On Saturday, October 3rd from 4:00 – 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on The Arts for a book signing with Aline Smithson. Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography is a near-twenty year culmination of portrait photographs captured by award-winning photographer, writer, and educator Aline Smithson.
On Saturday, October 10th from 4:00 - 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on The Arts for a book signing with Ron Jude. To construct Lago, Ron Jude returns to the California desert of his early childhood as if a detective in search of clues to his own identity. In this brand new MACK book of fifty-four photographs taken between 2011 and 2014, he attempts to reconcile the vagaries of memory (and the uncertainty of looking) with our need to make narrative sense of things.
On Saturday, November 7th from 4:00 - 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with Marcia Prentice for How We Live, an intimate photographic journal of designers' and artists' homes from around the world including Mumbai, Beirut, Marrakech, Reykjavik, Mexico City and Amsterdam.
On Saturday, December 5th from 4:00 to 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for another exciting, double-header with two of their fave phtographers: Ed Templeton and Ethan Rafal.
On Saturday, July 9th from 4 to 6PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming their very own architects, Johnston Marklee partners Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee for a conversation and book signing inside the gorgeous space they created. The afternoon will address the architectural firm’s design process and engagement with contemporary art practices in conversation with artist Veronika Kellndorfer, one of the collaborators on their new monograph, HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE.
On Thursday, September 15th from 6 to 8PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in welcoming Pamela Littky for a book signing of The Villa Bonita.
It's that time of year again when you get to visit Arcana: Books on the Arts during the Printed Matter's Los Angeles Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Please check the event website for complete hours.
On Sunday, May 14th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, Arcana: Books on the Arts invites you to a book signing with Harold Bronson and an evening to twist, shout, and dine on humanely raised, grass-fed hot dogs from the Let’s Be Frank hotdog truck.
Welcome to This Modern Life: Embracing Life’s Imperfections, a campus-wide day of design celebrating the Japanese tradition of wabi-sabi, the art of recognizing beauty in imperfection.
