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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/25/2016

Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'

Sunday, February 28 at 3PM, Stories bookstore presents noted independent curator and critic Bob Nickas reading from his daring, often mind-expanding and hilarious 416-page essay collection, The Dept. of Corrections, just out from Karma. Signing to follow.

Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'

The Dept. of Corrections brings together 50 essays and interviews written since 2007 by New York-based Bob Nickas, widely considered one of the few independent voices still at work today. Spread across five chapters, the reader encounters artists from the 1960s to the '80s to now—among them, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, On Kawara, Isa Genzken, David Hammons, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Laurie Parsons and Wolfgang Tillmans. Writing as if these figures and their exhibitions were experienced in a moment just passed, Nickas traces the disappearance of artists, architecture and culture in New York over three decades. As a way to keep the past in every sense present, his writing is always issued from his fictional "Dept. of Corrections."

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Photograph above by Jason Metcalf.
Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'
Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'
Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'
Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'
Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'
Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'
Stories Presents a Los Angeles Book Launch for Bob Nickas' 'The Dept. of Corrections'

The Dept. of Corrections

The Dept. of Corrections

Karma, New York
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.125 in. / 416 pgs / 50 b&w.