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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 /

I haven't done a "what I've been collecting" blog in awhile so here ya go. Earlier this year I decided to pretty much buy local. Although I picked up some small pieces from artists like Uta Barth, Vik Muniz & Tim Hawkinson most of my purchases have been from local artists who I think are doing great work. In the news these days you can't go a week without seeing some new article on how HOT the art market is. Yes its true this market...

05 December, 2006 /

Thanks for all of your comments.  Most of you were able to see through my faulty thinking.  By the way, "C" was the correct answer. Tatanka, Orangeberg ps Richard Chang, Commie Girl, and Cathy Curtis.  Write in the question. ...

24 August, 2006 /

Chris here. The new art season is almost upon us so that means it's time to start talking about what kind of trends you can expect to see in abundance this art year. This year I think you should expect to see more: Hello Kitty art on paper. Thank you Marcel Dzama. Messy room as installation. Jason Rhoades death will have an impact. What do you think we will see?? Comments welcomed. ...

24 August, 2006 /

Hello- I have spent the last few days thinking about this: Why is there so much negativity surrounding the OC art scene? A. it sucksB. it's in the oc C. Kevin Costner let's discuss, send me your comments. xoxo, orangeberg ...

23 August, 2006 /

Hello all, Orangeberg here.  Please visit the following sites and I will give each of you a reward.http://we-make-money-not-art.com/http://rhizome.org/http://www.woostercollective.com/ you can all start the count down, chris will be returning soon. xoxox, Orangeberg ...

20 August, 2006 /

Thank you very much for those that wrote in yesterday.  We have to still confirm the intel that we received.  I was busy yesterday, sorry for not posting.  I spent the whole day trying to get my mind around  the film Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.  Wow. Go see it.  Which brings me to today's posting.  Green art.  The following works appear to be pro-planet-either directly or indirectly. We need more art and design like these pieces!  Let us know about more work by posting...

19 August, 2006 /

OCMA has announced this years line up for the California Biennial and it includes: Scoli Acosta, Andy Alexander, Christopher Ballantyne, Walead Beshty, Bull.Miltec (Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic), Jane Callister, Binh Danh, Sergio de La Torre, Vicky Funari, Shannon Ebner, Ala Ebtekar, Brian Fahlstrom, Kianga Ford, Pearl C. Hsiung, Marie Jager, Shana Lutker, Christian Maychack, Martin McMurray, Joel Morrison, My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade), Kate Pocrass, Lordy Rodriguez, Arturo Ernesto Romo, Sterling Ruby, Leslie Shows, The Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David...

31 March, 2006 /

The artLA exhibitor list is up. In other fair news both Pulse and Scope will be holding fairs during the Armory Fair and for the first time Scope will be moving out of the Hotel room set up and move to a real fair type set up. Word on the street is that they are really trying to recruit a solid LA contingency for the big weekend in NYC. Are you going? ...

21 December, 2005 /

So, now I know why everyone wants to be an artist! For those of you that say there is so much bad art out there. Now you know why. ...

01 December, 2005 /

Wow. Did anybody notice that a Loretta Lux went for over $45K at auction a couple of days ago? via View. (who doesn't like the work) Now I love the work, we own a triptych, but man this market is getting a little overheated. Here is our Lois: ...

11 November, 2005 /