Hot book event! TOMORROW, Thursday, February 17 at 7PM EST, @192books and @paulacoopergallery present the virtual launch of 'What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle,' published by @sigliopress Author @nicole_rudick will appear in conversation with book critic and biographer @ruthfranklin live-streamed on PCG Studio — linked here in our bio. There is no login or rsvp required. A recording will be posted shortly afterwards. Email [email protected] to order a signed copy of the book. Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual, a performance—a process connecting life to art. This unconventional, illuminated biography, told in the first person in Saint Phalle’s voice and her own hand, dilates large and small moments in Saint Phalle’s life which she sometimes reveals with great candor, at other times carefully unwinding her secrets. Rudick, in a kind of collaboration with the artist, has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle’s visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches and writings, many previously unpublished or long unavailable, that trace her mistakes and successes, her passions and her radical sense of joy. #nicolerudick is a critic and an editor. Her writing on art, literature, and comics has been published in the NY Review of Books, the NY Times, the New Yorker, Artforum, and elsewhere. She was managing editor of The Paris Review for nearly a decade. She is the editor of a new edition of Gary Panter’s legendary comic 'Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise.' #ruthfranklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic. Her first biography, 'Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life' won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and was named a NY Times Notable Book of 2016. #nikidesaintphalle https://www.instagram.com/p/CaC4blWlfuS/?utm_medium=tumblr