New Print Technologies Help Art Books Stay Relevant in a Digital World

Even in this era of all things digital, big institutions like the Getty in Los Angeles and more regional ones, like the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, continue to produce new printed art books at an impressive rate.

As broadsheet newspapers grow skinnier, and page-turners become digital files, it’s easy to overlook how technological progress has bolstered print while simultaneously undermining it. But as art books grow more materially impressive, they remind us that technology’s sword cuts two ways.