BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Helms Design District - ECPv6.16.2//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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240120T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240120T180000 DTSTAMP:20260608T000511 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:20260608T000511 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:20260608T000511 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:20260608T000511 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:20260608T000511 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:20260608T000511 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:20260608T000511 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:20231007T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231007T180000 DTSTAMP:20260608T000511 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:20230819T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230819T180000 DTSTAMP:20260608T000511 CREATED:20230816T224919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T153930Z UID:10001838-1692460800-1692468000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with Photographer Jerry Hsu DESCRIPTION:Join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with photographer Jerry Hsu. \nWith a history encompassing professional skateboarding and his apparel brand Sci Fi-Fantasy\, Jerry Hsu’s photography practice is one of deep observation\, humor\, and everyday pathos. His new book Lonley City (Friend Editions\, 2023) is filled with iPhone photos taken while going about his life in the world – yet he seems to come across (or be more attuned to noticing) small moments that almost read as very short stories on the human condition. \nDue to the very limited supply of Lonley City\, Arcana is certain to sell out during Saturday’s signing\, so they will unfortunately be unable to accommodate advance orders via their website or phone as they typically do. Sales will be only at the event – strictly one copy per person\, first-come\, first-served. If you cannot attend\, and Arcana should miraculously have some left over\, please email Arcana to be put on a waiting list. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-signing-with-photographer-jerry-hsu/ 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/2023/08/Arcana_Jerry-Hsu.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:20230715T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230715T180000 DTSTAMP:20260608T000511 CREATED:20230711T212915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T154149Z UID:10001830-1689436800-1689444000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing with esteemed artist Awol Erizku at Arcana: Books on the Arts DESCRIPTION:Free\nJoin Arcana: Books on the Arts\, Saturday\, July 15th for a book signing with esteemed artist Awol Erizku. \n“Working across photography\, film\, video\, painting\, and installation\, Awol Erizku’s work references and re-imagines African-American and African visual culture\, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti\, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans the artist’s career\, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker\, New York Magazine\, Time\, and GQ\, among others\, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons such as Solange\, Amanda Gorman\, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times\, ‘It’s important for me to create confident\, powerful\, downright regal images of Black people.’ Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed\, curator Ashley James\, and writer Doreen St. Félix\, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent\, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist’s tremendous power and originality.” URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-signing-with-esteemed-artist-awol-erizku-at-arcana-books-on-the-arts/ 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/2023/07/Arcana-Photo.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:20260608T000511 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:20260608T000511 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:20260608T000511 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:20220129T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T180000 DTSTAMP:20260608T000511 CREATED:20220122T210900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220122T233203Z UID:10000298-1643472000-1643479200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing: Senon Williams: Words Don't Mean Much DESCRIPTION:Free\nPlease join us for a book signing at Arcana: Books on the Arts \nSenon Williams: Words Don’t Mean Much\nSaturday\, January 29th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM \nArcana: Books on the Arts | 8675 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA 90232 \nWe are delighted to invite you to a book signing celebrating Senon Williams’ new book\, Words Don’t Mean Much\, published by Hat & Beard Press. \nPlease come fully vaccinated\, wear your mask over your nose and mouth\, and maintain distance from others when possible! \nYou may pre-order a signed copy of the book to be picked up at the store or shipped to you after the event. PLEASE PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE! \nThe old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” is turned on its side in Words Don’t Mean Much\, Senon Williams’ new book of aphoristic phrasing. Far fewer words are needed to create an illuminating image in the mind’s eye\, conjuring immediate multi-sensory experiences. \nThis book of poems is derived from the text in Williams’ ink on paper drawings\, a sampling of which are pictured at left. The drawings are textual extractions and gather momentum within the book\, exhibiting great attention to materials and craftsmanship. Every detail\, from select paper to classic typeface\, has been considered. An object\, not unlike a sculpture\, can be viewed from all sides\, handled – and leafed through in the case of this book – front to back\, back to front\, or randomly opened. Words Don’t Mean Much is a small pocket book\, easy to conceal. A book to keep all to yourself or share intimately. \nNative to Los Angeles\, Senon Williams is a lifelong visual artist and musician. His longtime study of economy with words and multiple meanings centers on the desire to create glimpses into the inherent human struggle\, both ancient and contemporary. Williams’ work finds space in the natural – exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/senon-williams/ 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/2022/01/SenonWilliams.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:20220115T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T000511 CREATED:20220107T193305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220107T205236Z UID:10000294-1642258800-1642266000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing: 87 Drawings by Ed Templeton DESCRIPTION:Free\nPlease join us for a book signing at Arcana: Books on the Arts \n87 Drawings by Ed Templeton\nSaturday\, January 15th\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM \nArcana: Books on the Arts | 8675 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA 90232 \nWe are delighted to invite you to a book signing celebrating Ed Templeton’s newest book\, 87 Drawings\, published by Nazraeli Press. The book accompanies an exhibition opening January 22nd at Roberts Projects. \nBecause of the present COVID-19 public health situation\, we will be taking extra precautions for this event by keeping the line for the signing outside and limiting contact with Mr. Templeton. Please dress warmly\, be vaccinated\, and wear your mask over your nose and mouth! \nTo reduce the risk of exposure for all\, you may pre-order a signed and/or personalized copy of the book to be picked up at the store or shipped to you after the event. PLEASE PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE\, and include any personalization requests in the NOTES field. \nThank you for your cooperation\, care\, and respect for the artist!

 \n“87 Drawings by Ed Templeton” is the brand new\, beautifully produced survey from Nazraeli Press of the noted Huntington Beach-based artist\, photographer\, and skate eminence grise’s colorful works on paper from the past fifteen years. Eschewing his trusty Leica in favor of pen\, ink\, and acrylic paints\, the Tempster renders here in detail eighty-seven psychologically-charged portraits of family\, friends\, archetypical strangers\, and his late cat Ptah. These are accompanied by handwritten titles\, and a thought-provoking essay by Kim Hastreiter. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/87-drawings-by-ed-templeton/ 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/2022/01/Ed-Templeton-87-Drawings_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 END:VCALENDAR