• Injects social energy into inherently private pursuits (reading, book collecting).
• Creates an interconnecting network of information and interchange between strangers.
• Reshapes an untold number of private book collections by reenergizing them with new materials and topics.

Regency Arts Press Ltd. and the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) have created an innovative traveling programming event called Art Book Swap. Art Book Swap is simple in practice: people swap their art books for other books that have been donated by a wide variety of organizations, businesses and individuals. Visitors may swap as many books as they like on a one-for-one basis. All remaining books are donated to prison libraries through local organizations: in New York the Prisoners' Reading Encouragement Project, and in Los Angeles the Bunche Center Prison Outreach Program.

Click here for photos from Art Book Swap New York at MoMA, February 6, 2010

Click here for photos from Art Book Swap Los Angeles at LACMA, May 3, 2008

Click here for photos from the first Art Book Swap New York, May 2007