so far enjoying the Calarts Why Theory catalogue

excerpts from: Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento - Interview with Tom Lawson, Dean of CalArts School of Art, Jan'07


hey look! you can download the complete catalogue!
say, "thank you Calarts."

TRYHARDER: summer book club

Kant after Duchamp
Studio and Cube: On The Relationship Between Where Art is Made and Where Art is Displayed
The Archive (Documents of Contemporary Art)
A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

TRYHARDER has been on the hunt for some interesting, non-snooze-inducing summer art reading. Generally, the big corporate chains haven't been having much of an art criticism selection in stock so I popped into the bookstore over at the Space15Twenty. Very substantial assortment and on par with the Hammer bookstore. I was also in Malibu yesterday and stopped into some random bookstore where you know, the celebs go to get all their books - as I was hoping TMZ would finally snap TRYHARDER, but they had a book about the first woman curator of The Whitney Museum, Marcia Tucker. The cover caught my attention - biker, chic, NY and oh yeah...trouble!

TRYHARDER bookclub: Pre-order now

Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings
October 2009, 7 x 9, 440 pp., 60 illus. $39.95

TRYHARDER book club and Mark Geffriaud

1. The Artist's Joke
2. Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser
3. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
4. Modern French Philosophy
5. Descartes in 90 Minutes
6. (online)

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Mark Geffriaud @ gb agency (current show above)
"Mark Geffriaud chose the title of the Kafka short story If one were only an Indian to name his first solo exhibition at gb agency as much to highlight the workings of a hypothesis whose main issue is to undo its premises as to initiate a certain number of questions associated with the perception and portrayal of space, the multiplicity of points of view, and movement..."


previous show:
"Les Renseignements généraux (named after the French secret service, literally meaning 'global information') is a book never intended to be either finished or published and which can take many forms. Its existence is only revealed through a series of photos which give a glimpse of its content : combinations of illustrations meant to back up an absent text..."