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TOSH TALKS

Tosh Berman, buyer for Book Soup, our favorite book source, talks about David Lynch: Dark Splendor and William Eggelston: For Now.

Add comment December 23rd, 2010

READ ABOUT ART, DON’T JUST LOOK AT IT

We just got in some great books for the Holiday from Book Soup. Included in this selection are Houdini: Art and Magic and Yves Klein: With The Void, Full Powers. If you’re even sort of into Houdini, you’ll drool over Houdini: Art and Magic. It showcases a selection of his personal effects, included pages from his journal, and performance props and photographs, all part of a traveling exhibit about the man himself. In addition to great historical imagery, interviews with novelist E. L. Doctorow, magician Teller, and contemporary artists Raymond Pettibon and Matthew Barney add to the wealth of information on Houdini and his influence from the late 19th century to the present.

Yves Klein: With The Void, Full Powers, of course drenched in International Klein Blue (even the edges of the pages have been painted), is a collection of images and essays not only about Klein, but also about the artistic movements and history he worked within, influenced, and helped to start. I like to give Klein’s work a hard time, because so much of the best known pieces involved naked chicks who’ve had to roll around in the, uh, liquid (paint) he created, but this book does a good job of showing Klein’s theoretical and aesthetic expansion. Turns out, Klein was way more than just blue- and boob-obsessed.

Add comment December 17th, 2010

MUSIC WE LIKE

We have been a fan of Mexican Summer records for sometime now. The NY-based label has put out a couple great releases this year including Real Estate, Washed Out, and LA duo Best Coast, along with the much anticipated reissue of Ramases’ Space Hymns, just to name a few.

In the spirit of the holidays, we’ve compiled a playlist of some of our favorite tracks for your listening enjoyment. If you like what you hear, be sure to check out their full records on vinyll!

All available at TenOverSix.

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1 comment December 16th, 2010

Adorable Ornaments from Pols Potten!

Just arrived - beautifully painted Dutch glass ornaments for your personal holiday decorating pleasure. These cute animals come in a set of 4, and make great gifts for friends and family!

Available now for $39/set.

Add comment December 16th, 2010

NO SHIRT, NO SHOES REQUIRED AT THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY

It’s 80 degrees in LA right now. You could go to the beach to celebrate this, but then you’d probably find yourself in a crazy amount of IT’S 80 DEGRESS IN DECEMBER OMG traffic. If you’re not lucky enough to have a pool at home (or if you are, because I’m pretty sure yours doesn’t have a sick light show), may I suggest a dip in Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s “psychedelic swimming pool,” officially titled Cosmococa–Programa in Progress, CC4 Nocagions, currently up at The Geffen Contemporary.

“Psychedelic swimming pool?” you may ask. “In a museum?” Well, the MOCA has put together Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, the first major museum show to “situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and space” by recreating large installations by the likes of Carlos Cruz Diez, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida, and Jesús Rafael Soto. While I certainly have reservations about a show that places Latin American artists within a larger contemporary art context by showing them with…other Latin American artists exclusively, this is definitely a rare chance to see some major, influential works.

The word suprasenorial was first used by Oiticica to describe the all-consuming nature of his installations. The use of the word “installations” here is actually sort of questionable; really, what these artists do is use light and color to create environments that make the audience, by walking through them, as integral a part of the work as what was made by the artist. I’d say it’s safe to assume that you don’t become part of a work without having a pretty epic experience in it, and really, if you’ve seen or are familiar with light works by non-Latin-North American and European artists, this show will blow your senses out of the water. I guess literally?

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space is up at the Geffen Contemporary until February 27, 2011.

Add comment December 12th, 2010