Try to remember when you didn’t know about Eve Babitz. I first read Eve in the context of a photography book by the artist Zoe Crosher. Zoe’s work isn’t about the city per se. Through photography and ...

The jacket of my 1982 copy of “L.A. Woman” says, “Eve Babitz holds the primal knowledge of what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.” That capital is, of course ...

The archive of Eve Babitz, the late Los Angeles author, has found a home. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired a collection of art, manuscripts, journals, photographs ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An interview of Eve Babitz conducted 2000 June 14, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at Babitz's home, Hollywood, California.

SEX AND RAGE Babitz and Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1963. The now-famous photo was her revenge on the museum's married director Eve Babitz’s love for Los Angeles was pathological. She ...

Image: 14.5 x 21.75 in. (36.83 x 55.24 cm.) In 1963, the Pasadena Museum of Art (now the Norton Simon Museum) launched Marcel Duchamp's first major retrospective of the conceptual Dadaist's career.

Few individuals have ever known how to glow as brightly as Eve Babitz, California’s most radiant novelist and essayist. There is no use in banality or mundanity to her, and Babitz’s extravagant life ...

Behind The Huntington Library’s glass cases, the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss are revealed in personal objects.

In 1961, a precocious young artist named Eve Babitz wrote a letter to “Catch-22” novelist Joseph Heller, seeking help getting her book published. “Dear Joseph Heller,” it began, “I am a stacked ...

The jacket of my 1982 copy of “L.A. Woman” says, “Eve Babitz holds the primal knowledge of what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.” That capital is, of course ...