GO! THIS WEEKEND!: The Los Angeles 'Zine and Art Book Bazaar.  It's a grassroots, local, and independent event; "an experiment with fellow artists in the  community. It's about taking a bunch of interesting beautiful things, merging them together for a weekend, and sharing that experience with the public." Called a "weirder, more radical alternative" to the Printed Matter Art Book Fair (which is on hiatus this year), we encourage you to go forth and revel in the home-grown fun. You can find details at lazaabb.com. 

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Join artist and writer Eames Demetrios for an intimate storytelling experience and exclusive first book signing in honor of his most recent book Kcymaerxthaere: The Story so Far...(Folio 1) at Arcana!

This Folio shares and highlights the Kcymaerxthaere stories that exist so far with an intimate experience through imagery, text, artwork and global community that makes the project possible. 

For over the past decade, artist Eames Demetrios has been traveling our linear world installing markers and historic sites that honor events from a parallel world he calls Kcymaerxthaere.  This global project is a vast, interwoven work of 3-dimensional fiction–like a novel with every page in a different place.  Even where one reads such a page influences how one visualizes that particular story.  Kcymaerxthaere also connects communities through shared interpretations of the stories in drawings, weavings and other crafts. Currently, there are 133 markers and historic sites installed in 27 countries on 6 continents.  When Demetrios is not found as the Geographer-at-Large he is found exploring film, art and preserving the design legacy of Charles and Ray Eames as Director of the Eames Office.  He currently continues his exploration of the parallel world in the hope to inspire people to see the world fresh–to see new possibilities in the world around them.  

Saturday, March 3rd, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Join artist and writer Eames Demetrios for an intimate storytelling experience and exclusive first book signing in honor of his most recent book Kcymaerxthaere: The Story so Far...(Folio 1) at Arcana!

This Folio shares and highlights the Kcymaerxthaere stories that exist so far with an intimate experience through imagery, text, artwork and global community that makes the project possible. 

For over the past decade, artist Eames Demetrios has been traveling our linear world installing markers and historic sites that honor events from a parallel world he calls Kcymaerxthaere.  This global project is a vast, interwoven work of 3-dimensional fiction–like a novel with every page in a different place.  Even where one reads such a page influences how one visualizes that particular story.  Kcymaerxthaere also connects communities through shared interpretations of the stories in drawings, weavings and other crafts. Currently, there are 133 markers and historic sites installed in 27 countries on 6 continents.  When Demetrios is not found as the Geographer-at-Large he is found exploring film, art and preserving the design legacy of Charles and Ray Eames as Director of the Eames Office.  He currently continues his exploration of the parallel world in the hope to inspire people to see the world fresh–to see new possibilities in the world around them.  

LYLE ASHTON HARRIS: TODAY I SHALL JUDGE NOTHING THAT OCCURS
 

JOIN US SATURDAY, JANUARY 27th 4:00 - 6:00 PM 

FOR A LYLE ASHTON HARRIS BOOK LAUNCH

 AND CONVERSATION WITH WALEAD BESHTY,

CHARLES GAINES, AND NAIMA J. KEITH

Throughout 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.

Born 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.

Born 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.

Charles 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.

Naima J. Keith joined the California African American Museum (CAAM) in 2016 to guide the curatorial and education departments as well as marketing and communications. During her tenure at CAAM, Keith has also curated Hank Willis Thomas: Black Righteous Space (2016), Genevieve Gaignard: Smell the Roses (2016) and Kenyatta Hinkle: The Evanesced (2017). She is the 2017 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the field of African American art history.

Join us Saturday, January 27th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM to celebrate Mr. Harris' new Aperture monograph Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs with what is sure to be a lively and engaging presentation. If you cannot attend but would like to purchase a copy please place your order here, or call us at 310-458-1499.

Saturday, December 9^th
M E G A  P H O T O B O O K  S A T U R D A Y
WITH  M A C K + MORE!

3:00 to 5:00 PM 
ED + DEANNA TEMPLETON: CONTEMPORARY SUBURBIUM
Signing their new Nazraeli Press collaboration!

3:00 to 5:00 PM 
MIKE SLACK: THE TRANSVERSE PATH and
TIM CARPENTER: LOCAL OBJECTS
Signing their two new The Ice Plant books!
 
5:00 to 7:00 PM  
SAM CONTIS DISCUSSION WITH KATE WOLF
+ BOOK SIGNING FOR THE MACK PUBLICATION OF 
DEEP SPRINGS

5:00 to 7:00 PM  
MACK BOOK SIGNING WITH THOMAS DEMAND,
ANTHONY HERNANDEZ, FUMI ISHINO, AND MARK RUWEDEL

Saturday, December 16th, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
VIEWS OF JAPAN + THE JAPANESE PHOTO BOOK
Book Signing and Discussion with authors Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck,
and Manfred Heiting

Sunday, December 17^th, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
ALEC BYRNE: LONDON ROCK - THE UNSEEN ARCHIVE
Book Signing, Rock ’n’ Roll slide show, plus a
conversation between photographer Alec Byrne and
Grammy Award-winning designer Hugh Brown