PictureBox


PictureBox was an art, music, photography, and comics publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York directed by Dan Nadel. PictureBox published its own books and packages books and concepts for museums and galleries. The company began in 2002 with The Ganzfeld 2 and gradually shifted to emphasize a diverse assortment of visual ideas and topics. PictureBox was best known for its books by artists from or related to the Providence art scene of the 2000s, music books, and projects for numerous artists involved with the New York gallery Canada. The cover art for Wilco's A Ghost Is Born, designed by Peter Buchanan-Smith and Nadel, won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 2005.
In December 2013, Nadel announced PictureBox would cease publishing at the end of the year. Since then, Nadel has curated exhibitions and edited books including What Nerve!: Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Takeshi Murata, Jimmy De Sana's Suburban, and The Collected Hairy Who Publications. He also co-curated, with Carroll Dunham, an exhibition of drawings by Elizabeth Murray.

Publications

1-800 MICE Issue 1 by Matthew Thurber

1-800 MICE Issue 2 by Matthew Thurber

Art Out Of Time: Unknown Visionary Cartoonists, 1900-1969 by Dan Nadel

Bicycle Fluids by Matthew Thurber

Blockhead Blues by Eddie Martinez

Cartoon Workshop / Pig Tales by Paper Rad

Cheap Laffs: The Art of the Novelty Item by Mark Newgarden

Chimera by Frank Santoro

Cold Heat by BJ and Frank Santoro

Cold Heat 1-4 by BJ and Frank Santoro

Cold Heat Special by Jon Vermilyea and Frank Santoro

Cold Heat Special 3 by Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro

Cold Heat Special 4 by Jim Rugg and Frank Santoro

Cold Heat: Castle Castle by Frank Santoro

Color Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama

Comics Comics 1-3 by Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel, editors

Core of Caligula by C.F.

Crazy Town by Paul Gondry

Eddie Martinez/Chuck Webster by Eddie Martinez & Chuck Webster

Elle-Humour by Julie Doucet

Faded Igloo by Jim Drain

For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell

Free Radicals by Leif Goldberg

Garden by Yuichi Yokoyama

Gary Panter by Gary Panter

Goddess of War Vol. 1 by Lauren Weinstein

Good Life by Taylor McKimens

Gore by Black Dice and Jason Frank Rothenberg

H Day by Renée French

Incanto by Frank Santoro

If-n-Oof by Brian Chippendale

Maggots by Brian Chippendale

Mail Order Monsters by Kathy Grayson

Me a Mound by Trenton Doyle Hancock

Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby by Takashi Nemoto

Multiforce by Mat Brinkman

New Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama

Ninja by Brian Chippendale

Nog a Dod by Marc Bell

Overspray: Riding High With the Kings of California Airbrush Art by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel

Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs by Paper Rad

Powr Mastrs by C.F.

Powr Mastrs vol. 2 by C.F.

Powr Mastrs vol. 3 by C.F.

Real Fun by Ashod Simonian

SnooPee by Ken Kagami

Some Kinda Vocation by Cheryl Dunn

Storeyville by Frank Santoro

The Drips by Taylor McKimens

The Ganzfeld 1-5 by Dan Nadel, ed.

The Garden by Michael WilliamsThe Magnificent Excess of Snoop Dogg Katherine Bernhardt by Katherine Bernhardt

The Trenton Doyle Handbook by Trenton Doyle Hancock

The Wilco Book by Wilco and PictureBox

Travel by Yuichi Yokoyama

Tuff Stuff by Joe Bradley

Utility Sketchbook by Anonymous

We Lost the War but Not the Battle by Michel Gondry

Wipe That Clock Off Your Face by Brian Belott

World Map Room by Yuichi Yokoyama

''Wu Tang Comics by Paper Rad