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I got this email just now: This morning, 20 October 2006, in Moscow, Matthew Bown, owner of the London based Matthew Bown Gallery, was removed from a plane bound for the UK and detained by Russian authorities for questioning. Bown was detained in connection with his attempt to export works by the provocative Russian art…

Artists, What if every tradition you had learned from was dead? What if every historical lineage was played out and limp, a dead-end street? What if every stylistic concern you had mastered and/or mannered were suddenly so ubiquitous in the cultural landscape that your entire artistic output were rendered invisible? What then would you do?…

Bakersfield So I am writing up an article for ArtScene on an artist who was once a teacher of mine. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but I did feel a bit of special insight into his process as an artist having seen the way he conducted a class. Right after artwalk we left…

So the BREWERY ARTWALK is this weekend. Best thing about it is it is FREE. Ooops, I mean, the best thing about it is seeing great art by artists in their actual live/work studios – over a hundred artist studios will be open. It also happens to be free and parking is free as well,…

Wow, my Catholic School education just got turned on its head. There is Heaven and Hell and Purgatory in between, but Limbo was where all the good buddhists and muslims and stillborn babies went, but now it does not exist by Papal decree! So, where will Benedict XVI be placing all the “Lost Souls” ?(Lost…

My birthday this year was mellow, a few cards, a few calls, a few lunches. On my birthday my girlfriend and I had lunch with my mom. My girlfriend’s sister got me a $20 gift certificate for Starbucks and one of my brothers and his wife got me In-N-Out Burger coupons. Word has spread that…