Scam or Not, I Reply With Honesty…

>From: Erick Raymond >To: Coagula >Subject: Donation >Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 06:36:35 -0700 (PDT) > >Hello There, > I have considered Museums, arts and culture as a way of life and i have deemed it fit in contributing my little quota towards the growth and development of these sectors. I wish to know the …

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Girlfriend in a show at MOCA, I know, it’s serious

The MOCA Fresh Auction is looking like a very cool event. I went to the preview – which is all this week at the Geffen Contemporary. A section of the museum is filled to the gills with art donated by artists and gallerists. The Saturday night auction will raise a bazillion dollars for the institution …

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Yeah Stupid Friends Only Poll

F YOU’RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST (and you must be if you’re seeing this!), I want to know 28 things about you. I don’t care if we’ve never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don’t. You are obviously on my f-list, so let me know …

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Judging the Affair

I went to the Beverly Hills Affaire in the Garden today. I was the judge for the Painting exhibits. The event is held twice a year in the Beverly Gardens Park in Downtown Beverly Hills, four blocks strong of artists in booths and food vendors. The art is not exactly “cutting edge” by any stretch, …

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Me on Television

So if you have Five Minutes to spare, here is a Link to Me on TeeVee recently, a very fun project about artists in Los Angeles.

I am going to be on TELEVISION

I am hosting an episode of YOUR L.A. this Friday on KNBC Channel 4 at 3 p.m. (yes, opposite Oprah, time to take her down). IF you have any way of recording this digitally that can be transferred to a disc I would be totally grateful to you. they told me it looks good – …

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Anniversary

We are going out of town for three days. I have to pack right now, but today is the fifteenth anniversary of picking up the first copies of my magazine from the printer’s (it was a newspaper then) and I did not want the anniversary to go by unnoticed. That’s all, I work hard publishing …

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dentist

First visit in many years. 5 minor cavities. Need one crown. No root canal or any of that shit. I will take it, I thought it was going to be a lot worse.

Darfur-benefitting Art Sale

LINK FIXED! There are still a few quality artworks by name artists available from Haus Gallery to benefit SAVE DARFUR LINK to 200 Artworks PAGE I’m #69 !

Email Exchange:

>Hi, I’m a big Coagula fan. What do you think of Hirst’s new >butterfly works? >This is my fantasy of two possible criticisms. > >One: They’re all about him: > >Hirst: “When I made this I was thinking about how the poems of >Philip Lar-” >Some Guy: “Haha are those REAL butterflies? You are fucked …

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High Profile Editorializing

I have been writing about steroids in baseball all week for the L.A. Times Opinion Section. After trashing their future owner Eli Broad and their chief art critic Christopher Knight in the Angeleno Magazine interview, it will probably be my first and only byline there ever, so at least there are five essays and it …

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Judge/Jury

So i had to jury some art on the West Side today – Gallery 825 had artists submit centerpieces of tables for the ArtScene 25th Anniversary bash. There has to be one artwork, pretty much a sculptural object, as the centerpiece for each of the 55 tables at the event. The organization was complex, thankfully …

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