Great article in todays LA Times Calendar section asking the question, do comics belong in museums?? The article even quotes OC curatorial powerhouse Tyler Stallings. Check it out. ...
Attended the Laguna Art Museum Annual Auction tonight and had a great time. It's always fun to watch the bidding wars. We won two out of the five or so we were in. We were happy to get the Mark Dutcher piece we had to have and the Leigh Peffer photograph we wanted. Fun was had by all. Some photos follow: Ali Smith and her work Michiko Yao and work Sherie' Franssen and her painting Artists Noah Thomas (L) Ali Smith and Jimi Gleason Jimi...
After getting done over by a client this morning (I'm telling you, the art world may suck sometimes but man this other life...
Who is buying all that art?? Photo: Linda Nylind ...
Well, I finally got around to seeing Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know. I recommend you see it. After it was over I felt like crying...
Reminder: LAM's annual Art Auction is tomorrow night. Maybe you can be the lucky winner of the Sam Durant work pictured. I think Jerry Saltz would approve. ...
Susan Carpenter from the LA Times visited the Five (5) show at The Beall and writes about it Here. ...
Just in case anybody from San Francisco reads this blog I wanted to let you know that this weekend my friends Bull.Miletic are helping host the invasion of SF by a bunch of Norwegian artists. Norwydeo.1 will be taking place at Artists' Television Access this Friday starting at 8pm. Some of the artists participating can be found here. Enjoy! ...
The Turner Prize shortlist has been announced. Profile of the artists here. Pictures of work here. I vote for the butt crack. ...
Jit Fong Chin from SqueezeOC visits the Five (5) exhibit at The Beall and writes about it here. ...
Heads Up everybody! Finishing School's latest action Open House will be taking place, of all places at my house, and you are all invited. The date has been set and all the festivities will be taking place on Sunday Nov. 6th from 1-4pm. All the details can be Found Here. Open House facilitates temporary coalitions of people from various networks of experience, framed in a domestic setting for the simple purpose of creating meaningful experiences in a space that was previously inaccessible. FS hopes that...
Reminder: This Saturday night is the Laguna Art Museum annual Art Auction extravaganza. You can now view both the Juried Artist work and the Invited Artist work. Hope to see you there. Image: Sherie' Franssen ...
Rebecca Schoenkopf visits the Portrait show at CSULB's Univeristy Art Museum and gives it the thumbs down. Justin Edward Coffey checks out the Eugene Berman show at the Long Beach Museum of Art and gives it the double snap. Liz Goldner doesn't like Pretty Art anymore. That spells trouble for someone that can't quite find her way out of Newport/Laguna Beach. ...
Christopher Knight visits MOCA's new show Ecstasy: In and About Altered States and writes about it here. ...
For those interested, an art fair was held in my favorite city this last week and you can get a report from La Dauphine's foreign correspondent here And Oliver Kamm participates here, here and here. ...
Ran up to Culver City on Saturday to pick up our new Robert Olsen painting from Susanne Vielmetter and catch a couple of quick shows before they came down. Two are highly recommended but they'll probably be taken down by the time you read this. The Cristoph Draeger video/installation at Susanne Vielmetter was haunting and the Chloe Piene drawing show at Sandroni.Rey was solid. Her drawings in the last Whitney Biennial were one of the highlights for me and these ones were even better. Great...
Thought I'd pass on some more local artist opportunities: Long Beach Arts is looking for artists for their National Open Exhibition. Brea Gallery has a call out for their Made in California exhibit. Good Luck! ...
Edward Winkleman asked that we spread the word about a new project that Jennifer Dalton is undertaking. She wants to know how you live. You might remember my post on Jennifer here. ...
Rebecca Schoenkopf from the OC Weekly visits the Camille Rose Garcia show at GCAC and writes about it here. She also likes what she finds at OCMA's "Villa America" ...
