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I avoid discussing politics in general. I don’t have a core belief. I am a registered Democrat but that is really a reaction against the extremes of the other side, I could care less most days. I was inspired by Obama and still hold out hope, but i have a libertarian impulse that gets a…

UPDATE:In case former MOCA-trustee and L.A. contemporary art uber-collector Dean Valentine is not your FaceBook friend, check out what he just posted on FB: "Dean Valentine believes MOCA should have more respect for the truth. Phony PR and fake fund-raising numbers are not the way to a healthy museum." When asked by his FaceBook friends…

The New Issue of Coagula Art Journal is available right now at COAGULA.NET as a Free Downloadable PDF and is also for sale as a color glossy book from a PRINT ON DEMAND site. Issue #98 features a cover story interview with FINISHING SCHOOL, and artist’s collective that takes activism and aesthetics to new territory……

The show I curated opens tonight. It was a lot of work but I am quite proud of it. HERE IS A CARD SCANNED The gallery is at the LA MART, it is LOOK GALLERY, free gated parking, 1933 South Broadway, just past Washington in Downtown.  OPening is 6-9 tonight.

We went to the Culver City Artwalk and I was saying yeah that was all so terrible but then I think back to individual shows and it is like, oh yeah, that was good … oh yeah, that was great… but in the moment, the walking around, the talking to lots of people, the seeing…

So what really makes the art world go around is the use of the absence of marketing as marketing. Every dealer is cooler than the next or the previous, all pretending to be oblivious o wanting (or most terribly, needing) a sale of an artwork. The discussion of the market, the rice, the dollars is considered…