Events Posted Jul 12, 2025

25: RICHARD MISRACH: CARGO!

Please join us on Saturday, 7/26 (4:00-6:00 PM) for a book signing with Richard Misrach for his new Aperture book: CARGO!

If you can't join us, you can order a signed copy for shipping or pickup here.

Book of the Day Posted Jul 09, 2025

Book of the Day: Rick Owens - Temple of Love

From the publisher: "With his provocative and subversive approach to design, Rick Owens has been a transformative force in fashion since he founded his label in 1994. This essential volume is the first critical appraisal of Owens’s work, documenting the evolution of nearly three decades of the designer’s inimitable worldview." How could it not be our book of the day? (Rizzoli, 2025)

Book of the Day Posted Jun 26, 2025

Book of the Day: Afrosport

From the publisher: "Afrosport studies sport on the continent through the lens of design and by way of research, interviews, thought pieces, creative exploration, analysis, graphics and photography. The book explores the visual culture of African sport, its rich history and its global influence in the world: present and future. African design is reshaping the world’s cultural stage, sport shows us how." Book of the day! (Mami Wata, 2025)

Book of the Day Posted Jun 22, 2025

Book of the Day: Rodolfo Abularch

Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020) is one of Latin America’s most distinguished yet underrecognized masters. Throughout his over six-decade long career, Abularach created a fascinating and spiritual world filled with images of planetary forms, mandalas, and earthly and psychological portals. His most iconic and repeated subject was the eye, which he saw as a window into the soul. His interest in the mysteries of the earth led him to depict volcanoes, emblems of the artist's homeland and ancient history. Abularach mastered and explored a variety of styles, from hyperrealistic to abstract, monochrome to multicolored, esoteric to surreal. This is our book of the day on June 6th, 2025!

Book of the Day Posted Jun 20, 2025

Book of the Day: Virgil Abloh - "Make It Ours"

From the publisher: "In 2018, shockwaves were sent around the fashion industry when Virgil Abloh was appointed the head of menswear for Louis Vuitton. Despite no formal training in pattern-making or tailoring, Abloh had become the first Black designer to serve as artistic director in the brand’s 164-year history. Make It Ours tells the story of how that moment came to be and how Abloh came to symbolise and embody the industry’s way forward. Using Abloh’s surprising path to the top of the luxury establishment, Givhan unfolds the larger story of how the cloistered, exclusive fashion world faced a revolution from below in the form of streetwear and designers unafraid to storm the gate, and how a simple t-shirt came to hold as much cultural power as a haute couture gown." This new biography of the late designer by author Robin Givhan is our book of the day.

Book of the Day Posted Jun 18, 2025

Book of the Day: Sexy Record Covers

From the publisher: "An album cover collection exploring 70 years of surprising, shocking and frankly hilarious nude and provocative art. Sexy covers sold all musical genres, from funk to punk, and the silly German schlager. Comedy albums range from mid-century 'stag party' pin-ups to the undeniably raunchy ’70s sensation, Blowfly. Steamy, seamy and adults only." Book of the day, from the esteemed people at Taschen.

Events Posted Jun 08, 2025

Upcoming Book Signings at Arcana!

SATURDAY, JUNE 14th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM

BOB WAYNE: REEL TO REAL TALES... NOTES FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE RECORDING CONSOLE
BOOK SIGNING + DISCUSSION

Book of the Day Posted Jun 01, 2025

Book of the Day: Superfine - Tailoring Black Style

From the publisher: "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style traces the complex and vibrant legacy of menswear across three centuries of Black culture—from today’s hip-hop aesthetic and popular street trends, through its use during the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement as a symbol of creative and political agency, to its surprising origins as an imposed uniform for servants and enslaved people. Organized by key characteristics of dandyism that resonate across time, including presence, distinction, disguise, and respectability, this fresh interpretation of a centuries-old aesthetic draws on prominent Black voices in fashion, literature, and art." Book of the day! Purchase here

Book of the Day Posted May 29, 2025

Book of the Day: Existential Comics by R. Crumb

From the publisher: "This volume brings together twenty-five of R. Crumb’s most ambitious, acclaimed, and profound comics. One of the most influential and iconic cartoonists of our time, R. Crumb is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of representation, mass consumerism, and polite society. The comics in this volume exemplify Crumb’s creative output over twenty-five years following his early experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s. The comics collected here depict characters searching for an understanding of the world around and within themselves. Through adaptation, autobiography, biography, and short fiction, Crumb—much like his subjects—demands we pay attention to our darkest desires, compulsions, fears, and obsessions. Existential Comics also features a new, introductory comic strip by Crumb, reflecting on his practice in the context of this volume. Editor Dan Nadel’s essay further weaves together Crumb’s life, career, and influences, delving into the creative environment that informed some of the artist’s most outstanding comics."

Book of the Day Posted May 28, 2025

Book of the Day: THIS MUSIC LEAVES EXIT WOUNDS: DARBY CRASH AND GERMS EPHEMERA

From the archive of esteemed punk publishing house Kill Your Idols comes "This Music Leaves Exit Wounds: Darby Crash and Germs Ephemera!" True to its title, this book reproduces hundreds of rare and seldom seen gig flyers, photographs, set lists, magazine ads, record graphics, and more. A brand new, most handsome example of this awesome survey of all things Germs limited to a mere five hundred unnumbered copies. Get yours before it invariably sells out!!!