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Sunday, September 25, 2011

review of Marc Saporta's "Composition No.1"

my review of Marc Saporta's "Composition No.1" (recently reissued by Visual Editions) is now up at 3:am magazine.
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i review books regularly in a number of places as well as here on the blog. email me (colinjherdATgmailDOTcom) if you'd like to send me something to review.

some reviews landed or are due to in these amazing places (thank-you)

  • Review of Maureen Seaton and Samuel Ace's Stealth at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of Edouard Leve's Suicide at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 3 Red Ceilings Press titles at 3:AM
  • Review of Ben Brooks's Grow Up at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of Alastair Cook at Howden Park Centre at Aesthetica Blog
  • Review of Heather Ross at RSA at Aesthetica Blog
  • Review of Blake Butler's There is No Year at 3am Magazine
  • Review of Fruitmarket Exhibition "Narcissus Reflected" featuring work by Dali, Willard Maas and Jess among others at AESTHETICA BLOG
  • Review of James Davies's Plants at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of Oliver Rohe's Vacant Lot at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of Claude Cahun and Sue Tompkins at Aesthetica
  • Review of Richard Kalich's Penthouse F at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of Chris Killen and John Wray @ EIBF, The Skinny
  • Review of Michal Witkowski @ EIBF, The skinny
  • Review of David Mitchell @ EIBF, The Skinny
  • Review of Lydia Davis @ EIBF, The Skinny
  • Review of 'The Littlest Feeling' by Michael Peverett at 3:AM
  • Review of 'Tuleyome' by Lawrence Rinder and Colter Jacobsen at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of Rosemarie Trockel at Talbot Rice Gallery- Aesthetica Blog
  • Review of 'Further Adventures in the Restless Universe' by Dawn Raffel at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 'Getting Inside Jack Kerouac's Head' by Simon Morris at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of Gill Russell at RSA for Aesthetica
  • Review of 'You Do Understand' by Andrej Blatnik at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 'Piccadilly Bongo' by Jeremy Reed and Marc Almond at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of Garry Fabian Miller/ Susan Derges at Aesthetica
  • Review of 'Hate: A Romance' by Tristan Garcia at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco and the European Avant Garde RSA exhibtion now up at Aesthetica
  • Review of Iain Buxton's 101 Whiskies To Try Before You Die at the Skinny
  • Review of 'Stranger in Town' by Cedar Sigo at Chroma
  • Review of 'Richard Yates' by Tao Lin at 3:AM Magazine.
  • Alberto Manguel at the Edinburgh Book Festival in The Skinny
  • Review of 'Inferno' by Eileen Myles at 3:AM Magazine.
  • Review of 'frostbitten' by Mark Walton at Chroma Journal's Blog
  • Review of 'All Men are Liars' by Alberto Manguel at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 'The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney' by Christopher Higgs at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 'Subtle Bodies' by Peter Dubé at Chroma Journal's Blog
  • Review of 'The Canal' by Lee Rourke at 3:AM
  • Review of 'Tiresias's Confession' by Andras Gerevich at Chroma Journal's Blog
  • Review of 'Coma' by Pierre Guyotat at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 'Self-Portrait Abroad' by Jean-Philippe Toussaint at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 'The Rising of the Ashes' by Tahar Ben Jelloun at Chroma Journal's blog
  • Review of 'Century of Clouds' by Bruce Boone at 3:AM Magazine
  • Review of 'Everyday Angels' by Maria Jastrzebska at Chroma Journal's Blog
  • Review of 'Impossible Princess' by Kevin Killian at Chroma Journal's blog

reviews in print

on Cory Arcangel "PRO TOOLS" at the Whitney Aesthetica June/July 2011

on Wim Wenders at Haunch of Venison Aesthetica Apr/May 2011

on Simon Starling at Tate St Ives Aesthetica Apr/May 2011

on Susan Hiller at Tate Britain and Timothy Taylor Gallery Aesthetica Feb/March 2011




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