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Photo courtesy of Noah Stern Weber. Image courtesy of REDCAT.

Thursday, November 9

37th Annual Sale, HENNESSEY + INGALLS BOOKSTORE (Downtown), 10am–8pm. Through November 12.

ArtOASIS Showcase, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 10am–12pm.

Young-Il Ahn and Ann Weber: Moon over San Pedro, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 11am–8pm.

Alison Blickle Artist Talk, Five Car Garage (Santa Monica), 12:30–3:30pm.

Talk: Gallery Talk: The Art of Looking—Greek Goddesses: Reconstructed & Deconstructed, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 12:30pm.

Course: One-Day Workshop: Collage in Fine Art, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Garden Talk & Sale - Sex in the Garden, The Huntington (San Marino), 2:30pm.

LAND Sense of Place First Movement Reception, Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica), 4–5:30pm. Reception to follow.

Gallery Talk: Erin Aldana, Guest Curator, University of San Diego (San Diego), 5pm.

Artist and scholar walkthroughs: Artemisa Clark, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 6pm.

Gravity's Peacock, MAK Center for Art and Architecture (West Hollywood), 7–9pm.

Danny Lyon: Vintage Works, Fahey/Klein Gallery (Hollywood), 7–9pm.

Conor Ekstrom, Hannah Hoffman Gallery (Hollywood), 7–9pm.

Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents Poets, Artists, and Anarcho-super8istas, MOCA Grand Avenue (Downtown), 7pm.

Live! at the Museum: The Artisan Guitar Ensemble, Laguna Art Museum (Long Beach), 7pm.

Writing Now Reading Series: Fanny Howe, CalArts (Valencia), 7–10pm.

Paul Brach Lecture Series: Artie Vierkant, CalArts (Valencia), 7pm.

A.E. Stallings, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Film: An Evening With...Darren Aronofsky, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Boosting Your Side Hustle With Gina Delvac, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7:30–9:30pm. $20–25.

Keeril Makan and Jay Scheib: Persona, REDCAT (Downtown), 8pm.

Persona, LA Opera (Downtown), 8pm.

Anne Bray Presents: How Can You Resist?, Echo Park Film Center (Echo Park), 8–10pm.

KCIA Presents: ACID TONGUE, CalArts (Valencia), 10pm.

Friday, November 10

"We Are CalArts" -The Role of the Spiral in Movement & the Body, with Babette Markus, CalArts (Valencia), 1–4pm.

School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, Gary Versace, CalArts (Valencia), 2–4pm.

Documentary Screening: Frederick Hammersley: By Himself, The Huntington (San Marino), 3pm.

Off the Wall, Shoebox Projects (Lincoln Heights), 6–9pm.

Words and Music, LAST Projects (Downtown), 7–11pm.

Screening: Death by Delivery, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Feminist Acting Class, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7–10pm. Through November 12. $120–150.

William Kieffer: City of Fish, Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach), 7–11pm.

POP-UP MUSEUM: JOURNEY, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 7–8:30pm.

X-TRA Fall Launch Event: Candice Lin and Miljohn Ruperto in conversation, Ghebaly Gallery (Downtown), 7:30–9:30pm.

James Tenney: Changes: Sixty-Four Studies for Six Harps, The Box (Downtown), 8pm.

The Seagull, CalArts (Valencia), 8pm. Through November 12.

Saturday, November 11

Quiet Mornings: Art x Mindfulness, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 9:30am.

Dance Resource Center's 3rd annual Day of Dancer Health, Art Share LA (Downtown), 10am–5pm.

Designer Con 2017, Pasadena Convention Center (Pasadena), 10am–7pm. Through November 12.

American Indian Arts Marketplace, The Autry Museum of the American West (Los Feliz), 11am–5pm. Continues November 12.

THE LATINO COMICS EXPO – DAY 1, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 11am–5pm.

Young-Il Ahn: When Sky Meets Water, ParticiPoetry with Karen Holden, and Ann Weber: Moon Over San Pedro, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 11am–5pm.

Tony DeLap: A Career Survey, 1963—2017, parrasch heijnen gallery (Downtown), 12–3pm.

Vantage, Finishing Concepts (Monterey Park), 12–5pm.

LIT! A Menorah & Candelabra Clay Workshop with Ben Medansky, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 1–4pm.

Artemisa Clark: La clase de dibujo libre/Free Drawing Class (2000-2004/2017), Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), 1:30–4pm.

Build a Revolutionary Bear Workshop, WILLIAM GRANT STILL ARTS CENTER (West Adams), 2–4pm.

Lani Trock: Free Food, Big Pictures Los Angeles (Mid-City), 2–5pm.

PMCA 1234: Second Saturday Spotlight Talk, Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena), 2pm.

In Dialogue: Film in Cuba, Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena), 2:30pm.

LARISA LAIVINS: ONE DAY POP-UP SHOP, Arcana Books on the Arts (Culver City), 3–6pm.

Channing Hansen: Fluid Dynamics, Marc Selwyn Fine Art (Beverly Hills), 4–6pm.

Double Issue Book Release Party, Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), 4–6pm.

Materials & Applications 14th Anniversary Gala, Navel (Downtown), 5–8pm.

Workshop: Lighting Design for Dance and Performance with Carol McDowell, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 5–9pm. $30–50.

Hot Flat, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 5–9pm.

Yossi Govrin, Stephanie Cate & Deborah Lynn Irmas, barba contemporary art (Palm Springs), 5–9pm.

David Krovblit: Shells and John Nyboer: The Real Future: Dancers at The Lot, Los Angeles, Lois Lambert Gallery (Santa Monica), 6–9pm.

Jimi Gleason: Reflected & Absorbed, William Turner Gallery (Santa Monica), 6–8pm.

Art Circles, Getty Center (Brentwood), 6–8pm.

Emily Counts: The Associations, Garboushian Gallery (Beverly Hills), 6–8pm.

JOSH REAMES: Don't cross streams while trading horses, Luis de Jesus (Culver City), 6–8pm.

MICHELLE GRABNER: PATTERNS IN METAL AND OIL and Michael St. John: Portraits of Democracy, Edward Cella Art & Architecture (Culver City), 6–8pm; talk with Mary Weatherford, 5pm.

Nevine Mahmoud: f o r e p l a y, M+B (West Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Hecate, Various Small Fires (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Aria McManus: Relieviation Works, AA|LA (West Hollywood), 6–9pm.

Anthony Miserendino: Aromi, Moskowitz Bayse (Hollywood), 6–9pm.

Camilo Restrepo: Mera Calentura and Claire Milbrath: Crome Yellow, Steve Turner (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Andrew Brischler: Lonely Planet, Gavlak (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Strange Attractors: The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol. 1 Life on Earth, Redling Fine Art (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Gary Simmons: Balcony Seating Only and Tomorrow’s Man 4, Regen Projects (Hollywood), 6–8pm.

Elizabeth Ferry, Grice Bench (Downtown), 6–9pm.

TELMO MIEL: Bit and Pieces, Odds and Ends, Torrance Art Museum (Torrance), 6–9pm.

TELMO MIEL: Bit and Pieces, Odds and Ends, Fullerton Museum Center (Fullerton), 6–9pm.

THE FUTURE MOVES SLOW, Schoos Night Gallery (West Hollywood), 7–10pm.

Anja Salonen: new dimensions in recreation, Ana Segovia de Fuentes: Boys and Boots, and Ammon Rost: Paintings, ltd los angeles (Mid-City), 7–9pm.

Eric Leiser: Time Crystals, Museum as Retail Space (MaRS) (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Ghetto Gloss | The Chicana Avant-Garde, 1980-2010, Bermudez Projects (Cypress Park), 7–10pm.

Saturday Nights at the Getty Presents María Volunté: Blue Tango Project, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7:30pm.

Floricanto's Fiesta del Dia de los Muertos, Lee Strasberg Academy (West Hollywood), 8pm.

James Tenney’s Changes: Sixty-Four Studies for Six Harps, The Box (Downtown), 8pm.

Sunday, November 12

Terrain Biennial Los Angeles, Ana Mendieta Performance Day, 3651 Mimosa Drive (Glassell Park), 10am–7pm.

MOCA Day Party, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 11am–5pm.

CREATE - Opposites Attract / Los opuestos se atraen, ESMoA (El Segundo), 11am–3pm.

Mini Clothes Fun: Doll Clothes Workshop with Ruth Root, 356 Mission (Downtown), 12–6pm.

Talk: Korean Art Lecture Series | Fugitive Contemporaries: Korean Art After 1979, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Open Studios, FlechtroNEONics (Van Nuys), 1–5pm.

God’s Eye Yarn Weaving: A CraftLab Family Workshop, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 1:30–3:30pm.

Studio Sunday on the Front Steps, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 1:30–4:30pm.

Volunteer Appreciation and Recruitment, ONE Archives (Downtown), 2–4pm.

The Landscape Designs of Ralph Cornell, The Huntington (San Marino), 2pm.

How Does Nature Deepen Our Connection to the Sacred?, Getty Center (Brentwood), 3pm.

WORN IN NEW YORK: 68 SARTORIAL MEMOIRS OF THE CITY by EMILY SPIVACK, Arcana Books on the Arts (Culver City), 3pm.

Walkthrough of Axis Mundo with Joey Terrill, MOCA Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood), 3pm.

Hannah Greely and Upstairs: William T. Wiley, Parker Gallery (Los Feliz), 3–5pm.

Alex Israel and Jack Bankowsky, Art Catalogues at LACMA (Miracle Mile), 4pm.

Human Resources Benefit Party and Auction, Ghebaly Gallery (Downtown), 5–8pm.

Performance | River of Everyone River of No One, Main Museum (Downtown), 6:30–8pm.

My Mother the Doctor, Leiminspace (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Fresa y Chocolate/Strawberry and Chocolate, Pasadena Museum of California Art (Pasadena), 7:30pm.

Tuesday, November 14

Performing the Musical Body: Robyn Nisbet, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 10am–2pm. $45.

Film: The Girl from Mexico, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Talk: Cur-ATE: Chagall and the Arts, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 6pm.

An evening with Analia Saban and Gabriel Kuri, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7–9pm.

Wednesday, November 15

Fall 2017 Visiting Artist Lecturer: Thinh Nguyen, Claremont Graduate University (Claremont), 4:30pm.

Heather Gwen Martin: Currents and Deborah Butterfield: Three Sorrows, L.A. Louver (Venice), 6–8pm.

AMBIGUOUS REALITY, Santa Monica Art Studios (Santa Monica), 6–9pm.

FOWLER OUT LOUD: MINDFUL MUSIC, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 6–7pm.

Wikipedia Fall Fundraiser, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 7-9pm. $250–25,000.

Rethinking: Programming, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7–9pm.

Distinguished Fellow Lecture - Did Early-Modern Schoolmasters Foment Sedition?, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

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thereallygoodblogshow · 5 years ago

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MA Fashion and Textile Practices Major Project Path - 1st September

Last week Heal’s released their New Season Autumn Winter’19 brochure. It’s always exciting to see what new products will be coming into store or available to order. Flicking through the brochure I noticed a lot of the new products bucked the Art Deco and 60′s/70′s trend, and the mixing of the two. Many of the new ranges are named after places in London such as Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury and Brompton, places which are renowned for their architectural, literary and fashionable heritage. Cushions and throws reflect this nod to the era by mixing patchwork, quilting and velvet for a luxurious aesthetic.

Heal's, n.d. (2019). Fitzrovia 3 Seater Sofa. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.heals.com/fitzrovia-3-seater-sofa.html.

Heal's, n.d. (2019). Bloomsbury Armchair. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.heals.com/bloomsbury-armchair.html.

Heal's, n.d. (2019). Palermo 3 Seater Sofa. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.heals.com/palermo-3-seater-sofa.html.

Heal's, n.d. (2019). Origami Cushion 40 x 40cm. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.heals.com/origami-cushion-40-x-40cm.html.

All beautiful things, especially the Bloomsbury sofa and chair which I love, unfortunately not in my budget! All these lovely new products using a mix of Art Deco and 60′s/70′s aesthetic got me thinking about designers yet again looking back to past eras for inspiration, and Biba came to mind. Biba were already listed on my research mind map as a brand which became successful through strong graphic strategies, especially culminating in the brands stand alone store Big Biba. Biba’s founder Barbara Hulanicki had borrowed heavily from the Art Deco and Art Nouveau eras whilst creating her brand in the early 60′s giving Biba a distinct aesthetic straight from the start.

Biba

Biba began in 1963, when the daughter of a Polish diplomat - Barbara Hulanicki, and her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon - an advertising executive launched their Biba Postal Boutique selling their affordable clothing in newspapers and magazines. In 1964, Felicity Green, the then fashion journalist at the Daily Mirror, noticed the brand and requested Barbara to design a piece for the papers fashion pages. Barbara designed a short pink gingham dress and matching headscarf inspired by a dress her mother had made her when she was a little girl. The dress was an immediate success, selling 17,000 pieces in a short time.

V&A, n.d. (n.d). Barbara Hulanicki and Stephen Fitz-Simon, about 1960, photographer unknown. Biba archive. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/biba.

The sale of this dress was to propel the brand into the mainstream, and resulted in the duo opening their first boutique at 87 Abingdon Road, Kensington - a former chemists. The shop was incredibly popular, attracting a mainly female clientele under the age of 25. They came in their droves to buy Hulanicki’s slimline aesthetic inspired by past decades such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau in muted tones of olive, rust and her favourite colour ‘Bruised Purple’. Biba’s signature look was simple and linear, utilising long straight sleeves and ‘A’ line shift dresses which were popular at drawing attention to the legs. The size range was small, size 8 being the most popular. Hulanicki (2014) said of those small sizes:

“I know that sounds mad but girls in those days, there were no continental foods to get fat on, and no one did exercise, so they weren't muscly. Not like the American girls. We made a few pieces in a size 12 but no one bought them. Of course when the pill came in that changed everything. I remember crossing Kensington Church Street in 1969 and seeing these girls with their thighs and their hips, and thought: uh-oh. Now being thin is a status thing!”

The brands ethos was about delivering stylish yet affordable clothing to the youth of the day. Barbara (n.d) insisted that the clothes remain price conscious:

“I wanted to make clothes for people on the street, and Fritz and I always tried to get prices down to a bare minimum”

Fitz-Simon had worked out that young London females would have a certain amount of disposable weekly income - he’d based his calculations on the average London secretary earnings in 1964 - and kept there prices well inside this figure to maintain a quick turnaround in stock with repeat sales. Their policy at the time was ‘pile it high, sell it cheap’ unlike many other London boutiques who catered to clientele with money and whose stock was minimal.

Oosterhoff, I. (2015). Biba Kensington. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/07/londons-lost-department-store-of-the-swinging-sixties/.

Townsend, P. (1964-1969). Interior of the Biba store, Kensington High Street, 1960s. Photograph by Philip Townsend. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/biba.

These photographs show Biba’s already strong graphic style. The windows of the store sported the brands logo in large scale and not much else, enticingly minimal as to draw the client in from the street to discover what laid beyond. Once inside they were treated to a dramatically dimly lit array of fashionable merchandise, assistants sporting the brands signature pieces and music blasting from the shops sound system. By the mid 1960′s Biba wasn’t only selling to the bargain seeking youth of London but to influential stars of the day such as Twiggy and Cilla Black, they were the first of its kind to create destination shopping. According to Thomas, Turner and Hulanicki (2006) Good Housekeeping once said of the ways fashion shops now operate:

“If you can’t hear yourself shop for the heavy rock music pouring out of walls and ceilings wherever you you are, blame Barbara. If you can’t see whether a dress is black, brown or navy because you’re shopping in semi-darkness, it’s Barbara’s fault.”

By 1965 the brand had become well established, and when the Daily Telegraph named Barbara Hulanicki one of the people who made London swing - as part of an article about ‘Swinging London’ - things were to only get better. In 1966, in a bid to expand Biba moved from Abingdon Road to Kensington’s Church Street. Again they gained further success by launching their first mail-order catalogue in 1968.

Vintagegal, n.d. (2014). Biba Catalogue. [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://vintagegal.co.uk/books-magazines/vintage-1960s-biba-catalogues/.

Vintage Vixen, n.d. (2011). Mail-order catalog excerpt with baby doll-inspired fashions.. [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://blog.vintagevixen.com/2011/09/.

A total of five further catalogues were issued until the mail-order department was wound up the same year. In the September of 1969, Biba moved premises again to 124 - 126 Kensington High Street, obviously they had realised staying in Kensington as their main area would continue to prove profitable. The new address was a larger property with scope to add more departments, so here they introduced ladies evening wear, menswear and household, enabling Biba to become a department store. This same year Dorothy Perkins became a major shareholder of the company and by the Spring of 1970 Biba had also launched a cosmetics line.

LNCRED, n.d. (2018). Biba Cosmetics. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://thpix.com/media/836543699512579145.

Not to miss out on a good thing, other stores worldwide began to open Biba concessions, such as within the Bergdorf Goodman store in New York, as well as cosmetics counters in Au Printemps Paris, Fiorucci in Milan and Tekano in Tokyo. Things were to take a serious turn in May 1971 when the Biba store on Kensington High Street was targeted for a bombing attack by the militant far left group The Angry Brigade. The Angry Brigade formed around 1968 incited by anti-Vietnam war demonstrations held in Grosvenor Square and the actions of the European anarchist movement. Between 1970 to 1972 they were responsible for a number of bombings, possibly more than 25, across London and parts of England. They selected a number of establishments for their bombing campaign, ranging from banks and foreign embassy’s to the Ford car company and a BBC broadcasting truck which at the time was covering the Miss World contest. In respect of the Biba attack, their message was very much one of anti-consumerism. They had planted the bomb in Biba’s stock room and when the blast occurred thankfully nobody was injured. 500 members of staff had to be evacuated from the building. Their idea was never to cause harm but to gain publicity and promote anarchy. They printed a piece in the International Times - London’s main underground paper at the time - not long after the attack stating:

“If you’re not busy being born you’re busy buying.”

The Reprobate, n.d. (2018). BIBA AND THE ANGRY BRIGADE. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://reprobatepress.com/2018/11/21/biba-and-the-angry-brigade/.

After more bombings in an attempt to gain further publicity the group became easier to locate and track down, and in late 1971 their main leader Jake Prescott was arrested and subsequently sentenced to fifteen years in prison. The trial of The Angry Brigade was to become one of the longest trials in English history with a further four convictions with prison sentences of ten years and later four acquittals. The group re-emerged in the 80′s as the The Angry Brigade Resistance Movement and was a faction of the Irish Republication Socialist Movement but soon dwindled and dissolved.

A few months later Biba had recovered and launched its cosmetics line across more than 300 Dorothy Perkins stores nationwide. In the December of that same year Biba announced it was to move again to a larger building on the other side of Kensington High Street, which was currently the site of the Derry & Toms department store. Derry & Toms closed its doors in the January of 1973 and within a few months the site was transformed into what would be Biba’s ultimate flagship store - Big Biba.

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