Events Posted May 06, 2015

McGrath + Templeton Book Signing - SUNDAY!

PLEASE JOIN US SUNDAY, MAY 10th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM FOR A BOOK SIGNING:
DENNIS McGRATH: HEAVEN + DEANNA TEMPLETON: THEY SHOULD NEVER TOUCH THE GROUND

"Dennis McGrath’s Heaven illustrates an incredible journey of a lost soul. Professional skateboarder Lennie Kirk began his career in the early nineties at the ripe young age of sixteen. He was a wild child - fearless and invincible - for whom nothing seemed out of his reach. He was only eighteen when he was run over by a truck. Board broken but otherwise unharmed, he walked away from skateboarding and ‘found God’. However, after finding salvation, his wild antics were no different, and if anything, became crazier. His passion was manic and dangerous, and often got him into trouble. Lennie is currently serving thirteen years in jail - his second incarceration. With an intense collection of letters, photographs, and ephemera, McGrath takes us on a visual journey through Lennie’s wild ride of life".

 

Hot-off-the-press from Arcana favorite Deadbeat Club Press, Deanna Templeton's They Should Never Touch The Ground is a wry,  engaging photographic survey of today's 'creative' uses of the American Flag-motif,  and the sometimes misplaced respect for 'Old Glory' itself. Known primarily for over a decade's work of telling portraits of girls grappling with the transition to adulthood, her photographs have been the subject of five previous books along with a number of gallery and Museum exhibitions.

 

So drop by between 4:00 to 6:00 PM, Sunday, May 10th for a lemonade or a beer, and come and hang with Deanna and Dennis to celebrate the publication of They Should Never Touch the Ground and Heaven!

Events Posted Apr 29, 2015

Dennis McGrath + Deanna Templeton Booksignings at Arcana, Sunday 5/10!

Book Signing at Arcana > Sunday, May 10th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM

DENNIS MCGRATH: HEAVEN and DEANNA TEMPLETON: THEY SHOULD NEVER TOUCH THE GROUND

 

 
 

Events Posted Apr 21, 2015

Sunday: Randi Malkin Steinberger

Please join us! SUNDAY, APRIL 26th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM RANDI MALKIN STEINBERGER: CONGO MISSION BOX and TENTED FOR TERMITES.

 

Events Posted Apr 16, 2015

RANDI MALKIN STEINBERGER BOOK SIGNING SUNDAY, APRIL 26th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM

In 2011, Venice-based photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger produced the exquisite Boetti by Afghan People; a book based on her experience in the early nineties documenting the production of works of art designed by the noted late Italian conceptual practitioner Alighiero Boetti that were embroidered by Afghan women in refugee camps in Peshawar, Pakistan. Over the past several years she has turned her keen eye to those tented buildings we pass seemingly every day on our way to here or there. Though conspicuously clad in brightly-striped fumigation shrouds, their ubiquitousness serves as a barometer of the boom and bust cycles of the local residential real estate market that has rendered them all but invisible. Her vivid color images provide a typology of these ephemeral, quintessentially Southern Californian structures. Miranda July has written of them "Everyone has looked twice at these big top monoliths, but only Steinberger has looked again and again, transforming termite tents in to public art with her gorgeous and obsessive eye". While awaiting the publication of her upcoming book of this work - featuring an essay by Mike Davis -, Randi Malkin Steinberger will present an installation of these photographs utilizing Arcana's steel "Forest of Books" as a backdrop.

Additionally, Randi’s extensive collection of vernacular photography includes a box of prints from the estate of a country doctor she purchased on eBay. The original owner grew up as the son of a missionary in the Belgian Congo; living there with his parents until he came to the United States to attend college. The photographs date from the 1920s through the 1960s, and depict a lost view of Western religion and colonialism intersecting with the native peoples. Congo Mission Box is her newly-published book compiled from a selection of these images that was designed in conjunction with Book Machine at the 2015 Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair. It is available in a first printing of one hundred copies along with a deluxe edition conceived exclusively for the signing limited to twenty-one examples - each of which comes with an original vintage photograph from the Congo!
 
Please join us for cocktails from 4:00 to 6:00 PM on Sunday, April 26th as we celebrate the publication of Randi Malkin Steinberger's Congo Mission Box and preview the public unveiling of her "Tented For Termites installation!

If you cannot attend but would like to purchase a signed copy of:
 
Events Posted Apr 08, 2015

Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties Book Signing

Please join us Wednesday, April 15th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm for a Book Signing:

OUT OF SIGHT: THE LOS ANGELES ART SCENE OF THE SIXTIES BY WILLIAM HACKMAN

Histories of modern art are typically centered in Paris and New York. Los Angeles is relegated to its role as the center of popular culture - a city of movie stars, tan lines, and surfers - but lacking the highbrow credentials of the chosen places. Until 1965, there was no art museum, few notable collectors, and - especially in terms of modern and contemporary work - even fewer galleries. Yet in the fifties and sixties, L.A. witnessed a burst of artistic energy and invention rivaling New York’s burgeoning art scene a half-century earlier. As New York Times art critic Roberta Smith has noted, it was “a euphoric moment,” at a “time when East and West coasts seemed evenly matched.”

Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties chronicles the rapid-fire rise, fall, and rebirth of the L.A. art scene - from the emergence of a small bohemian community in the fifties to the founding of the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1980 - and explains how artists such as Edward Ruscha, Robert Irwin, and Ken Price reshaped contemporary art. In it, noted author and historian William Hackman explores the ways in which Los Angeles reflected the hopes and fears of postwar America  - in both  the self-confidence of an increasingly affluent middle class, and the anxiety produced by violent upheavals at home and abroad. Most of all, he pays tribute to the unique city and moment in time that gave birth to a fascinating, and until now much-overlooked chapter in modern art.

Have a look at Christopher Knight's glowing review of "Out of Sight..." in The Los Angeles Times here.

Join us in celebrating the publication of this exciting new contribution to Southern California's art history by one of our oldest and dearest friends! 
If you would like to purchase a signed copy (or two) of William Hackman's "Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties" but cannot attend, please click here, or call 310-458-1499.

Events Posted Mar 30, 2015

SATURDAY - Book Signing! Ed Templeton & Thomas Campbell

Come! Meet the men, the myths, the legends, Thomas Campbell & Ed Templeton! Saturday April 4th, 4-6pm at Arcana. Questions? Comments? Pre-orders? Just want to chit chat? Sales@arcanabooks.com or 310-458-1499. See you on Saturday!

Events Posted Mar 24, 2015

Book Signing! Ed Templeton & Thomas Campbell

PLEASE JOIN US SATURDAY, APRIL 4th,
4:00 - 6:00 PM FOR A BOOK SIGNING!!!
THOMAS CAMPBELL: SEEING FATIMA'S EYES
+ ED TEMPLETON: WAYWARD COGNITIONS
Click here for all the gnarly details
 

 

 

Events Posted Feb 13, 2015

Mona Kuhn PRIVATE Book Signing

PLEASE JOIN US THIS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15th,
4:00 - 6:00 PM FOR A BOOK SIGNING

MONA KUHN: PRIVATE
For her fifth book, Mona Kuhn has entered the heart of the American desert and returned with a sequence of pictures that is seductive, enigmatic and a little unsettling. Private proposes a world in which concrete reality and the imaginary are one. Plants and animals on the edge of survival, sun-drenched landscapes and wind-sculpted earth are intercut with a series of nudes that push Kuhn's renowned sensitivity to human form into unexpected directions. The result is a book somewhere between the poetry of T.S. Eliot, the cinema of Robert Altman, and a lucid dream.
Join us in celebrating the publication of Mona Kuhn's lovely new book Private! We will also be offering a selection of her earlier Steidl titles along with a few special signed limited editions with a print.
Events Posted Feb 03, 2015

Book Signing for Ed Templeton's "Wayward Cognitions"

On Sunday AT 1:00 we'll be hosting a book signing with the immensely talented Ed Templeton for his fantastic new collection of photography: "Wayward Cognitions".

"Wayward Cognitions" is a collection of photographs by Ed Templeton, chosen from his archives spanning twenty years. For this volume, Templeton selected images that do not fit into his usual manner of organizing by theme or subject. In past publications he has arranged his work in straightforward groupings such as Teenage Kissers, Teenage Smokers, or photographs shot from a moving car. In "Deformer", he presented the photographs under the theme of suburbia. "Wayward Cognitions" represents the in-between moments that arise when shooting in the streets without theme or subject. "It's about looking, people watching, finding pleasure in the visual vignettes we glimpse each day," says Templeton. When those moments are removed from the context in which they were shot, dynamic stories can be told or imagined in book form. The photographs in "Wayward Cognitions" were printed by Templeton in his darkroom; he then created the layout and design himself, building the book from scratch in his home studio."

Please note: Priority will be given to those buying "Wayward Cognitions" from us on Sunday. Those bringing other material for Mr. Templeton to sign must wait until same-day purchasers have had their books signed. Thank you for your cooperation.
Events Posted Jan 29, 2015

Printed Matter's 2015 LA Art Book Fair + Ed Templeton Book Signing!

It's time to join us for the Printed Matter Los Angeles Art Book Fair! The first two years have been outstanding in terms of attendance, energy, and sheer volume of amazing stuff for sale under one gigantic roof; and this one promises to be the best yet.
 
We'll be downtown again this year with another enticing assortment of rarities including Pop and Conceptual artists’ books and catalogues, (maga)’zines, artworks + multiples, and an array of coveted posters, announcements and ephemera. It's a unique opportunity to shop many of the exquisite, inspiring, and rarely-seen items from the Arcana: Books on the Arts hidden-recesses and flat files. See you there!

While you're at the fair, be sure to check out: The Templetons - Books and Zines. Our pals at Boo-Hooray are hosting a not-to-be-missed exhibit, curated by Johan Kugelberg, Clint Woodside and Ed & Deanna Templeton, devoted to their zines, books and related artworks.

On Sunday AT 1:00 we'll be hosting a book signing with the immensely talented Ed Templeton for his fantastic new collection of photography: "Wayward Cognitions".


"Wayward Cognitions" is a collection of photographs by Ed Templeton, chosen from his archives spanning twenty years. For this volume, Templeton selected images that do not fit into his usual manner of organizing by theme or subject. In past publications he has arranged his work in straightforward groupings such as Teenage Kissers, Teenage Smokers, or photographs shot from a moving car. In "Deformer", he presented the photographs under the theme of suburbia. "Wayward Cognitions" represents the in-between moments that arise when shooting in the streets without theme or subject. "It's about looking, people watching, finding pleasure in the visual vignettes we glimpse each day," says Templeton. When those moments are removed from the context in which they were shot, dynamic stories can be told or imagined in book form. The photographs in "Wayward Cognitions" were printed by Templeton in his darkroom; he then created the layout and design himself, building the book from scratch in his home studio."
 

 

 

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