The obits for Kenneth Noland, maybe the worst painter in all of art history, are rationalizations for his presence in museum collections. Like big banks, the big art institutions are just not allowed to fail – their holdings are propped up by art insiders whose blindness is evident in a fawning droolage spilled over a …
Check out the COAGULA WEEKEND BENDER Art Gallery Openings report.
Final sunset of 2009, Looking East on 55th Street (click to enlarge)Looking back, it was an alright year… Here is my Top 12: Reinvented the wheel in publishing 5 issues of my magazine, Coagula Art Journal, in a print-on-demand format after almost 17 years of printing and distributing the magazine. Readers now peruse the entire …
I am trying to capsulize what went on in LA each weekend. Of course it pours rain on the first weekend i try this. Here is the result… COAGULA WEEKEND BENDER
We had to let the dogs into the house… it was raining so much. They were quite obedient and stayed on a specific blanket. Overnight they slept in the garage. Now it has stopped raining but they are acting like it is ordinary to come in the house with us. Having to re-train them all …
Perico’s is cooking a whole pig this Friday (December 4) – Pork should be ready for serving at 1:30 PM. My next door neighbor is a Cuban restaurant. A very good, inexpensive restaurant that delivers big portions of fresh Cuban cooking. This place has been a godsend in my isolated industrial neighborhood which is Jack …
So the Cuban restaurant next door to my house has been a smashing success. Today they roasted a whole pig. The place was jammed, I assume they let their friends know. I was likely the only native English speaker and the rhythm of the cuban accents in conversation was noticeably alive. I am used to …
A great essay from England about how the art academics perpetuate the deepest upper-class prejudices.
Artist James Westwater interviewed me for his blog – here is PART 2 of his four part (!!!) interview. We reached out to some blogs to talk about the art world and art on the eve of Coagula’s 100th Issue.
Nancy Spero passed way at 83. There always seemed to be a soul-less gap betwen the politics of her art and the extravagant art spaces where ti was exhibited, too. Same goes for her hubby Leon Golub. They were NOT in the trenches, nor telling us anything new, nor creating with urgency. In a way …
Okay, let’s just be bold and try taking the greyhound to vegas. we live on the bus route that goes by the LA Station in skid row so we were there pretty quick – but the lot there says FREE PARKING and the booth is unattended and it IS the shittiest part of L.A. just …
So I was about to go to bed and there was an email there from a friend: Dear (everyone) I’m teaching at the painting department of (blank) college of Art and I would like to give my students a reference list of great contemporary national/international painters. I realized they know modern and older historic painters but …