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  • Vermeer at the Norton Simon

    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 …


  • Dear World,

    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…


  • Extra Credit

    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…


  • Art World Power 100 Bullshit

    > 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…


  • Mausoleum Jury…

    “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…


  • Just noticed…

    Wow, ten minutes ago, I turned 44.