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OK. Let me be the first to call a moratorium on anymore "Skateboards as art" shows or anymore more "artist series skate decks". Enough! Thank you for letting me vent.Artist t-shirts & Robots. You're next. ...

21 May, 2008 /

Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82 ...

13 May, 2008 /

Well OCMA has done it again. Christopher Knight visits Birth of Cool and loves it. This following the Mary Heilmann show which will probably go down as one of the top museum shows anywhere this year. Nice work OCMA! ...

10 October, 2007 /

Opening next weekend @ OCMA. Birth of Cool: California Art, Design & Culture at Midcentury. See you there. ...

26 September, 2007 /

Mrs. OC Art Blog and I ventured up to San Francisco this weekend to catch the opening of a new commission by Paul Paiement hosted by husband and wife gallery owners Heather Marx & Steve Zavattero. We also caught the Olafur Eliasson show at SFMOMA and the Dark Matters show and the Joachim Schmid exhibit at Yerba Buena. Trevor Paglen who was included in the Dark Matters show is my new favorite artist. I don't think I've seen spine-chilling art like that in a long...

24 September, 2007 /

For those that want to get a jump start on the art opening attendance there's a good one tonight over at the Irvine Valley College Art Gallery. Chicago artist Doug Cason opens tonight from 6-8pm and the show will run until Oct. 5th. ...

30 August, 2007 /

Wanted to give a heads up to everybody that OC based painting powerhouse Sherie' Franssen will open a show of new work at Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles on Sept. 8th from 5 to 7pm. You should not miss this one. ...

27 August, 2007 /

Have a Good Weekend. Via someecards ...

24 August, 2007 /

The Artful Auction where the proceeds go to support Arts Orange County is now open. Head on over and make a bid. I'll take the Sun Valley ski vacation please. ...

20 August, 2007 /

Here's a 30 minute video of Coagula publisher Mat Gleason talking about a few local artists from Ovation TV's Art or Not? Whether you agree with Mat or not it's always refreshing to hear someone take a position in this day and age. ...

14 August, 2007 /

I've always had an affinity for Phoenix. I was born there but left when I was a year old. In the mid 90's I went back for a couple of years and met Ms. OC Art Blog who I would eventually make Mrs. OC Art Blog. So when John Spiak Curator of the ASU Art Museum asked me if I would help get the word out that their fund-raising art auction, otherwise known as the Carnaval Do Rio is coming up, I said sure....

19 March, 2007 /

So I'm right in the middle of trying to aquire a painting by Amy Sillman who I personally think is one of the best and brightest painters working today and I think things are going smoothly when the gallerist out of the blue sends me an email where she apologizes and says unfortunately she has sold the painting. I'm like "What!!" I was bummed out for week I figured now that Amy was on the cover of Artforum it was going to be pretty hard...

13 February, 2007 /

Tonight I had the great pleasure to visit the home of LA based legendary collector Diana Zlotnick. In this day and age when actually having an experience with art is getting trumped by the stampede to keep up with the joneses and make sure the right names are in the collection, it's very refreshing to meet a collector who still values artist relationships and the actual experience that a viewer can have with art. I won't go into all the details about Diana's background...

03 February, 2007 /

Just finished reading Collecting Contemporary by Adam Lindemann. Enjoyed the book for its Q&A with the many high profile Collectors, Curators and Gallerists but I wouldnt really consider this a great beginning collector how to. This book is geared to those with art collecting budgets of six figures and greater. Still a good read. ...

09 December, 2006 /