The New Sins / Los Nuevos Pecados

In the summer of 2001, publish house McSweeney put out a new book by David Byrne, called Los Nuevos Pecados (The New Sins).

The project started with a request from the Valencia, Spain Bienal: artists were asked to address the idea of sin. David Byrne wanted to make a small book, about the size and shape of a portable Bible, addressing the idea of sin and elucidating los nuevos pecados -- the new sins. These books will be distributed around Valencia for the exhibition, and shortly thereafter will be available in the U.S. through McSweeney's. The book contains about ninety of Byrne's photographs and has been available during his Look into the Eyeball tour.

Half of the book is in English, the other half contains a Spanish translation.

• Why I had to make this Book (essay by David Byrne)
• Review "The New Sins" (L.A. Times, August 7, 2001)
• Photo's of David doing a "New Sins" bookreading in Oxford, MS