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Lina Bo Bardi, Bardi House (Casa de vidro), São Paulo, Brazil, 1949-1952, view from the northeast, photograph by Nelson Kon, 2002, Courtesy Nelson Kon. Image courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum. 

Thursday, October 19

LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN THE MARCIANO COLLECTION, Marciano Art Foundation (Mid-Wilshire), 11am–5pm. 

CULTURE FIX: HEATHER SHIREY ON THE BAIANA AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN IDENTITY, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 12–1pm.

Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Dorit Cypis, CalArts (Valencia), 12pm.

Psychedelic Cello by Justin Lepard, CalArts (Valencia), 12–1pm.

Chicana Photographers L.A., WEINGART GALLERY (Westchester), 5–8pm.

Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: Environments for Life, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 5pm.

Architects for Animals® Giving Shelter, HermanMiller Showroom (Culver City), 5:30–9:30pm. $50–500.

Artist and scholar walkthroughs: Micol Hebron, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 6pm.

THE CUT | EL CORTE: A Fitness Class & Papel Picado Workshop, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 6–8pm. $20.

Alan Gutierrez: INTRO, Artist Curated Projects (Echo Park), 6–8pm.

San Pedro House History Workshop, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 6pm.

Climate Change and the Shaping of Asia, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7pm.

Bayard & Me Documentary Screening followed by a shorts program and Q&A, Vista Theater (Los Feliz), 7pm.

Adriana Varejao: Transbarrocco, Lloyd Wright Sowden House (Los Feliz), 7–9pm. Through October 21. RSVP here.

Dis Miss: Performing Gender, USC (Downtown), 7pm.

Film Night: Seven Cities of Gold, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.

Rodrigo Valenzuela Lecture, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Film: Free Screening | 11/8/16, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Film Night: Seven Cities of Gold, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7:30pm.

Oscar David Alvarez, PØST (Downtown), 8pm.

Modernism week fall preview weekend, various locations (Palm Springs), various times. Through October 22.

Friday, October 20

Symposium – Art from Guatemala 1960 - Present, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 10am. $15.

International Orchid Show & Sale, The Huntington (San Marino), 10am–5pm. Through October 22.

School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Pascale Criton with Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker, CalArts (Valencia), 10am–12pm.

STORY TIME AT THE FOWLER, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 11:30am–12:30pm.

Charles Phoenix: Addicted to Americana Live Comedy Slide Show Performance, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 3–5pm. $40.

Christopher Michlig and Jan Tumlir in Conversation, 1301PE (Miracle Mile), 5pm.

Inès Longevial: Sous Le Soleil, HVW8 Gallery (Fairfax), 6–9pm. 

Stepping into the Radiant Future, LAST Projects (Lincoln Heights), 7–11pm.

Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Beverly Hills), 7:30pm. $45–125. Through October 29. 

Latin Rhythms: Cha Cha Cha Dance Class, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 7–9pm.

Mark Edward Rhodes & Jeanete Clough, Beyond Baroque (Venice), 8pm.

Book Launch: PLAYING MONSTER :: SEICHE by Diana Arterian, Human Resources (Chinatown), 8pm.

Princess Diana in Auschwitz, CalArts (Valencia), 8pm. Through October 24.

WHAP! Lecture Series: 'in/ibid./form', West Hollywood Public Library (West Hollywood), 7:30pm.

PST: LA/LA Santa Barbara Weekend, various locations (Santa Barbara), various times. Through October 22. 

Saturday, October 21

UCLA ART HISTORY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 9am–5pm.

12th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, USC (Downtown), 9am–5pm.

An Ephemeral History of High Desert Test Sites: 2002-2015, High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree), 9am. Continues October 22.

Family Festival, Getty Center (Brentwood), 10am–6pm.

The Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly Gardens Park (Beverly Hills), 10am–5pm. Also October 22.

Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking, The Huntington (San Marino), 10am–5pm. 

Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection, The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego), 10am–5pm.

A Generative Workshop: Gathering Imagery from the Internal Well with Holaday Mason, Beyond Baroque (Venice), 11am–3pm.

Fall Yoga Series, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 10:30am–11:30am. $12–15.

Fall 2017 Brewery Artwalk, the Brewery (Downtown), 11am–6pm. Continues October 22.

Print making with recycled materials, Side Street Projects (Pasadena), 11am–1pm.

Strike a Pose: Improv Comedy in the Portrait Gallery, The Huntington (San Marino), 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30pm.

Festival For All Skid Row Artists, Gladys Park (Downtown), 1–5pm. Continues October 22.

The 3rd Space: Political Action Workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 1–4pm. $5–10.

EXHIBITION TALK & TOUR: Eva J. Friedberg, Daria Halprin & Edward Cella, Edward Cella Art+Architecture (Culver City), 1:30pm.

ARTIST TALK: KAJAHL: Unearthed Entities, Richard Heller Gallery (Santa Monica), 3–5pm.

Alison Blickle: Supermoon, Five Car Garage (Santa Monica), 3–5pm. RSVP to info@emmagrayhq.com. 

The 2017 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, REDCAT (Downtown), 3, 5, and 8pm.

Jeffrey Schultz & F. Douglas Brown, Beyond Baroque Foundation (Venice), 4pm.

Jaime Guerrero & Bradley Hankey Artist Talks, Skidmore Contemporary Art (Santa Monica), 4pm.

Film: Mapa Teatro’s Project 24, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 4pm.

Los Angeles Filmforum presents Three screenings with Argentinian filmmaker Claudio Caldini, USC (Downtown), 4pm.

When Ice Burns: New works by Diane Best, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm; artist talk, 4pm.

Astrid Preston: Upside Down World and Rose-Lynn Fisher: The Topography of Tears, Craig Krull Gallery (Santa Monica), 5–7pm.

VICTOR ESTRADA (IN CONJUNCTION WITH PACIFIC STANDARD TIME), MARTEL SPACE: RICHARD HAWKINS, MARTEL WINDOW PROJECT: MALISA HUMPHREY, Richard Telles Fine Art (Fairfax), 5–8pm.

ARCHAEOLOGY REINVENTED, R.B. Stevenson Gallery (La Jolla), 5–8pm.

The Xenomorph's Egg, Patrick Painter Gallery (Santa Monica), 6–8pm.

The Unconfirmed Makeshift Museum, Klowden Mann (Culver City), 6–8pm.

Personal Vacation and 3 Solo Shows, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 (West Hollywood), 6–9pm.

FRAY: Art and Textile Politics, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 6–8pm. $20.

Mike Kelley: Kandors, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 6–9pm.

Homeward Bound, Nicodim Gallery (Downtown), 6–8pm.

Kelly McLane: PECKERWOODS and Augusta Wood: PARTING AND RETURNING, DENK Gallery (Downtown), 6–8pm.

In Order of Appearance and Luke Butler: MMXVII, Charlie James Gallery (Chinatown), 6–9pm.

Jennifer Precious Finch (L7) & KRK Dominguez, Red Pipe Gallery (Chinatown), 6–10pm.

Open Studios, Keystone Art Space (Lincoln Heights), 6–10pm.

The Very Best of OMA Artist Alliance 2017, L Street Fine Art (San Diego), 6–8pm.

Dany Naierman: PORT CAPA, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 6pm.

Arco Iris, Giant Robot Store + GR2 Gallery (Sawtelle), 6:30–10pm.

South of the Border, The Loft at Liz’s (Mid-City), 7–10pm.

Killer Bees at MAR-A-LAGO, Tieken Gallery LA (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

Art Moura, The Good Luck Gallery (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

Rafael Cardenas - From The Holocene, Exhale Unlimited (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

Story Tellers: a DIA de los MUERTOS, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 7–11pm.

Yare: One More Dance by Cristobal Valecillos, Timothy Yarger Fine Art (Downtown), 7:30–10pm.

Laurel Atwell and Jessica Cook: Debris, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 8–10pm. $15. 

Sunday, October 22

Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 11am–5pm. 

Healthy Urban Living Team Building, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 11am–1pm.

Origin Stories Workshop with Nicole Rademacher & Jerri Allyn, Self-Help Graphics & Art (Downtown), 12–3pm.

2017 A.G.Geiger Art Book Fair, 502 Chung King Plaza (Chinatown), 1–7pm.

Community Celebration, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 1–4pm.

Talk: Conversation & Book Signing: Michael Govan and Walter Isaacson on Leonardo da Vinci, Lacma (Miracle Mile), 2pm.

Nature Deficit Disorder Workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 2–6pm. $60–75.

BORDERS and NEIGHBORS screening and panel discussion, Los Angeles Central Library (Downtown), 2pm.

Lecture: Jens Hoffman, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30–4pm.

PUBLIC WALKING TOURS: Lawrence Halprin: Reconnecting the Heart of Los Angeles, various locations, 2:30pm. Also November 5 and 19 and December 17.

Constellations and Connections: A Panel Discussion on Axis Mundo, West Hollywood Council Chambers (West Hollywood), 3pm.

Neighborhood Walk and Draw, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 4–5:30pm.

Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda, Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook (Culver City), 4pm.

For Us By Us, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 6:30–10:30pm. $5 donation.

GALLERY TALK | Peter Frank with Robert Standish, KM Fine Arts (West Hollywood), 5–7pm.

FALL IN LOVE WITH FREY, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6–9pm. $125–175.

Claudio Caldini, Echo Park Film Center (Echo Park), 7:30pm. $5.

Monday, October 23

Yare: One More Dance by Cristobal Valecillos, Timothy Yarger Fine Art (Beverly Hills), 10am–6pm. 

Kellie Jones, Art + Practice (Leimert Park), 7pm.

Fantasmas Cromáticos: 8mm Visions of Claudio Caldini, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $6–12.

Tuesday, October 24

The Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, 101/EXHIBIT (West Hollywood), 10am–6pm.

Movement and Landscape: Celebrating the Halprin Legacy, Central Library (Downtown), 12pm.

PUBLIC DANCE PERFORMANCE: Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, Central Library (Downtown), 12pm.

Film: The Invisible Man, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles, The Artform Studio (Highland Park), 6:30–9pm.

FLAVORS OF MEXICO, Skirball Cultural Center (Brentwood), 7:30–9pm. Also November 14 and December 12.

No Mas Bebes, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

El Automóvil Gris, Skirball Cultural Center (Brentwood), 8pm.

Sounding Limits: The Music of Pascale Criton, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $12–20.

Wednesday, October 25

FOWLER OUT LOUD: SAMANTHA BLAKE GOODMAN, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 6–7pm.

LAND's 2017 Gala, Carondelet House (MacArthur Park), 6–11pm. 

Screening and Conversation with Filmmakers Ben Caldwell, Barbara McCullough, and Curator Erin Christovale, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 7–9pm.

We Wanted a Revolution, Black Radical Women 1965–85 curatorial walkthrough, Lezley Saar: Salon des Refusés, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–9pm.

Making Athens Great (Again?): Modern Lessons from the Age of Pericles, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 7:30pm.

Kellie Jones: South of Pico, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Soundbath With Chakra Crystal Singing Bowls Series, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7:30–8:30pm. $16–20.

Performance: Live/Work, Honor Fraser Gallery (Culver City).

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Christopher Michlig - Processed World

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Last Copies! Tunica (Issue 3) / Available at draw-down.myshopify.com / Each issue of Tunica magazine features a mix of artists, musicians, and designers. Though they work in different media, each contributor pushes the boundaries of their chosen field, refusing to accept conventional notions of taste. Issue 3 features contributions from Anna Eborn, Anna Sörenson, Barney Bubbles, Cahill Wessel, Charlie Engman, Chen & Kai, Cheyco Leidmann, Colby Poster & Christopher Michlig, Cristina Guadalupe, E.S.P. TV, Evan Robarts, Gavin Russom & Chris Hontos, Kayla Guthrie, Labor Magazine, Larissa Lockshin, La Cote Du Design, Liza St. James, Long Distance Poison, Mathieu Laurent, Megaforce, Memphis Group, Michael Willis, Mike Diana & Heather Benjamin, Nick Von Woert, Roberto Piqueras, Ryan De La Hoz, Sebastian Hoyos, Sigrid Calon, The Office of Culture and Design, The Rodina, Tiger Moody, Wah Wah Records. Guest editor: Karen Schaupeter / ED Varie. Designed by Studio Lin #tunica #graphicdesign #typography #magazine #ColbyPoster

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Christopher Michlig - Negations - Exposition

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Christopher Michlig

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ADMIRATIONS : Christopher Michlig

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In the Good Name of the Company in New York by ForYourArt

September 2013

ForYourArt with ARTBOOK | DAP and PictureBox presented the second installation of In the Good Name of the Company: Artworks and ephemera produced by or in tandem with the Colby Printing Company in New York. This was the New York Art Book Fair's first satellite exhibition, hosted by See.Me Gallery in Long Island City, NY. The exhibition contained more than 200 posters spanning 40 years, including work by Kathryn Andrews, Peter Coffin, Eve Fowler and Allen Ruppersberg. Organized by Jan Tumlir, Brian Roettinger and Christopher Michlig.

Learn more about the exhibition on see.me's blog and on the NY Art Book Fair's website. View photos from the opening on GAYLETTER.

Read about the first In the Good Name of the Company exhibition at ForYourArt's 6020 Wilshire Blvd. space.

See more photos here.

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In the Good Name of the Company

February 23, 2013

 ForYourArt

presented an exhibition of works produced by or with the Colby Poster Printing Company, curated by Jan Tumlir, with Christopher Michlig and Brian Roettinger. 

In the Good Name of the Company

 presented works by Kathryn Andrews, Scott Benzel, Peter Coffin, Sam Durant, Eve Fowler, Emilie Halpern, Imprenta, Simon Johnston, Christopher Michlig, Brian Roettinger, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, and many more alongside a representative selection of posters from Colby’s own archive.

Typically employed to promote neighborhood events such as street fairs, small-scale musical concerts and the like, they would find a new clientele when Ed Ruscha contracted a rival company in 1962 to produce the announcement for the exhibition New Paintings of Common Objects at the Pasadena Art Museum. Since then, the Colby Poster Printing Company has gone on to serve as an important resource to a broad range of LA-based artists, from Allen Ruppersberg (who transcribed Allen Ginsberg’s Howl onto Colby posters in 2003) to Eve Fowler (who did much the same with Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons in 2012).

Colby has provided artists with a means to escape the confines of the studio or the white cube. Instead, through the poster medium, artists could engage the life of the street. As such, their posters became a form of public art perfectly suited to the LA context with its inherent transience and disposability. In one way or another, the artists featured in this exhibition have used the poster as a means to shape our experience of the street and the city. 

March 22 Black Light Night was a special event for the closing of In the Good Name of the Company. For the evening, the exhibition was lit only by black lights and featured a listening party for Scott Benzel's accompanying sound piece, String Quartet No. 2., a four-channel sound installation. 

The quartet is based on field recordings of street sounds found around Los Angeles–the sounds of car alarms, helicopters, the Metro Rail, pedestrian crossings, and traffic–and structured loosely after Morton Feldman's String Quartet Number 2.  It debuted at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in 2011. In the Good Name of the Company was its Los Angeles debut. 

About the Colby Poster Printing Company

The Los Angeles based Colby Poster Printing Company has long been a friend to local artists. Their fluorescent posters have been disseminated on every available high-traffic-adjacent surface in the city. Their extensive collection of over 150 wood and metal typefaces, usually bold and generally san serif, are by now an integral part of the visual aesthetic of Los Angeles. Throughout the years, posters promoting everything from west coast punk and heavy metal concerts in the 1980s to swap meets, street fairs, gun and bridal shows, local political campaigns, and too many artist projects to mention have been printed on Colby’s restless Heidelberg letterset press. A family owned and operated union print shop since 1948, the Colby Poster Printing Company closed its doors forever on December 31, 2012.

Read Jan Tumler's essay to find out more about the Colby Poster Printing Company.

Read Remembering Colby Poster Printing Company on Los Angeles I'm Yours.

Read KCET's article Colby Printing: Rainbow Posters on Every Corner.

Read the LA Currents article Armchair Critic: More Than Words in LA.

See more photos of the exhibition and opening here and additional selected posters here.

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christopher michlig

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