This sweatshop up the street has what looks like a hundred or more sewing machines. Whatever they sew there always seems to be blue fabric. The cracks in the sidewalks there are tinted blue form the dust. Today it was windy and there were three guys outside sweeping up piles of blue fabric shards each …
I take the bus to my office most days. It is a twenty minute ride and is usually uneventful. Today was filled with all of the events that had not occurred on the other days. A red bus goes by as I leave the house. Red busses only stop at main streets. They avoid lots …
So near my office there is an older art deco building, it is an historic monument and today the film crew trucks were all around and extras and actors mingling about in 1920s garb. Walked past this and on the corner there is white burlap sandbags and rock salt on the curbs and New York …
We walk our dogs along an industrial route. I drove it in the car and it is exactly two miles. Our dogs could really hurt a person if they went on the attack so we walk them through Vernon because there are no people in Vernon (you can look it up – in the middle …
Whitey Carlson passed away a week ago. He founded the Brewery Art Colony along with his two sons. The day I walked into the Brewery Office to sign a lease I was wearing a tee-shirt I bought at a thrift store and it had a cover of the Saturday Evening Post painted by Norman Rockwell. …
FRIDAY:New issue of coagula up Essay premiered on huffington post Radio show premiered Walked the dogs Had a nice dinner with Leigh at café metropol. Delicious Kobe Burger Finished season 4 of Curb Your Enthusiasm Still felt like I didn’t get anything done.
Been writing for the Huffington Post… here are links to the five articles I wrote which they published this month: Arshille Gorky Retrospective @ MOCA review Fiddle Tim exhibition Scumfuck @ La Luz de Jesus review Heimir Bjorgulffson solo show @ Western Projects review Charles Rohlf survey show @ The Huntington Gardens review An Essay …
The cops had cordoned off the main streets around town. Mexico was playing in the quarterfinals. If they were to win, well watch out, the celebration would need to be proactively contained. I was really rooting for them to win. I wanted to see the neighborhood happy. The Lakers had won a week ago and …
Issue #103 of Coagula Art Journal is online. Print on demand copies are available for purchase and the entire issue can be perused free online at THIS LINK. Enjoy!
I just wrote this… OOO my little Gulf of Mex, my Gulf of MexWhen you gonna see that oil well bubble? OOO you got some oyster beds, some wildlife,Gonna wipe ’em of the map if they’re not mobile Never gonna stop, bubble upGusher’s got some slimefor the gulf, you’re taking too much timeAy YI YI …
I was invited to debate my strong advocacy of Jeffrey Deitch’s appointment to be the director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. The debate was videotaped and edited and here it is…