Last Friday, I went to the LA Art Book Fair and bought a bunch of comics and zines from old friends and some newly made ones. Yes, one can find plenty of serious galleries and art books at the annual event, but I guess I have trashy taste that goes with my thin wallet. Actually,...
I was bummed to miss Keep Company's Friday night re-opening gathering. My friend Una Kim's shoe company headquarters and flagship store had been shuttered for about a month while the team consolidated, plotted, and recharged and finally opened its doors to the public on the vernal (spring) equinox. Sadly, the stars didn't align for our...
Every Super Bowl weekend, a large group of people gathers in Los Angeles to get stoked, give bro hugs, and share high fives. Not football fans but collectors of art books from photocopied, staple-and-fold zines to deluxe coffee table collectables to everything in between. My wife and I were only able to drop in to...
Once a year, the LA Art Book Fair takes over MOCA's Geffen Contemporary space in Little Tokyo. Vendors pay for their spaces but admission is free to anyone who is interested in artists’ books, catalogs, periodicals, zines, and prints from an international array of publishers of all sizes, booksellers, and artists themselves. Of course I had...
I couldn't make it to the Nick Zinner and Malia James photo exhibit in Pomona the other week, but when I saw that the latter was selling a Photographs From The Road zine I immediately hit her up. I love art zines because they're imperfect, fragile, and cheap but made with love. I don't fool...