BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Helms Design District - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Helms Design District 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: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:20251122T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251122T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192037 CREATED:20251115T230610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251116T232655Z UID:10001992-1763827200-1763834400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing + Discussion with Photographer Daniel Arnold at Arcana Books DESCRIPTION:Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, November 22nd between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as they welcome iconic New York-based photographer Daniel Arnold to celebrate the release of his new Loose Joints monograph\, You Are What You Do. \nDaniel will be signing his new book following an in-person discussion conducted by Arcana manager and longtime Arnold-associate Jesse Pearson. For the curious\, here is the Apology Podcast’s lengthy 2022 conversation between the two. \nWe look forward to seeing you on Saturday for an engaging conversation and the opportunity to pick up Mr. Arnold’s epic new book! If you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed copy of You Are What You Do\, please place your order here! \nThanks to our friends at Open Brewing and Las Jaras Wines for their liquid support. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE THE BOOK URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/daniel-arnold/ 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/2025/11/Arcana_Daniel-Arnold_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:20251026T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251026T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192037 CREATED:20251023T202554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T004810Z UID:10001989-1761494400-1761501600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with Photographer STILLZ at Arcana Books DESCRIPTION:Stop in Arcana: Books on the Arts this Sunday\, October 26 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm for a special book signing with photographer STILLZ. \n“Bad Bunny by STILLZ is a recently published photography collection showcasing six years of close-up portraits of the Puerto Rican icon. This volume is the work of Colombian-American filmmaker and photographer STILLZ\, a longtime collaborator and trusted confidant of the artist”. \nA brand new example of the first edition of this fantastic\, sure-to-disappear-quickly collection of Polaroid portraits perfect for the Bad Bunny completist additionally SIGNED by photographer STILLZ. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n PURCHASE THE BOOK URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-signing-with-photographer-stillz-at-arcana-books/ 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/2025/10/Stillz_BadBunny_Site.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:20250927T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250927T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192037 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:20260423T192037 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:20260423T192038 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:20250501T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20250423T193057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T184430Z UID:10001951-1746124200-1746131400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:LA Center of Photography Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming Los Angeles Center of Photography for the opening reception and panel discussion of Thresholds 2025: The Bold Edition on Thursday\, May 1st from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. The exhibition features works by international street photographers and offers an expanded view of the world and street photography as a practice. This juried annual open call brings together sights and visions for a virtual exhibition and a month-long projection-based exhibition at the Helms Design Center in Culver City\, to be viewed street side every night from 8:00 pm to 2:00 am. \nTop Prize Winners \nFirst Place – Thouly Dosios \nSecond Place – Gordon Ownby \nThird Place – Josh Bergeron \nHonorable Mentions \nAnna Rose Barker\, Blanca Cruz\, Chris Gamez\, Danielle Goldstein\, James T Gunderson\, Rohitha Gunetilleke\, Kate Hassett\, Nina Quỳnh-Anh Hồ\, Jasmine Hsu\, Mark Indig\, James Kao\, Paul Kessel\, Suz Lipman\, Greg Lutze\, Nina Menconi\, Chad Nelson\, John Nilsson\, Rollence Patugan\, Kausik Paul\, michael rababy\, Leslie Rosenthal\, Karen Safer\, Jason Santiago\, William Mark Sommer\, Jay G. Thornton\, Edwin Umana\, Jon Wollenhaupt \nJuror \nKara Felt\, Ph.D.\, is the Lawrence S. Friedman Curator of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art \nPhoto Credit: First Place Winner\, Thouly Dosios\, MLK Day Parade \n\n \n \n \n \n \n RSVP AND MORE INFO URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/la-center-of-photography-thresholds-2025/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/First-Place_Dosios_Thouly_49867693_MLK_Day_Parade.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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241123T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241123T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20241121T232101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241121T232101Z UID:10001927-1732377600-1732384800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Launch with Ryan McGinley DESCRIPTION:Join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, November 23rd\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM to celebrate Yearbook\, the new release by Ryan McGinley! \nThe culmination of a multi-year project encompassing colorful\, joyous studio nudes starring a veritable menagerie of stark-naked human beings\, Yearbook marks a particularly vibrant era of Ryan’s work. In addition to signing his new volume\, McGinley will also appear in discussion with artist (and subject of his camera) Petra Collins. \nThe gathering is generously supported by Arcana’s friends at Open Beer and Las Jaras Wines. \nWe hope to see you there! \nUpcoming Arcana Events\nSaturday\, December 21st\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nHUGGY BEAR: KILLED (OF KIDS)\nBook Launch URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-book-launch-with-ryan-mcginley/ 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_Launch_24.11.23-e1732212476882.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:20241109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241109T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 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:20260423T192038 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:20241018T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20250902T191220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T011502Z UID:10001979-1729249200-1729274400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Culver City Art Walk 2025 DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, October 18th from 11 am to 6 pm\, Helms Bakery District is excited to partner with the Culver City Arts District for their annual Art Walk & Roll Festival\, a jam-packed day of art and creativity\, captivating performances\, pop-up markets\, delicious food and beverages\, and special installations that all come together into one big neighborhood celebration. It’s a full day of fun festivities for the entire family so stay tuned for more details to follow. \nCome on out and show your love for Culver City! URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/culver-city-art-walk-2025/ LOCATION:Culver City Arts District CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CCAW25_STD_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T190000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20240910T143621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T215122Z UID:10001914-1728126000-1728154800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Culver City Art Walk DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, October 5th from 11 am to 7 pm\, Helms Bakery District is excited to partner with the Culver City Arts District for their annual Art Walk Festival\, a jam-packed day of art and creativity\, captivating performances\, pop-up markets\, delicious food and beverages\, and special installations that all come together into one big neighborhood celebration. It’s a full day of fun festivities for the entire family so stay tuned for more details to follow. \nCome on out and show your love for Culver City! \n\n \n \n \n \n \n COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/culver-city-art-walk-save-the-date/ LOCATION:Culver City Arts District CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ArtWalk2024_IGPost_1080px.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20240424T151258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T192256Z UID:10001892-1714233600-1714240800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing with Jim Ganzer: Life Lived DESCRIPTION:Free \nJoin Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, April 27th\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a book signing with OG coastal cultural icon Jim Ganzer to celebrate the publication of his brand new\, limited edition photographic memoir from the creative folks at Indoek: Life Lived. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please place your order here. \nWe look forward to seeing you! \n\n“Jim Ganzer is widely known as a Malibu surf legend and an underground L.A. icon. He and his group of surf friends inspired the 1978 film\, Big Wednesday\, written and directed by John Milius. When the Coen brothers were developing The Big Lebowski\, Milius introduced them to Ganzer\, who influenced Jeff Bridges’ famous character\, The Dude. A graduate of Chouinard Art Institute\, Jim Ganzer emerged as an artist when the surf and skate culture-inspired world was not yet a billion-dollar industry\, but an afterthought in a mostly hardware-focused segment. He became the voice of the subculture in the ’80s for inventing innovative garments combining form with function for his surf and skatewear brand\, Jimmy’Z. Ganzer collaborated with Ed Ruscha on several works\, such as ‘Brave Men Run in My Family’ and ‘Sea of Desire’ and also starred in Ruscha’s film\, Miracle. He has shown his art in many esteemed group and solo exhibits in California and all over the world since 1971.” \nImages courtesy of Indoek URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/jim-ganzer/ 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/2024/04/Arcana-Jim-Ganzer_SiteEmail.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:20240420T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240420T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20240417T210010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T212237Z UID:10001890-1713628800-1713636000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing with Tim Street-Porter and Annie Kelly for City of Dreams: Los Angeles Interiors DESCRIPTION:Free \n\nJoin Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, April 20th\, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a book signing with Annie Kelly and Tim Street-Porter to celebrate the publication of their latest sumptuous architecture and design survey\, City of Dreams: Los Angeles Interiors. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please place your order here! \nWe look forward to seeing you! \n\n“Los Angeles’ Tim Street-Porter has been chronicling this metropolis’ architecture and interiors for over twenty-five years. This stunning collection of inspiring homes begins with a look back\, which includes examples of iconic houses inspired by Hollywood film fantasies\, Modernist residences by such luminaries as John Lautner\, and Frank Gehry’s Deconstructivism-style home. The heart of the book features today’s forward-looking homes\, divided into two sections: Living with Art and Design and Los Angeles Modern. Antiquarian Joel Chen artfully blends an eye-catching collection of period furniture and Chinese objets while interior designer Jean-Louis Denoit’s house sparkles with a Tony Duquette gilded mirror and an abalone shell chandelier. Another trend is the renovation of modernist houses with a personal touch. Artist Mary Weatherford’s reworking of her A. Quincy Jones–designed home\, in collaboration with designer Oliver Furth\, has a striking orange bedroom. Illuminating Los Angeles’s dramatic indoor-outdoor living spaces\, this tome is a must-have for architecture and design enthusiasts.” \nTim Street-Porter is the renowned Los Angeles-based architecture and design photographer that has produced numerous books\, including L.A. Modern\, Palm Springs: Modernist Paradise\, Splash: The Art of the Swimming Pool\, and Casa Mexico. \nWriter and designer Annie Kelly is the author of the successful Rooms to Inspire series\, as well as Living in Paradise\, Splash: The Art of the Swimming Pool\, and Casa Mexico. She writes about lifestyle for such publications as Belle and The Los Angeles Times. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/city-of-dreams/ 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/2024/04/AnnieKellyTimStreet-Porter_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:20240302T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240302T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20240215T223038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T231300Z UID:10001870-1709395200-1709402400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing with Dawoud Bey for Elegy DESCRIPTION:Free \nOn Saturday\, March 2nd from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with Dawoud Bey to celebrate the publication of Elegy \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please place your order here. \n\nRenowned for his Harlem street scenes and expressive portraits\, Dawoud Bey continues his ongoing series on African American history focusing on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Elegy brings together Bey’s three landscape series to date – “Night Coming Tenderly\, Black (2017)”\, “In This Here Place (2021)”\, and “Stoney the Road (2023)” – elucidating the deep historical memory still embedded in the geography of the United States. Bey takes viewers to the historic Richmond Slave Trail in Virginia\, where Africans were marched onto auction blocks; to the plantations of Louisiana\, where they labored; and along the last stages of the Underground Railroad in Ohio\, where fugitives sought self-emancipation. Essays by the exhibition’s curator\, Valerie Cassel Oliver\, and scholars LeRonn P. Brooks\, Imani Perry\, and Christina Sharpe illuminate the work. By interweaving these bodies of work into an elegy in three movements\, Bey doesn’t merely evoke history\, he retells it through historically grounded images that challenge viewers to go beyond seeing and imagine lived experiences. \nA brand new example additionally SIGNED by photographer Dawoud Bey. \n\nCover Image: Untitled (James River) from the series Stony the Road\, 2023\, Dawoud Bey (American\, born 1953)\, gelatin silver print. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\, Gift of Mrs. Alfred duPont\, by exchange. Image © Dawoud Bey. Photograph of Dawoud Bey © Frank Ashman. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/elegy/ 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/2024/02/Dawoud-Bey_Cover_1045px.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:20240217T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240217T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20240215T215930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T182008Z UID:10001869-1708185600-1708192800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing with Yelena Yemchuk for Malanka DESCRIPTION:Free \nOn Saturday\, February 17th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with Yelena Yemchuk to celebrate the publication of Malanka. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please place your order here. \n\n“Ukrainian-born\, Brooklyn-based photographer and painter Yelena Yemchuk is most commonly known for her fashion and portrait photographs\, which have appeared in Italian and Japanese Vogue\, V\, the New Yorker and The New York Times. Yemchuk makes images that teeter on the threshold between her Eastern European heritage and her daily life in New York; between fiction and reality; between the grand beauty of 1960s cinema and the social and built environments of post-Soviet realms. As with all of her work\, Malanka is a personal\, feminine\, surrealist and magical project. The eponymous tradition is a pre-Christian folklore ritual driving out winter and welcoming spring\, an ancient custom reminiscent of Persephone’s return in Greek mythology. It is celebrated on January 14th\, the old New Year in the Julian calendar\, by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. In 2019 and 2020\, Yemchuk traveled to Crasna (Krasnoilsk in Ukrainian) to document the night-long festival. Accompanying Yemchuk’s striking photographic documentation is a poetic essay by Romanian cultural journalist Ioana Pelehatai.” URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/malanka/ 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/2024/02/Arcana-MALANKA_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:20240210T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240210T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20240206T180605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T182316Z UID:10001866-1707580800-1707588000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana Book Signing + Discussion with Mary Virginia Swanson for Publish Your Photography Book DESCRIPTION:Free \nOn Saturday\, February 10th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with the iconic Mary Virginia Swanson to celebrate the publication of the newly updated edition of the ever-popular Publish Your Photography Book! Ms. Swanson will be signing and taking your questions in a discussion moderated by Radius Books’ Isabella Beroutsos. \nIf you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy of Publish Your Photography Book to have shipped or to pick up at Arcana\, please place your order here. \n\nThe first book to demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs\, Publish Your Photography Book was first released in 2011 and subsequently sold out two editions. This highly anticipated third edition guides photo-based artists through the steps involved in publishing a book of their work. Industry insiders Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson survey the current landscape of photography-book publishing and point out the many avenues to pursue and pitfalls to avoid. This updated\, expert guide covers: a history of the photobook; an overview of the publishing industry; the process of bringing your project to book form (with both traditional publishing and self-publishing options); how to market a photography book (including a dialogue with collectors on the limited edition and artist-made books); case studies with published photographers; and valuable resources on production materials\, publishing and marketing timelines. \nFilled with educational wisdom\, the book features interviews and contributions from artists\, agents\, editors\, designers\, printers\, publishers\, distributors\, booksellers\, curators and librarians who share their experiences and provide advice about each step on the path to publication and placement. A removable workbook helps readers address book preparation\, draft submission guidelines\, production timelines and marketing plans. With over 50 years of combined industry experience and insights\, the authors also provide both historical context and contemporary expertise about the international photobook scene\, including awards\, fairs and grants. \nThe contributors include: Regina Maria Anzenberger\, Bob Aufuldish\, Julia Borissova\, Barbara Bosworth\, Frish Brandt\, Sonel Breslav\, Joan Brookbank\, Jane Brown\, Jason Burstein\, David Campany\, Alejandro Cartagena\, Bruno Ceschel\, Nelson Chan\, Lewis Chaplin\, Clément Cheroux\, David Chickey\, Joshua Chuang\, Mary DelMonico\, Sarah Espenon\, Jon Evans\, Chloe Ferres\, Tricia Gabriel\, Susan kae Grant\, Kris Graves\, Hans Gremmen\, Nathalie Herschdorfer\, Todd Hido\, Deborah Hollis\, Tiffany Jones\, Christina Labey\, Joan Liftin\, Michael Lundgren\, Lesley A. Martin\, Christopher McCall\, Lisa McCarty\, Clifton Meador\, Dan Milnor\, Arezoo Moseni\, Colleen Mullins\, Azu Nwagbogu\, Martin Parr\, Cecile Poimboeuf-Koizumi\, Alan Rapp\, Rixon Reed\, Ruth R. Rogers\, Laura Russell\, Markus Schaden\, Mike Slack\, Søren Solkær\, David Solo\, Gerhard Steidl\, Alan Thomas\, Ian van Coller\, Anne Wilkes Tucker\, Amy Wilkins\, Deborah Willis\, Denise Wolff\, Nancy E. Wolff\, Carl Wooley\, Sophie Wright and Philip Zimmermann. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/publish-your-photography-book/ 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/2024/02/Publish-Your-Photo-Book_2024_site.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:20260423T192038 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:20231028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231028T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 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:20260423T192038 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:20260423T192038 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:20260423T192038 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:20221203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 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:20221120T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20221019T180022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T173812Z UID:10000521-1668967200-1668974400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:¡AZÚCAR! Closing Reception with CONTRA-TIEMPO DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, November 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM for the closing reception of the photo gallery show of CAÑA by photographer Farah Sosa and CONTRA-TIEMPO’S powerful 2-week residency at Helms Bakery. \nCome celebrate with CONTRA-TIEMPO all the magic that was created\, the relationships that were built\, the dancing that took place\, and the stories that were shared. We will close our partnership with a final screening of the film CAŃA that was created in collaboration with Ana María Alvarez\, Meena Murugesan\, and Anaïs Maviel. Immediately following the film\, join us in a dialogue with the collaborators of their newest work ¡AZÚCAR! \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/azucar-closing-reception-with-contra-tiempo/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CT_AMA-Press-Image.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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20221019T171659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T173656Z UID:10000520-1668862800-1668870000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:¡AZÚCAR! Sabor Session at Helms Bakery DESCRIPTION:Dance and get down with CONTRA-TIEMPO during their Sabor Session! \nJoin CONTRA-TIEMPO on Saturday\, November 19th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM on Helms Walk\, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue\, as you move through and embody social dance practices rooted in the African and Afro-Latin Diaspora. \nThese ancestral movement practices were designed and passed down to build resilience\, affirm joy\, instill hope and to strengthen social and political resistance. From line dancing to comparsa processions from freestyling to Salsa; from cyphering to partnering – their sabor sessions will remind you of your strength\, of our complexities as human beings\, and your deep connection to others and the world around you. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\nBe ready to move your body and join the movement procession from the pedestrian plaza into the gallery space to view the beautiful photo exhibition of CAŃA that was captured by photographer Farah Sosa. The exhibition is available for viewing through November 20th. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/azucar-sabor-session-at-helms-bakery/ LOCATION:Helms Walk\, 3270 Helms Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90034 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AZUCAR-at-Helms-Bakery-2_1080x1080.png GEO:34.0306591;-118.384688 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Walk 3270 Helms Avenue Los Angeles CA 90034;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=3270 Helms Avenue:geo:-118.384688,34.0306591 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20221019T171610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T171610Z UID:10000519-1668344400-1668351600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:¡AZÚCAR! Choreographic Lab at Helms Bakery DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, November 13th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM\, come participate in the creative process of CONTRA-TIEMPO’S newest work ¡AZÚCAR! during this Choreographic Lab inside Helms Bakery’s Washington Corridor Gallery. \nWe invite you to witness a small work in progress\, create your own movement/theater-based work around the themes explored in the piece (ancestral healing\, movement\, sugar\, sweetness\, etc.)\, and share your own stories connected to the work in council circles. Council is an age-old practice that involves bringing people together in a circle to bear witness and share authentically. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\nJoin us in building\, creating\, and imagining the future of this work. The beautiful photo gallery exhibition of CAŃA\, captured by photographer Farah Sosa\, is available for viewing through November 20th. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/azucar-choreographic-lab-at-helms-bakery/ LOCATION:Washington Corridor Gallery\, 8723 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AZUCAR-at-Helms-Bakery-2_1080x1080.png GEO:34.0315037;-118.3774661 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Washington Corridor Gallery 8723 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8723 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3774661,34.0315037 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220903T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220903T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20220830T162007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220830T174850Z UID:10000505-1662220800-1662228000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing at Arcana with Gregory Bojorquez for Eastsiders DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday\, September 3rd\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\, for a book signing \nGregory Bojorquez: Eastsiders\nIf you cannot attend but would like a signed copy of the brand new\, second printing of Eastsiders\, please place your order here\, or call Arcana at 310-458-1499. They have a few copies remaining of the quickly sold out first edition that can be ordered while supplies last. \nEastsiders is the brand new collection of Gregory Bojorquez’ images spanning over twenty-five years of the noted Los Angeles photographer’s vision. “This book showcases the robust body of work of Bojorquez\, photographs depicting the complex\, but also celebratory\, reality of Los Angeles’s vast Eastside. Not only the tattoos\, clothing\, and walls related to La Vida Loca\, but also the mothers\, the gardens\, the children\, the working men\, the decorated lowrider cars\, the spirit of resiliency.” – Luis J Rodriguez \nGregory Bojorquez was born in Los Angeles in 1972. He started photographing in his teens\, and set about documenting the subjects and stories that interested him personally. The intimate images he captured in East L.A. were not the product of structured photo sessions or assignments. They were shot from the perspective of a young man hanging out with friends and neighbors. In the late 1980s Gregory began photographing for the L.A. Weekly and was added as a staff photographer. Assignments for magazines and commercial work for major record labels naturally followed. His portraits of personalities such as Snoop Dogg and Mike Tyson appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone and For His magazine. In 1999 Gregory became instrumental in the early beginnings of DUB Magazine where he was brought on as Photo Editor and a feature photographer for a period of more than seven years. Since that time\, Gregory’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in gallery shows\, museum exhibitions\, and art fairs including Photo London\, Paris Photo\, and Art Düsseldorf. His work is represented by Galerie Bene Taschen in Koln\, and by Little Big Man in Los Angeles; who has published this spectacular volume. \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/gregory-bojorquez/ 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/2022/08/Gregory-Bojorquez-Eastsiders.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:20220724T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220724T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20220719T170034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220719T181649Z UID:10000494-1658678400-1658685600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana hosts a Book Signing with John Divola: SCAPES DESCRIPTION:Please join us Sunday\, July 24th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM for a book signing \nJohn Divola: SCAPES\nPlease join us Sunday\, July 24th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM to celebrate the arrival of Mr. Divola’s stunning new Skinnerboox publication. If you cannot attend but would like to purchase a signed copy\, please place your order here or call Arcana at 310-458-1499. \n“Cameras and their users are caught between the universal and the particular. Photography and photographs; humanity and whatever specific kind of human we happen to be. There is at least something existentially universal about John Divola’s photographic adventures. The lone observer moving through the world and reflecting upon it through various camera possibilities. But nobody is truly universal\, or only universal. We each come wrapped in our particulars\, just as each and every photograph belongs to the universe of photography precisely insofar as it is particular. Forever the two. When I look at Divola’s photographs\, I sense something universal because I sense all the particulars. Yes\, a white\, male\, middle class Southern Californian\, post-conceptual artist of the kind that makes these kinds of photographs. But nobody makes photographs quite like Divola. He is one of a kind\, and therein are the universal and the particular.” – David Campany from his text for “SCAPES”\, which contains selections from three of the photographer’s most celebrated bodies of early black and white work\, “Four Landscapes”\, “As Far As I Could Get”\, and “Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert.” URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/john-divola-scapes/ 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/2022/07/38cb2b8c-02fe-5f12-9ce5-e07a82f63147.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:20220611T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220611T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20220601T182139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220601T183735Z UID:10000498-1654963200-1654970400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Arcana hosts a Book Signing with Arthur Grace – Communism(s): A Cold War Album DESCRIPTION:Please join us Saturday\, June 11th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM for a book signing \nArthur Grace: Communism(s): A Cold War Album\nFor most people in the West\, the realities of life behind the Iron Curtain have faded into caricatures of police state repression and bread lines. With the world seemingly again divided between democracies and authoritarian regimes\, it is essential that we understand the reality of life in the Soviet Bloc. Noted American photojournalist Arthur Grace was uniquely placed to provide that context. \nDuring the 1970s and 1980s Grace traveled extensively behind the Iron Curtain\, working primarily for news magazines. One of only a small corps of Western photographers with ongoing access\, he was able to delve into the most ordinary corners of people’s daily lives\, while also covering significant events. Many of the photographs in this remarkable book are effectively psychological portraits that leave the viewer with a sense of the gamut of emotions in that era. \nIllustrated with over one hundred and twenty black-and-white images – nearly all previously unpublished\, Communism(s) gives an unprecedented glimpse behind the veil of a not-so-distant time filled with harsh realities unseen by nearly all but those that lived through it. Shot in the USSR\, Poland\, Romania\, Yugoslavia and the German Democratic Republic\, here are portraits of factory workers\, farmers\, churchgoers\, vacationers and loitering teens juxtaposed with the GDR’s imposing Social Realist-designed apartment blocks\, annual May Day Parades\, Poland’s Solidarity movement (and the subsequent imposition of martial law) and the vastness of Moscow’s Red Square. \nBeautifully printed in Italy by publisher Damiani Editore\, Communism(s) was co-edited by Arthur Grace\, Arcana’s own Lee Kaplan\, and Deadbeat Club Press’ Clint Woodside\, who also contributed the book’s striking design. Read some of its impressive advance reviews from The New York Times\, Washington Post\, and The Sunday London Times\, and join us Saturday\, June 11th to acquire your own copy of this timely document signed by photographer Arthur Grace \nIf you cannot attend\, place an order here for your very own copy of Communism(s) signed by Arthur Grace to be picked up at the store or shipped to you after the event. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arthur-grace/ 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/2022/06/Arthur-Grace_IGPost_1080h.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:20211113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20211103T130038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211106T002025Z UID:10000454-1636804800-1636822800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:SQUARE OFF3 | A Photo Installation Supporting SoCal NOMA DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 13th from 12:00 to 5:00 pm\, please join us for SQUARE OFF3\, a photo exhibition designed to nurture art and support a selected non-profit organization. This year’s installation focuses on modern\, abstract\, and vintage architecture in Los Angeles and beyond. The format for each photograph is a 12 x 12 square image centered within a 15 x 15 inch print. \nEach photographer will display three images. All images will sell for $100 each with 50% of the proceeds to benefit The Southern California Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects with Summer Camp scholarships. The remaining 50% will be awarded to the photographer. \nLet’s stay safe! We ask guests to be masked when they enter the gallery. Thank you for supporting in-person events at Helms Bakery. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/square-off3-a-photo-installation-supporting-socal-noma/ LOCATION:Washington Corridor Gallery\, 8723 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Walt-Disney-Concert-Hall.jpg GEO:34.0315037;-118.3774661 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Washington Corridor Gallery 8723 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8723 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3774661,34.0315037 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T192038 CREATED:20190916T211729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211006T153447Z UID:10000330-1633777200-1633802400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Art Walk & Roll Festival 2021 at Helms Bakery District DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, October 9th from 11 am to 6 pm\, Helms Bakery is excited to partner with the Culver City Arts District for their annual Culver City Art Walk and Roll Festival\, a self-guided tour and celebration of art\, culture\, mobility\, and our creative community. \nBegin at Helms Avenue where you and the kids will enjoy a “cardboard playground” created by our friends at reDiscover Center. Art and Design are at the core of our programming\, featuring artists Cynthia Alexandra\, Trine Churchill\, Stephanie Kerley Schwartz\, Yuliya Sigalova\, Textile Arts LA’s Tricksters & Transformations exhibition\, and a Biophilia poster competition installation from Poster Territory. \nThen stroll through the Arts District along Washington Boulevard to visit galleries\, enjoy live music\, grab a bite\, or stop at the mobility test area for e-bike\, scooter\, and board demos. \n\n \nCardboard Play \nJoin the crowd and build something great in reDiscover Center‘s Cardboard Playground on Helms Walk\, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue. With piles of appliance boxes\, carpet tubes\, and rolls of fabric\, your imagination will go wild. Work with reDiscover’s Teaching Artists and our curated family-friendly cardboard tools to learn new construction techniques and make huge structures.\nHelms Walk\, 8800 Venice Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA 90034 \n\n \nArt + Nature \nCome celebrate art + nature during the opening of the International Biophilia Poster Exhibit\, exploring humanity’s relationship with the natural environment. 100 poster design finalists were selected from over 3500 global submissions. This exhibit is organized and sponsored by Brand Culture and PosterTerritory. www.biophilial.com\nWashington Corridor Gallery\, 8723 Washington Blvd. Culver City\, CA \n\n \nOn the Ropes \nOriginally conceived for the dream sequence of a theatrical play\, Stephanie Kerley-Schwartz continued the process of wrapping rope with silk fabric\, envisioning an evolving artwork that can be re-configured in multiple ways in any location. These same ropes have been stretched around boulders in a remote area of Yucca Valley and Stephanie has her eye on other locations — a fenced off-drainage ditch alongside the 10 freeway and a dry stream bed near Ojai. The ropes are making a quick stop at Helms Bakery’s Washington Corridor Gallery during Art Walk 2021.\nWashington Corridor Gallery\, 8723 Washington Blvd. Culver City\, CA \n\n \nAmazonia Delivered \nArtist Yuliya Sigalova’s Amazonia Delivered addresses the problem of deforestation and the excessive production of paper products used to maintain our lifestyles. Excess and careless waste\, exacerbated by skyrocketing product delivery during the pandemic\, contribute to the strain on our resources and animals. A structure built with Amazon boxes\, evoking an image of a tall rainforest tree stump\, with bark and roots made of void fill paper and other packing materials\, will include endangered species of animals and plants of the Amazon forest represented as cardboard and paper sculptures\, suggesting their metamorphosis into cardboard and an expression of the fragility of beauty and life traded for convenience.\nHelms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Blvd. Suite A\, Culver City\, CA \n\n \nArt + LA Family Housing \nPlease join Room & Board in support of LA Family Housing (LAFH) in an effort to help our homeless neighbors obtain permanent housing and a place to call home. When you purchase an artwork by the featured artist – this month is Trine Churchill – a 50% donation will be made on your behalf to continue the critical and life-saving services LAFH provides.\nRoom & Board\, 3231 Helms Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA 90034 \n\n \nTricksters and Transformations \nTricksters & Transformation\, an exhibition in partnership with Textile Arts | Los Angeles\, is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate textiles and our community. Textiles have a universally demonstrated capacity for holding meaning\, establishing connections\, and creating healing. We’re delighted to invite you to share the work with us before the exhibit closes on Sunday\, October 10th. The exhibit runs concurrently with Artist in Residence Carmen Mardonéz.\nHelms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Blvd. Suite E\, Culver City \n\n \nPhotographic Alchemy \nPlease join us for ALCHEMY the first public exhibition of works from Los Angeles-based photographer\, Cynthia Alexandra. The presentation is informed by a definition of “Divine Alchemy” — “The art of transmutation\, the application of spiritual consciousness to physical form\, so profound that an entirely new form evolves. It is an irreversible change. A transformation that requires patience\, courage and a belief in the power of spirit above all else.” The exhibition features portraits of women who have transmuted challenges in their personal journey to empower others; they stand at various points of their own personal evolutions; some fully-formed\, others still in process\, but all firmly on the precipice of their next phase of embodiment.\nHelms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/culver-city-art-walk-roll-festival-returns/ 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/2019/09/CCAWR_2021_1200px.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 END:VCALENDAR