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Randy Miller, President of Original New York Seltzer and sponsor of Alphy’s Soda Pop Club.
Jonathan· 08/17/10 
South Central Farmers Cooperative
Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a new idea in farming, one that has been gaining momentum since its introduction to the United States from Europe in the mid-1980s. The CSA concept originated in the 1960s in Switzerland and Japan, where consumers interested in safe food and farmers seeking stable markets for their crops joined together in economic partnerships. Today, CSA farms in the U.S., known as CSAs, currently number more than 400. Most are located near urban centers in New England, the Mid-Atlantic States, and the Great Lakes region, with growing numbers in other areas, including the West Coast.
Picture Industry (Good Bye To All That)
Organized by Walead Beshty
July 17 - August 21, 2010
Opening reception
Saturday, July 17, 6 - 8 pm
In most Los Angeles social circles, when one speaks of the “industry” they are referring to the Entertainment Industry (a.k.a. the “Picture Industry”). Pictures have a knack for supplanting the concrete, sliding as though self-lubricating around the globe, like poltergeists, they haunt the world they represent like vague recollections, inhabiting concrete forms briefly until slipping off to another host, a billboard here, a magazine page there, creating momentary associations, and chance resonances. And what to make of the application of the term industry, with the heaviness of factories and smoke stacks encircling it, to the production of ephemeral pictures whose power is synonymous with their lightness? It could be said that it is the seemingly invisible and ephemeral aspects–the means of distribution, the contextual frame, the vicissitudes of taste, and an object’s ability to “pass”–which serve as the most robust material of the contemporary work, an embrace of convention that produces an endless sequence of provisional “meanings.” Perhaps the only solution available to us is to allow pictures to be concrete, to reclaim their moments of heaviness, instead of pretending that they are endlessly able to float listlessly in the breeze.
Olivian· 07/14/10 
Paper Surrogate by Anthony Lepore for Works Sited.
June 15 - August 22, 2010
Reception today from 6-8pm @ Central Library.
Using photographs, wood and plastic, Lepore has created a quarter-scaled replica of the library’s display case housed within the original. This smaller edition contains a photographic snapshot of an arrangement of books that either deal directly with subjects of expectancy, birth and parenthood or have titles that invoke these themes despite their actual contents. Using a diverse selection of library books from a wide range of topics, Lepore frames how such complex and abstract phenomena – that of birth and procreation – have been embedded in today’s social and cultural imaginary.
Art, Music & Recreation Dept, 2nd Floor
Central Los Angeles Public Library
630 W Fifth St
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Hours: M, W 10-6; T, Th 10-8; Fri, Sat 10-6
Parking available in lot on Flower between 5th and 6th streets
The Wallis Annenberg Photography Department is pleased to celebrate new and recent publications including Bananas for Moholy-Nagy by Patterson Beckwith, Four Over One by Phil Chang, the Aperture edition of Words Without Pictures edited by Alex Klein, and the limited edition of The Sun as Error by Shannon Ebner. A conversation moderated by Britt Salvesen, Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, with artists Patterson Beckwith and Phil Chang will begin promptly at 4:20 pm. Reception to follow. Light refreshments will be served. Signed books will be available for purchase.
Reception and Conversation
Sunday, May 23, 4-6pm
Art Catalogues at LACMA
Art Catalogues at LACMA is located in the Ahmanson Building near the Tony Smith sculpture Smoke.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
5:00pm-7:00pm
Printed Matter
195 Tenth Ave
New York, NY 10011
In Four Over One, the Los Angeles based artist Phil Chang employs the format of an artists book to explore ideas of economy and obsolescence. In collaboration with designer Jonathan Maghen, Four Over One is structured around Chang’s interest in how new outcomes arise from an antagonism between perceived and actual forms of value. The photographs that appear in the book were created using expired photographic materials exposed by an archival book scanner. Through a sparse display of color, black and white, and half-tone photographs, in conjunction with a restrained typographic treatment, Four Over One employs an economy of scale in order to consider the roles of abstraction, methods of art production, and modes of distribution in our contemporary culture.
Published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department , in association with Textfield, Inc.
Distributed by RAM Publications
Cannon Hudson, New Painting and Sculpture
Alex Klein, Person to Person
Vishal Jugdeo, Violent Broadcast
May 1-29, 2010
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 1, 7-10 pm
Las Cienegas Projects
2045 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Kara Mears takes photos and Devin Browne writes and designs the entries, which are published sort of like a diary, with words and phrases alternating between large and small typeface. The first thing we learn about the young women, in their opening entry, is that they chose their family after an apparently grueling two years of searching because — unlike other houses in MacArthur Park, I guess — “This family cares about cleanliness. They cannot live with bedbugs.”
The Street Names of Los Angeles A History is a series of videos presented by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, featuring historic photographs and documents from the Seaver Center for Western History Research.
I grew up in Los Angeles… I should know this stuff!
Sun· 03/24/10 
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.
Art, Music & Recreation Dept, 2nd Floor
Central Los Angeles Public Library
630 W Fifth St
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Hours: M-Th 10-8, Fri & Sat 10-6, Sun 1-5
Parking available on Flower between 5th and 6th streets
Jean-Claude Vannier and his orchestra working with Yves Saint-Laurent in the early 70s.
Sandy· 02/16/10
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:
Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga Reading Room
1 December — 13 February 2010
— Beatrice Valenzuela
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.
Sun· 12/31/09 
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.
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.
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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
Keith Bormuth,
Christian Cummings,
Michael Hayden,
Lee Lynch,
Emily Mast,
Nicole Miller,
Dianna Molzan,
Michael Parker
organized by Jonathan Maghen
2009 MFA Catalog made possible through the generous support of:
Hunk and Moo Anderson, The Harry W. and Mary M. Anderson Charitable Foundation,
Richard and Lynnie Dewey, Putter Pence, Anne Cohen