On Saturday, November 7th from 4:00 - 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with Marcia Prentice for How We Live, an intimate photographic journal of designers' and artists' homes from around the world including Mumbai, Beirut, Marrakech, Reykjavik, Mexico City and Amsterdam.
On Saturday, October 10th from 4:00 - 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on The Arts for a book signing with Ron Jude. To construct Lago, Ron Jude returns to the California desert of his early childhood as if a detective in search of clues to his own identity. In this brand new MACK book of fifty-four photographs taken between 2011 and 2014, he attempts to reconcile the vagaries of memory (and the uncertainty of looking) with our need to make narrative sense of things.
On Saturday, October 3rd from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on The Arts for a book signing with Aline Smithson. Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography is a near-twenty year culmination of portrait photographs captured by award-winning photographer, writer, and educator Aline Smithson.
On Saturday, August 15th from 4:00 - 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing of Outside the Studio, Greg Gorman's tenth monograph. It finds the noted Los Angeles-based photographer outside the reaches of the portrait and figure-study work for which he is best known, and onto the streets of Southeast Asia.
On Wednesday, July 6th from 6:00 - 8:00pm, please join Arcana in celebration of the collaborative work of Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood. Ms. Kusaka and Mr. Wood draw from each others work as painter and potter to probe the tensions between representation and expression, precision and chance, and influences from art history and life.
On Sunday, July 5th from 4:00pm - 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they host an afternoon meet and greet with author Linda Rosenkrantz in celebration of her innovative and now-classic Summer read: TALK.
On Saturday, June 20th from 4:00 - 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming Bryan Ray Turcotte and Cynthia Connolly for a celebratory book signing and launch of the newly re-released editions of two of their legendary and long out-of-print books.
On Sunday, June 14th from 4:00 - 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming their friend Gusmano Cesaretti in celebration of the publication of his intriguing visual memoir.
On Wednesday, April 15th from 6:00 – 8:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing in celebration of William Hackman’s Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties. Out of Sight chronicles the rapid-fire rise, fall, and rebirth of the L.A. Art scene – from the emergence of a small bohemian community in […]