Category Archives: los angeles

Overdrive L.A.

Posted on October 22, 2015 by twotreatises

In 2013, as part of Pacific Standard Time, the Getty had an exhibition (and book) called Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future 1940-1990. Exhibition details and images are still up on the Getty website, including this video: Ed Ruscha’s photographs of … Continue reading →

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monuments and palm trees

Posted on October 14, 2015 by twotreatises

In Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s 1968 study and revindication of American commercial vernacular architecture, the architects claimed, for that oft-maligned landscape, a new monumentality. The Las Vegas Strip, the gas station, and the billboard … Continue reading →

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Joan Didion @ Aloud 11/16/11

Posted on November 16, 2011 by twotreatises

in conversation with David Ulin @ The ex-Cathedral of St. Vibiana (now just Vibiana) UPDATE 11/18/11: watch (now you can check if I misquoted anything! and I can figure out what my various illegible notes said…) Notes: started with a … Continue reading →

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return, enter, break

Posted on April 16, 2010 by twotreatises

(figuratively never being able to go home again is literally the least of my problems) a list of changes I wasn’t looking for, but have now made actual by witnessing them, r.i.p.: Rite Aid — closed, empty Hollywood Video — … Continue reading →

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Dedication of John Fante Square

Posted on April 7, 2010 by twotreatises

Literary Los Angeles has been having a love affair with John Fante for awhile now, and, in glorious L.A. fashion this means free, and some not-so-free events in his honor. Last year, on the 100th anniversary of John Fante’s birth, … Continue reading →

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