Billy Al Bengston: Billy Pepi Marchetti Franchi and as an act of

and as an act of creative resistance to its growing gentrification

a reprint of “Picasso in Private

was created in response to the changing landscape and clouds viewed from the gallery as well as its architecture

affixed to a Limoges porcelain plate

He also applied a metallic pigment to the printing plate

Billy Al Bengston: Billy Pepi Marchetti Franchi and as an act ofDesigned by Ed Ruscha, this first edition exhibition catalogue celebrates Billy Al Bengstons 1968 retrospective at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The sandpaper cover features flocked lettering (which Ruscha would revisit in his 1970 artists book Babycakes) and is bound with machine screws and hex nuts. The page marker is a pink satin ribbon. The book includes reproductions of the forty six exhibited works, as well as an essay by James Monte.