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Guide for spring’s must-reads.

Discover a curated selection of spring reads handpicked by Kristina DESKA Nikolić. Your companion for navigating through must reads of the season awaits you here.

Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton is a must-read on a topic that is so rarely talked about. Interviews were done over a year with nineteen people of different ranges of ages, genders, and sexualities about everything related to porn. After you finish it, give it to your close ones.

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm is an anthological collection of essays closely portraying painters, photographers, writers, and critics. The dirty laundry of the art world exposed throughout the decades.

Do You Remember Being Born? A novel by Sean Michaels is a love letter to poetry, the nature of language, and art, with the most popular question: Will A.I. change art forever?

The Crossdresser’s Secret by Brian O’Doherty is a historical fiction novel following the mysterious figure of Chevalier d’Eon, who lived as both a man and a woman. It is an 18th-century spy diary through the lens of a celebrity figure, written by an artist and awarded critic.

Females, by Andrea Long Chu „Everyone is female, and everyone hates It.“ This is a pure ride on what it means to be a woman, you will have a love-hate relationship with it, and this is what should happen; you will learn, laugh, and underline.

Kristina Deska Nikolić – www.deskadeska.com, www.instagram.com/deska.deska/


Note: This text is part of our WallArt Journal #2, which we specially produced for the SPARK Art Fair 2024 in Vienna. You can find copies around Vienna, or if you want to have one, feel free to contact us.