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We went to a private premiere for a 3-month run of Vermeer’s A Lady Writing at the Norton Simon Museum. Hilarity ensued… READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE …

Okay you heard, America elected a black man as president. Pretty cool. I am sure you are proud of us and look at us in a nicer way. Now it is your turn. For years it has been up to us to get better. Time for you all to look into the mirror. If America can…

Cal State Long Beach will give its art students extra credit if they got to the Brewery Artwalk this weekend and take a picture of themselves with an artist. What the fuck ever happened to writing a report? Schools have become tinkertot summer camp babysitting service. Wonder if Chris Miles teaches fingerpainting classes at Long…

> Entrants on the Power 100 list are judged on the following four criteria, each of which carries a 25 percent weighting. Painter Brian Tydings sent me a list from one of those desperate -for-attention art magazines on how they calculate one of those bullshit “Art World Power 100” lists that are always a combo…

“A dreaded sunny, so let’s go where we’re happy, I will meet you at the cemet’ry gates…” I juried a show with three other art world powerbrokers for the Laguna College of Art and Design. The drive down to Laguna was a breeze – so few cars on the road – I guess a recession…

Wow, ten minutes ago, I turned 44.