Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 8:00 pm EDT: Join Marcia Bricker Halperin, a lifelong Brooklynite, who has been photographing the character and landscape of New York City since the 1970s. Her debut book of photographs, Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria, was published by Cornell University Press in the Spring of 2023. More Info | Register
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm: Join Isaac Jeffreys as he explores the intersection of history, memory, and transformation through photography. A Hudson Valley native and Parsons BFA graduate, Jeffries is drawn to 20th-century spaces—most notably the Mid-century modern ‘Borscht Belt’ resorts of the Catskills. Shooting entirely on film, he lights up long-abandoned buildings after dark, using carefully staged scenes and long exposures to reanimate places left without power—or presence. Watch Video
The Golden Era of Sign Design: The Rediscovered Sketches of Beverly Sign Co.
By Kelsey Dalton McClellan and Andrew McClellan
Chicago: Heart & Bone Signs and Heavy Pages Press, 2024
Hardcover, 216 pages, $85
Reviewed by William Swislow
It’s not often that you get to see technical diagrams of ghosts, but this book collects around 140 sketches that are exactly that — design drawings, complete with notes, color specs, and other instructions, from Chicago’s prolific Beverly Sign Co.