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Just posted on ArtScene Visual Radio is the February edition of The Mat Gleason Seven. This month’s show features reviews of SOME PAINTINGS at Track 16 Gallery, solo shows by Oliver Arms at Western Projects and Mark DiSuvero at L.A. Louver, an examination of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum and the scandals around the non-donation…

I am still in shock and deep sadness over news of the death of Coagula New York Editor BAIRD JONES. This man gave our publication enthusiastic support and validation for most of the past 9 years. He would have enjoyed his NY TIMES obituary. Baird Jones with artist Victoria Gotti at her debut solo show…

Pictures of the bash at COAGULA DOT COM There was a happy celebrity-peppered elbowing crowd at Gagosian on Thursday night for the opening of Julian Schnabel’s show of oversized lush earth-colored paintings of bones (which had been used in the credit shots of his latest academy award nominated film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).…

Pictures of the new BCAM at the Coagula Dot Com site. ELI’S COMIN’ The Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM)is the big play by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to stay in the major leagues. As a blue-chip warehouse of ArtForum’s finest from the past 5 decades, it succeeds. But even more than…

Mike McGee (R) with Mat Gleason at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California, June 2006. From: “Andrea Harris” aharris @ exchange. Fullerton . edu Dear Mat, I just wanted share the following update with you. I am not sure if you knew this but Mike has kidney failure from a genetic disease called polycystic…

The beautiful, stylish LEORA LUTZ at her Gallery Revisted Fourth Anniversary exhibition Wow-oh-wow… I thought I was an art world-navigator, but the premise of this show takes the cake. “Artist/Gallerist” Friday, Feb. 1st, 7pm – 10pm at Another Year In L.A. Gallery It should be an awesome networking orgy of a show and this gallery…