no....TRYHARDER wasn't murdered.

i am very lonely during this bleak month of august. contemporary art, why must you always go on vacation without me? i mean i do so much for you the whole year and then you go and leave without even a proper goodbye. soon i will be wandering the streets of LA desperate for art watchers and sticky, crowded rooms of ego-stroking chatter. i might even get desperate and invite you over just to look at my walls of art as i capture your image from under the table.

pics: contemporaryartdaily /merlin carpente

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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!