Quick Notes on the Best Things in Books

• Tyler Green has started a regular feature at his Modern Art Notes blog: Best Books. Every week he'll be featuring a recent book on art. The first was John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism by Martha Tedesch, and the second, Ed Ruscha: Road Tested, by Michael Auping with Richard Prince.
• At Hyperallergic, Merel van Beeren interviews Carol Wallace, the author of Leaving Van Gogh, a new novel written from the perspective of Van Gogh's physician, Dr. Gachet. 
• Judith Dobrzynski points us to two new publications: Romare Bearden, American Modernist, a more scholarly book from the National Gallery of Art, but also just reviewed in the more populist (?) Wall Street Journal; and Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter by Patricia Albers [no relation] who also wrote a very well-regarded biography of artist Tina Modotti.
• Melanie Flood gives us a nice photography reading list.
• At Frieze, Joanne McNeil interviews UbuWeb founder Kenneth Goldsmith. Read the interview and then go to Ubu and find something fun to download.
• Finally, this is old news, but blogger and renaissance man Greg Allen speed-published a fascinating book on the controversial court decision against artist Richard Prince in a copyright infringement case: Canal Zone Richard Prince YES RASTA: Selected Court Documents from Cariou v. Prince et al.