July 17th
I dropped by Levi's Workshops (580 Valencia Street) before a vegetarian Japanese dinner for First Person Magazine's Launch Party. They had participatory art projects and performances by two bands, Laurel Halo (from Brooklyn) and Honey (from San Francisco). The magazine celebrated its first poster edition with a special letterpress edition that they describe as a "sculpture of paper and ink that translate their aesthetic, content and contributors works."
The artists involved were Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Arsham, Bonnie Prince Billy, Yoko Ono, Ryan McGinley, Lee Bontecou, and Maya Deren. It was pretty great that the mob scene that normally would have occurred for this sort of event in New York just didn't exist here. The place wasn't overly packed and there was only one photographer. I think it is because people stay in their own neighborhood for events and don't bother to go very far for most events.
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