ON VIEW NOW
THIS IS SOME PLACE
Inaugural exhibition
On view until Fall 2024
Venice Heritage Museum
228 Main Street, Venice 90291
Venice, California, is a place of real-life world-building, where locals imagine and reimagine their home over and again. The numerous and simultaneous versions of what the area has been—and what it may become—have themselves defined Venice ever since Abbot Kinney ventured to reconstruct Italy’s most serene city here on Pacific shores.
This exhibition, the first to be presented in the Venice Heritage Museum’s new home, spans from Opening Day in 1905 through to the origins of Venice’s counterculture and onward to questions of the community’s future. Featuring photographs, video, and archival documents and publications, This is some place collects and juxtaposes examples across eras showing different ways that Venetians have acted upon the spaces around them to create a place that remains distinct even as it continues to change.
This is some place includes artistic and photographic contributions from Charles Brittin, Rod Bradley, Henry Diltz, Shanna Jones, Josh “Bagel” Klassman, Janet Kusnick, Earl Newman, Stuart Perkoff, Marilyn Ramirez, David Scott, Glen Small, Frank Talbott, Emily Winters, and more. Archival materials are presented courtesy of Stephen Raul Anaya, Laura Ceballos, the Getty Research Institute, Sonya Reese Greenland, Theo and Todd von Hoffmann, Dr. Naomi Nightingale, Stephen Pouliot, Carole Stein, Allyson Tabor, among others.
Curated by Anthony Carfello.
Inaugural exhibition
On view until Fall 2024
Venice Heritage Museum
228 Main Street, Venice 90291
Venice, California, is a place of real-life world-building, where locals imagine and reimagine their home over and again. The numerous and simultaneous versions of what the area has been—and what it may become—have themselves defined Venice ever since Abbot Kinney ventured to reconstruct Italy’s most serene city here on Pacific shores.
This exhibition, the first to be presented in the Venice Heritage Museum’s new home, spans from Opening Day in 1905 through to the origins of Venice’s counterculture and onward to questions of the community’s future. Featuring photographs, video, and archival documents and publications, This is some place collects and juxtaposes examples across eras showing different ways that Venetians have acted upon the spaces around them to create a place that remains distinct even as it continues to change.
This is some place includes artistic and photographic contributions from Charles Brittin, Rod Bradley, Henry Diltz, Shanna Jones, Josh “Bagel” Klassman, Janet Kusnick, Earl Newman, Stuart Perkoff, Marilyn Ramirez, David Scott, Glen Small, Frank Talbott, Emily Winters, and more. Archival materials are presented courtesy of Stephen Raul Anaya, Laura Ceballos, the Getty Research Institute, Sonya Reese Greenland, Theo and Todd von Hoffmann, Dr. Naomi Nightingale, Stephen Pouliot, Carole Stein, Allyson Tabor, among others.
Curated by Anthony Carfello.
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Images: © Venice Heritage Foundation / Esteban Schimpf
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This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.
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