At the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, the book transforms from a container of words into a plastic material, a living surface, an architecture of thought. Contemporary Volumes — on view through March 2026 — explores the formal and conceptual power of the book as an object through the vision of nine international artists who expand its physical and symbolic boundaries. Conceived as a reflection on design and on the ways in which the book continues to inspire contemporary artistic practice, the exhibition brings together heterogeneous languages and divergent sensibilities — political, aesthetic, poetic, and at times fantastical — in a dialogue that intertwines matter and memory, archiving and…