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  • OPEN CALL ART SHOW

    OPEN CALL SHOW: POSTCARDS FROM THE ART EDGE Okay this is a fundraiser for i-5 Gallery (a program of the Brewery Art Association, a non-profit California art charity). We are not going to make a million dollars here, but we are going to hopefully be better able to pay the electric bill at the gallery…


  • Earthquake in L.A.

    I have been through a LOT of quakes in my life. This one lasted a little longer, but from here in south central it was not as sharp, it did not have a “roar” to it that the ones you are closest to have.


  • Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven

    So we went to a friend of a friend’s house to see the OvationTV documentary Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven. Well, long story short, the DirectTV package he had didn’t include the channel (or we were not doing something right in a half-hour of troubleshooting). When we got back home I had a few emails from…


  • Coagula’s Mat Gleason Television Appearance

    In my day job as an art critic I was interviewed for a documentary that premieres Sunday night JULY 27 at 7 PM and repeated at 10 PM. World Premiere of the Ovation TV original documentary Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven. As part of its month-long programming event,“American Revolutionaries,” saluting American artists who have changed the…


  • Neighbors

    I think the kids next door moved. I don’t know for sure. They have been telling me about their new house, a house in Norwalk with a pool, they go there on occasion to swim but always come back here saying the kitchen there is not finished or something lame and vague. There are like…


  • Kind of a whirlwind I suppose

    So I have been forcing myself to go to galleries and look at art seeing as i am a professional art critic, but I had been giving my eyeballs a break for a while and, frankly, the shit out there is weak. Now the economy is getting wigged out. I have been planning to open…