Did you take the pledge?

Did you give up your right to create as an individual and free artist by pledging allegiance in art school to Marcel’s private jerkoff? TAKE THE PLEDGE, SHEEP: I pledge allegiance to Duchamp and disunited states of the art world. And to the institutional ego for which he stands: one nothing, over-propped with no self …

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Weekend Bender MAY 1, 2010

While Downtown LA was thick with protesters, the LA Art World sorta went on its merry way, check out the WEEKEND BENDER to see what openings you may have missed. 

Deitch Sends Art Elite to the Gallows

Here come the predictable howls from the LA art world peanut gallery. Jeffrey Deitch has announced the first show he will oversee as director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. It will be a survey of the art of Dennis Hopper curated by Julian Schnabel. Art insiders are upset that their rarified dialogue …

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Deitch MOCA Future Foretold

Forget the stupid art world analysts out there, the only way to know what will happen under the tenure of Jeffrey Deitch at L.A. MOCA is through the power of a Tarot card reading…

Carrol Dunham in LA…

Lotta art openings this weekend, check out what happened AROUND THE L.A. ART SCENE… Carroll Dunham, Robert Lazzarini, Pierre Picot and others!

Neal Patrick Harris outside, Dan Cameron inside!

Issue #102 of Coagula Art Journal is online and available to be perused in its entirety. Neal Patrick Harris is on the cover and a great interview with curator Dan Cameron is inside among many wonderful features. CLICK HERE NOW to read it online!

LA GAlelry Openings

Take a look at some of what happened in and around LA in the WEEKEND BENDER at Coagula.com. 

I Dropped the Dime that Dropped the Monkey Man

The guy next door was a dick. It is an immigrant-heavy, blue collar neighborhood where garages on properties are routinely turned into housing for families. This is not Greg Brady getting the attic, this is mom-dad-five-kids in every available structure with bedsheets as walls if need be. In every house. In every garage. In one …

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March 2010 Horoscopes

Your Art World Astrological Forecast is available now as a video. 

Art Galleries in Culver City and beyond

Lots went on in the LA art world… I stayed home, afraid of the rain, but people went out in droves to see the Elijah Blue show at Kantor and the Jonathan Lasker show in Venice at LA Louver … there is that more pictured at the COAGULA WEEKEND BENDER! Give it a look… 

My trip to New Orleans

Parades, the Alamo, a drug bust, an art gallery demonstration and lots more…

New Suzanne Vielmetter Gallery Space

 Check out our shot of the new Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects gallery space in the Coagula Weekend Bender – lots of shots from art openings around Southern California this weekend.