A curtain of clear plastic sleeves hangs in the shop window that serves as the façade to Ooga Booga’s main space. Inside each transparent pocket rests a simple, photocopied, and staple-bound book available for visitors to touch and flip through. In this modest exhibition of zines and artists’ books, the manner of installation complements the temperament of the work on view. Everything is straightforward and accessible. Ooga Booga, an alternative space in Los Angeles’s Chinatown District, presents for the first time in the United States the complete range of publications issued by the Zurich-based publisher Nieves. Nestled within a network of hip Los Angeles commercial galleries, the exhibition at Ooga Booga makes an implicit statement about an alternative mode of making and selling art—that is, the low-tech and low-price route. The exhibition is in two parts. In the main space, the complete oeuvre of Nieves publications from 1999 to the present (about two hundred zines and books) is displayed for visitors to peruse. The exhibition’s second component can be found in a small room across the outdoor walkway where the personal collection of contemporary artist publications and zines owned by the publisher of Nieves, Benjamin Sommerhalder, is on view. A...