Absolutely spot-on Mock-Classified Ad about How Artists get used by companies: Capitalist Endeavor seeking Poor Artist to be Taken Advantage of New Business that paid market rate for RENT, EQUIPMENT, PERMIT, MERCHANDISE, and HOURLY WORKERS is looking for a marginalized local artist to give us something for nothing. If you jump through the numerous …
SHORT REVIEW, THEATRICAL TRAILER AND AN ANECDOTE This was a chronological show that sanitized most of the angst and made absurdly false equivalences between the fascism of the east and the alleged excess "decadence" of the west. Despite some good paintings amid the cacophony, I am not going to let a scholarly poseur like LACMA curadoress Stephanie Barron (Barren of …
Artist Llyn Foulkes playing his one man band machine and discussing some of the instruments involved in playing it, specifiaclly his Octavin Blow Horn:
I am in 25 seconds of this 3-minute clip at the 0:59 mark: That is one of my better lines ever: "Do you see God at Wal-Mart?"
So the new issue of Coagula Art Journal is available as a glossy, full-color book, but you can download a copy of it for free online at COAGULA.NET right now! If you are a mac user, i recommend a firefox browser instead of safari. After 95 issues and two months shy of 17 years, I have …
So in tough economic times, people sell their art to make ends meet. Schools are no exceptions. Brandeis University may be saving itself by selling the art from its museum’s collection (Link to Report). Okay, this is where your art world values come in – and there seems to be a deep disconnect between what …
I went to the convention center via the bus to speak at the L.A. Art Show and to hang out at the Coagula booth. My car got a flat last night and i didn’t want to drive on the donut in the rain and I didn’t want to rent a car. So I took the …
Holy shit that was the worst poem and a lousy delivery – what is it like to get up to read your poem, stand up and see million people dispersing?
I just sent this to the pin-headed retards at cedant: COULD you kindly give me just a tiny clue about WHAT this bill is for instead of threatening me over some abstract registration number that does not mean a thing to me? This registration number is ALL YOU REFERENCE but it is a jumble of …
Advice for artists on self-promotion:
Link to a nice article previewing my first curated show of 2009 (co-curated with Marla Koosed) Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook.