august 1–15, 2014

Books

  • George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
  • Thomas Disch, Camp Concentration
  • George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Scent of India, trans. David Clive Price
  • Alex. McClenaghan, Six Years in Heaven: A True Story of Human Credulity and Unexampled Devotion, Embracing a Complete Expose Of the Abominable Practices and Monstrous Professions of George Jacob Schweinfurth, the False Christ, Whose Main Heaven Is Near Rockford, Illinois, with a Biographical Sketch of This Most Remarkable Religious Pretender of the Century
  • Ken Kalfus, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

Films

  • Blue in the Face, directed by Wayne Wang
  • A King in New York, dir. Charles Chaplin
  • Thelma & Louise, dir. Ridley Scott

Exhibits

  • “Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–1915,” LACMA
  • “Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky,” LACMA
  • “John Altoon,” LACMA
  • “James Turrell: Ganzfeld,” LACMA
  • “Sam Durant: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C.,” LACMA

july 16–31, 2014

Books

  • Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance
  • George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Lucy R. Lippard, Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
  • Michel de Montaigne, Essays, trans. J. M. Cohen
  • Ronald Johnson, Ark
  • Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

Films

  • Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, directed by Charles Barton