…(the alternative Los Angeles educational endeavor with visiting faculty from a range of disciplines – from law to science – established by Piero Golia and Eric Wesley in 2005) came over for potluck dinner and conversation this evening – they included Janine Armin, Carl Burmeister, Olivian Cha, Daniel Ingroff, Michael Kontopoulos, Anne Mathern, Lesley Moon, ..
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…which I went to see today in Pasadena, is an amazing, depressing, and outrageous (though one-sided) Philadelphia tale revealing a toxic stew of MONEY! (25 billion dollars worth of paintings), POWER! (‘charitable’ foundations, governors and mayors), TOURISM! (the ultimate Impressionist block-buster show), and ART! (that became too valuable for it’s own good, and well beyond ..
…the phenomenal peripatetic psychedelic video artist (perhaps you recall his brilliant break-out work A Family Finds Entertainment (2004) from the 2006 Whitney Biennial where it was unfortunately presented on a little monitor perched atop a pedestal adjacent to the bustling bank of elevators?) has an riveting/revealing/funny interview in the new issue of Butt Magazine. (more ..
…has just emerged over the past year – founded by Shamim M. Momin and Christine Y. Kim – with energetic nimble activity most welcome in L.A.: variously squatting in local homes and institutions, taking to the streets and ‘public spaces’ (or whatever passes for that here in L.A.), and supporting performance and time-based work – ..
…is making some sense of this crazy vast nearly incomprehensible cultural landscape we call Los Angeles with a great website, a directory of all of the local venues, online and printed maps, regular announcements, plus it’s own newspaper – and with ten MFA art programs in the area (Art Center College of Art and Design, ..
…is the title of an upcoming documentary directed by friend Wu Tsang, which is described as “…a hybrid documentary/narrative depicting Latina transgender women who build community with queer performance artists at downtown Los Angeles bar the Silver Platter.” We can’t wait to see it!..
…is something that my brother is up to – check out the fluid garments!..
…previews today, and for the first time in it’s history, more than half of the featured artists are women – we can’t wait to see what they do. Here is the complete list of the artists: David Adamo, Richard Aldrich, Michael Asher, Tauba Auerbach, Nina Berman, Huma Bhabha, Josh Brand, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, James ..
…curated by Jenelle Porter and featuring work by Eleanor Antin, Charles Atlas, Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom, Bruce Conner, Tacita Dean, Oliver Herring, Luis Jacob, Mike Kelley, Joachim Koester, Elad Lassry, Bruce Nauman, Kelly Nipper, robbinschilds + A.L. Steiner, Uri Tzaig, Flora Wiegmann, and Christopher Williams, is a show I’m really hoping to catch ..
…presented by The Llano Del Rio Working Group, beautifully illustrated by Katie Bachler (former intern and Sundown Schoolhouse student), and designed by Department of Graphic Sciences (original designers the Edible Estates book), identifies and locates all of the exciting alternative activity in the city which is really what makes this place worth living in – ..
…looms large while we are laboring over our sewing machines this afternoon for the first day of sewing workshops with Annie O’Malley, as we sit beneath a giant version of the white folding plastic chairs we are sitting on, and to the back everything in the entire Machine Project office/work area has been shrink wrapped ..
…(queer artist, shaman, healer, media guru, General Idea founder, and Printed Matter director) sent me the complete set of the Printed Matter’s “Artists & Activists” series for me to review as I begin work on #8 in the commissioned series, which we hope to have ready by June – in the mean time I am ..
…is a new fashion collection that I just heard about in an announcement from K8, “an outcome of a project curated by Travis Boyer called MFT, or My Favorite Things, for JF & Son” that will launch with a day long performance on Wednesday, February 17th, from 12-8pm at 19 Kenmare in New York, and ..
…has just been opened by artist Yoshua Okon, including a two-year/four-quarter school system, a residency program, and a visiting lecture series – all in Spanish – though a summer quarter in English is in the works…
…is an old friend who has penetrated the core of mainstream pop culture tonight with the piano he made for Lady Gaga to play with Elton John at th..
…has released Issue #7 which includes this from the introduction: “The current system of precarious labor (contract work, creative work, temp jobs) sucks and we partially asked for it. Art is often used as a gentrifier and often generates more social inequality than resistance. And we think that resistance which, as a semiotic, is not ..
…had an opening reception this afternoon for it’s latest project/exhibition, “This is a Performance,” installed in it’s cozy home-base – the La Vista Court Hollywood home of artist Eve Fowler – attended by lots of artist friends, and their dogs and babies. (AC..
…is a New York City based activist collective (A.L. Steiner, K8 Hardy, and A.K. Burns) that has produced a “WoManifesto” video which I have just watched and will post here for you to consider questions like…have you invited an artist to work or produce something without offering any form of compensation? or as an artist, ..
…is the title of the new biography I just finished which attempts to avoid retreading the familiar paths of so many previous AW books, especially the definitive 1989 Bockris biography, by focusing exclusively on the short revolutionary period from his first silk screen paintings in 1961 to the Valerie Solanas shooting in 1968 with new ..
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