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: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:20250927T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250927T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250926T002346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T005406Z UID:10001983-1758988800-1758996000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing + Discussion with Lauri Gaffin: Moving Still: A Cinematic Life Frame-By-Frame DESCRIPTION:Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, September 27th\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as they welcome Los Angeles’ own Lauri Gaffin to celebrate the release of her new Damiani publication\, Moving Still: A Cinematic Life Frame-By-Frame! \nMoving Still… is a personal portrait of filmmaking from set decorator Lauri Gaffin. With four decades of experience\, Gaffin intertwines stunning behind-the-scenes photographs and intimate narrative to provide a rare glimpse into the fascinating world of cinema. The book highlights life on set for indie gems Fargo and The Pursuit of Happyness as well as blockbuster hits such as Charlie’s Angels\, Iron Man and Thor. \nThrough her photographs and engaging anecdotes\, Gaffin unveils the collaborative spirit that binds directors\, actors\, production designers and crew members together. The contrast of her thriving career and her complex emotional life are a throughline in the book. Gaffin’s photography remains a steadfast beacon of inspiration even as she navigates the demands of production — deadlines\, budgets and politics — and her family’s escalating turmoil. \nSo be here at Arcana on Sept. 27th to meet and greet Lauri and pick up her fabulous new book! If you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed copy of Moving Still: A Cinematic Life Frame-By-Frame\, please place your order here! \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE BOOK URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/lauri-gaffin/ 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/2025/09/Lauri-Gaffin_cover_1200.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:20250920T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250920T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250917T230944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T191429Z UID:10001982-1758384000-1758391200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing + Discussion with David Alekhuogie: A Reprise DESCRIPTION:Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, September 20th\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as they welcome Los Angeles artist David Alekhuogie to celebrate the release of his new Aperture publication\, A Reprise. In addition to signing copies\, he will engage in a discussion of the book and his work with fellow Los Angeles artist Awol Erizku. \n“A Reprise\, David Alekhuogie’s first monograph\, confronts the intriguing legacy of narrative and authorship behind Western presentations of African art\, and poses timely questions about how Black aesthetics are circulated\, accessed\, valued\, and interpreted today. In 1935\, Walker Evans was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, to photograph hundreds of African sculptures for the exhibition African Negro Art. Nearly ninety years later\, Alekhuogie began investigating Evans’s images\, provocatively remixing them into his own vibrant and multilayered photographic collages. Transposing facsimiles of Evans’s original images onto cardboard or paper structures of his own making\, Alekhuogie rephotographs these image-sculptures against striking backdrops — often using East and West African textiles — thereby inviting multiple dimensions of viewership. Alekhuogie’s images draw upon the musical idiom of the reprise — a performance of repetition — and stake a claim to crucial\, restorative ideas around Black antiquity by questioning our relationship to what we consider fake or original\, art or archive.” \nThe discussion will begin at 4:20 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of David Alekhuogie’s A Reprise\, or Awol Erizku’s brilliant Aperture monograph\, Mystic Parallax\, please place your order here! \n\n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE BOOK\n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n\nDavid Alekhuogie received his MFA from Yale University and post-bac BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work was included in “Companion Pieces\,” the 2020 iteration of MoMA’s biannual New Photography exhibition\, and in “Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth” at the California African American Art Museum in Los Angeles. In 2019\, he was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Alekhuogie has had solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery\, CA (2019); Commonwealth and Council\, Los Angeles\, CA (2019); Skibum MacArthur\, Los Angeles\, CA (2017); and at the Chicago Artist Coalition (2016). His work has been published in The New Yorker\, the New York Times\, Time Magazine\, Timeout\, Chicago\, Vice\, and The Los Angeles Times.” \nBorn in Gondar\, Ethiopia\, in 1988\, Awol Erizku is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography\, film\, sculpture and installation\, creating a new vernacular that bridges the gap between African and African American visual culture. Erizku’s work refers to subjects as diverse as art history\, hip-hop\, and spirituality\, rejecting Eurocentric notions of art and beauty in favor of building an Afrocentric aesthetic\, something he refers to as “Afro-esotericism.” With a distinctive emphasis on reclaiming and reinterpreting historical narratives within a contemporary context\, the artist’s work challenges viewers to reconsider conventional perspectives on art and society through a lens that merges personal narrative with broader socio-political commentary. Erizku received a BFA from The Cooper Union\, New York\, in 2010\, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art\, New Haven\, in 2014. His work has been exhibited at prominent institutions including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, Arkansas; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)\, New York; The Studio Museum\, Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Toronto; FLAG Art Foundation\, New York; and SCAD Museum of Art\, Savannah. Erizku also brings high concept to commercial photography highlighting cultural and creative leaders for publications such as The New Yorker\, New York Magazine\, GQ\, and Vanity Fair. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/david-alekhuogie/ 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/2025/09/David-Alekhuogie_coverjacket_sq.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:20250823T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250823T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250821T212214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250821T230056Z UID:10001976-1755964800-1755972000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing + Discussion with photographer Arthur Jafa: Live Evil DESCRIPTION:Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts this Saturday\, August 23rd\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as we welcome Los Angeles’ own renowned Arthur Jafa to celebrate the release of his new publication Live Evil. In addition to signing copies\, he will engage in a discussion of the book and his work with art historian Julian Myers. \n“Having worked in film and music for decades\, American artist Arthur Jafa garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video work “Love is the Message\, the Message is Death.” Composed of found images and videos\, his oeuvre revolves around Black American culture\, the history of slavery\, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. As Jafa put it in his 2003 text “My Black Death”: “The central conundrum of black being (the double bind of our ontological existence) lies in the fact that common misery both defines and limits who we are. Such that our efforts to eliminate those forces which constrain also function to dissipate much which gives us our specificity\, our uniqueness\, our flavor by destroying the binds that define we will cease to be\, but this is the good death (boa morte) to be embraced.” Bringing together affective memories that touch on US history\, violence\, repression\, modalities of survival and how these exist in the production and dissemination of images\, music\, sound and time-based media\, Jafa reflects on the ontology of race and Blackness. This richly illustrated catalog reproduces key works from Jafa’s wide-ranging oeuvre and explores the philosophical\, historical and artistic implications of his practice\, featuring essays and a series of conversations between Jafa and key practitioners working in the fields of cinema\, arts and theory.” \nIf you cannot attend and would like to purchase your very own signed copy of Live Evil\, please place your order here! \n\nDue to a limited supply of books being air freighted for the event\, Arcana has had to cease taking pre-orders. If you would like them to let you know if they have signed copies left after the event\, please email them. Books will be available at the event\, one per person\, first come – first served. \nThanks for your understanding! \n\nArthur Jafa (born 1960) grew up in Mississippi\, where his lifelong fascination with found imagery manifested in his childhood hobby of assembling binders of photographs culled from various sources. Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films\, artefacts\, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of the artist’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media\, such as objects\, static and moving images\, transmit the equivalent “power\, beauty and alienation” embedded within forms of Black music in US culture? As a cinematographer and director of photography\, Jafa has collaborated with Stanley Kubrick\, Solange Knowles and Spike Lee\, among many others. His work on Julie Dash’s 1991 film Daughters of the Dust won him the Best Cinematography award at Sundance. In 2019 he was awarded the Golden Lion for the Best Participant of the 58th Venice Biennale “May You Live in Interesting Times.” \nJulian Myers is an art historian\, editor\, and researcher based in Los Angeles. Their essays on contemporary art and exhibitions have appeared academic publications\, exhibition catalogues\, and more\, and include essays on Edgar Arceneaux\, Trisha Donnelly\, Christina Fernandez\, Nancy Holt\, Arthur Jafa\, Sterling Ruby\, and Harald Szeemann. Myers was founding faculty in the department of Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts\, and was senior editor of The Exhibitionist\, a journal of exhibition making\, from 2014 to 2017. Since 2011\, Myers has worked with Joanna Szupinska in the collaboration grupa o.k.\, which has produced projects and writing for art institutions worldwide. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE BOOK URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arthur-jafa-book-signing/ 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/2025/08/Arthur-Jafa_Site-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:20250816T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250816T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250807T232942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250811T010701Z UID:10001975-1755360000-1755367200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing + Discussion with photographer Todd Hido: Intimate Distance DESCRIPTION:Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, August 16th\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as they welcome iconic photographer Todd Hido to celebrate the release of his updated and expanded Aperture monograph Intimate Distance\, Over Thirty Years of Photographs\, A Chronological Album. In addition to signing copies\, he will engage in a discussion of the book and his work with fellow Bay Area artist Marina Luz. \n“Well known for his photography of landscapes and suburban housing\, and for his use of detail and luminous color\, acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs\, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. Newly revised and expanded\, Intimate Distance: Over Thirty Years of Photographs\, A Chronological Album includes ten years of new work since the book’s first publication\, among them new images from his travels to Iceland\, Norway\, and Japan. Though Hido has published many smaller monographs of individual bodies of work\, this gathers his most iconic images\, along with several unpublished works\, to provide the most complete and comprehensive monograph charting his career. The book is organized chronologically\, showing how his series overlap in exciting ways. David Campany introduces the work and looks at the kind of cinematic spectatorship that Hido’s images demand. Katya Tylevich muses on the making of each of his major monographs\, writing\, “The photographs lead as far as human-made roads go. They reach the periphery of utility wires\, footprints\, and paths already taken.” From exterior to interior\, surface observations to subconscious investigations\, landscapes to nudes\, and from America to beyond\, this midcareer collection reveals how Hido’s unique focus has developed and shifted over time. Assembled collectively in this volume\, his familiar and new images demonstrate how the tension between distance and intimacy that he explores has remained constant throughout his practice.” \nA brand new\, most handsome example of the newly updated and expanded edition of this vital document. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to purchase your very own signed copy of Intimate Distance\, please place your order here! \n320pp\, 324 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Bob Awfuldish\, Awfuldish & Warriner. \n\nTodd Hido (born in Kent\, Ohio\, 1968) is a San Francisco Bay Area–based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum\, the New York Times Magazine\, Wired\, Elephant\, Foam\, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of over fifty museums\, including the Getty Center\, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has authored over a dozen books\, including House Hunting (2001)\, Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013)\, Todd Hido on Landscapes\, Interiors\, and the Nude (Aperture\, 2014)\, and The End Sends Advance Warning (2024). Hido is also an avid photobook collector with a library of over 8\,500 titles. \nMarina Luz is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times\, Vice\, and ProPublica\, among other publications. She runs her illustration and design studio Honeylux out of Oakland\, California. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE BOOK URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/todd-hido-book-signing/ 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/2025/08/Arcana_BOTM_2025_08_Site_1080.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:20250726T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250719T162952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250719T171557Z UID:10001973-1753545600-1753552800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing + Discussion with photographer Richard Misrach: Cargo DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, July 26th\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM Arcana: Books on the Arts welcomes longtime friend\, legendary photographer Richard Misrach to celebrate the release of his exquisite new Aperture monograph\, Cargo. In addition to signing copies\, he will give a brief talk about this thought-provoking body of work beginning at 5:00 PM sharp. \n“Harkening back to his Golden Gate Bridge series — which the artist produced from his front porch over the course of four years beginning in 1997 — Cargo centers on the light\, water\, and weather of the San Francisco Bay. Misrach began creating this body of work in 2021 amid the pandemic and its attendant lockdowns. Captured at different times of day from a single location in San Francisco\, these photographs speak to his enduring interest in bearing witness to the world around him from a singular vantage point over the course of months or years. The photographer describes this series as a meditation on and celebration of the setting of the San Francisco Bay. With these works\, he also contemplates the design\, function\, and history of the ships in the bay\, and all of the thousands of workers implied in the images. Behind these ships\, there is a remarkable — if invisible —global workforce that builds them\, and inhabits them\, that packs and unloads them\, that maneuvers them over oceans and canals\, sometimes in dangerous situations\, toward their eventual berths. Along with the extraordinary achievement and value these cargo ships symbolize\, they also represent the complex\, challenging side of our critical\, intertwined\, international commerce. In this historical moment\, they allude to the threat that is global warming.” \n

If you cannot attend and would like to purchase your very own signed copy of Cargo\, please place your order below. \n\nRichard Misrach (b. 1949) is one of the most influential and internationally recognized photographers working today. He is best known for his epic project on the deserts of the American West and his On the Beach series\, both of which explore his unique perspective on man’s place in nature. By exploring the social\, political\, environmental\, and cultural characteristics of the places he photographs\, Misrach has expanded the notion of traditional landscape photographic practice.  His previous subjects have included manmade floods and fires\, military bombing ranges\, isolated swimmers in a vast ocean\, sublime night skies\, and details of paintings housed in the museums of the Southwest. \nMisrach has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad. Recent museum exhibitions include Border Cantos\, made in collaboration with the experimental composer Guillermo Galindao\, which was exhibited at Amon Carter Museum of Art\, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, and San Jose Museum of Art in 2016-2017. His work is represented in many prominent collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, The National Gallery of Art\, Washington D.C.\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, California\, and The Getty Museum of Art\, California. Misrach is a recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. In 2001\, he received the Knight Purchase Award for Photographic Media from the Akron Art Museum\, and in 2002\, the Kulturpreis for Lifetime Achievement in Photography from the German Society of Photography. He lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his wife\, Myriam. \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE BOOK URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/richard-misrach/ 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/2025/07/Arcana_RichardMisrach_Cargo_1.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:20250607T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250607T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250602T181043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T182851Z UID:10001968-1749312000-1749319200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing + Discussion with Photographer Eric Kroll: Hardcore: A Photo/Journal DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, June 7th from 4 until 6 PM\, Arcana: Books on the Arts will host esteemed photographer Eric Kroll to celebrate the publication of HARDCORE: A Photo/Journal — a striking new photobook by Eric Kroll featuring rare and intimate photographs taken during the shooting of Paul Schrader’s cult 1979 film. This new publication from Timeless Edition takes you deep into the world behind the camera: the set\, the atmosphere\, and the many individuals — technicians\, casting director\, actors and non-actors alike — that accompanied or inspired Kroll throughout the shoot. More than a simple behind-the-scenes document\, HARDCORE also includes the photographer’s own reflections\, commentary and a recent interview he conducted with adult film actress Serena. The book also features a foreword from Paul Schrader accompanied by a rare text he penned in 1978 for a publishing project about the film that was never completed. Together\, these elements reveal a deeply personal and unexpectedly intimate perspective on the film and on the porn film industry at the end of the 1970s. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to purchase a SIGNED copy of Hardcore\, please place your order below. \nJoin Arcana on June 7th for good talk\, good books\, and free libations. All are welcome! \n\n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE BOOK URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-book-signing-discussion-with-photographer-eric-kroll-hardcore-a-photo-journal/ 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/2025/06/Hardcore-Cover-1000px.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:20250426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250426T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250417T194037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250418T162409Z UID:10001949-1745683200-1745690400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing + Discussion with Photographer Luisa Opalesky: Big City Nobody DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 26th from 4 until 6 PM\, Arcana: Books on the Arts will proudly host the photographer Luisa Opalesky in conversation with director Luke Gilford to celebrate her new book Big City Nobody. The talk will be followed by the chance to get your copy signed by Luisa herself! \nLuisa Opalesky (b. 1987) is an artist whose practice seeks to connect with all walks of life through photography\, dance\, and film. Originally from Philadelphia\, she earned a BFA in photography under the mentorship of George Pitts at Parsons New School for Design. She draws inspiration from her elders\, multicultural background\, glamour\, squalor\, going to the cinema three times a week\, and her home downtown in New York City. Her work is consistently characterized by its vibrant color\, hazard\, and comedic relief. \nBig City Nobody is Opalesky’s debut photography book. Published by Spotz Studios and featuring work created between 2020 and 2024\, the photographs in the book reveal glimpses of daily life\, vibrancy of nightlife\, and outtakes from assignments commissioned by the New York Times and Interview magazine. The collection unfolds with a flow reminiscent of walking crosstown caffeinated and immersed in the pulse of the city. The book includes writings by Alissa Bennett\, Susie Essman\, Daniel Arnold\, and Teardrop. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to purchase a SIGNED copy of Big City Nobody\, please place your order below. \nJoin Arcana on April 26th for good talk\, good books\, and free libations. All are welcome! \n\n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE BOOK URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-hosts-book-signing-discussion-with-photographer-luisa-opalesky/ 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/2025/04/Luisa-Opalesky_Big-City-Nobody_Cover_1200px.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:20250215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250215T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250211T171925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T194927Z UID:10001939-1739635200-1739642400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing for Brick Stowell’s “Almost Famous 2011-2016: The OFWGKTA Photographs” DESCRIPTION:Join us Saturday\, February 15th\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM to meet and greet photographer Brick Stowell and celebrate the availability once again of his fabulous Almost Famous 2011-2016: The OFWGKTA Photographs. \nBrick was the staff photographer and tour manager for Odd Future (OFWGKTA) from 2011 to 2016\, capturing the collective’s rise to fame. Almost Famous… is a comprehensive look at Odd Future’s history\, featuring photos\, original merchandise\, music video props\, outfits\, and other memorabilia\, documenting the cultural impact of the group. \nThe first edition of this vital document of Los Angeles’ near past featuring Odd Future members Tyler The Creator\, Earl Sweatshirt\, Frank Ocean\, Travis “Taco” Bennett\, Jasper The Dolphin\, Syd Tha Kid\, Hodgy\, and more was published to coincide with the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival last November\, where it sold out immediately! So\, be sure to stop by on Saturday to hang and pick one up while you can. The first one hundred purchased in-store will be accompanied by a free Polaroid t-shirt courtesy of Mr. Stowell. One tee only per customer\, and please check your decks at the door. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to purchase a SIGNED copy of Almost Famous 2011-2016: The OFWGKTA Photographs\, please place your order here. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/brick-stowell/ 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/2025/02/Brick-Stowell_image5_1200px.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:20250201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250201T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20250131T013504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T015512Z UID:10001937-1738425600-1738432800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing for Mick Haggerty: MXWX DESCRIPTION:Join us at Arcana on Saturday\, February 1st\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM to celebrate the publication of MXWX\, the new release by venerable Los Angeles creative treasure Mick Haggerty! \nMXWX — Mick’s Works — is a more or less comprehensive compendium of the various visual works imagined and fabricated by Mick Haggerty over the past half century. Upon moving to Los Angeles from London in 1973\, Haggerty quickly established himself as a go-to record industry designer\, illustrator\, art director\, and later music video director. He has won a Grammy for the visual packaging for Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” along with designing iconic covers for David Bowie\, The Police\, Electric Light Orchestra\, The Go-Go’s\, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers\, Jimi Hendrix\, Nazareth\, Public Image Ltd.\, Keith Richards\, and many\, many more. His editorial illustration includes covers for Time\, Vanity Fair\, New York Magazine\, and New West Magazine. \nThis beautifully illustrated tome additionally features contributions by Gary Panter and Steven Heller along with a stunning archive of Mick’s personal work — much of which is reproduced here for the very first time. Produced in an edition limited to one hundred and fifty hand-numbered copies\, this is sure to sell out quickly\, so come join us for a fun and refreshment filled afternoon with the esteemed Mr. Haggerty. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to purchase a SIGNED copy of “MXWX\,” please place your order at arcanabooks.com. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/mxwx/ 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/2025/01/MickHaggerty_1080x1189.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:20241116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241116T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20241115T142339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241115T211557Z UID:10001926-1731772800-1731780000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing with Architect Lorcan O'Herlihy and Historian Greg Goldin DESCRIPTION:Join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, November 16th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a book signing and conversation between noted Los Angeles-based architect Lorcan O’Herlihy and architectural historian (and co-author) Greg Goldin to celebrate the publication of the brand new Rizzoli  monograph Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: Building In Place: Architecture Rooted in Context and Social Equity. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop\, please place your order below. \nORDER YOUR COPY\nWe look forward to seeing you! \nLorcan O’Herlihy\, FAIA\, Founding Principal\, Creative Director of LOHA\, seeks opportunities to engage with the ever-changing complexities of the urban landscape\, while embracing architecture as a catalyst of change. Since founding his firm in 1994\, his work has been guided by a conscious understanding that architecture operates within a layered context of political\, developmental\, environmental\, and social structures. With offices in Los Angeles and Detroit\, his firm has built over one hundred projects across three continents. The diverse work ranges from art galleries\, bus shelters\, and large-scale neighborhood studies\, to large mixed-use developments\, affordable housing projects\, and university residential complexes. Each project exhibits Lorcan’s belief that artistry and social connectivity are key to building vibrant spaces that elevate the human condition. \nGreg Goldin is the author most recently of An Atlas of Never Built Architecture. He was born and raised in Los Angeles\, living at first in suburbia\, next in the geographic center of the city in a neighborhood with two early Schindler houses and Gregory Ain’s Dunsmuir Apartments. Those buildings inspired his interest in architecture. After many years as a political reporter\, he jumped ship and became the Architecture Critic at Los Angeles Magazine\, a twelve-year stint that led to the book Never Built Los Angeles (Metropolis Books\, 2013) and the exhibition Never Built Los Angeles\, which premiered at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum\, Los Angeles\, in July 2013. He was the recipient of a coveted Getty Research Institute grant for Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. in 2011. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter\, where he continues to unearth untold architectural tales and unbuilt architectural projects. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-book-signing-with-la-architect-lorcan-oherlihy/ 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/2024/11/LOHA_Rizzoli.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:20241109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241109T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20241105T175214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T175214Z UID:10001923-1731168000-1731175200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Launch with Photographer Patrick O'Dell DESCRIPTION:Come one\, come all to Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, November 9th\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM to celebrate Epicly Later’d\, the new Anthology Editions book by photographer Patrick O’Dell! \nA dizzying\, nostalgic katabasis through the simmering melting pot of early 2000s downtown NYC skaters\, artists\, actors\, musicians\, scumbags\, junkies\, geniuses\, and local legends\, Epicly Later’d is a record of a bygone\, immediately post 9-11 era of artistic innovation and productivity crossed with laissez-faire hedonism and\, above all\, friendships that transcend even death. \nThe gathering will be lubricated thanks to Arcana’s generous friends at Open Beer. \nIf you cannot attend (bummer) and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop\, please place your order here! \nSee you then! \nUpcoming Arcana Events \nSaturday\, November 16th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nLorcan O’Herlihy + Greg Goldin: Building in Place\nBook signing + Discussion \nSaturday\, November 23rd\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nRyan McGinley: Yearbook\nBook Signing \nSaturday\, November 21st\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nHuggy Bear: Killed (Of Kids)\nBook Launch URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-book-launch-with-photographer-patrick-odell/ 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/2024/11/Book_Event_2024.11.09-1.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:20241102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20241025T120351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241025T120443Z UID:10001920-1730563200-1730570400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing with LA Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya DESCRIPTION:Join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, November 2nd\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a book signing and conversation between noted Los Angeles-based photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya and art historian Gökcan Demirkazik to celebrate the publication of the brand new Aperture monograph Dark Room A-Z by Paul Mpagi Sepuya. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop\, please place your order below! \nORDER SIGNED COPY\nWe look forward to seeing you! \n“Paul Mpagi Sepuya reflects on the methodologies\, strategies\, and points of interest behind a single\, expansive body of work at a pivotal moment in his career. Sepuya’s photography is grounded in a collaborative\, rhizomatic approach to studio practice and portraiture. This volume unpacks his Dark Room series (2016–21)\, offering a deep dive into the thick network of references and the interconnected community of artists and subjects that Sepuya has interwoven throughout the images. The excavation and mapping of intellectual and artistic data points across the artist’s work is presented through three distinct ‘voices\,’ allowing for a comprehensive cross-referencing of conceptual categories. Each category is alphabetized and illuminated via new texts by curator and scholar Gökcan Demirkazik; selections from previously published texts about the work by critics\, colleagues\, and friends; quotations of other writers’ work that inspire the artist; along with writings by the artist on his thematic preoccupations as they appear and reappear throughout this ongoing body of work. Dark Room A–Z serves as an iterative return and exhaustive manual to the strategies and generative ways of working that have informed Sepuya’s image-making over the past two decades.” \nPaul Mpagi Sepuya is a Los Angeles–based artist. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, Guggenheim Museum\, and Studio Museum in Harlem\, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles\, among other institutions. Notable recent exhibitions include a solo survey at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis\, a solo exhibition at Amsterdam’s Foam museum\, the 2019 Whitney Biennial\, and Being: New Photography 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art. \nGökcan Demirkazik is an art historian\, curator\, and critic\, and is currently a PhD student in art history at University of California\, Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific\, Artforum\, ArtReview\, di’van: A Journal of Accounts\, Even\, and Frieze. \nUpcoming Arcana Events \nSaturday\, November 9th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nPatrick O’Dell: Epicly Later’d\nBook Signing \nSaturday\, November 16th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nLorcan O’Herlihy + Greg Goldin: Building in Place\nBook signing + Discussion \nSaturday\, November 23rd\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nRyan McGinley: Yearbook\nBook Signing \nSaturday\, November 21st\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nHuggy Bear: Killed (Of Kids)\nBook Launch URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/15447/ 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/2024/10/24.11.02_Book-signing.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:20240120T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240120T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 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:20260423T190041 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:20260423T190041 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:20260423T190041 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:20260423T190041 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:20260423T190041 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:20260423T190041 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:20260423T190041 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:20260423T190041 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:20230617T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230617T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20230505T184543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T201648Z UID:10000534-1687017600-1687024800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing at Arcana with Jason Lee: CA | TX 17 DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin Arcana for a Book Signing with Jason Lee\nSaturday\, June 17th | 4:00 – 6:00 PM \nFor the past fourteen years\, artist\, actor\, and skateboarder Jason Lee has traversed America making quiet\, reflective photographs detailing the landscape and its oft-overlooked and forgotten places. TX | CA 17 is the first time Lee has published images from a single outing. \nThey are presented in geographical and (rough) chronological order – North Texas\, NM\, AZ\, the California desert\, and finally DTLA\, where we see the gentleman awaiting his bus. The exposures were made primarily along and surrounding Highways 287\, 40/66\, 62\, and 10. \nBook designed by Ed Templeton \n\nIf you cannot attend but would like to purchase a signed copy\, please call Arcana Books at 310-458-1499 or visit their site. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/jason-lee/ 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/2023/05/Jason-Lee-TX-CA-17_1080px.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:20230506T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20230428T204424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T233550Z UID:10000533-1683388800-1683396000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing at Arcana with Ed Templeton for Wires Crossed DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin Arcana for a Book Signing with Ed Templeton!\nPlease join us Saturday\, May 6th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a very special book signing with artist / photographer / skate legend – and all-around awesome human being – Ed Templeton! Hot off the presses\, his latest is the years-in-the-works Wires Crossed\, which documents nearly twenty years of life on the road with some of the most notable skaters of his generation. \nPublisher Aperture has created a special edition for the event limited to two hundred and fifty copies featuring a special sticker drawn by The Tempster just for Arcana. \n\nIf you cannot attend but would like to purchase a signed copy\, please call Arcana Books at 310-458-1499 or visit their site. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/ed-templeton-wires-crossed/ 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/2023/04/Arcana-Ed-Templeton-Wires-Crossed_01_800px.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:20230408T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230408T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20230330T223519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T225311Z UID:10000530-1680969600-1680976800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with Melba Levick and Rubén Mendoza for Casa Santa Fe DESCRIPTION:Free \nPlease join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, April 8th\, 4:00 – 6:00 pm for a book signing with Melba Levick and Rubén Mendoza for Casa Santa Fe!\nCasa Santa Fe: Design\, Style\, Arts\, and Tradition\nPhotographs by Melba Levick\, Text by Rubén G. Mendoza\n\n“Desert hues\, natural materials\, thick hand-plastered walls\, and adobe brick construction are hallmarks of the Santa Fe Style\, which is as much an expression in architecture\, interior design\, art\, and crafts as it is a way of life. Rooted in a sense of earthy comfort inspired by its history\, the surrounding desert\, and Native American and Hispanic design influences\, the style has a timeless appeal and vibrant ongoing life that has resulted in these extraordinary homes. \nWith features such as eighteenth-century peeled vigas\, tin chandeliers\, romantic iron sconces\, and hand-hewn wood-beamed ceilings\, each house is a rich yet harmonious invitation that will engage the senses and speak to the soul. Beyond the houses\, the writer and photographer spotlight those details and spaces that together convey the magic of this very special place\, including patios and gardens; fireplaces\, kivas\, and hornos; ceramics; Native American arts; cabinets and trasteros; folk art; and weaving. \nCasa Santa Fe is the definitive sourcebook for architects\, designers\, builders\, homeowners\, and interior decorators seeking to expand their visual repertoire of historically defined and classically inspired architectural details and interior appointments.” \n

Melba Levick is an internationally renowned photographer based in Los Angeles and Paris\, with more than sixty books to her name. Her most recent publications from Rizzoli include The Spanish Style House\, The California Missions\, The Ranches: Home on the Range in California\, The California Casa\, and Classic Homes of Los Angeles. \nDr. Rubén G. Mendoza is an archaeologist\, photographer\, and founding faculty member of the California State University\, Monterey Bay. He is the author of several books including The Spanish Style House\, The California Missions\, and Mission San Miguel Arcángel. \n\nIf you cannot attend but would like to purchase a signed copy\, please call Arcana Books at 310-458-1499. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/casa-santa-fe/ 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/2023/03/Casa-Santa-Fe_Cover-only_800px.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:20230326T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230326T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20230314T215335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230315T011650Z UID:10000528-1679846400-1679853600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing for Family: The Source Family Scrapbook DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin us Sunday\, March 26th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM for an Exhibition\, Discussion\, and Book Signing for Family: The Source Family Scrapbook!\nWe are delighted to invite you to attend a very special Sunday afternoon presentation with authors Isis Aquarian\, Jodi Wille\, and Charlie Kitchings to celebrate the publication of Family: The Source Family Scrapbook. For the event the three will host an exhibition of rare photographs and printed materials from the Source Family Archive housed at the UC Santa Barbara Library’s Special Research Collections\, engage in a discussion about the Family and the book\, and sign copies afterwards. If you cannot attend but would like to purchase a signed copy of this\, or one of the other Source Family items we will be offering in limited supply\, please place your order here\, or call Arcana at 310-458-1499. \nIsis Aquarian is the Source Family’s archivist. As one of Father’s fourteen wives\, she photographed and filmed Father and the Source Family\, recorded audio\, maintained scrapbooks\, and helped manage the Family business. She is co-founder and Vice-President of the Source Foundation\, and was an associate producer of The Source Family documentary. Isis has published her award-winning memoir\, The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod: Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family\, and produced the record Isis: The Crone. She has supervised the release of other Source Family music\, created a Source Family comic book\, and her own tee shirt line. \nJodi Wille is a filmmaker and curator known for her work exploring American subcultures. She is director of the feature documentary The Source Family\, and the Co-Founder and editor of book publishing companies Otherworld\, Process Media\, and Dilettante Press. She has edited and published a number of award-winning books including The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod\, YaHoWha 13\, and The Source Family; Dear Andy Kaufman\, I Hate Your Guts!; Pure Country: The Leon Kagarise Archives 1961-1971; and Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan\, by amateur photographer Gary Lee Boas. She has curated numerous museum and gallery exhibitions related to her book and film projects in Los Angeles\, New York\, Baltimore\, Portland\, and London. \nCharlie Kitchings is an independent curator and art advisor. He founded AMBACH & RICE in 2009 and organized over fifty exhibits during the gallery’s six-year tenure in Seattle and Los Angeles. He is currently a partner in record manufacturing company SunPress Vinyl. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/family-the-source-family-scrapbook/ 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/2023/03/TheFamily_feature_1000px.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:20230114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230114T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20230106T200051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230106T221303Z UID:10000363-1673712000-1673719200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing at Arcana with Lawrence Weschler: A Trove of Zohars DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, January 14th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing for Lawrence Weschler‘s brand new Hat & Beard publication\, A Trove of Zohars. For the event Mr. Weschler will be joined by photographer and early-photographic process historian Stephen Berkman for a discussion about the book and the shrouded-in-mystery Zohar Studios. \n“So Lawrence Weschler was minding his own business\, as all his stories begin\, when he got a call from Gravity Goldberg (her real name!) who introduced herself as the Director of Public Programs and Visitor Experience at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. She was calling\, she told him\, to apprise him of an upcoming show – an inaugural exhibition\, that is\, of a recently uncovered trove of work by Shimmel Zohar\, a mid-19th-century Lithuanian immigrant photographer. A contemporary of Mathew Brady\, Zohar had chronicled the Jewish immigrant community of the Lower East Side of 1860s – 1870s Manhattan in unparalleled detail\, compiling a complete inventory of professions and types. Or not. There was\, she suggested\, some slippage in the whole story\, and they were trying to find someone who might be willing to investigate things\, and they were wondering\, might he be interested? \nThus begins an antic tale of investigative perplex and vertiginous inquiry\, as Weschler tracks down Stephen Berkman\, the wet-collodion devotee who claims to have discovered the trove in question\, but it’s a long and loopy story. And indeed\, Weschler’s account evolves into the fourth volume of his ongoing “Chronicles of Slippage” series\, doing for the early history of photography and the long heritance of Judaism what the series’ first volume\, the Pulitzer-shortlisted Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder\, once did for the history of museums and the phenomenology of marvel. \nAnd that’s just the half of it\, for the main text sprouts a veritable delirium of digressive footnotes (taking up more than half the book)\, constituting what may be the closest we are going to ever get by way of memoir from this confounding and beloved writer.” \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop\, please contact the store for details or order online. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/lawrence-weschler/ 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/2023/01/Lawrence-Weschler_event-post.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:20221210T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221210T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20221206T000328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T001432Z UID:10000357-1670688000-1670695200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing at Arcana with Doug Aitken: Works 1992-2022 DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, December 10th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing afternoon with Doug Aitken on the launch of his latest release\, Works 1992-2022.  If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop\, please contact the store for details or order online. \nThis comprehensive new book explores the career of multimedia artist Doug Aitken\, following the path from his first major works in the late 1990s through to the present day. Aitken’s work encompasses large-scale film installations such as Sleepwalkers (2007)\, site-specific sculptures including his Underwater Pavilions (2016) installed off the coast of Catalina Island\, California\, and peripatetic happenings like Station to Station (2013)\, which saw a train containing a travelling studio cross the USA from the Atlantic to the Pacific\, staging unique performance events at each stop. Weaving together images and text in an energetic composition of rhythm and movement\, this authoritative volume mirrors the ways in which Aitken has approached and explored the contemporary world in his conceptual body of work across multiple mediums. \nWith an introduction by Joseph Akel and a new extended essay on Aitken’s oeuvre by Daniel Birnbaum\, plus archival essays and interviews with the artist by writers including Marc Spiegler\, Terry Riley\, Hans Ulrich Obrist\, Joseph Grima\, April Lamm\, Susan Solomon\, and Jörg Heiser. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-signing-at-arcana-with-doug-aitken-works-1992-2022/ 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/2022/12/Doug-Aitkin-22.12.10.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:20221203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20221118T160318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T173544Z UID:10000439-1670083200-1670090400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing at Arcana with Roger Davies: Beyond The Canyon: Inside Epic California Homes DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, December 3rd\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\, for a book signing \nRoger Davies: Beyond The Canyon: Inside Epic California Homes\nWe are delighted to invite you to attend a special book signing with Roger Davies. \nIf you cannot attend but would like a signed copy\, please call Arcana at 310-458-1499. \nFor more than twenty years\, globe-trotting English-born\, Los Angeles-based photographer Roger Davies has shot stunning\, luxurious\, unique\, and storied residences by the world’s most acclaimed designers and architects for the most prestigious magazines. In “Beyond The Canyon”\, he trains his camera on residences in the Golden State\, his adopted home\, driving the coast to shoot interiors from Malibu to Marin County\, Laurel Canyon to Hollywood. Granted unparalleled access\, Davies takes readers into the often glamorous\, always compelling homes of the artists\, film producers\, actors\, musicians\, interior designers\, art collectors\, and others who lend the West Coast its cachet. Across the variety of spaces represented – among them legacy works by midcentury masters John Lautner\, A. Quincy Jones\, and Craig Ellwood\, and contemporary designs by Tadao Ando and Frank Gehry – he captures the essence of California living in his portraits of spectacular spaces and breathtaking views of the Hollywood Hills and palm tree-lined beaches\, all bathed in a warm glow. As one of the world’s top photographers of interiors\, Davies’s work has appeared in many interior design and architecture monographs. In “Beyond The Canyon”\, his own first book\, he provides in his own words a rare behind-the-scenes\, industry insider’s experience of photographing the stunning residences. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/roger-davies/ 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/2022/11/Roger-Davies_event-pics_5.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:20221120T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20221118T001339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T173618Z UID:10000462-1668960000-1668967200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing at Arcana with David Shrigley: Get Your Shit Together DESCRIPTION:Free\nPlease join us at Arcana: Books on the Arts on Sunday\, November 20th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\, for a book signing \nDavid Shrigley: Get Your Shit Together\nWe are delighted to invite you to attend a special book signing with David Shrigley. Get Your Shit Together is the first book that exclusively features the iconic British artist’s recent artwork in color. It celebrates Shrigley’s absurd\, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying text. \nIf you cannot attend but would like a signed copy\, please call Arcana at 310-458-1499. \nDavid Shrigley was born in 1968 in Macclesfield\, UK. He lives and works in Brighton and Devon. In January 2020 the artist was awarded the decoration of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire or OBE. Shrigley’s quick-witted drawings and hand-rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humor and reveal chance utterings like snippets of over-heard conversations. Recurring themes and thoughts pervade his storytelling\, capturing deliberately two-dimensional views of the world\, the perspective of aliens and monsters or the compulsive habits of an eavesdropper shouting out loud. While drawing is at the center of his practice\, Shrigley works across an extensive range of media including sculpture\, large-scale installation\, animation\, painting\, photography and music. He consistently seeks to widen his audience by operating outside the gallery sphere\, including producing artist publications and creating collaborative music projects. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/david-shrigley/ 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/2022/11/Shrigley_event-pics_1.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:20221001T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221001T160000 DTSTAMP:20260423T190041 CREATED:20220922T001151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T200119Z UID:10000517-1664632800-1664640000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Join us for Frances Anderton's book release celebration! DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 1st at 2:00 pm as we celebrate the release of Frances Anderton’s book Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles\, published by Angel City Press. Stop in for a reception\, a lively talk and Q&A. \nPLEASE RSVP\nLiving in Los Angeles has always been equated with the suburban single-family home with a big backyard. But for decades\, L.A. has also been the consummate laboratory for exceptional experiments in multifamily housing — dwellings centered on shared open space\, from the central courtyard to the rooftop garden. In Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles\, author Frances Anderton explores that fascinating history— from the bungalow courts and apartment-hotels of the 1910s\, through the development of garden apartments\, to contemporary mid-rise “urban villages” and co-living spaces. Common Ground features the work of the Zwebells\, R.M. Schindler\, Richard Neutra\, John Lautner\, Ralph Vaughn\, Koning Eizenberg\, Sean Knibb\, Michael Maltzan\, Brooks + Scarpa\, Lorcan O’Herlihy\, Shin Shin\, and many more. In a time of housing crisis\, Frances Anderton makes the case that well-designed\, equitable\, connected living is tomorrow’s American dream. \n\n \n  \nABOUT FRANCES\nFrances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print\, podcasts\, exhibitions\, and at public events. For many years Anderton hosted DnA: Design and Architecture\, broadcast on KCRW\, a public radio station. Her honors include the Esther McCoy Award\, bestowed by the USC Architectural Guild at USC School of Architecture\, for her work in educating the public about architecture and urbanism. Anderton resides in Santa Monica\, California. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/join-us-for-frances-andertons-book-release-celebration/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/COGR-cvr1-1448-x1448.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR