitment to artists and writers who obey no boundaries, pay no fealty to trends and invite readers to see ... Read more →

“The most exciting book of the Fall publishing season is The Stampographer.” —Steve Heller Introducing English-language readers to one of the most unusual and original voices in contemporary French culture, The Stampographer traverses the fantastic, anarchic imagination of ... Read more →

Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, About to Happen serves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In this artist’s book, Chilean-born ... Read more →

About the collaborationAdam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible is the first in a collaborative series of artist’s books in which each year Siglio and Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans invite an artist to intervene in the history and space ... Read more →

Matthias Buchinger (1674–1739) performed on more than a half-dozen musical instruments, some of his own invention. He exhibited trick shots with pistols, swords and bowling. He danced the hornpipe and deceived audiences with his skill in ... Read more →

Siglio has published a new book that delves into the origins of the influential and elusive artist-poet Marcel Broodthaers, whose works plays in the interstices between language and image. Marcel Broodthaers: My Ogre Book, Shadow Theater, ... Read more →

Composed over the course of 16 years, John Cage’s Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) is one of his most prescient and personal works. A repository of observations, anecdotes, proclivities, ... Read more →

Suite Vénitienne is renowned artist Sophie Calle’s first book, long out-of-print and highly coveted, now redesigned by Siglio in collaboration with Calle to be the definitive English-language edition.  Originally published in 1983, Suite Vénitienne is the ... Read more →

Two works by Los Angeles artist Richard Kraft debut in April—the Siglio publication of Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera and the public artwork 100 Walkers, West Hollywood. Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera With interpolations ... Read more →

We’re excited to announce three events in NYC this week relating to two books: Siglio’s recent and highly acclaimed release Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954–1994 and our forthcoming, much-anticipated title Dorothy Iannone: You Who ... Read more →

Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954–1994 Edited by Elizabeth Zuba, with an essay by Kevin Killian “Make room for Ray Johnson, whose place in history has been only vaguely defined. Johnson’s beguiling, challenging art has an ... Read more →

Bough Down by Karen Green One of the most beautiful expressions of love and loss you will ever read. Bough Down put me in mind somehow of the Portuguese fado: a lament rendered so precisely it becomes ... Read more →

The inventive and sophisticated master of the collage aesthetic, the artist Jess intermingles and juxtaposes images from wildly eclectic sources (Dick Tracy, Dürer, 19th century Scientific American line engravings, Beatles bubblegum cards, beefcake photos from Physique ... Read more →

Calle’s written accounts of these encounters—juxtaposed with her photographs—originally appeared as daily serial in the French newspaper Libération over the course of one month in 1983. Now, The Address Book, a key and controversial work in ... Read more →

Siglio is an independent press in Los Angeles publishing uncommon books that live at the intersection of art and literature. Visit Siglio at this year’s New York Art Book Fair.1. TANTRA SONG, selected and with writings ... Read more →