The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new mini-site, nicknamed the “Reading Room,” has launched with ten exhibition catalogues from the 1960s and 1970s, with an emphasis on West coast contemporary art. In addition to featuring rare art catalogues, as the site grows it will also feature other books and literature than may otherwise be difficult to access. The mini-site provides the ability to browse publications page-by-page, perform text searches and download pdfs. In a way, it’s more exciting than Google books — since the materials are being presented with a theme, or in conjunction with upcoming exhibitions, the mini-site makes the online selections feel like specially-curated events. According to the Los Angeles Times blog, Culture Monster, there will soon be a series linked to an April exhibition, “Myths, Legends, and Cultural Renewal: Wagner’s Sources,” coinciding with the Los Angeles Opera presentation of the Ring cycle.
Above: the cover of Billy Al Bengston, by James Monte, 1968
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