How To Make A Happening

Allan Kaprow's How To Make A Happening was released in 1966 by Mass Art, a publisher who went bankrupt shortly afterwards. Two years later it was distributed by the Something Else Press, with a new silkscreen cover to distinguish itself from the original. Both a CD and book version were released in the past few years, and a PDF of the text is available here.

Dinner Plates

Plates by Marcel Dzama, Dan Golden, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichenstein, Jack Pierson, David Shrigley, Michael Snow and John Waters.

Girl Chewing Gum

The British Cinema 16 DVD features art-house filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers, The Cook the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover), Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, one of my all-time faves, and the recently released We Need to Talk About Kevin) and Mike Leigh (Naked, Secrets and Lies, Career Girls), alongside blockbuster filmmakers Ridley Scott (Bladerunner, Alien, Thelma and Louise) and Christopher Nolan (the Batman reboots, the over-rated Inception). It also features a five-minute documentary by photographer Martin Parr and John Smith’s 1976 Girl Chewing Gum, which is one of my favorite artist’s shorts ever.

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hJn-nkKSA

Stopping Off Place

We're back from Winnipeg tomorrow, where we are visiting to see Michael Dumontier's excellent A Moon or a Button exhibition at Plug In ICA. Lots of new books to scan and post but in the mean time, visit Dumontier's consistently interesting blog Stopping Off Place, where he posts rare finds and source material for his work.

http://stoppingoffplace.blogspot.com

Micah Lexier & Christian Bok

Two Equal Texts by Micah Lexier and Christian Bök, first as a work for the window of MKG127, and then as a bookwork published by Fillip in an edition of 15. The book is foil stamped in red on blue cloth front and back covers.

Grapefruit

Affinity by Simon Cutts

A new artist book by Simon Cutts, with photographs of the A boats from the Everard Line of F. T. Everard and Sons Ltd. and the text of a letter by Ian Hamilton Finlay to Pierre Garnier, 1963.

Available in an edition of 300 numbered copies from Coracle and Peter Foolen Editions for £ 25.– / € 30,00.