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Salma Hayek and Mat Gleason at Ace Gallery’s opening for Robert Wilson VOOM Portraits My girlfriend asked Salma if she would pose with me and the international beauty was happy to.

Down to his almost invisibly generic name, Robert Wilson is about as far from the celeb-artist persona embodied by Damian Hirst as is humanly possible. And yet his solo show at Ace Gallery (which opened Friday Night), trounced Gagosian’s Hirst show at every turn. Wilson, the American, used celebrities as beautiful accoutrements to his overwhelming…

Overflowing crowd at Damien Hirst exhibit, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, February 22, 2007 I suppose Damien Hirst is laughing, “haha you’re not at church… not a one of you” in maybe a Benny Hill accent.

So we hit some galleries today. Michael Maas at L2Kontemporary was good stuff, as was visiting Gallery Revisited on Sunset Boulevard – we walked in as a collector was choosing a painting to buy – there were a lot of red dots everywhere. So then the drive to Beverly Hills to see Damian Hirst’s butterfly…

Over the years, a lot of artists have contacted me and my magazine with a claim that their work has been poached by other artists. Comparing two works of art by different artists is often difficult to tell, and the eccentric personalities of artists usually make me shy away from reporting on these stories, as…

We went to the Laguna Museum’s fundraiser auction on Saturday night. It was extra-romantic as we were staying in a hotel in OC for a two day getaway and our first date almost five years ago was at the Laguna Museum and the Peter Blake Gallery across the street. Here are some pictures form Chris…