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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Celebrates Bibliostyle: How We Live At Home With Books
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, November 16th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in a celebration of the release of a book near and dear to their hearts\, the gorgeous Bibliostyle: How We Live At Home With Books. A collaborative labor of love from author Nina Freudenberger\, photographer Shade Degges\, and writer Sadie Stein\, Lee and Whitney Kaplan are honored to be included in its stunningly beautiful pages along with some of their dear friends\, valued clients\, esteemed colleagues\, and venerable bibliophiles. \n“A visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library\, this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the world. Interior designer Nina Freudenberger\, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein\, and Architectural Digest photographer Shade Degges give readers a peek at the private libraries and bookshelves of passionate readers all over the world\, including Larry McMurtry\, Silvia Whitman of Shakespeare and Co.\, Gay and Nan Talese\, and Emma Straub. Throughout\, gorgeous photographs of rooms with rare collections\, floor-to-ceiling shelves\, and stacks upon stacks of books inspire readers to live better with their own collections.” \n 
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-celebrates-bibliostyle-how-we-live-at-home-with-books/
LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Welcomes Architects Marmol Radziner
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, November 9th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming Leo Marmol\, Ron Radziner and Mayer Rus for a book signing and discussion of their new release\, Site: Marmol Radziner in the Landscape.  \nCombining style with substance\, this lavish monograph from Princeton Architectural Press is an engaging document of nineteen homes drawn from twenty years of work. For the event principal partners Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner – who maintain an envious reference library\, even by Arcana’s standards – will discuss the firm’s history and projects\, and the making of their new book with the West Coast editor of AD\, critic and historian Mayer Rus. \nThe spectacular houses of Marmol Radziner merge interior and exterior life as they engage the built and natural environment. With lush photography and an expansive format\, Site: Marmol Radziner in the Landscape focuses on the evolving relationship between house and landscape\, revealing what the architects describe as “the gradual erasure of boundaries between indoor and outdoor” spaces. \nThis collection of nineteen houses\, shown in over two-hundred full-color photographs that will make readers swoon\, is organized by habitat – desert\, urban\, canyon\, and woodland – and includes projects in Southern California\, Arizona\, Utah\, Nevada\, and the Netherlands. A foreword by novelist Mona Simpson provides a personal reflection on her experiences in a Marmol Radziner house\, while an interview with partners Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner and detailed descriptions of their projects offer insights into the architects’ philosophy and process.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-welcomes-architects-marmol-radziner/
LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Invites All Book Lovers to Steven Rea's Celebration + Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, November 2nd\, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts to celebrate the release of The Hollywood Book Club —  author\, compiler\, and their longtime pal Steven Rea’s delightful anthology featuring the fabulous stars of the silver screen with the books they read – and/or posed with! \n“Audrey Hepburn\, Humphrey Bogart\, Gregory Peck\, Rita Hayworth\, Marilyn Monroe – the brightest stars of the silver screen couldn’t resist curling up with a good book. This unique collection of rare photographs celebrates the joy of reading in classic film style. \nThe Hollywood Book Club captures screen luminaries on set\, in films\, in playful promotional photos\, or in their own homes and libraries with books from literary classics to thrillers\, from biographies to children’s books\, reading with their kids\, and more. Featuring fifty-five enchanting images\, lively captions about the stars and what they’re reading by Hollywood photo archivist Steven Rea\, and a glamorous stamped case design\, here’s a real page-turner for booklovers and cinephiles alike”.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-invites-all-book-lovers-to-steven-reas-celebration-book-signing/
LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts Diane Keaton for a Book Signing of California Romantica
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, October 26th from 3:00 to 5:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they host their longtime supporter\, Diane Keaton\, who will be signing copies of the lovely new edition of her long out of print Rizzoli classic\, California Romantica. \nCalifornia Romantica features the most important\, yet rarely seen\, residential examples of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles designed by such illustrious architects as Paul R. Williams\, George Washington Smith\, Wallace Neff\, Richard Requa\, and Lilian Rice\, among others. From whitewashed stucco walls and cloistered patios to tile roofs and sumptuous gardens\, each house shown is a rare masterpiece; splendidly appointed with authentic Monterey furniture\, California tile\, and Navajo rugs. \nIncluded among these magnificent seaside estates\, canyon villas\, and courtyard bungalows is Diane Keaton’s former home in Beverly Hills\, which she thoughtfully restored with noted designer Stephen Shadley\, and for which she has been recognized as a committed preservationist. As the author and compiler\, Ms. Keaton brings her cinematic eye\, a keen sense of natural drama\, and a profound appreciation for the nuances of shadow and light to the elucidation of these buildings\, through the selection of specially commissioned photography. Noted historian D.J. Waldie lucidly explicates the architecture and provides an intimate tour of a historic and distinctly Californian lifestyle. \n 
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-hosts-diane-keaton-for-a-book-signing-of-california-romantica/
LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Celebrates Artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, October 19th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing and celebration of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. \nBorn in 1929\, Venezuelan-born\, Venice\, California-based artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess is just now getting the recognition she deserves\, with her work finding its way into the collections of LACMA and The Hammer Museum. Her unique approach to ceramics – incorporating cartoon characters such as Felix the Cat\, Popeye\, Olive Oyl\, Goofy\, and Betty Boop as well as more traditional motifs such as landscapes\, birds\, and flowers – has charmed a younger generation of artists such as Jonas Wood\, Shio Kusaka\, Mark Grotjahn\, Lesley Vance\, and Ricky Swallow. \nPublished to coincide with a South Willard exhibition that commemorates the artist’s ninetieth birthday\, this lovely new catalogue features a foreword by Mr. Swallow and offers a broad\, beautifully illustrated range of the colorful autobiographical pieces Magdalena Suarez Frimkess has produced over her long and varied career.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/5570/
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Welcomes Photographer Michael Jang
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, October 5th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a meet and great with the semi-reclusive Michael Jang and immerse yourself in his wry images of a kinder\, gentler California that includes the likes of Jack Lemmon\, Peggy Lee\, ‘Ol Blue Eyes\, David Bowie\, The Ramones\, Devo\, The Sex Pistols\, David Hasselhoff\, Jerry Brown\, Harvey Milk\, John Baldessari\, Lee Friedlander\, and many\, many more. \nMichael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer whilst quietly assembling a vast archive of thousands of remarkable images and authoring several now-iconic series: “The Jangs” (1973)\, “Beverly Hilton” (1973)\, “San Francisco” (1973–1987)\, “Summer Weather”  (1983)\, “College” (1972–1973)\, “Punks & Poets” (1978–1980)\, and “Garage Band” (2001). For forty years\, Jang revealed nothing of that vast archive until 2001 when he submitted a number of photographs for consideration to The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Once “discovered”\, his work has steadily gained acclaim and over the past fifteen years those images have found a wider audience in a series of museum and galley exhibitions and hard to find books. \nThe artist’s first major monograph – “Who Is Michael Jang?” – is published by Atelier Éditions in conjunction with his first major retrospective exhibition\, “Michael Jang’s California”. Curated by Michael Jang’s long-time collaborator and the book’s essayist\, SFMoMA curator emerita of photography\, Sandra S. Phillips\, the show will be on view September 27th\, 2019 to January 18th\, 2020 at The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco \n 
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/5469/
LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Welcomes Billy Al Bengston and Joan Agajanian Quinn on September 7th
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, September 7th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, stop by Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing and Q & A with Billy Al Bengston\, moderated by Joan Agajanian Quinn. \nFor more than sixty years Billy Al Bengston has been an innovative and integral part of the Southern California cultural scene. A member of the original group of Los Angeles artists to exhibit at Ferus Gallery\, Mr. Bengston has made a name for himself over the decades in the varied worlds of contemporary art\, surfing\, and dirt-track motorcycle racing. From his early Dentos and Finish / Fetish pieces to delicate watercolors of Dracula bearded irises and beyond\, his work remains remarkably vibrant and ever-inventive. He has been the subject of several major museum retrospectives\, but until now there has never been a single comprehensive book to fully do justice to his prolific body of work. \nAt long last\, from Galerie Neuendorf comes that tome – Billy Al Bengston: Paintings & Watercolors! This lavishly illustrated hardbound volume features hundreds of works spanning 1957 through 2016\, and contains a detailed chronology\, exhibition history\, bibliography\, collections listing\, and more.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-welcomes-billy-al-bengston-and-joan-agajanian-quinn-on-september-7th/
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Host Exhibition + Book Signing for Gary Cannone
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, August 3rd from 4:00 and 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in collaboration with Hubbyco for an exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Gary Cannone’s Albums by Conceptual Artists artworks\, along with a book signing for Forever Now – the limited edition catalogue that documents them! In addition\, there will be a special Conceptual Art-themed record party hosted by Mr. Cannone and the illustrious Tosh Berman.  \nAlbums by Conceptual Artists originated as a crowd-sourced online project in which Gary Cannone encouraged like-minded artists to infiltrate popular and obscure album covers with content from the history of contemporary art in a communal act of parody. Begun as a Facebook comment thread\, a Tumblr site of the project soon followed and grew to over five hundred album cover contributions ranging from transgressive to silly\, from informative to obtuse. Cannone sees the series as a form of fan fiction\, a positive creative act often using arcane minutiae linking the worlds of art and music done by and for art nerds. The artist’s formative influences include 70s comedy such as Norm Crosby\, Wacky Packages\, Carol Burnett\, Mad Magazine\, and the disembodied PA from M*A*S*H (the TV series). He is a 2019 recipient of a California Community Foundation’s Fellowship in Visual Arts grant and his artist’s book\, Time Settings for a Microwave Oven with Broken Three\, Four\, and Nine Buttons was recently acquired by The Getty Museum. His current work explores the phenomenology of furniture in gallery spaces through the lens of a prop comic.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-host-exhibition-book-signing-for-gary-cannone/
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Book Signing for Roger Herman: Ceramics
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, July 20th\, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with noted Los Angeles-based artist Roger Herman to celebrate the publication of his new book\, Ceramics. Designed by Ross McLain / Art Design Office and featuring a text by Matt Connors\, this massive\, stylish\, and engaging edition is limited to a mere two hundred and fifty copies\, and is sure to sell out quickly.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-book-signing-for-roger-herman-ceramics/
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SUMMARY:New Date! Arcana Books Welcomes Photographer Bill Owens
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, June 29th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with photographer Bill Owens in celebration of the release of Altamont 1969. \nPlease welcome our longtime friend of Arcana Books\, distilling mogul and renowned photographer Bill Owens for some afternoon revelry and drinks to coincide with his brand new book documenting the Rolling Stones’ Altamont Free Festival held in Northern California fifty years ago! In addition to copies of “Altamont 1969”\, there will be a limited supply of his out of print titles “Bill Owens”\, “Working”\, “Leisure”\, and the iconic “Suburbia”. \nBill Owens: Altamont 1969 presents a new and previously unpublished series of photographs of The Rolling Stones’ infamous concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California. The Altamont Free Festival has become an emblem of the upheavals and aftershocks of a decade of change\, and where Owens captured a generation’s desire to stand up and raise its voices against the war in Vietnam\, against segregation and racial discrimination\, against authority in general. Owens was hired by the Associated Press to cover what promised to be a huge rock concert whose lineup featured the Stones\, Jefferson Airplane\, The Grateful Dead\, Santana\, The Flying Burrito Brothers\, and Crosby\, Stills\, Nash & Young. But when he arrived at the Speedway with “two Nikons\, three lenses\, thirteen rolls of film\, a sandwich and a jar of water\,” the photographer witnessed one of the defining moments of the late sixties. The Utopian hopes and innocent conviviality of the 1960s gave way to tension and a deadly violence; as the Stones continued to play and much of the crowd remained oblivious\, an eighteen year-old African-American boy named Meredith Hunter was killed by the Hell’s Angels who had been hired as concert security. This book captures the era’s agitated energy that manifested itself in slogans and billboards\, sit-ins and demonstrations\, and a concert that was treated as a collective rite
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-welcomes-photographer-bill-owens/
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts a Celebration with Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, June 15th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a celebration with their very own architects\, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee on the release of “El Croquis 198: Johnston Marklee 2005 2019 Folding Time”. \nFounded by partners Sharon Johnston\, F.A.I.A. and Mark Lee in 1998\, Johnston Marklee is recognized for its diverse portfolio of architecture\, engaging the physical and cultural circumstances of each project through a precise synthesis of structural form\, materiality\, and atmospheric light. The work of the firm pays tribute to a specific Southern Californian interpretation of modernism\, and at the same time operates at the intersection of a global and local dialogue. \nJohnston and Lee have forged a leading role in the cultural discourse around contemporary art and architecture\, eliciting design collaborations with distinguished museums\, foundations\, and artists around the world. Complementing this far-reaching network\, the firm’s work is recognized for being deeply rooted in the history and foundations of the discipline. Their work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, Art Institute of Chicago\, Menil Collection\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Carnegie Museum of Art\, and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich. Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston served as Artistic Directors for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. In 2018 they were named Professors in Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Design\, and Mark Lee was appointed Chair of the Architecture Department. They have also taught at major universities including Princeton University\, the University of California\, Los Angeles\, the Technical University of Berlin\, ETH Zurich\, and have held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. \n 
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-hosts-a-celebration-with-sharon-johnston-and-mark-lee/
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts a Meet & Greet with Mark de Paola
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, June 8th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a meet and greet with Mark de Paola as he unveils his limited edition publication. \nMark de Paola was literally born into a photo studio on Cahuenga Blvd in Los Angeles\, and grew up splitting time between Los Angeles and New York. His earliest recollections are of watching photo shoots and being completely immersed in the fashion books and periodicals of the time – Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Mark’s photographic foundation is the works of his father Alessio\, Richard Avedon\, Irving Penn\, Bert Stern\, and Art Kane. \nNow based in New York\, Mr. de Paola is a fine art photographer who has had multiple covers for the likes of Vogue Spain and Vogue Mexico\, as well as campaigns and commercials for Donna Karan\, Laura Biagiotti\, Neutrogena\, Gucci\, Brioni\, Sephora\, Sony\, Leica Camera\, Giorgio RED perfume\, and MAC Cosmetics to name a few. He has directed nearly seven hundred television commercials in the fashion and beauty sector and has extensive campaign and retail experience. \n“Created over several years\, “Recent Work” includes portrait\, nude\, landscape\, and inanimate object; illuminating de Paola’s memories\, feelings and impressions of people\, places and objects he has known. Carefully sequenced by the photographer himself\, the series invites viewers to leave behind the everyday and journey with him… Provoking us to project meanings into its viscerally striking\, blurred and saturated forms. De Paola’s desire to wield the lens as an extension of his own body is clear in the subtle way he escorts us through his cinematic world. “Recent Work” is endlessly fascinating and promises to reward those who visit and revisit it again and again.” \n 
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LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Book Signing + Conversation with Rohina Hoffman and Aline Smithson
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, May 18th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, please join us at Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing and conversation with Rohina Hoffman and Aline Smithson in celebration of the launch of Hair Stories. \nHair Stories is a series of excerpted interviews and color portraits of a diverse array of women that explores the complex relationship women have with their hair. Indian-born\, Los Angeles–based photographer Rohina Hoffman deployed the interviewing skills she has developed in her training as a neurologist to establish an intimate rapport that allowed for a truthful dialogue about the role of hair in these women’s lives. Though conceived and shot before the #MeToo movement\, this salient project presents hair as a metaphor for identity\, femininity\, and the manner in which women struggle for control over their own bodies in a sometimes misogynistic world. Hair Stories shows that hair is more than just style or aesthetics; it is a physical manifestation of the ongoing hope and history of women. \nBorn in India and raised in New Jersey\, Rohina Hoffman is a fine art photographer whose practice uses portraiture and the natural world to investigate themes of identity\, home\, women’s issues\, and adolescence. A graduate of Brown University Medical School and resident at UCLA Medical Center\, her training led to a career as a neurologist. While an undergraduate at Brown University\, Rohina also studied photography at RISD and was a staff photographer for the Brown Daily Herald. A skilled observer of her patients\, Rohina was instilled with a deep and unique appreciation of the human experience. Her ability to forge the sacred trust between doctor and patient has been instrumental in fostering a parallel connection between photographer and subject. \nAline Smithson is an artist\, educator\, and editor based in Los Angeles. She is best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood\, her work is influenced by the elevated unreal. She received a BA in art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was accepted into the College of Creative Studies. After a decade-long career as a New York Fashion Editor\, Aline returned to Los Angeles and to her own artistic practice. She founded LENSCRATCH\, a photography journal that celebrates a different contemporary photographer each day\, has been the Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine\, and has curated and jurored numerous exhibitions.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-signing-conversation-with-rohina-hoffman-and-aline-smithson/
LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts Public Issue 2 Launch Party + Signing
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, April 27th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM\, please stop by Arcana: Books on the Arts to celebrate the West Coast launch of the latest installment of Creative Director Alexander McWhirter’s thematic annual art and fashion journal\, Public.  \nPresented in a distinctive large-format with three different cover options\, the highly-anticipated new issue tackles the challenge “We Must Take Action”. Public 2 features seven subjects photographed by Camille Vivier\, Jack Webb\, Eileen Cowin\, Thomas Giddings\, Aleksandra Zagozda\, Moises Saman\, and Rachel Lamb\, with styling by Delphine Danhier\, Eliza Conlon\, and Shibon Kennedy. Notes McWhirter: “The obvious is all around us. It is a void in which everything has been fine-tuned to such an extent that indistinctiveness prevails. “Cool” has become inoffensive and predictable\, and taste is easy to place a pulse on. Public breaks this pattern of democratized cool\, bringing together a body of work that covers a unique perspective on subjects in life.” \nOriginally from London\, Alexander McWhirter began his career in New York as the Art Director at V Magazine before founding McWhirter Studio. His projects focus on working closely with distinctive collaborators to present a narrative that observes human interaction\, be that with our environment or with each other. The story is woven together with elements from art and fashion\, the resulting idea is unmistakable and inclusive to all. He has collaborated with Visionaire\, Suzanne Geiss Gallery\, Cultural Traffic\, and Calvin Klein\, where he worked closely with Raf Simons and Pieter Mulier on 2017 campaigns for Calvin Klein Jeans\, Underwear\, and the 205W39NYC RTW Collection Book.
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LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts a Conversation + Book Signing with Dafi Kühne
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, March 2nd from 4 to 6 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a meet\, greet\, and book signing with master graphic designer\, Dafi Kühne\, in conversation with Lars Müller and Gloria Kondrup. \nDafi Kühne is a Swiss designer who works with analog and digital ways to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different kinds of instruments – from a MacBook to a pantograph – for his compositions\, he pushes the boundaries of design. Never afraid of getting his hands dirty in his creative workshop\, Kühne embraces the labor involved in the entire process of creating a poster from initial idea to finished product. Fusing modern means with the centuries-old tradition of the letterpress\, he forms a new vocabulary on how to communicate through type and form in a truly un-nostalgic way. Never retro\, his work is a clever response to the search for new ways of graphic expression: true print. True Print is also the title of his first comprehensive monograph published by Lars Müller. \nDafi Kühne (*1982) is a graphic designer. He studied Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts and owns a design and letterpress printing studio named babyinktwice. He was included in Print magazine’s 20 under 30 list in 2012. \nLars Müller\, born in Oslo in 1955 and a Norwegian citizen\, has been based in Switzerland since 1963. After becoming a graphic designer in Zurich\, extended travels\, and a one-year assistant position with designer Wim Crouwel in Amsterdam\, Müller established his studio in Baden / Switzerland in 1982. In 1983 he published his first book and\, as Lars Müller Publishers\, has produced some six hundred titles to date. Müller is a passionate educator and has taught at various universities in Switzerland and in Europe\, frequently serves on academic and competition juries\, and is currently a member of the steering board of Design Preis Schweiz. From 2013 to 2015\, Müller was the international president of AGI – Alliance Graphique Internationale. \nGloria Kondrup is a full-time professor as well as the Executive Director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography at Art Center College of Design. As the Director of Archetype Press – ArtCenter’s unique and vibrant letterpress studio – she redefines the value of typography and analog technology in the digital landscape. Her fine art printworks and books span both fields of art and design\, and are in private and public collections including AIGA\, The Getty\, and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. As a design consultant to national and international firms she has helped evolve extensive branding\, identity\, and packaging systems for clients including Aon\, Avon\, and Goodwill Industries.
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LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Celebrates Todd Hido's Bright Black World
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, December 15th from 4 to 6 PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts  to celebrate the publication of Todd Hido’s magnificent new book\, Bright Black World from Nazraeli Press. Stop by to quaff refreshments\, socialize\, and engage in some festive last-minute holiday shopping. \nFor over two decades\, Todd Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes\, desolate landscapes\, and stylized portraits. He has traversed North America capturing places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. Underscoring the influences of Nordic mythology and specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter\, which translates into the ‘endless winter’\, Hido’s new monograph\, Bright Black World alludes to and provides form for this notion of an apocalyptic\, never-ending winter. Exploring the dark terrain of the Northern European landscape and regions as far as the North Sea of Japan enchanted Hido\, calling him back on several occasions. This presents the artist’s first significant foray extensively photographing territory outside of the United States\, chronicling a decidedly new psychological geography. \nOpening with a text by Alexander Nemerov\, Bright Black World contains forty-eight plates printed in an over-sized format\, featuring two vertical gatefolds and a fold-out poster measuring some 25 by 40 inches. This first printing is limited to 3\,000 cloth bound copies.
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SUMMARY:Join Arcana Books for a Special Performance by Anthony Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Sunday\, December 9th from 4 to 6 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as Anthony Wilson will be performing an intimate set from Songs and Photographs with Jay Bellerose\, Patrick Warren\, and Garret Lang followed by a discussion with producer Joe Harley and publisher Nina Holland of Little Steidl. \nIn the new album and photobook Songs and Photographs – beautifully produced in collaboration with German art book publisher Little Steidl – Anthony Wilson brings together a collection of his songs and 35mm photographs that opens a new chapter in his broadening quest for personal and musical authenticity. \n“Most mornings I wake up and go out wandering with my camera\, sometimes in my hometown of Los Angeles\, often in places around the world where I am traveling on tour. I look\, watch\, and take in the space around me. I’m conscious of my attentive state\, totally absorbed in noticing things. My path determines itself\, each picture leads me to the next. It’s a meandering journey through a landscape or cityscape\, but also through my own personal experience. Often the smallest things are what stop me in my tracks and compel me to point the camera and snap the shutter. In Songs and Photographs\, the visual and musical paths of my process converge into a single work in which the songs and the photographs speak back and forth to each other.”  \nBorn in Los Angeles in 1968\, guitarist and composer Anthony Wilson is known for a body of work that moves fluidly across genres. The son of legendary jazz trumpeter and bandleader Gerald Wilson\, his musical lineage has deeply influenced his creative trajectory\, compositional choices\, instrumental groupings\, and the wide-ranging twelve album discography that blooms out of them. \nUpcoming Arcana Books Events \nSaturday\, December 15\n4 to 6 PM\nTODD HIDO: BRIGHT BLACK WORLD\nBook Signing \nSunday\, December 16\n4 to 6 PM\nEVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT COLLECTING FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY\nPeter Fetterman in conversation with Lee Kaplan
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LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts Photographer Mona Kuhn
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, December 8th from 4 to 6 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing\, discussion\, refreshments and festive Holiday shopping with Mona Kuhn and Deanna Templeton\, presented in collaboration with Photographic Arts Council – Los Angeles. \nBorn in Brazil\, photographer Mona Kuhn currently resides in Los Angeles. Through intimacy with her subjects\, knowledge of traditional iconography\, and technical mastery\, Kuhn portrays the complexities of human nature\, both tempting and provoking our imagination. Newly published by Stanley / Barker in the UK\, Bushes & Succulents is Mona Kuhn’s celebration of the female essence – confident\, raw and elegant\, yet confrontational and unapologetic. \nReminiscent of Georgia O’Keeffe’s floral paintings\, your eyes wander around the graceful lines\, not knowing exactly what you are looking at. Kuhn’s use of the solarization process reveals human imperfections in the metallic brilliance of the skin\, and brings to the surface a woman’s struggles\, strengths\, and power. The photographer states: “The frame reminded me of early childhood\, at age eight or so\, when I would jump in the shower with my mother. It resonates an adoration and child-like curiosity for what it is to be a woman. My intention is not to objectify the body\, but to celebrate the female body and its essence.” \n 
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LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Join Arcana Books for an afternoon with Ed Templeton!
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Sunday\, December 2nd from 4 to 6 PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they host their longtime pal\, Ed Templeton for what promises to be a stellar afternoon of good vibes\, delicious libations\, and holiday gift shopping! \nTangentially Parenthetical is a selection of photographs from Ed Templeton’s vast street photography archive – curated\, arranged\, and then rearranged by the man himself. The follow up to his 2014 Um Yeah Arts survey Wayward Cognitions\, Tangentially Parenthetical picks up where the latter collection ended. By combining intimate\, accidental\, and unconnected moments into one linear piece of work\, he tells hundreds of new stories through the thoughtful arrangement of semi-related-yet-completely-unfastened imagery. “I’m out there shooting photos all the time that don’t necessarily fall under any theme other than general life\,” says Templeton\, “which is a lame title for a book.” With a wink to the absurd\, sandwiched between a cover of patterned parentheses and with an afterword built from his own stream-of-consciousness storytelling\, Templeton delivers a visual mountain from an archive of stunning molehills in which the images are carefully chosen\, shuffled by hand\, and laid out with the dueling impulses of wonder and wit.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/join-arcana-books-for-an-afternoon-with-ed-templeton/
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts a Celebration Honoring Bill Berkson
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, December 1st from 4 to 6 PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts to celebrate the publication of Bill Berkson’s\, Since When: A Memoir in Pieces\, with a presentation by friends\, family\, and colleagues honoring his life and work. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, art critic\, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. He collaborated with many artists and writers\, including Alex Katz\, Philip Guston\, and Frank O’Hara. He was the author of several collections of poetry and criticism\, and appeared in ARTnews\, Art in America\, and many more. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute\, he was born in New York in 1939\, and died in June 2016. Since When: A Memoir in Pieces gathers the ephemera of a life well lived\, a collage of bold-face names such as John Cage\, Allen Ginsburg\, and Marilyn Monroe\, parties\, exhibitions\, and literary history from a man who could write “of [Truman Capote’s Black and White] ball\, which I attended as my mother’s escort\, I have little recollection” and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle\, witty\, and eternally generous\, this is Bill\, and a particular moment in American history\, at its best. \nThis celebration launches with a very special tribute to Bill Berkson featuring readings from his works by Moses Berkson\, Constance Lewallen\, DeeDee Gordon\, Karen Moss\, Joan Simon\, Mitch Temple\, Dorit Cypis\, Aram Saroyan\, Michael Smoler\, and Lisa John.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-hosts-a-celebration-honoring-bill-berkson/
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SUMMARY:Join Arcana Books for a SUPERSONIC Book Signing with author Lawrence Azerrad
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 17th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a SUPERSONIC book signing with author LAWRENCE AZERRAD. \nWhen the first commercial Concordes zoomed off the runways in Paris and London in the late 1960s\, crossing the Atlantic in just under three hours\, they established a new standard for luxury flight. Powered by 38\,000 pounds of thrust and easily recognizable with its delta wing and drooping nose\, the Concorde jet embodied the pinnacle of aviation technology and industrial design. It quickly became the preferred mode of transatlantic flight for superstars and business moguls alike. \nOpening with a lively history of the jet and how it changed travel\, Supersonic focuses on the look and feel of the Concorde. Photos of the jet’s evolving interiors show how the original\, starkly designed cabin gave way to luxury seats and interiors designed by the likes of Sir Terence Conran and Andrée Putman. Filled with fascinating historical and technical background drawn from the author’s personal collection of more than one thousand Concorde-related objects\, this elegant book offers rarely seen historical photography and firsthand contributions from the people who helped create the Concorde experience from take-off to landing and beyond. Mr. Azerrad will speak and give a visual presentation regarding this charming and vital aspect of Aviation history beginning at 4:30 PM. \nArcana Books Upcoming Events\nSaturday\, December 1st\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\,  A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF BILL BERKSON \nSunday\, December 2nd\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\, ED TEMPLETON: TANGENTIALLY PARENTHETICAL \nMonday\, December 3rd\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM\, THIS IS MEXICO CITY – BOOK SIGNING WITH AUTHOR ABBY CLAWSON LOW at the KNEELAND CO. HOLIDAY POP-UP at Show Gallery – 1515 N. Gardner Street Los Angeles\, CA 90046 \nSaturday\, December 8th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\, MONA KUHN: BUSHES & SUCCULENTS \, MONA KUHN IN CONVERSATION WITH DEANNA TEMPLETON PRESENTED WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS COUNCIL / LOS ANGELES \nSaturday\, December 15th\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\, TODD HIDO: BRIGHT BLACK WORLD
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts Photographer Dewey Nicks
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Sunday\, November 4th from 4 to 6 pm\, please join Arcana: Book on the Arts for a book signing with noted photographer Dewey Nicks and publisher Tom Adler to celebrate the launch of Polaroids of Women.  \nUPCOMING EVENTS AT ARCANA \nSATURDAY\, NOVEMBER 17th\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nSUPERSONIC: THE DESIGN AND LIFESTYLE OF CONCORDE\nBOOK SIGNING AND DISCUSSION WITH LAWRENCE AZERRAD \nSATURDAY\, DECEMBER 1st\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nA CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF BILL BERKSON \nSUNDAY\, DECEMBER 2nd\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nED TEMPLETON: TANGENTIALLY PARENTHETICAL \nSATURDAY\, DECEMBER 8th\n4:00 – 6:00 PM\nMONA KUHN: BUSHES & SUCCULENTS\nMONA KUHN IN CONVERSATION WITH DEANNA TEMPLETON\nPRESENTED WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS COUNCIL / LOS ANGELES \nSATURDAY\, DECEMBER 15th\n4:00 – 6:00 pm\nTODD HIDO: BRIGHT BLACK WORLD
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Celebrates Shaniqwa Jarvis' First Book
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, June 9th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm\, head over to Arcana: Books on the Arts to meet Shaniqwa Jarvis and celebrate the arrival of her fabulous new book! \nShaniqwa Jarvis’ first book Shaniqwa Jarvis presents one hundred and sixty pages of editorial and personal work spanning two decades drawn from the photographer’s archive. This lovely hardbound volume published by Baque Creative features an introduction by photographer Ryan McGinley accompanied by a meticulous selection of pictures from her favorite personal series such as “Bathroom Portraits” – shot in the toilets of bars in the early 2000s – along with editorial work for clients like The Gap\, The New York Times\, Supreme\, Billboard\, and Riposte that includes portraits of SZA\, Lee Scratch Perry\, George Condo\, Cardi B\, and a few requisite selfies. \nMs. Jarvis’ work is known for blending the aesthetics of modern fashion photography with the sensitive\, unfiltered emotion of art portraiture. In some of her best-loved imagery she captures vivid reality across a wide variety of subjects that always appear to be an extension of herself. The images speak to raw\, disparate feelings imbued with a deep sparkling optimism. The photos in this collection are an invitation to join Jarvis on a journey to see the world from her vantage point – one that is female\, black\, tirelessly hardworking\, and brimming with raucous\, positive vibrations. These are images of celebrities who seem like best friends\, vintage shots of downtown New York notables in their heyday\, children\, loved ones in all colors of the rainbow\, and delicate landscapes and travel souvenirs. Here is sorrow and joy commingling in pictures\, many of them highly autobiographical\, all representing a progressive and optimistic world.
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SUMMARY:Curatorial Hub Uses Arcana Books as Their Outpost
DESCRIPTION:Free\nCuratorial Hub is an online gallery featuring diverse and affordable works by well-known and emerging artists from Los Angeles and beyond. To complement its cyberspace-seat at curatorialhub.com\, a new exhibition series in a brick-and-mortar outpost will launch in June at Arcana: Books on the Arts! The first show will feature artists David P. Earle and Emily Joyce\, with an opening reception on Sunday\, June 3rd from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.  \nThese month-long exhibitions at Arcana will be cozy two-person joints curated by the artists along with C⚡H founder\, Bettina Hubby. This partnership provides a space for artists to showcase their work\, while also sparking conversation about the meaning of and the relationship between the physical and virtual worlds and how our lives now occupy both. \nDavid P. Earle‘s altered books are both excavations and constructions. Unearthing buried histories\, finding aesthetic concordances and building new narratives\, Earle burrows wormholes through paper\, splices together photographs\, and removes text exploiting the flatness of the page to suggest a parallel universe contained between the covers. \nEmily Joyce’s paintings and sculptures are investigations into the underlying structure of the physical world; its mysteries and mathematics. The formally rigorous geometry in her work is offset by a purposefully awkward or playful gesture designed to destabilize the viewer. Taking her cues from early abstractionists and the Surrealists\, she transforms found patterns and objects into hybrid creations whose parts add up to a whole that is new and familiar at the same time. \nThe concept for Curatorial Hub was created by artist Bettina Hubby who generously devotes part of her own practice to collaboration and connection\, both of which are central to this new venture that draws on her strengths of curating\, collaborating\, and poetic outreach. “Democratizing access to creative output benefits everyone. Curatorial Hub offers a clean and simple way to get works out into the world while giving artists an opportunity outside of the traditional gallery setting to create supplemental income between exhibitions and projects.”
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts a Celebration in Honor of Corita Kent
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, May 19th between 4:00 and 6:00 pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts to celebrate the beautiful new Atelier Éditions publication International Signal Code Alphabet by Corita Kent. Arcana will host a discussion and book signing with Dr. Ray Smith\, Director of the Corita Art Center\, and artist\, curator\, and Kent scholar\, Aaron Rose. \n“Radical American artist\, educator and once-devout Catholic nun\, Sister Mary Corita Kent’s provocative imagery has entranced audiences for over four decades. Originally completed in 1968\, Kent’s International Signal Code Alphabet encompasses a series of twenty-six kaleidoscopic serigraphs integrating scripture\, typography\, image\, icon\, and the maritime flags of the International Code of Signals. As 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of both the series’ completion\, and the centennial of Kent’s birth\, this celebratory publication reproduces this engaging body of work for the very first time in a monographic\, fine art  format”. It features an introduction by Corita Art Center Director\, Dr. Ray Smith along with a foreword authored by noted Kent scholar\, artist\, and curator Aaron Rose.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-hosts-a-celebration-in-honor-of-corita-kent/
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts a Conversation with Photographer John Divola
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, May 12th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a conversation between John Divola and The Getty Museum Department of Photographs curator Amanda Maddox followed by a book signing of his stunning new MACK publication. \nBetween 1974 and 1975\, American photographer John Divola – then in his mid-twenties and without a studio of his own – traveled across Los Angeles in search of dilapidated properties in which to make photographs. Armed with a camera\, spray paint\, string\, and cardboard\, the artist would produce one of his most significant photographic projects entitled Vandalism. \nTo produce this visceral black and white series of images Divola vandalized vacant homes with abstract constellations of graffiti-like marks\, ritualistic configurations of string hooked to pins\, and torn arrangements of card\, before photographing the results. The project vigorously merged the documentary approach of forensic photography with staged interventions echoing sculpture\, performance\, and installation art. Serving as a conceptual sabotaging of the delineations between such documentary and artistic practices at a time when the ‘truthfulness’ of photography was being called into question\, Vandalism helped to establish Divola’s highly distinctive photographic language.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-hosts-a-conversation-with-photographer-john-divola/
LOCATION:Arcana: Books on the Arts\, 8675 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232
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SUMMARY:Come Meet Photographer Jessica Antola at Arcana Books
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, April 21st between 4 and 6pm\, head over to Arcana: Books on the Arts to meet photographer Jessica Antola and celebrate the publication of Circadian Landscape.  \nJessica Antola’s first monograph entitled Circadian Landscape is a vibrant journey through Sub-Saharan Africa. Traveling mostly by car\, she captures the distinctive style and beauty of everyday life in Benin\, Burkina Faso\, Cote d’Ivoire\, Ghana\, Ethiopia\, Senegal\, and Togo. \nHer striking portraits\, landscapes\, and vignettes offer an intimate view of life lived in rural villages\, big cities and along the remote roadways between the two. Men dressed head to toe in elaborate African wax textiles share a motorcycle; ancestral spirits bridge earthly and supernatural worlds in masked dances; the rich red soil dusts the lush tropical jungle; a girl in an over-sized straw hat steers her boat with a boldly patterned patchwork sail; and a gold jewelry-clad Kumasi King performs a warrior dance. Antola is captivated by how people around the world express themselves in relation to their environments\, and her images reflect the astonishing variety of ways people create and define themselves daily through dress and ritual\, work and play.
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Welcomes Eames Demetrios for Storytelling + Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, March 3rd from 4 to 6pm\, artist\, writer\, and geographer-at-large Eames Demetrios joins Arcana: Books on the Arts for an intimate storytelling experience and exclusive first book signing of his most recent limited edition publication Kcymaerxthaere: The Story so Far…(Folio 1). \nThe two-volume set highlights the first 138 installations that exist in Kcymaerxthaere (Ky-MAIR-icks-THEER)\, the parallel world started by Demetrios in 2003. Through imagery\, text\, and artwork the publication offers an analog way to experience the global art project and serves as a tool to share this endeavor with the global community that makes the project possible. Sales of the publication will fund its translation into the 23 languages that appear in the installations. \nKcymaerxthaere tells the stories of a parallel world through books\, performances\, Internet\, embroideries\, guided collaborations\, but perhaps most distinctively through installations—especially physical markers (usually in stone\, concrete\, or bronze) and far more elaborate historical sites\, which can be up to an acre in size\, that honor the parallel world in our linear world. \nOne can think of Kcymaerxthaere as an illuminated manuscript where every page is in a different location. Come explore this rich parallel world and see how the stories connect and extend! \nAll welcome. RSVP encouraged.
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-welcomes-eames-demetrios-for-storytelling-book-signing/
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SUMMARY:Arcana Books Hosts Lyle Ashton Harris for a Book Signing + Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Saturday\, January 27th between 4:00 and 6:00pm\, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts to celebrate Lyle Ashton Harris’ new Aperture monograph Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs\, along with a lively and engaging presentation with guests Walead Beshty\, Charles Gaines\, and Amelia Jones. \nThroughout the late 1980s and early 1990s\, a radical cultural scene emerged across the globe\, finding expression in the galleries\, nightclubs\, and bedrooms of New York\, London\, Los Angeles\, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs\, the artist’s archive of 35mm Ektachrome images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections by additional contributors coalescing in a presentation of what Harris has described as “ephemeral moments and emblematic figures… against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world\, the emergence of multiculturalism\, the second wave of AIDS activism\, and incipient globalization.” The Ektachrome Archive “constructs collective and private narratives to comment on identity\, desire\, sexuality\, and loss” and was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. \nAbout the Panelists\nBorn in the Bronx in 1965\, Lyle Ashton Harris received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts\, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studies Program. His work has been exhibited worldwide including at the Whitney Museum\, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, 52nd Venice Biennial\, and São Paulo Biennial. He currently is an associate professor of art at New York University\, and is represented by New York’s Salon 94. \nBorn in London in 1976\, Walead Beshty is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer. Beshty was an Associate Professor in the Graduate Art Department at Art Center College of Design\, Pasadena\, and has taught at numerous schools including UCLA\, UC Irvine\, CalArts\, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and the MFA Program at Bard College. He is renowned for his unique conceptual approach to photography and sculpture and emphasis on the conditions of the production and circulation of images and artworks. \nCharles Gaines received his MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1967. In 2013 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and presented the critically acclaimed solo exhibition Notes on Social Justice at Paula Cooper Gallery\, New York. In 2012\, Gaines was the subject of a mid-career survey at the Pomona College Museum of Art and the Pitzer College Art Gallery in Claremont\, California. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles\, Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, and Whitney Museum of American Art. He has been a full-time faculty member of the School of Art at CalArts since 1989. He currently resides in Los Angeles\, and is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Paula Cooper Gallery.\n \nAmelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor in Art and Design and Vice-Dean of Critical Studies at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design. Trained in art history\, film theory\, and performance studies\, and widely read in philosophy and identity theory\, Jones is known for her work elaborating a queer\, anti-racist\, feminist history and theory of modern and contemporary Euro-American visual arts. \nUPCOMING EVENTS at Arcana\nSaturday\, March 3rd\, 4:00 – 6:00 PM\nEAMES DEMETRIOS: KCYMAERXTAERE \nApril –  Date and Time TBD\nJESSICA ANTOLA: CIRCADIAN LANDSCAPE
URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/arcana-books-hosts-lyle-ashton-harris-for-a-book-signing-discussion/
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SUMMARY:A Special Discussion with Alec Byrne and Hugh Brown at Arcana Books this Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Sunday\, December 17th between 4 and 6 pm\, join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a very special discussion between Alec Byrne and Grammy award-winning art director\, designer\, and artist Hugh Brown followed by a book signing. \nIn addition to the spectacular boxed Insight Editions London Rock – The Unseen Archive\, Arcana will have copies of the special überEditions “Signature Editions” – each limited to twenty-five copies only with one of five matted silver gelatin photographic prints of Byrne’s iconic images of the halcyon days of Rock. \nPhotographer Alec Byrne covered the British rock and roll scene from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s – the height of the rock revolution. Legendary performers such as The Rolling Stones\, The Beatles\, The Who\, The Jimi Hendrix Experience\, Bob Dylan\, Led Zeppelin\, The Yardbirds\, Bob Marley\, T. Rex\, The Doors\, The Faces\, The Hollies\, and David Bowie passed through Swinging London and provided provocative fodder for the prolific young lensman. Byrne’s resulting archive of rock-and-roll photos disappeared out of sight and into storage for close to four decades before being reintroduced to the world in late 2012 with an acclaimed one-night show in Los Angeles attended by more than one thousand people. Since then\, the work has been featured during the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and acquired by London’s National Portrait Gallery. Through rare live performance images\, intimate portraits\, and candid captures of the scene\, Alec Byrne: The Unseen Archive – the photographer’s first feature-length book – brings the era into stunning focus\, painting an evocative picture of an inimitable time and place.
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