BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Helms Design District - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Helms Design District REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250901T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20250901T160026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250905T210818Z UID:10001977-1756717200-1759251600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Fresh Perks: September Instagram Giveaway DESCRIPTION:September’s Fresh Perks Giveaway is here—and book lovers\, this one’s for you.\nEnter September 1 – September 30\nWe’ve partnered with our friends at Arcana: Books on the Arts\, the beloved Culver City destination for rare and beautiful books\, to give one lucky winner a handpicked title from their collection — Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman: California Mid-Century Designers. Whether you’re a design devotee\, an art enthusiast\, or a photography aficionado\, Arcana is a treasure trove of visual inspiration and cultural discovery. \nEnter now for your chance to bring home this stunning book that will elevate your shelves and fill your fall season with loads of design inspiration. \n\nThis Fresh Perks giveaway runs from September 1st at 9:00 am through September 30th at 5:00 pm. \nOne lucky winner will be contacted after the giveaway ends. \nThank you for making Helms Design District your go-to hub for creativity\, design\, and discovery. We’re grateful you continue to explore\, shop\, and gather with us all year long. \n\nTo enter is simple: \n(1) Follow us on Instagram \n(2) Tag two friends in the comments so they can follow us and enter too \n(3) Optional but encouraged: What’s your go-to read for fall? \nSign up for our newsletter and automatically be entered for a second chance to win. \nPlus\, you’ll find out when the next Helms Fresh Perk drops. Good luck! \n\n \n \n \n \n \n ENTER ON INSTAGRAM\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \nRules & Regs \nNo purchase is required to enter. \nWinners will be selected randomly\, contacted after each giveaway closes\, and announced in our comments on Instagram. \nOpen to US residents only\, 18 years and older.  By entering\, entrants confirm they are at least 18+ years of age. \nThis is a “GIVEAWAY” and is not eligible for return\, refund\, or exchange at any of our showrooms or restaurants. \nThe “Fresh Perks” giveaway  is not sponsored\, endorsed\, administered by or associated with Instagram. Entrants release Instagram and all brands of all responsibility and agree to Instagram’s terms of use. \nOne entry per Instagram user. Duplicate entries will not be considered. \nThis giveaway is open to residents of Los Angeles County. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/fresh-perks-september-2025/ LOCATION:Online\, CA CATEGORIES:Long Term Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Fresh-Perks_09.2025_Horiz-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240120T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240120T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231213T172432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T215745Z UID:10001861-1705766400-1705773600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with Todd Hido + Mark Steinmetz DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us on Saturday\, January 20th\, from 4:00-6:00 pm as Arcana: Books on the Arts starts 2024 off in style by presenting a special dual book signing with longtime favorites – and pals – Todd Hido and Mark Steinmetz. \nEach has a lovely hot off the Nazraeli Press offering in The End Sends Advance Warning and France 1987\, and they both will be at the shop for the afternoon! \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of Todd Hido’s The End Sends Advance Warning\, Mark Steinmetz’s France 1987\, or both\, to have shipped or to pick up at the shop\, please place your order here. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nTodd Hido \n“For over 25 years\, Todd Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes\, desolate landscapes\, and cinematic portraits. Irrespective of its title\, this is a book about hope and beauty and why we seek it so desperately at this time. For his latest images he has roamed as far as the Hawaiian Islands and their meteorological opposites; the shores of the Bering Sea\, and Nordic fjords above the Arctic Circle. Even with such geographic diversity\, Hido captures places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. With this stunning new monograph\, Hido picks up where his previous title Bright Black World left off\, presenting some eighty new and previously unpublished landscape photographs. The End Sends Advance Warning is beautifully printed on heavyweight art paper and bound in offset printed linen. The book also includes nine tipped-in photographs printed on Kasadaka art paper\, as well as tipped-in and laid-in booklets. A masterpiece of an artist’s book\, and a must for the serious contemporary art library.” \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nMark Steinmetz \n“In the summer of 1987\, I was 26 years old\, a couple years out of graduate school\, and living in a derelict apartment outside of Boston. I had received an artist’s residency in the South of France\, and so\, in August\, I flew to Paris. I stayed a few weeks with close family friends in a top floor apartment on the Avenue de Wagram. My friends were working in fashion and film\, and I was told my bed had once belonged to Jane Fonda before she became Barbarella. The weather was getting colder\, and they gave me a brown corduroy jacket to wear that Jean Seberg (Godard’s Breathless\, Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse) had cried on. I would eat some breakfast and run around Paris photographing all day—hardly eating because I had no money—returning to their apartment for dinner and a glass of champagne. \n“Later in the year\, I went to the South to begin my artist’s residency at the Camargo Foundation\, in Cassis\, a town on the sea not far from Marseille. The writer Virginia Woolf\, the pointillist Paul Signac\, the fauvists André Derain and Raoul Dufy\, and the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral\, had spent extended periods of time in Cassis. I took day trips from Cassis to Arles\, Aix\, Marseille\, and Nice\, and could process my film in the simple darkroom that was supplied to me. \n“In 1987\, there were no cell phones or digital cameras. To meet up with someone you had to set a time and a place and each of you had to stick to the plan. The seasons seemed to linger around more\, and in general\, everyone seemed to have more time. The parks\, museums\, and subways were less crowded. The rhythm of daily life was more relaxed. People were worried in 1987\, but not as worried as we are now.” – From the Introduction by Mark Steinmetz \nThis wonderful collection of previously unpublished photographs by Mark Steinmetz\, made some thirty-five years ago during an extended stay in the South of France\, provides welcome insight into his earliest years as a working artist. It comprises over sixty photographs beautifully printed in duotone on Japanese Kasadaka art paper\, and bound in Burgundy linen. Limited to only one thousand case-bound copies\, France 1987 will sell out quickly. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/todd-hido/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HidoSteinmetz_covers.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231216T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231216T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231128T211205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231206T020942Z UID:10001860-1702742400-1702749600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing for Doug Aitken: Mirage DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, December 16th\, from 4:00-6:00 pm for a book signing with Doug Aitken for Mirage. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please purchase here. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday\, December 19th. \n\nBetween 2017 and 2021 artist Doug Aitken presented his site-specific installation entitled “Mirage” in the California desert outside Palm Springs\, at a defunct Detroit bank\, and nestled in the Swiss Alps. “Mirage” takes the form of a ranch-style suburban American house whose exterior is entirely clad in reflective mirrored surfaces that camouflage it in landscapes far removed from the familiar lawn and picket fence. The book is an immersive chronicle of the three installations\, featuring photographs\, architectural drawings\, and other materials related to the project accompanied by a text by Neville Wakefield as well as an interview with the artist. Handmade with cold foils\, silver printing\, an exposed spine\, and bound as a leporello\, this extraordinary document is a tour de force of the bookmaker’s art. \nA brand new\, most handsome example of the first edition limited to one thousand copies additionally boldly signed “Doug Aitken” in ink. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/doug-aitken-mirage/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Arcana-Doug-Aitken_3.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231106T151506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T172216Z UID:10001856-1702137600-1702144800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book signing for Hearing Voices - Selected Lyrics 1987-2021 by Dean Wareham and Ed Templeton DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, December 9th\, 4:00 – 6:00 pm for a book signing for Hearing Voices – Selected Lyrics 1987-2021 by Dean Wareham and Ed Templeton. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please purchase here. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday\, December 12th. \nHearing Voices is a collection of lyrics by songwriting great Dean Wareham. Born in Wellington\, New Zealand\, Wareham moved to New York City as a teenager\, in August 1977. It was here\, in high school\, that he met future bandmates Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang. All three went on to attend Harvard University\, and in 1987 founded Galaxie 500\, for which Wareham was the singer\, guitarist and principal songwriter. Galaxie 500 released three albums For Rough Trade between 1987 and 1991 that have only grown in stature and influence. Wareham’s next band Luna recorded seven albums for Elektra and Beggar’s Banquet\, followed by four albums as Dean & Britta (with wife Britta Phillips)\, and three simply as Dean Wareham\, including his most recent album I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A. Also a writer\, Wareham’s memoir\, Black Postcards\, was published by Penguin\, and he has contributed to Salon\, Pitchfork\, the Talkhouse and Counterpunch. \nHearing Voices is the first published collection of his lyrics\, and is the result of a unique collaboration with the artist Ed Templeton\, who created the illustrations for the book. Ed Templeton’s drawings\, paintings and photographs have been widely exhibited and published in the United States\, Europe and Asia. Hearing Voices is his fifth title with Nazraeli Press. A brand new example of the first edition limited to one thousand unnumbered copies additionally signed by Dean Wareham and Ed Templeton. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/hearing-voices/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-2.jpeg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231104T200717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T172038Z UID:10001855-1701532800-1701540000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing for New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, December 2nd\, from 4:00-6:00 pm for a book signing for New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching. \nMusic for the afternoon will be supplied by DJ Dave Muller. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please purchase here. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday\, December 5th. \nOver the course of four decades\, Santa Monica-based master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel has collaborated with some of the most influential painters\, sculptors\, photographers\, performance artists\, and musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries to make etchings\, a medium grounded in techniques more than five centuries old. Through a traditional but maximally flexible approach\, he was driven to prove that etching could be a successful contemporary medium\, and the breadth\, variety and creativity in the works he published is evidence of his success in making old master printmaking relevant to artists today. Published for an exhibition that draws from Mr. Samuel’s catalog of more than seventy projects\, New Ground presents a selection of works by a diverse range of artists including Ed Ruscha\, John Baldessari\, Jonas Wood\, Shio Kusaka\, Barry McGee\, Wangechi Mutu\, Christopher Wool\, Chris Burden\, Nancy Rubins\, Mona Hatoum\, Rebecca Horn\, Jannis Kounellis\, Cristina Iglesias\, Rita McBride\, Josiah McElheny\, Mathew Monahan\, Meredith Monk\, Gabriel Orozco\, Gert and Uwe Tobias\, Charline von Heyl\, James Welling\, and many more. This richly illustrated hardbound catalogue features an essay by curator Esther Adler\, interviews with thirteen of the artists Samuel has worked with\, and a checklist detailing every project published by Edition Jacob Samuel in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. A brand new example additionally signed by master etcher – and decades-long Arcana pal Jacob Samuel. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/jacob-samuel/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/New-Ground-cover.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231118T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231104T195809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T220804Z UID:10001854-1700323200-1700330400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with Pippa Garner: Act Like You Know Me DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, November 18th\, 4:00-6:00 pm for a book signing with renowned Los Angeles-based artist Pippa Garner. \nAvailable will be the much-anticipated catalogue for Ms. Garner’s current career-spanning retrospective – Act Like You Know Me\, along with the 2023 edition of her iconic\, long-unavailable Philip Garner’s Better Living Catalog. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of either – or both – to have shipped or to pick up at the shop\, please place your order with Arcana Books! \nWe look forward to seeing you this Saturday! \nAct Like You Know Me is the first comprehensive monograph on innovative American artist Pippa Garner. Encompassing Garner’s most iconic works\, from the Backwards Car to the Half-Suit\, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera\, it surveys fifty years of her transdisciplinary art practice\, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s\, through photography\, illustration\, ephemera\, and original writings. “Act Like You Know Me” supplements exclusive visuals and texts by Garner with archival press materials on the artist from such notable figures as Glenn O’Brien\, Ralph Rugoff\, and Hayden Dunham in addition to three new original commissions from contemporary\, award-winning authors Shola von Reinhold\, Dodie Bellamy\, and Fiona Alison Duncan\, and serves to introduce a highly-influential\, under-recognized artist whose uncompromising approach to life and practice has allowed her to interact with the worlds of illustration\, editorial\, television\, and art without ever becoming beholden to them. \nPippa Garner’s Better Living Catalogue – originally published in 1982\, takes the form of a mail order catalog featuring clever and whimsical inventions that parody consumer goods while simultaneously critiquing America’s obsession with ingenuity\, efficiency\, leisure\, and comfort. These works\, which were made as prototypes and photographed for the publication\, take the form of improbable accessories\, clothing\, footwear\, home appliances\, and office gadgets. For example\, the “Reactiononometer\,” a portable wristband\, instantly measures social success\, while the “Digital Diet Loafers” display the wearer’s weight with every step. If the “Munch-o-Matic” reduces deskwork interruptions by flinging a snack right into the user’s mouth\, other items promise financial solvency (the controlled cash flow “Autowallet”)\, sustainable waste management\, or mess-free companionship (the “Pet-a-Vision” TV console). The artist asserts that all of the products in the book are “absolute necessities for contemporary survival.” Many of the prototypes Garner created for the publication were ultimately repurposed or recycled\, making this previously rare gem of an artist book one of the artist’s few works to now be widely available. \nBorn in the suburbs of Chicago in 1942\, the artist formerly known as Philip Garner has satirized American-style consumerism for decades\, reifying the joys of everyday life and personal liberation along her way. With her prankish sense of humour and conceptual dedication to experimental engineering\, she has altered materials of mass production – from Fordism through the pharmacopornographic era – subverting commercial binaries to reveal the transitory nature of material life and her own transpersonal identity. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/pippa-garner/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Arcana_Pippa-Garner_23.11.13-1.jpeg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231111T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231028T162332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231104T195756Z UID:10001853-1699718400-1699725600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with David Netto DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, November 11th\, 4:00-6:00 pm for a book signing with David Netto! \n“For more than a decade\, David Netto has been profiling the leading lights of the design world in lively\, illuminating articles for numerous publications. Now\, at long last\, he turns his erudite eye and rapier wit to his own work as an interior and architectural designer. Featuring some twenty projects\, ranging from city apartments and country houses to seaside and mountain getaways\, David Netto reveals an eclectic aesthetic that brings to modernism a touch of warmth and personality and to traditionalism a jolt of energy and a dash of the exotic. Extensively photographed\, with delightful watercolor illustrations by interiors artist Mita Bland\, the book is as enlightening to read as it is inspiring to look at.” \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of David Netto to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please place your order here! URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/david-netto/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Arcana-David-Netto.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231028T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231012T152123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T175322Z UID:10001850-1698505200-1698512400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with Jim Goldberg: Coming and Going DESCRIPTION:Free \nPlease join Arcana: Books on the Arts Saturday\, October 28th\, 3:00-5:00 pm\, for a discussion with Jim Goldberg and Douglas Fogle for Goldberg’s new book Coming and Going\, published by MACK. \n* PLEASE NOTE *\nThe discussion will begin at 3:20 and will be followed by the book signing. \nComing and Going will be available for purchase beginning at 3:00 at the event space (8707 Washington Blvd.) and is available for pre-order on the Arcana website now. \nMr. Goldberg’s schedule is tight and he will prioritize signing Coming and Going over other material brought to the event. \nAll seating has been reserved by those who have RSVP’d. But there is plenty of standing room\, so please do join us. If you have already RSVP’d please arrive by 3:15 to insure your seat.  Seats will be open to all after 3:15 regardless of RSVP. \nEvent Location:\n8707 Washington Boulevard (200 feet West of Arcana) \nFree parking available at 8711 Washington Boulevard \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n“Coming and Going is Jim Goldberg’s unique work of autobiography. Since 1999\, Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes and returning to his studio to re-imagine and investigate these images through a practice of collage\, annotation\, montage\, and reconstruction for which he has become renowned. This book charts a course through the grief following the death of one’s parents\, the life-altering birth of a child\, the heartbreak of divorce\, and the rediscovery of love. Told using a correspondingly tumultuous blend of singular and combined imagery\, personal notes\, collages\, and ephemera\, the book captures the bittersweet realities of an individual life while reflecting on the universal\, inescapable comings and goings that shape us and the ways we grow to understand ourselves. Familiar from celebrated works such as Rich and Poor (1985)\, Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009)\, Goldberg’s visual language employs sequence and narrative with a feverish intensity. History\, memory\, and imagination collide in a vividly material practice to which the influences of fiction and film\, and the book form itself\, are central. Coming and Going offers a fierce\, vulnerable\, and at times overwhelming account of a life and a search for the elusive universals of experience – an achievement that constitutes Goldberg’s masterwork and a significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking.” \nIf you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed copy of Coming and Going\, please email Arcana or place your order here! URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/jim-goldberg/ LOCATION:8707 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA 90232\, 8707 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, 90232\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jim-Goldberg_848px.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231027T183000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231019T155510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T214953Z UID:10001852-1698422400-1698431400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Burntsienna Artbook Review DESCRIPTION:Free \nBurntsienna Artbook Review  \nThe ‘Burntsienna Artbook Review’ gatherings are where artbook collectors and design enthusiasts meet up to share books and engage with one another in thoughtfully designed spaces.  \nThis gathering is Friday 27 October\, 4:00p – 6:30p at Arcana: Books on the Arts in Helms Bakery District. \nBook Theme – Rare Book Roulette (bring rare or favourite artbooks to show off!) \nGuests are invited to bring up to two (2) art or design books from their own collections\, in the above theme\, to share on our long display tables. \nEach gathering begins with a formal review of two books from the Burntsienna Research Library\, moderated by Jason E.C. Wright\, followed by open exploration and engagement among guests\, their books brought\, and the space itself. \nLimited to 18 spaces. RSVP : burntsienna.org/review \nWe look forward to welcoming you. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/burntsienna-artbook-review/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Burnsienna-102723-1_900px.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231007T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20231002T145251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T214216Z UID:10001848-1696694400-1696701600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with Richard Edson DESCRIPTION:Free \nPlease join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, October 7th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a very special book signing with photographer Richard Edson. \n“I began the Year Zero – Lockdown Journal on March 20th\, 2020. On the first day I took my bicycle and camera and rode through the empty\, silent streets of Los Angeles. Everything looked the same\, but everything was completely different. I took photos and came back and wrote about it. And I kept it up for next twelve months\, through our personal and collective isolation\, through the ups and downs of the pandemic\, the slow\, halting opening of society\, the politicization of the virus\, the George Floyd protests\, the elections\, the Stop-the-Steal movement\, and the storming of the Capital. Covid-19 was beyond anything we thought possible or could even imagine. It’s the stuff of science fiction and dystopian nightmares. But the writers and doomsayers were right. And here we are. Each of us who have lived through Year Zero have our own stories to tell. This\, in photographs and texts\, is mine.” Published by Artvoices Books\, Year Zero – Lockdown Journal features two beautifully packaged hardcover books in a slipcase subtitled\, “Spring & Summer” and “Fall & Winter.” \nRichard Edson has been acting in films for nearly forty years and has appeared in over one hundred movies and television shows. His more notable roles include a disreputable parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)\, Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)\, Howard the Duck (1986)\, Jim Jarmusch’s cult film Stranger Than Paradise (1984)\, Eight Men Out\, and Joey Breaker (1993). He also appeared in Platoon (1986)\, Good Morning\, Vietnam (1987)\, Tougher Than Leather (1988)\, Let It Ride (1989)\, and Do the Right Thing (1989). He starred in the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros as Spike (1987). As a photographer he has had four solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and has been in countless group exhibits. He has also appeared in Juxtapoz\, Puta\, and The Propagandist magazines and has had photography assignments for Wax Poetics\, American Apparel\, and many others. Until recently he had a monthly photo spread/column in the Los Angeles downtown arts magazine\, Citizen LA. In addition to acting and photography he was a founding member and first drummer for the seminal art rock band Sonic Youth\, and drummer/trumpet player for the legendary New York Afro-dance band\, Konk. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed copy of Year Zero – Lockdown Journal\, please email Arcana or place your order here! URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-signing-with-richard-edson/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Richard-Edson_IGPost.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170610T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170610T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20170511T222827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170511T232529Z UID:10000162-1497096000-1497117600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:This Modern Life: A Design Field Day at Helms Bakery DESCRIPTION:Welcome to This Modern Life: Embracing Life’s Imperfections\, a campus-wide day of design celebrating the Japanese tradition of wabi-sabi\, the art of recognizing beauty in imperfection. Participating showrooms and stores will feature workshops\, demonstrations\, tastings\, sweepstakes and special guests! Plus Local Mercato and Beautiful Things L.A. pop-up for one day only. Pick up a map at the information booth on Helms Walk and explore! Complete info on our dedicated event page. \nFree Valet Parking by the Rejuvenation showroom at Helms and Venice. \n#thismodernlife URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/this-modern-life-2017/ LOCATION:Helms Design District\, 8800 Venice Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90034\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/HelmsBakery_ThisModernLife2017_600px.jpg GEO:34.0306792;-118.3851538 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design District 8800 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90034 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8800 Venice Blvd.:geo:-118.3851538,34.0306792 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170514T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170514T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20170503T203818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T203818Z UID:10000161-1494777600-1494784800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Books Welcomes Harold Bronson DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Sunday\, May 14th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM\, Arcana: Books on the Arts invites you to a book signing with Harold Bronson and an evening to twist\, shout\, and dine on humanely raised\, grass-fed hot dogs from Let’s Be Frank. \nHarold Bronson grew up in Los Angeles as a passionate Anglophile. Through his career first as a music journalist\, then as a label executive\, Harold met and befriended many of those performers whose music he loved. With his newly released My British Invasion from Rare Bird Books\, Harold pens his insider’s account of London’s cultural youthquake of the sixties and seventies that brought us The Yardbirds\, The Dave Clark Five\, Manfred Mann\, Herman’s Hermits\, The Hollies\, The Kinks\, The Troggs\, The Zombies\, Johnny Rotten\, Pirate Radio\, and much\, much more. A co-founder of the legendary Rhino Records label\, Harold is the author of Rock Explosion: The British Invasion of America in Photos 1962-67\, Hey\, Hey\, We’re The Monkees\, and The Rhino Records Story: Revenge of the Music Nerds. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-welcomes-harold-bronson/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Arcana-17.05.14.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20170222T225022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170222T225022Z UID:10000058-1487876400-1487880000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Books Heads to Printed Matter's Los Angeles Art Book Fair!  DESCRIPTION:It’s that time of year again when you get to visit Arcana: Books on the Arts during the Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Please check the event website for complete hours. \nBeginning with a preview on Thursday\, 2/23 through Sunday\, 2/26\, you will find them at Booth P05 with another enticing assortment of rarities including Pop and Conceptual artist books and catalogues\, (maga)’zines\, artworks + multiples\, and an array of coveted posters\, announcements\, and ephemera. It’s a unique opportunity to shop many of the exquisite\, inspiring\, and rarely-seen items from the Arcana hidden-recesses and flat files. \nIn addition\, they will be hosting two great book signings during the festivities! At Thursday night’s opening benefit\, renowned gallerist\, archivist\, and editor Johan Kugelberg will be signing copies between 7:00 and 8:00 PM of his recent publication God Save Sex Pistols – the unseen and definitive visual history of the incendiary punk band. Presented by Arcana: Books on the Arts and Anthology Editions\, both the Deluxe and swanky Ultra-Deluxe Anthology editions as well as the Rizzoli trade edition will be available. \nOn Saturday 2/25\, New York-based photographer Aaron Stern will be joining Arcana at 3:00 PM to sign his hot-off-the-press We Live Behind The Moon Sometimes – an edition limited to fifty copies each containing a 5 x 7″ print. “Our memories are so often distorted to fit a narrative we create for ourselves. We replay memories the way we wish to remember and rebuild them to fit our own story. These images explore these themes as well the overarching theme in my work: love and loss\, and how they relate to the landscape in our minds and around us.”  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-heads-to-printed-matters-los-angeles-art-book-fair/ LOCATION:MOCA\, 152 N. Central Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Printed-Matters-2017.jpg GEO:34.0497071;-118.2391003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=MOCA 152 N. Central Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=152 N. Central Avenue:geo:-118.2391003,34.0497071 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160915T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160915T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20160909T202929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T220551Z UID:10000108-1473962400-1473969600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Books Welcomes Pamela Littky DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, September 15th from 6 to 8PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming Pamela Littky for a book signing of The Villa Bonita. \nLike many apartment buildings in Hollywood\, the Villa Bonita was built during the film industry’s first heyday bridging the 1920s to the 1930s. Built for the vast crews and casts that Cecil B. DeMille was hiring during the period\, the Villa Bonita has housed great Hollywood figures from Errol Flynn to Francis Ford Coppola. \nIn the absence of traditionally scaled\, walkable neighborhoods\, Los Angeles has long created community within the confines of these kinds of apartment complexes. Young and old\, employed and between gigs\, dreamers and those whose dreams left long ago – everyone arrived at the Villa Bonita for one good reason or another. Featuring a foreword by Cameron Crowe\, this striking hardbound volume brings us within intimate distance of its subjects\, as Los Angeles-based photographer – and Arcana favorite – Pamela Littky surveys all of the inhabitants of this historic apartment tower in the middle of Hollywood\, creating a collective portrait of the transient nature of the city. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-welcomes-pamela-littky/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Book-Signing-16.09.15.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160709T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160709T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20160629T205743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T225728Z UID:10000022-1468080000-1468087200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Hosts A Book Signing + Conversation With Johnston Marklee DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, July 9th from 4 to 6PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming their very own architects\, Johnston Marklee partners Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee\, for a conversation and book signing inside the gorgeous Arcana showroom they created.  The afternoon will address the architectural firm’s design process and engagement with contemporary art practices in conversation with artist Veronika Kellndorfer\, one of the collaborators on their new monograph\, HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE. \nThe talk will be followed by a book signing. \n8675 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\n310.458.1499 \nAbout Johnston Marklee\nFounded by partners Sharon Johnston\, F.A.I.A. and Mark Lee in 1998\, Johnston Marklee is internationally recognized for its diverse portfolio of architecture\, engaging the physical and cultural circumstances of each project through a precise synthesis of structural form\, materiality\, and atmospheric light. The work of the firm pays tribute to a specific Southern Californian interpretation of modernism\, and at the same time operates at the intersection of a global and local dialogue. Since founding Johnston Marklee\, Johnston and Lee have forged a leading role in the cultural discourse around contemporary art and architecture\, eliciting design collaborations with distinguished museums\, foundations\, and artists around the world. Complementing this far-reaching network\, the firm’s work is recognized for being deeply rooted in the history and foundations of the discipline. \nAbout Veronika Kellndorfer\nOriginally through painting and more recently through photography\, Veronika Kellndorfer has been concerned with the physical and social construction of space. In her recent body of work\, Kellndorfer photographed classic modernist architectural landmarks in Los Angeles including the only house built by Oscar Niemeyer in the United States\, Rudolph Schindler’s Lovell Beach House\, John Lautner’s Silvertop home in Silver Lake\, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House\, among others. Yet\, rather than capturing the iconic wide-angle views of these famously photographed homes\, Kellndorfer focuses on the intimate details of windows and reflections and how they reveal the ephemeral nature of seeing\, as well as the subjectivity of space. This ambiguity of space is heightened by the artist’s use of highly reflective glass panels that are often life-sized\, and when displayed in a public setting\, museum or gallery\, invites the viewer to experience his or her own subjective surroundings. \nHer exhibition Tropical Modernism: Lina Bo Bardi will be on view at Christopher Grimes Gallery from July 8th through September 2nd\, 2016. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-a-book-signing-conversation-with-johnston-marklee/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Book-Signing-16.07.09.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151205T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20151203T020739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151203T020739Z UID:10000008-1449331200-1449338400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Hosts A (Double) Book Signing With Ed Templeton And Ethan Rafal DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, December 5th from 4:00 to 6:00pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for another exciting\, double-header with two of their fave phtographers: Ed Templeton and Ethan Rafal. \nEd Templeton \nIn 1999\, the late\, great Alleged Gallery published Ed Templeton’s first book of photography\, Teenage Smokers. In the intervening sixteen years Ed is a firmly entrenched guiding light of the Southern California art community\, and Teenage Smokers has become a sought-after high spot for any photo book collection. \nNow\, hot off the press from Tokyo’s Super Labo is Teenage Smokers 2 – featuring a brand new generation of nicotine-inhaling youngsters. Ed will be signing – and no doubt drawing in – copies of this\, the newly republished Wayward Cognitions\, a few remaining copies of the now sold out Deadbeat Club Common Side Effects Huntington Beach catalogue\, Umbrella\, and his magnificent new travelogue of Santa Catalina Island\, Adventures in the Nearby Far Away. We’ll also have copies of the original Teenage Smokers along with a few vintage rarities available here the day of the event. \nCome celebrate this treasure trove of new and vintage Templetoniana. Sales of Common Side Effects and Adventures in the Nearby Far Away will be limited to one per customer for those attending the event while supplies last. \nEthan Rafal: Shock and Awe \nSan Francisco-based Ethan Rafal has produced one of our favorite photography books of recent years! A complex autobiographical project examining the relationship between protracted war and homeland decay\, Shock and Awe is a meticulously crafted work combining image\, text\, and found objects compiled over twelve years of traveling the United States that blurs the line between author and subject\, and personal versus authoritative histories. Drawing from the traditions of documentary photography and writing set on the American road\, the unique\, hand-made journal was created with transfer prints\, handwriting\, and found materials that were bound in the remains of an abandoned vehicle. This trade edition limited to five hundred copies carefully reproduces every inch of every page conveying the look and feel of the original down to its strap closure. Made by middle-class workers in Spain\, the paper was sustainably harvested in Finland\, and the cloth is from New England. \nThe artist introduces audiences to this work through his ongoing “Shock and Awe Book Tour” which returns the journal to the people and places depicted\, bringing author\, subject\, and viewer into an exploration of the total meaning of the work. The presentation of Shock and Awe is equal parts story-telling\, show-and-tell\, and group discussion featuring for its Arcana stop ample homemade cast-iron walnut pie served with bourbon and milk. \nEthan Rafal’s multi-media works deal with the individual and collective experience of violence\, and the ways in which subsequent representations of violence inform personal and national mythologies. He helps run The Farmstand – an alternative artspace on a farm in Northern California – and collaborates with the Bay Area’s Art For a Democratic Society. \n    URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-a-double-book-signing-with-ed-templeton-and-ethan-rafal/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Arccana.gif GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151107T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20151103T010030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151103T010536Z UID:10000078-1446912000-1446919200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Hosts A Book Signing For "How We Live" By Marcia Prentice DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 7th from 4:00 – 6:00pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with Marcia Prentice for How We Live\, an intimate photographic journal of designers’ and artists’ homes from around the world including Mumbai\, Beirut\, Marrakech\, Reykjavik\, Mexico City and Amsterdam. \nLos Angeles-based photographer Marcia Prentice traveled to international cities to experience and present ‘the soul” of a diverse selection of domestic spaces\, revealing the unique spirit of each creative environment. The book includes homes shown in the context of both more-established design-cities\, as well as urban locales where economic disadvantage and strife impacts daily life. Each of the eighteen featured homeowners provides a glimpse into their private\, interior world to show us how the design and atmosphere created in one’s own home can be the ultimate artistic canvas. \nSpace is limited so an RSVP is much appreciated. \n \n  \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-a-book-signing-for-how-we-live-by-marcia-prentice/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Arcana-15.11.07.gif GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151010T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151010T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20151002T225157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151007T234104Z UID:10000051-1444492800-1444500000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Ron Jude DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, October 10th from 4:00 – 6:00pm\, please join Arcana: Books on The Arts for a book signing with Ron Jude. To construct Lago\, Ron Jude returns to the California desert of his early childhood as if a detective in search of clues to his own identity. In this brand new MACK book of fifty-four photographs taken between 2011 and 2014\, he attempts to reconcile the vagaries of memory (and the uncertainty of looking) with our need to make narrative sense of things. \nUsing a desolate desert lake as a theatrical backdrop\, Jude meanders through the arid landscape of his youth\, making note of everything from venomous spiders to discarded pornography. If one considers these traces to be a coded language of some sort\, Jude’s act of photographing and piecing them together becomes a form of cryptography – like a poetic archaeology that\, rather than attempting to arrive at something conclusive\, looks for patterns and rhythms that create congruity out of the stuttering utterances of the visible world. According to Jude\, “these harmonies\, when we’re lucky enough to find them\, are probably the closest we can get to discovering actual ‘meaning’ and grasping the potency of place.” \nIf you would like to purchase a signed copy of Lago but cannot attend\, please place an order here\, or call 310-458-1499. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-a-book-signing-with-ron-jude/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ron-Jude_LAGO_04.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151003T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151003T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20150929T203611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151002T211233Z UID:10000050-1443888000-1443895200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Aline Smithson DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, October 3rd from 4:00 – 6:00pm\, please join Arcana: Books on The Arts for a book signing with Aline Smithson. \nSelf & Others: Portrait as Autobiography is a near-twenty year culmination of portrait photographs captured by award-winning photographer\, writer\, and educator Aline Smithson. \nBeginning with her earliest black and white silver gelatin prints\, she photographs the world around her considering the poignancy of childhood and the pathos of aging and relationships. The photographer considers all her portraits a reflection of herself and the stories she wants to tell\, and in that way\, has created a visual language that is her own unique autobiography. \nIf you would like to purchase a signed copy of Self & Others but cannot attend\, please place an order here\, or call 310-458-1499. \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-a-book-signing-with-aline-smithson-3/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Header.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150815T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150815T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20150811T215608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150811T215608Z UID:10000048-1439654400-1439661600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Hosts A Book Signing With Greg Gorman DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, August 15th from 4:00 – 6:00pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing of Outside the Studio\, Greg Gorman’s tenth monograph. It finds the noted Los Angeles-based photographer outside the reaches of the portrait and figure-study work for which he is best known\, and onto the streets of Southeast Asia. Traveling throughout Singapore\, Malaysia\, China and India on behalf of Epson to participate in symposiums on fine art digital printing\, Gorman got a firsthand look at these very different cultures at the very beginning of the digital revolution. \nWorking in the studio with the likes of Marlon Brando or Robert De Niro had become second nature\, and his long-running series of celebrity portraits for L.A. Eyeworks is viewed as one of the iconic advertising campaigns of the late twentieth century. However\, having shot exclusively on film for more than thirty years\, the transition from analogue to digital cameras was a new experience for Gorman\, and being thrust in front of strangers in China\, Kuala Lampur\, India\, Thailand\, Cambodia\, and Vietnam was an adventure – one who’s engaging results are revealed in this lovely new book from Damiani Editore. \n \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-a-book-signing-with-greg-gorman/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Arcana-2-GGorman.gif GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150620T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150620T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20150612T183626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T183740Z UID:10000042-1434816000-1434823200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Hosts Book Signing and Launch With Bryan Ray Turcotte & Cynthia Connolly DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, June 20th from 4:00 – 6:00pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming Bryan Ray Turcotte and Cynthia Connolly for a celebratory book signing and launch of the newly re-released editions of two of their legendary and long out-of-print books. \nCynthia Connolly’s Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground (79–86) is finally back in print with a seventh edition that includes a brand new\, eight page afterword by the Washington DC-based author and publisher. And Los Angeles’ own Bryan Ray Turcotte’s Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art Of The Punk Rock Movement – the great visual history of the LA punk flyer in book form – is back with a 15th Anniversary edition. \nBreak out the leather and hair gel\, resurrect the youthful attitude\, and head to Arcana for this musically-charged Punk publishing event! \n  \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-book-signing-and-launch-with-bryan-ray-turcotte-cynthia-connolly/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Arcana-Event-15.06.20.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150614T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150614T180000 DTSTAMP:20260422T061947 CREATED:20150612T181302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T181537Z UID:10000041-1434297600-1434304800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Hosts a Book Signing With Gusmano Cesaretti DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, June 14th from 4:00 – 6:00pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming their friend Gusmano Cesaretti in celebration of the publication of his intriguing visual memoir. \nMaria Sabina (1888 – 1985) was a healer\, curanderas\, and Shaman in the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca. She used the power of the sacred mushroom as part of her ceremonies that cured hundreds in her community throughout her lifetime. In this newly-released book from Mexico’s Conaculta\, noted Italian-born\, Los Angeles-based photographer Gusmano Cesaretti shares his personal story of self-discovery when this great woman allowed him to enter her sacred world. \n8675 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City310.558.8900 URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-a-book-signing-with-gusmano-cesaretti/ LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Arcana-Event-15.06.14.jpg GEO:34.0300679;-118.3835128 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8675 Washington Blvd.:geo:-118.3835128,34.0300679 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR