Events Posted Oct 17, 2026

Book Signing for Chris Wallace: Another World - Saturday, 10/24!

Please join us at Arcana on Saturday, 10/24, 4:00-6:00 PM for a book signing for Another World by Chris Wallace.

We look forward to raising a glass with you in celebration of this beautiful new publication. If you can’t attend but would like a signed copy of Another World, please place an order here for delivery or pickup.

Another World is a sumptuous volume written and photographed by Chris Wallace featuring ten pieces animated by a fascination with culture and identity as seen through the lens of travel. It illustrates the stories we tell ourselves about who we are in the world, the stories we tell ourselves about the people and places we encounter out there, and a consideration of where those stories come from.

Lavishly illustrated with lush photography and teeming with evocative essays (all by Christopher Wallace), Another World transports the reader. Included are a dialogue with Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul and tales of adventure with the bush pilots of Namibia. Also featured are road trips through Iraq and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as well as stories set in the Sicilian islands, Tangier, and Hong Kong, a pilgrimage to Jorge Luis Borges's Buenos Aires, and an homage to the Barcelona of Michelangelo Antonioni's film The Passenger.

Graydon Carter says of Another World: “Superb…Great photography. And the moods change in all the right places, going from gritty realism to charming and uplifting. Truly one of the best new magazines I’ve seen in a while.”

Chris Wallace is a writer, photographer, and editor who focuses on travel, culture, and identity. His biography of Peter Beard, Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard, was published by Ecco press in July 2023.

Events Posted Sep 18, 2026

Shirt of the Day! Jerry Hsu's How About Never

This very limited edition high-quality shirt was designed by Jerry Hsu just for his signing at Arcana. Scant numbers remain. ~~Act fast via this link!~~

Sorry - sold out!

Events Posted Sep 17, 2026

Upcoming Events

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
CHRIS WALLACE: ANOTHER WORLD, VOLUME 1
PUBLICATION LAUNCH

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
RICHARD POLSKY: I SOLD ALICE COOPER'S ANDY WARHOL
BOOK SIGNING

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21st, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
CATHERINE OPIE: ON IDENTITY AND COLLECTIVITY APERTURE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP SERIES
BOOK SIGNING + DISCUSSION

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
CHARLIE UNKELESS: THE LIGHTS ARE TOO LOUD, THE SOUND IS TOO BRIGHT - TALES FROM THE ROAD WITH OINGO BOINGO
BOOK SIGNING

Events Posted Aug 29, 2026

BOOK SIGNING WITH JERRY HSU at Arcana: 9/12/26, 4 - 6 PM

Arcana-friend Jerry Hsu's excellent new MACK photo-book How About Never is coming, and Arcana manager Jesse Pearson will be interviewing Jerry about it live here at the shop on Saturday, September 12th followed by a signing. The event begins at 4 PM. All are welcome; refreshments provided. Order a signed copy here! See you there!

Events Posted Jul 23, 2026

AVE PILDAS BOOK SIGNING THIS SATURDAY, JULY 25TH 2026, FROM 4 UNTIL 6PM

Please join us at Arcana this Saturday, July 25th, from 4 until 6 PM for a signing with photographer Ave Pildas celebrating his new book. From the publisher: "Africatown offers an intimate and joyful portrait of one of Los Angeles’ most culturally rich weekly gatherings: the Sunday African Marketplace in Leimert Park. Built on friendship, trust, and community exchange, the project captures the people, stories, and spirit that make this space a living celebration of life. What began as a chance visit after a jazz benefit concert in the area quickly grew into a two-year journey of connection. Drawn by the radiant energy of the market, where vendors share traditional clothing art, food, and music from across the African diaspora, Ave became a familiar presence. Over time, he was affectionately nicknamed the 'picture man.'" (Pildas Green Foundation, 2026). Can't make it? Purchase a copy from us for shipping or pick-up here!

Events Posted Jul 12, 2026

Please Join Us on SATURDAY (7/18), 4-6m for a book signing with CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON for INDEX.

A life isn’t a straight line, it doesn’t conform to an easy narrative. Christopher Anderson’s career has spanned conflict zones, presidential campaigns, near-death experiences, and moments of quiet domestic tenderness, all captured with a rare poetic sensibility. His new @stanleybarkerbooks publication INDEX gathers nine series from across his career, each presented as an individual volume.

From his early images in Afghanistan, where he was already working as a journalist on 9/11 and continued to document events through the span of the second Gulf War, to Haiti, where he boarded a wooden boat with hopeful migrants bound for America until it began to sink, a story that earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal. From volumes that chart the places he has called home, such as France and New York, to places that have left their mark on him, like China. From books that record tender moments with his family on holiday to immersive accounts of conflict in some of the world’s most troubled corners, even his fascination with cars finds its place here. Gathered as nine volumes housed in a slipcase by the acclaimed designer Brian Roettinger, INDEX is a breathtaking way to experience the defining events and fleeting intimacies that shaped the first decades of the millennium.

“I suppose, from the outside, it looks as if I stopped being one kind of photographer to become another. To me, the same photographer who boarded a boat with Haitians trying to sail to America showed up to photograph Trump’s inner circle in the West Wing… continual points on a spectrum, colors bleeding together in the rainbow. The previous works inform and shape the photographs that follow.” - @christopherandersonphoto

A limited quantity of INDEX will be available for sale only at Saturday's event starting at 4:00 PM - first come, first served, one per person. We're sorry, but due to the fact this is now sold out with the publisher in the US, we are unable to offer advance sales. If you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed copy, please send us a request to be placed on a waiting list. Should there be any remaining following the event, we will fulfill requests in the order in which they have been received. Thanks for understanding.

Events Posted May 27, 2026

Book Signing with Bruce Talamon on Saturday, May 30th at Arcana!

Arcana is brimming with pride to present our friend, the legendary photographer of soul, funk, and R&B musicians, Bruce Talamon this Saturday, May 30th, from 4 until 6PM. Refreshments? Yes! Bruce signing the lovely new edition of his Taschen-published book Soul R&B Funk: Photographs 1972-1982? Yes again! Please join us. And if you are unable to be here in person, be here in spirit by purchasing Bruce's book via our website here. See you soon!

Events Posted May 03, 2026

Upcoming Events, May 2026 - Please Join Us!

SATURDAY, MAY 9th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
SHANIQWA JARVIS: GUTS
BOOK SIGNING

SATURDAY, MAY 23rd, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
ANDREW MacPHERSON: SYNCHRONICITY
BOOK SIGNING

SATURDAY, MAY 30th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
BRUCE W. TALAMON: SOUL R&B FUNK: PHOTOGRAPHS 1972-1982
BOOK SIGNING

CONTINUING EXHIBITION THRU FRIDAY, MAY 8th
ERIC DOERINGER: BOOKS & CO.
WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

ARCANA URGES YOU TO VISIT THE
PRINTED MATTER LA ART BOOK FAIR
AT ART CENTER COLLEGE IN PASADENA THIS WEEK!

Events Posted Apr 30, 2026

SATURDAY, 5/9, 4-6 - SHANIQWA JARVIS: GUTS BOOK SIGNING

Please join us at Arcana on Saturday, May 9th, from 4 until 6PM, to celebrate the launch of Shaniqwa Jarvis's beautiful new book GUTS.

GUTS (Super Labo, 2026), with an introduction by Essence Harden, is a 120-page offering of Jarvis’s inner world; an unfolding of florals, self-portraits, double exposures, and editorial images that resist a fixed narrative. Instead, they function as reflective pauses, grounded in the act of noticing beauty in unexpected places.

Flowers signal perseverance and the instinct to grow against all odds, while editorial portraits blur into self-portraiture, shaped by Jarvis’s hand and presence. Water, windows, and reflections recur throughout, holding a tension between how we believe we are seen and how we see ourselves.

Made across South Africa, Greece, Korea, New York, Japan, California, and the Pacific Northwest, GUTS is a meditation on reflection, perseverance, and veneration—of nature, emotion, and the quiet moments that shape how we move through the world.

* Books will be available for sale at the event

* Shaniqwa will be on hand to sign books and generally make everyone's day brighter with her presence.

* If you cannot attend and would like a signed copy of GUTS, please send us an email. Should there be copies remaining after the event, we will fulfill requests in the order in which they have been received.

* Thanks to Las Jaras Wines for their support!

Events Posted Apr 24, 2026

Brad Donenfeld Book Signing and Discussion for "Looking. Seeing," Saturday, April 25th from 4:00 to 6:00 PM!

Please join us Saturday, April 25th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as we host a book signing and discussion with Los Angeles-based artist and photographer Brad Donenfeld in conjunction with the publication of Looking. Seeing. Beautifully produced and printed, it is a comprehensive survey of fifty years of his creative visual work beginning with his iconic sixties headshop poster Peace Man - produced as a teenager - through his own recent personal color photography. He will be joined for what promises to be a thought-provoking discussion of his artistic evolution with gallerist and art consultant Eli Consilvio. If you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed and numbered limited edition copy of Looking. Seeing., please place your order here.