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I get it, how it must have seemed to that hippie in 1986 who said it was so different now then it was then and now it is so much later but it maybe hasn’t changed as much. That empty brick storefront on Commonwealth was the first place I ever tried sushi. It was 1986…

Everyone is at Coachella seeing the reunited version of The Replacements. Everybody but me. But I am here listening to everything they ever did and you know how nostalgia is the sweetest poison, right, don’t you? I never saw them live and didn’t own any of their albums until well into the 1990s but there…

Unlike every art pundit phoning in an internet review of George Bush’s painting exhibition in Dallas, I actually flew down to the Big D last week to see them for myself. The exhibition is at his presidential library on the SMU campus. I had lunch at Cafe 43 there to start my visit and then…

So there was that 5.1 quake on Friday and maybe that had something to do with the whole Weird Saturday or maybe not but here goes… I get to the gallery five minutes before Noon and my two interns are there waiting (90% of success is showing up) and I go to unlock the door…

For three decades, John Miner has established himself as a screen-printing legend in Los Angeles. He has worked with the biggest and the best. A short list is easy to remember, when you are in the league of John Miner to name one art star you would have to name them all, suffice to say…

Thirty years in the art world and I had never been to a Whitney Biennial. That was actually something worth bragging about and especially after having been to one I can unabashedly lament that I will never be able to say it again. The Whitney Biennial carries immense weight in the art world. There is…