Communiqué | These Days Blog

From Sept. 7th through Oct. 22nd we have been exhibited ten framed vintage UK subway posters for cult band The Smiths and one smaller poster for Morrissey's first solo album, 1988s Viva Hate. 

When the situation in Charlottesville, Va. shifted from tense to violent to fatal during the Rogues' parade of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other deplorables, photographer Ian Reid says he felt a grave sense of inevitability.

LOS ANGELES NOIR

Indian Alley is an intense one-block stretch of dirty alleyway. It is paved with a mixture of new asphalt and the original hundred year old (approximate) red granite bricks that used to pave many

A PLACE OF REFUGE

By 1935, the height of the depression, downtown’s infamous Skid Row was in full swing. It is the first time I have seen the building referred to as a "mission" when The Times announced, 

In October of 2016 we collaborated with Girl Skateboards to create a show for photographer Ian Reid. We didn't know much about Ian at the time but found his images of women involved in the BDSM 

A LONG AND STORIED HISTORY

We are quite frequently asked about the curious building we are located in, so in this post I am going to attempt to tell some of it's history, what has taken place here, and some of the characters

For years, artist Heather Benjamin has been at the forefront of New York’s punk scene; creating zines, books and art that explore a range of social taboos.

Restoring a photographic narrative from a de-colonial perspective allows for a face to face experience with images that no longer stand in the way of dignity. The United American Indian Involvement Photographic Project  

These Days is a bookstore and zine emporium owned and curated with impeccable taste by born and raised Angelenos Stephen and Jodi Ziegler. “We’ve been residents of downtown LA for 13 years now,”