Billboard by Yvonne Rainer

…the public art project consisting of 21 commisioned billboards positioned throughout the city of LA by artists (including Kenneth Anger, Michael Asher, Jennifer Bornstein, Eileen Cowin,  Christina Fernandez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Renée Green, Kira Lynn Harris, John Knight, David Lamelas, Brandon Lattu, Daniel Joseph Martinez,  Kori Newkirk, Yvonne Rainer, Martha Rosler with Josh Neufeld, Allan Sekula, Susan Silton, Kerry Tribe, James Welling, and lauren woods) produced by the MAK Center for Art & Architecture, will be hosting a release event for the project catalog tomorrow evening from 7-9pm at their glorious home-base, and cultural soul of the city since it was built in the 1920’s, The Schindler House on Kings Road. (project website)

The release event will feature fresh-off-the-press catalogues at a special one-night-only price, and a discussion reflecting upon the exhibition and on the interpretation of art in the public sphere. Panelists include How Many Billboards? artists Ken Gonzales-Day and Christina Fernandez, attorney and intellectual property expert Christine Steiner, writer and Metabolic Studio team member Janet Owen Driggs, and West of Rome founder Emi Fontana. MAK Center director Kimberli Meyer will moderate the informal discussion. The event is free and open to the public.

About the publication: The 168 page, full-color publication documents and reflects upon the exhibition and its context, and includes contributions by project initiator, curator and MAK Center director Kimberli Meyer; co-curators Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked, and Gloria Sutton; public art consultant Sara Daleiden; attorney and intellectual property expert Christine Steiner; curator, critic, and director of the Master of Public Art Studies Program: Art/Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere at USC Joshua Decter; writer, artist and curator Janet Owen-Driggs; and artist and director of Freewaves Anne Bray. Photographs of the artworks in situ by architect Gerard Smulevich and photographer patricia parinejad are featured. The book was edited by artistic director and C.E.O of the MAK Vienna, Peter Noever, and Kimberli Meyer; published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg; and distributed by D.A.P.