Man, La Dauphine has some kick ass foreign correspondents. This time she sends her help to give us all the details at the Frieze Art Fair. Watch out CNN. UPDATE: artnet makes a visit. ...
This Saturday night is the Opening party for the John Waters:Change of Life show that will run through Jan. 15th at OCMA. The party starts 8pm and costs $10 if you are not a member. I actually caught this show a year and a half back at The New Museum in NYC. It was great but I'm curious if they're going to edit it for the OC blue hairs. Do you think the butt-holes will still be included? I'll let you know. All the details for...
Mrs. OCArtBlog has decided it's time to get some new bedroom furniture (we have none) so this weekend I was required to do my husbandly duty and follow her around various furniture stores. Luckily one of our stops included Crystal Court at South Coast Plaza where OCMA has its new media satellite The Orange Lounge. I was able to view their new show Transfixed: New Media and the Body. The show includes artists like Cheryl Dunn, Tony Oursler and Yoshua Okon. But what I really...
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. ...
