Please join us for Chapter 5: Phosphorescence, Pheasants, and Unpleasants, as L.A.-based artist Shana Lutker tells the story of the Surrealist fistfight that took place on the Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris on the night of June 14, 1935 between André Breton and Soviet critic Ilya Ehrenburg.  The performance will take shape as a multimedia lecture with performers, weaving together poetry, film, and emphatic criticism of the Surrealist Era.

This is part of Shana Lutker's ongoing research and work, Le "NEW" Monocle: The History of the Fistfights of the Surrealists. Works from the series have been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Pérez Art Museum Miami; the 2014 Whitney Biennial and Performa 13 in New York; and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 18th Street Arts Center and LAXART in Los Angeles.

Shana Lutker: SUR   link to purchase                                                                  Edited by Lauri Firstenberg and Catherine Taft with essays by Shana Lutker, Kris Paulsen and Mika Yoshitake                                                                    Published by LAXART, 2016                                                                              206 pages, $25

ART CATALOGUES AT LACMA                                                             Ahmanson Building                                                                                    Sunday, March 4th, 4 pm-6pm                                                                          Free                                                                                                             

Image: Documentation from "The Nose, the Cane, the Broken Left Arm 2" at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich. Courtesy of the artist and Cabaret Voltaire

 Shana will sign only books purchased at Art Catalogues.  To purchase a signed copy in advance, please call (323)857-6587

Please join us to hear designer, art director, producer, and film poster connoisseur Mike Kaplan in conversation with Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio's Morning Edition, about the artistic and historic significance of posters from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Talk and reception.

The conversation celebrates the opening of the Art of the Movie Poster: Highlights from the Mike Kaplan Collection at LACMA, which will be on view from February 24 through July 1, 2018.

link to Unframed article: New Acquisition: The Mike Kaplan Movie Poster Collection



"Smoke Ashes Fable" is personally my favorite catalogue to be published and arrive this new year of 2018. Hope and optimism is running high in our society of distress and inequality. Who better to celebrate than William Kentridge. A true man of the world, Kentridge enraptures his audiences with poignant operatic presentations and installations of drawings and animations that capture a universal feeling of truth even if you can't quite put your finger on it when you are in the moment of viewing.  During his operas, his onstage energy is so persuasive, there is no questioning his gravitational pull of faith; a desire to learn from him and his messages of peace and the plight of the unrepresented.  With essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Joseph Leo Koerner, Margaret K. Koerner and Harmon Siegel, we invite you to stop by and peruse "Smoke Ashes Fable" by William Kentridge to delve into the artists ideas on enlightenment and realizing our relationship to it.

Buy it here.

Exhibition in Bruges link.

Alex Israel and critic and curator Jack Bankowsky will be in conversation at Art Catalogues on November 12th on the occasion of the publication of Alex Israel, b. 1982, Los Angeles.

Please join us as we celebrate the release with a discussion, book signing and reception.

Ahmanson Building at LACMA 

November 12, 4-6 p.m.

Photo by Hans-Georg Gall
Courtesy the artist

Pre-order a signed copy of the catalogue by clicking here.

Alex Israel, b. 1982, Los Angeles

Edited by Eric Troncy, with texts by the artist, John Kelsey, Jon Leon and Eric Troncy

Les Presses du Reel, Dijon, 2017

Hardcover, 456 pp., $90

Click here to view the video from the October 8, 2017 talk.

Please join us to hear artist Mary Corse in conversation with art critic and historian Suzanne Hudson about Mary's unique practice at the crossroads of abstract expressionism and minimalism.

Sunday, October 8 from 4-6 p.m. Conversation, book signing and reception. Free and open to the public

Ahmanson Building at LACMA, Ground Floor

Mary Corse with Untitled, 1976. © Mary Corse

Mary Corse

Text by Suzanne Hudson with interview by Alex Bacon

Inventory Press and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, 2017

Hardcover, 132 pages, 55 color illustrations, $55

Mary will sign only books purchased at Art Catalogues. 

To pre-order a signed copy, please click here, call (323) 857-6587

or email artcatalogues@lacma.org