I avoid discussing politics in general. I don’t have a core belief. I am a registered Democrat but that is really a reaction against the extremes of the other side, I could care less most days. I was inspired by Obama and still hold out hope, but i have a libertarian impulse that gets a …
UPDATE:In case former MOCA-trustee and L.A. contemporary art uber-collector Dean Valentine is not your FaceBook friend, check out what he just posted on FB: "Dean Valentine believes MOCA should have more respect for the truth. Phony PR and fake fund-raising numbers are not the way to a healthy museum." When asked by his FaceBook friends …
The New Issue of Coagula Art Journal is available right now at COAGULA.NET as a Free Downloadable PDF and is also for sale as a color glossy book from a PRINT ON DEMAND site. Issue #98 features a cover story interview with FINISHING SCHOOL, and artist’s collective that takes activism and aesthetics to new territory… …
The show I curated opens tonight. It was a lot of work but I am quite proud of it. HERE IS A CARD SCANNED The gallery is at the LA MART, it is LOOK GALLERY, free gated parking, 1933 South Broadway, just past Washington in Downtown. OPening is 6-9 tonight.
We went to the Culver City Artwalk and I was saying yeah that was all so terrible but then I think back to individual shows and it is like, oh yeah, that was good … oh yeah, that was great… but in the moment, the walking around, the talking to lots of people, the seeing …
So what really makes the art world go around is the use of the absence of marketing as marketing. Every dealer is cooler than the next or the previous, all pretending to be oblivious o wanting (or most terribly, needing) a sale of an artwork. The discussion of the market, the rice, the dollars is considered …
Someone posted this list on their livejournal and I REALLY read it and started to think… there is NO Way the Dalai Lama would say these things… Would he? Well, I had my say…1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.But we talk ourselves into superficial relationships and the illusion of accomplishment …
We spent the weekend in Joshua Tree. I had never been there but I look forward to returning. I love the desert. We stayed at the Joshua Tree Inn in Room #8, which was where musician Gram Parsons died in 1973 at age 26. If his ghost is still there, he was quite well-behaved. So …
Please visit this link, it is a video review of Kent Twitchell’s recent solo show that I produced/Videographered. I made a video and mad it a review of a very cool show. ENJOY! LINK TO NEW ART TV video review of KENT TWITCHELL
AVAILABLE NOW as a FREE Download DOWNLOAD IT AT THIS LINK … or … PURCHASE THE GLOSSY COLOR BOOK ISSUE AT THIS LINK Coagula Issue #97 features an interview with artist Dan Graham on the occasion of his career retrospective BEYOND at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Also featured in this issue: An …
This exhibit really inspired me to approach reviewing it in a new and different manner and now I have the urge to review every show in my newly-created method…
Wow, a few weeks ago, they sent me a screener to this film TOKYO!, three vignettes that allow the great city to star alongside visions amidst the urban pace. I don’t discuss plot but the film delves into the psychology of being in a relationship that doesn’t include you, delves into the dark demon of …