Real Life Lies Elsewhere, Oil on canvas, 9×12″

mosaicism.org by Daniel Ingroff, 4 March — 1 April 2010

Reception on Thursday, March 4th from 6-7:30pm at the library

A work inspired by photographs and paraphernalia taken from the Art department’s “picture files” — a unique collection of newspapers, magazine clippings and ephemera collected by librarians prior to the advent of the Internet. Made up of three distinct parts: a website, video and display, mosaicism.org investigates both digital and analogue forms of the “picture” by framing some of the aesthetic and emotional assumptions associated with these binaries.

Jean-Claude Vannier and his orchestra working with Yves Saint-Laurent in the early 70s.

Slavs and Tatars & Ooga Booga present the west coast debut of Kidnapping Mountains. Featuring a selection and sale of Slavs and Tatars posters, editions, and printed matter.

Ooga Booga
943 N Broadway #203
Los Angeles CA 90012
14 January — 7 February 2010

Ooga Booga is a concept shop vital to the creative life-blood of Los Angeles. It gathers an eclectic range of products. Spearheaded by Wendy Yao, Ooga Booga fosters a vibrant community of independent producers. For Swiss Institute, Yao installs a lounge in which one may read over 300 titles — from self to professionally published. The room contains contributions by:

I think he, more than any one person or thing, crafted my mental image of LA when I didn’t live here.

1940s Studio Organization, 20th Century Fox.

The following diagrams outline the structure of the 20th Century Fox film studio in the 1940s. The charts detail everything from the highest to the most menial of positions at the studio, from the catering through the legal department. They appear in approximately the same order as they appeared in the book they were scanned from.

Bookshop now open — email your order (or order online) and receive 15% off all books, catalogs, editions, magazines, monographs, multiples, and videos, between November 24, 2009 and January 1, 2010. All orders placed by December 11th, will be delivered by December 24th. Orders placed online will receive a 15% refund. Happy Holidays!

Publishers
032c, A&R Press, Bas Morsch, Book Works, Capricious, Charlie White, Christoph Keller Editions, C Magazine, Coins, David Kordansky Gallery, Fillip, FormContent, Four Corners Books, Glen Cummings, Adam Michaels, Harsh Patel, Hassla Books, Hunter and Cook, Hypen Press, JRP|Ringier, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Laura Palmer Foundation, Manuel Raeder, Mono.Kultur, Museum Paper, Nieves, OK-RM, onestar press, Paperback, Paper Monument, Passenger Books, Peres Projects, Seems, Primary Information, Semiotexte, Slavs and Tatars, Steidl, Textfield, The Power Plant,Tramnesia, True True True, Turner, Vier5, Walker Art Center, Wallspace, Walther König, Wear, and more.

Two good show openings in LA tonight - Arthur Ou and Alice Könitz (information below this post), and Asher Penn (with a performance by Kayla Guthrie).

Though he is still crawling, 9-month-old Thurston Conder takes about 10 seconds to have the run of the house. It’s not that he’s exceptionally fast; he just doesn’t have that far to roam. Thurston shares 380 square feet with his mom and dad, Kelly Breslin and Ryan Conder, and a medium-sized mutt named Charlie.

Altadena Works is a creative partnership based in California that emerged from our shared desire to produce quality goods manufactured within the USA. Our products are rooted in simple and straightforward design, constructed meticulously with functionality and longevity in mind. Understated yet luxurious in their material quality, our bags deliver a solution both modern and practical for everyday use.

2009 MFA Graduate Exhibition and Catalog Release
September 15th to September 25th
Reception: Thursday, September 17th, 6-9 p.m.
Catalogs, root beer, and ice cream

USC Gayle and Ed Roski MFA Gallery
3001 S Flower St
Los Angeles CA 90007
http://roski.usc.edu/mfa

Textfield, Inc. is an independent publisher and distributor of artists books, catalogs, editions, monographs, multiples, and periodicals. We specialize in the distribution of quality publications from publishers in North America and Europe, to libraries, bookshops, galleries, and museums.

The focus of our publishing catalog involves the development of close working relationships with artists, galleries, museums, universities, and institutions to design and publish books and other printed matter.

Publishers: 032c, Capricious, Christoph Keller Editions, C Magazine, Coins, David Kordansky Gallery, Fillip, FormContent, Harsh Patel, Hassla Books, I-20 Gallery, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Manuel Raeder, Mono.Kultur, Museum Paper, Nieves, OK-RM, onestar press, Paperback, Peres Projects, Seems, Slavs and Tatars, Textfield, True True True, Vier5, Wallspace, Wear.