Seasonal Book Action

I have A LOT of books next to my bed thanks to Christmas, a new project in research and the obvious bibliophilia... Here's this month's top ten:

The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr

Going Public by Boris Groys

The Resistable Demise of Michael Jackson edited by Mark Fisher

BFI Film Classics: Don't Look Now

Extreme Metaphors: Interviews of JG Ballard 1967-2008 

1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation by Charles Kaiser

Colin de Land, American Fine Arts by Dennis Balk

Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant

and I'm dipping back in again to the overwhelmingly inspirational Atlas of Transformation

Colin de Land

While writing a feature for Dazed about Bernadette Corporation I started getting super interested in Colin de Land - who ran American Fine Arts where some of the collective met. I wish people like this still existed in the art world but I'm not sure if they do. Or if they do they are few and far between (and a little less like Jim Jarmusch characters). He died in 2003. Powerhouse did a book about him a few years later which I'm sure is going to end up on my bookshelf. There's a cancer foundation named in his and his wife's honour for the NYC visual artists world - which considering the American health system is a nice idea.

A reluctant interviewee


talking about his start (towards the end of this weird Dutch 80s film thing)


Top Image: Colin de Land at the beach ca 1980, Photographer unknown. Colin de Land collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian institution