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It suddenly dawned on me, in February of 2014, that it had been in mid-February of 1995 that Bloom’s General Store opened. It had actually opened a few weeks prior, along with Coffee Strippers and they blocked off the streets, put up a music stage and threw a grand opening party. So I posted a…

Diebenkorn “Berkley Years” at the Palm Springs Museum – amazing paintings. For a guy with such wicked shifts in subject the museum sure blended it all – maybe a little too fluid. Would have preferred more chronology in placement. He had three distinct phases in the years 1953-67: •He starts out, age 31, an abstract…

Craig Stephens was a freelance writer emigré from Australia who looked like he might have been the byproduct of a good-looking groupie and Paul McCartney – and that was the first thing I said to him when I met him at Barbara’s Bar at the Brewery in 99 or 2000 or ….well like everything whirling…

If you aspire to be a successful, exhibiting artist in Los Angeles, perhaps it is time to get serious about that goal. It is time for you to understand the CULTURE of the Art World Itself. Start 2014 off right as the new year offers You ART WORLD BOOTCAMP… You are ready to: * Immerse…

The biggest problem with much art these days is that it is either form or thought or identity. Most of the product that would fall in any of these camps is indulged with a lot of rhetoric. This baggage is basically just excuse-making. There is an excuse as to why the art is so shitty…

Lou Reed – Don’t Settle For Walking I was really into Lou Reed. In 1981 you couldn’t just download everything he had ever recorded. I would see him and the Velvet Underground referred to in punk zine interviews with bands when they would talk about their influences. This was exactly how I discovered Charles Bukowski…