I got quoted in an article about Billy Shire in Variety Magazine.
Mat
This looks like a funny movie with a premise revolving around second-hand furniture that is suddenly seen as valuable.
Save the Date
Sunday afternoon, 2 – 6 p.m. at the i-5 Gallery is the closing party for FINAL TABLE, the four person group show of the artists who were final particiapnats in the Art World Poker tournament. It is a good show and it will be a good party. More info, here is the i-5 Gallery MYSPACE …
A fabulous satire on the pretensions of Matthew Barney.
TAnniversary
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Jackson Pollock.
Just to Clarify
I still spit on the academy with every fiber of my being, devoting an inordinate amount of energy to imagining fanciful, epic and often mundane gelding strategies for those institutions that would subsume us.
Arthur Lee
I just read on Matt Welch’s blog about the passing (at age 61 from leukemia) of musical genius Arthur Lee, front-man of the seminal psychedelic band LOVE, a Sunset Strip-based sixties Los Angeles band whose fame was what the Doors all agreed they would shoot for with their band (Welch links to a Densmore-penned memoriam, …
Looks like Saturday the art opening to be at is UNDER THE INFLUENCE, a show of punk rock influenced silkscreeners who make pop art. The show is at Bergamot Station and I heard three or four good bands will playing the old 4/4-time barchords, so yeah, I think I gotta go to this one, especially …
JASON RHOADES
Three emails from art world types asking me if I know the details of JASON RHOADES dying. Quite a shocker as he was only 41. No official confirmation. He died yesterday, August 1, here in L.A. … it is being termed “heart failure”… which seems more euphemism than coroner’s report… He was a little chunky, …
More coverage…
Art World Poker made the Riverside Press Enterprise Weekend section. Enjoy!
Media Blitz!
The Art World Poker Finals -scheduled for this Sunday- made Thursday’s L.A. Times. Sweet.