BETTINA HUBBY: THANKS FOR THE MAMMARIES

SUNDAY, JULY 10th FROM 4:00 - 6:00 PM
WITH SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST JANET KLEIN,
AND FEATURING CUPCAKES, WINE, AND MORE!
 

Please join us, Klowden Mann, and LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) on Sunday, July 10th, 2016 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of Bettina Hubby’s Thanks for the Mammaries. This artist's book, published by LAND with support from Klowden Mann, documents the various iterations of Hubby’s ongoing project Thanks for the Mammaries, the Facebook feed which was originally installed at the LAND HQ from October through November of 2015.
 
In 2014, Hubby announced her Breast Cancer diagnosis on Facebook and asked her friends and community to submit “boob-related imagery.” People showered Hubby with images, videos, and verbiage that helped her heal, and inspired her to pay it forward. Touched by the uplifting effect of this communal support, Hubby sent out a call to artists to submit works for an exhibition. The exhibitions and online Facebook feed displayed the outpouring of support that resulted from Hubby’s call to action; selections of which are documented in the publication. “What continues to bring me the most satisfaction is the feedback regarding my approach, in that it has been positively impacting and inspiring people who have (and even many who have not) faced illness in their lives, or in their loved ones’ lives. This is why I wanted to release this as a book to a wider audience. This book is dedicated to the medicinal power of boobishness”.
 
In addition, the artist’s new limited multiple, B(*)(*)B DOOB, produced by Klowden Mann, will also be unveiled at the event. The serial edition consists of eight Hubby-centric self-portrait figurines created using DOOB-3D printing technology. The first in the series will be a portrait of Hubby that directly relates to Thanks for the Mammaries. These figures will be published quarterly, and offered by subscription individually.

If you cannot attend but wish to purchase a signed copy of Thanks for the Mammaries please place your online order here by noon on Sunday or call us at 310-458-1499.

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BETTINA HUBBY: THANKS FOR THE MAMMARIES BOOK RELEASE

with musical guest, Janet Klein!

JULY 10, 4:00 - 6:00

Please join LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Klowden Mann Gallery and Arcana in celebrating the release of Bettina Hubby’s new artist publication, Thanks for the Mammaries, on Sunday, July 10, 2016 from 4-6pm at Arcana: Books on the Arts (8675 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232). Published by LAND, the book documents the various iterations of Hubby’s ongoing project, Thanks for the Mammaries, the Facebook feed, which was installed at the LAND HQ from October through November of 2015.

In 2014, Hubby announced her Breast Cancer diagnosis on Facebook and asked her friends and community to submit “boob-related imagery.” People showered Hubby with images, videos, and verbiage that helped her heal and inspired her to pay it forward. Touched by the uplifting effect of this communal support, Hubby sent out a call to artists to submit works for an exhibition. The exhibitions and online Facebook feed displayed the outpouring of support that resulted from Hubby’s call to action, selections of which are documented in the publication. Hubby writes, “What continues to bring me the most satisfaction is the feedback regarding my approach, in that it has been positively impacting and inspiring people who have (and even many who have not) faced illness in their lives, or in their loved ones’ lives. This is why I wanted to release this as a book to a wider audience. This book is dedicated to the medicinal power of boobishness.”

Hubby’s new limited edition, B(*)(*)B DOOB, produced by Klowden Mann, will also be released at the event. The serial edition, What will she DOOB next?, consists of eight Hubby-centric self-portrait figurines created using DOOB-3D printing technology. The first in the series will be a portrait of Hubby that directly relates to Thanks for the Mammaries. These figures will be offered as a subscription, published quarterly, or sold individually. For further details, please contact Klowden Mann at Deb@KlowdenMann.com.

If you can't make it and would like to pre-order a signed book, you may do so here.
 

PLEASE JOIN US SATURDAY, JUNE 18th FROM 5:00 to 7:00 PM FOR TWO BOOK SIGNINGS!

DEANNA TEMPLETON: THE SWIMMING POOL
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CLINT WOODSIDE: UNDERCOVER CARS

Mark your calendars! Details here.

Join us at Helms (@HelmsBakeryDistrict) on Saturday (you’ll be able to ride the Expo Line from DT-LA or DT-SM!) for A Design Field Day: #ThisModernLife at Helms Bakery District Saturday, May 21, 12pm to 6pm. Come for for pop--up installations, refreshments and a lively panel discussion with three design experts. There will also be festivities, music, food, Trunk Club stylists, and Happily’s event planning app demo. In addition, you can visit our newest neighbors for the first time: Louis Poulsen , Kohler and Harbour Outdoor. . Details here http://helmsbakerydistrict.com/this-modern-life/

Please join us Saturday, May 14th, 5:00-7:00 for a book signing for 

OLIVIA BEE: KIDS IN LOVE
With an acoustic set by special guest BØRNS!

Olivia Bee is celebrated for her dreamy, evocative portraits and landscapes rich with implied narratives of intimacy, freedom, and adventure. Her first full-length book Kids in Love from Aperture showcases two bodies of photographic work, including the series "Enveloped in a Dream" that first brought Bee recognition as a teenager. These images offer a visual diary of girlhood friendship and the exploration of self, showcasing Bee’s unique ability to convey the bittersweet nostalgia of adolescence on the brink of adulthood and new possibilities. The second, "Kids in Love", continues Bee’s photographic chronicle of her circle of friends and new loves, capturing both the pleasures and terrors of the fleeting passage of romanticized youth. While the work continues to evolve, what remains constant is her seductive use of color and photographic artifact, as well as the immediacy and charge of each image. Bee gives voice to the self-awareness and visual fluency of the millennial generation. Experiences are sharply felt, and easily communicated and shared, generating visual records that render these memories as significant as the moments themselves. Tavi Gevinson, founding editor of the online magazine "Rookie" as well as Bee’s frequent collaborator and model writes about the work and about the role of images as social currency in today’s image-driven world.

Joining Olivia Bee here at Arcana on May 14th will be her friend and very special musical guest, BØRNS, who will present an acoustic set as part of the evening's festivities!

If you cannot attend but wish to purchase a signed copy of Kids In Love - please place your secure online order here or call us at 310-458-1499.

See you this weekend at the fabulous Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair. We'll be in booth Q02 with walls and vitrines filled with dozens or rarities and delights.

Click here for all the details!

PLEASE JOIN US SATURDAY

FEBRUARY 6th, 4:00 to 6:00 PM

FOR A BOOK SIGNING FOR

STEVEN REA: HOLLYWOOD CAFÉ: COFFEE WITH THE STARS

featuring coffee from Cognoscenti

Put on a pot of your favorite coffee, perk up, and enjoy nostalgic black-and-white photos that celebrate screen icons from the Silent Era through the eighties making and drinking their own cups of joe, java, pour-overs, and percolated brews. Hollywood Café bridges the vibrant coffee culture of the present with the glamorous coffee culture of the star-studded past. A cast of nearly two hundred stars - including Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Caine, Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Wayne, Bette Davis, Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and many more - is captured on the set, on the run, in costume and out, behind-the-scenes, and at the kitchen table refilling and refueling, sipping and savoring, drinking the good stuff, just like us.

Come meet our longtime pal Steven Rea and celebrate the publication of his charming new follow-up to the ever-popular Hollywood Rides a Bike here at Arcana Saturday, February 6th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM with divine, freshly-brewed coffee graciously provided by our neighbors Cognoscenti Coffee!

We're expecting a healthy turnout, and would appreciate your RSVP for our planning purposes by kindly emailing to let us know you'll be there. If you cannot attend but wish to purchase a signed copy of Hollywood Café: Coffee with the Stars, Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling With The Stars - or both! - please place your secure online order here, or call us at 310-458-1499.

Special thanks to:

The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941

A massive, full-illustrated history of photography book making and design from the USSR edited by Manfred Heiting and Mikhail Karasik, and published by Steidl

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ARCANA Launch and Signing for 'The Soviet Photobook'

Sunday, December 13, 4:00 to 6:00 PM.

Arcana: Books on the Arts and PAC/LA present a launch and signing for The Soviet Photobook - the new 636-page compendium from Steidl. Join author Manfred Heiting for a discussion of the work followed by a book signing and reception.

The Soviet Union was unique in its dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the form of the book, the USSR articulated its utopian (and eventually totalitarian) ideologies and expressed its absolute power through avant-garde writing and radical graphic design that was in full flower during the 1920s and 1930s.

No other country or political system advanced its cause by attracting and employing acclaimed members of the avant-garde. Among them were writers such as Semion Kirsanov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Selvinsky, Sergei Tretyakov and Kornely Zelinsky; artist designers such as Gustav Klutsis, Valentina Kulagina, El Lissitzky, Sergei Senkin, Varvara Stepanova, Solomon Telingater and Nikolai Troshin; and photographers such as Dmitry Debabov, Vladimir Griuntal, Boris Ignatovich, Alexander Khlebnikov, Yeleazar Langman, Alexander Rodchenko and Georgy Petrusov, not to mention many of the best printing plants and bookbinders.

Gorgeously produced, edited and designed, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 presents 160 of the most stunning and elaborately produced photobooks from this period and includes more than 400 additional reference illustrations. The book also provides short biographies of the photobook contributors, some of whom are presented for the first time.