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To Preserve Disorder, A Reader
Review by Paige K. Bradley Consider disorder successfully preserved. Class action lawsuit documents, a California Department of Corrections graph displaying the prodigious rise in the state prison...
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The X Initiative Yearbook
Reviewed by Chiara Giovando Capitalism must always, and recurrently, collapse. Like a fat mouth flanked with expanding cheeks chewing too much bubble gum and blowing bigger, still bigger bubbles, then...
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Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood and Beg, Borrow and Steal
Review by Drew Heitzler I took two books to review in 2013 and I am just getting to the writing now. Blame it on a life dictated by tides instead of clocks (or calendars evidently). Procrastination...
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Cunny Poem Vol. 1
Reviewed by Brad Phillips Immediately abandon a desire for neutrality in this review of Bunny Rogers’ first book of poetry, which is actually a sculpture, or an unnameable 1.4 pound object, containing...
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The Suiciders
Review by Srijon Chowdhury A chatty parrot named Jesus H. Christ accompanies his owners—a group of transgressive teenagers called The Suiciders—on a road trip through America, the Other America, and to...
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My 1980s and Other Essays
Review by Lesley Moon I can look at a clock and only see the time; maybe I do not even see that, but only notice the shapes on the dial; or I see nothing. On the other hand, I may be seeing clocks...
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Man With Buoy and Other Tales
Review by Molly E. Dotson ‘And what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’ —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland In the guise of a Little Golden Book, Man with Buoy...
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Short Memory
Review by Maura Brewer In Short Memory, the politics of Yael Bartana’s suggestive, quasi-narrative videos are up for debate. Bartana’s art speaks the language of propaganda, miming the call to action...
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Talk Talk
By Nikki Darling Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth – Camus – I mean, obvi Pink is a protest a rejection a confrontation with decadence. It’s a big middle finger to everyone who has...
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We Are Knights on the Trajectories of a Post-everything Era
Review by Eleni Zaharopoulos “coolness is to know what to do with form” I wish I had Elodie Pong’s life. Her text messages are so cool. If I were to assemble my text messages into a delicate little...
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SNEAK PEEK! The Great American Non-Site
Sneak Peek! The Great American Non-Site by Chad Rutter. 2011. Mystery Spot Books. Come check out this book and many more art and artists’ books at our partner space, the Los Angeles Contemporary...
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NEW! Material, Issues 1-3
NEW! Material, Issues 1, 2, 3, a Los Angeles-based journal of texts by visual artists, edited by Kim Schoen and Ginny Cook. Come check out this book and many more art and artists’ books at our...
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in defiance of being here
by Seth Lower Though they may conceal a mystery, or betray it, these elements which make a mockery of systems have only one serious, obvious quality, which is to ‘be there.’ – Alain Robbe-Grillet, For...
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Why Art Photography?
Review by Sarah Bay Williams Why Art Photography? does not ask if the photograph is worthy of the museum or academy—that battle has been fought elsewhere—nor does Lucy Soutter, the book’s author,...
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SNEAK PEEK: Continuous Glissando by Darren Goins
Continuous Glissando by Darren Goins. 2012. Edition of 100. Laser printed. Come check out this book and many more art and artists’ books at our partner space, the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive....
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Eyewitness to Warhol
Review by Merridawn Duckler Mary Woronov famously ditched a Cornell art department field trip to become the star of Warhol’s first commercially successful film, and went on to serve as one of his...
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SNEEK PEEK: Untitled Rough Draft Manuscript for The President’s Reality Show,...
SNEEK PEEK of Untitled Rough Draft Manuscript for The President’s Reality Show, & the sequel, by Jason Handelsman. Come peek this book in person at our partner space, Los Angeles Contemporary...
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To Preserve Disorder, A Reader
Review by Paige K. Bradley Consider disorder successfully preserved. Class action lawsuit documents, a California Department of Corrections graph displaying the prodigious rise in the state prison...
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The X Initiative Yearbook
Reviewed by Chiara Giovando Capitalism must always, and recurrently, collapse. Like a fat mouth flanked with expanding cheeks chewing too much bubble gum and blowing bigger, still bigger bubbles, then...
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Siberia: In the Eyes of Russian Photographers
Reviewed by John McIntyre In early February 2014, a man shot and killed a nun and a churchgoer at a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Sakhalin, a remote island off Russia’s eastern coast which is roughly...
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