SVA had a day trip down to Columbus today, and as a result I spent a potentially-reckless amount of money at the Wexner Center bookstore. My rationale is that, dividing my time as I do between Windsor and Winnipeg, I’m not usually presented with the opportunity to buy art books (at least in person) more than once or twice a year.
That only goes partway toward explaining why these Miranda July pillowcases seemed necessary.
The books themselves are a bit more easily explained. I’m hoping that both Art and Artistic Research and Contemporary African Art since 1980 will be directly useful for one if not both of my courses. The Katharina Grosse book and the gargantuan Wolfgang Tillmans monograph? Well, I’m writing them off as professional expenditures on my taxes, anyway.