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.

ANOTHER DOUBLE-HEADER AT ARCANA!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5th FROM 4:00 TO 6:00 PM

ED TEMPLETON SIGNS TEENAGE SMOKERS 2, ADVENTURES IN THE NEARBY FAR AWAY, WAYWARD COGNITIONS AND MORE!

PLUS

ETHAN RAFAL BRINGS HIS SHOCK AND AWE TOUR 2015 TO ARCANA

(WITH HOMEMADE WALNUT PIE + BOURBON AND MILK!)

EVENT DETAILS AND ORDERING INFORMATION HERE

Book of the day and Book Signing Saturday, 4:00-6:00 – One of two exciting events on Saturday… Details here > Photography is Magic by Charlotte Cotton. Aperture. “Photography Is Magic is a critical publication that surveys the practices of over eighty artists, all of whom are engaged with experimental approaches to photographic ideas, set within the contemporary image environment, framed by Web 2.0. The book contains a substantial essay by Charlotte Cotton and statements from all the contributing artists. The over three hundred image sequence represents the scope of photographic possibilities at play within contemporary creative practices. From Michele Abeles and Walead Beshty to Daniel Gordon and Matt Lipps, Cotton has selected artists who are consciously reframing photographic practices in the post-Internet age. Photography Is Magic provides an engaging physical experience - designed by Harsh Patel - for younger photo aficionados, students, and anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of contemporary photography.”

With images and texts by Michele Abeles, Takaaki Akaishi, Lotta Antonsson, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock,Andrey Bogush, Brian Bress, Bianca Brunner, Stefan Burger, Antoine Catala, Phil Chang, Talia Chetrit, Joshua Citarella, Sara Cwynar, Bryan Dooley, Jessica Eaton, Shannon Ebner, Marten Elder, Jason Evans,Sam Falls, Brendan Fowler, Victoria Fu,Daniel Gordon, Darren Harvey-Regan, Leslie Hewitt, Nancy de Holl, John Houck, Go Itami, Rachel de Joode, Farrah Karapetian, Matt Keegan, Annette Kelm, Soo Kim, Yuki Kimura, Josh Kline, Lucas Knipscher,Owen Kydd, Josh Kolbo, Taisuke Koyama,Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato, EladLassry, Brandon Lattu, John Lehr, Anthony Lepore, Alexandra Leykauf, Matt Lipps, Florian Maier-Aichen, Phillip Maisel, Annie MacDonell, Emmeline de Mooij, Carter Mull, Nerhol - (Ryuta Iida and YoshihisaTanaka), Katja Novitskova, Arthur Ou, Matthew Porter, Timur Si-Qin, Eileen Quinlan, Jon Rafman, Sean Raspet, Clunie Reid, Abigail Reynolds, Will Rogan, Asha Schechter, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Shirana Shahbazi, Daniel Shea, Erin Shirreff, Elisa Sighicelli, Brea Souders, Kate Steciw, BatiaSuter, Yosuke Takeda, Miguel Ángel Tornero,Sara VanDerBeek, Artie Vierkant, Anne deVries, Hannah Whitaker, Charlie White, Lindsey White, Chris Wiley, Letha Wilson, and Amir Zaki.

IT's an exciting overlapping double header at Arcana this Saturdsay, 11/21. 4:00-7:00.....

4:00-6:00 > Charlotte Cotton: Photography Is Magic

5:00-7:00 > Alec Soth Gathered Leaves

Click above for details!