This Saturday night @Space Gallery opens the group show Flatland. Some of the artists who will be showing include Bradford Salamon (image), Richard Turner, Jane Bauman and Max Kin Cap. The opening will run from 6-9pm. ...
Tomorrow night Hibbleton Gallery in Fullerton will open Unpretentious Art Party featuring Ryan Ward, Foof, Paul Nagel and Scott Lee. The opening will run from 7 to 11pm and fun will be had be all. ...
This Sunday the fine folks at LAM are giving you not one, but two opportunities to get a walk-through of the current exhibit In The Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapose Factor led by LA gallerist Billy Shire. First walk-through will be at 1pm and the second will be at 4pm. Couldn't think of a finer way to see this show. ...
Here's a clip of the new Beautiful Losers documentary that opens this weekend at the IFC Center in NYC. Features HB local Ed Templeton. Enjoy: ...
This past Sunday the art collective Fallen Fruit presented their project, Public Fruit Jam, at Machine Project. The public was invited to bring in any kind of fruits to be turned into homemade jams. It was such a tasty event that the entire Finishing School crew headed out there to join in on the fun. I was able to capture a short interview with Matias Viegener, one of the members of Fallen Fruit. Here he talks about the collective itself and Public Fruit Jam in...
This was probably the best thing going during the Santa Ana Artwalk last night. I was definitely bored with the artwalk this month. My friend and I was about to leave the area when I noticed a poster that said simply "art show" along with a red arrow pointing the way. Following it led me to a bar called Proof.Sam is the co-curator of a small show inside the bar. But when he said to me that there would be live musical performances I knew...
I think it is safe for me to say that Lamson is Finishing School's newest favorite artist. Head over to his website for more.--James ...
The OC Art Blog and The Hoff Foundation are in this months Arts Spotlight in Orange Coast Magazine. Check it. ...
I saw a similar t-shirt on sale at the Buffalo Exchange in Long Beach today. Man, if this does not explain what I do from day to day as an artist, I don't know what does.--James ...
Franz Keller is a VJ/ artist living in Claremont. The piece above, HAMMERHEAD, is currently up in the Bunny Gunner's 1st Birthday show in Pomona. Incidentally, there are quite a number of O.C. artists in that show. Try to go check it out while it's still up.--James ...
"What have I learned from my ordeal? I’ve learned that with tens of thousands of supporters, with hundreds of thousands of dollars, with one of the best legal teams in the US, with a crack media team, with a group of experienced fundraisers, with four years of one’s life, and with total innocence, sometimes one can slice off a piece of American justice. Which in the end means: The overwhelming majority of people ain’t gettin’ justice, and we have to keep fighting until they do." ...
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. — Banksy ...
