“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
From The Critic as Artist
Category Archives: Art
The Right Words – Kerouac
Design Center – Xylo Eyewear
Greece based Five Eight Design Studio created Xylo Eyewear, a Mediterranean inspired brand with authenticity and locality, and funded globally on Kickstarter.
LA Book Fair 2014
LA Book Fair 2014
Your Handy Guide to the 2014 LA Art Book Fair
Parra’s “Paris Hilton Replica” scented air freshener was designed for the 2014 LA Art Book Fair…
LA Art Book Fair
LA Art Book Fair – Moca
LA ART BOOK FAIR OPENING TONIGHT AT THE MOCA
Free and open to the public, the LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by over 250 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers.
The event will be open through the end of this weekend at the MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary location in Little Tokyo, and looks to see tens of thousands of print-lovers from around Southern California. A series of lectures and discussions curated by David Senior called The Classroom will draw visitors each and every day of the fair, and Hyperallergic will even be present and hosting a get-together of their own after hours on Saturday.
You can find more info at the LA ART BOOK FAIR site and at this interview with organizer AA Bronson. The opening event is tonight.
LA Art Book Fair 2014 – Printed Matter
Downtown Los Angeles, California
The second edition of Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair kicked off last night in The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as the fledgling of the famed NY Art Book Fair.
Over 250 international outfits are taking part in the assembly, and the range of offerings is highly impressive. Everything is egalitarian, sharply presented and extremely tempting.
Hometown heroes Ooga Booga, KesselsKramer, and Arcana — who are making waves on the international scene — are paired with their out-of-town peers, simultaneously repping their work and acting as ambassadors.The fair is going on until Sunday and is free to enter and enjoy, thanks to the selfless contributions of many. For more information and for the full schedule for screenings, panels, lectures and special events visit laartbookfair.net.
Ashbery Talks of Jane – Poetry, Jan 2014
“I met Jane Freilicher the day I arrived in New York in the summer of 1949, just after I graduated from college and decided to move here on the advice of my friend Kenneth Koch.”
John Ashbery talks about his friend, the painter Jane Freilicher, in the January 2014 issue of Poetry.
From Dead Poets Society
“But only in their dreams. Can men truly free. ‘Twas always thus. And always thus will be.”
drunken library 