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LA: A Geography of Modern Art
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Aleksandra Mir’s oversized booklet is a modern, west coast take on Harold Rosenberg’s “Tenth Street: A Geography of Modern Art” published in Art News Annual by the Art Foundation Press in 1959. Mir’s version reads almost like an art school brochure, designed to give perspective students a glimpse at what “residential life” is like in the Southern Californian art scene. Photographs by Justin Beal document the bar scene, dinners, lectures, dance workshops, openings, and events where art appears as background scenery against which an international group of artists and students mingle.