This year Orange County based Contemporary Collectors has chosen Joel Tauber as the recipient of the $10,000, 2007 Fellowship Award recognizing his most recent project Sick-Amour. Congrats! His Flying Project is still one of my favorites. ...

Caught the Site Specific opening today at the Irvine Fine Arts Center. Great show. Highly recommended. Here's some pics. P.S. Idaho was great. Eric Smail Eric Smail Eric Smail David French David French Finishing School Finishing School Masami Tsuchikawa Noah Thomas Noah Thomas Noah Thomas Kiel Johnson Kiel Johnson Kiel Johnson Carl Berg checking out his old stomping grounds. Painter Ali Smith Susan Joyce from Fringe Exhibitions Ed Giardina Yours Truly ...

I'm taking a road trip to Idaho to see a man about a horse, leaving this weekend but the vacation starts now. Posting will be light if at all over the next week or so. See ya! ...

The final Orange Crush of the season at OCMA happens tomorrow night. Five bucks gets you art, DJ's and some fine music. Have fun. ...

I wanted to let you all know that I was asked to curate a show for Cypress College in their fine art gallery. Who Killed Bambi? will open on Wed. Sept 5th and will feature Mindy Cherri, Liz Young, Sarah Fitzsimons, Diana Markessinis, Carrie Yury and Bryan Ricci. Please mark your calendars, it will be a great one if I do say so myself. I'm sure you'll be hearing more about this as it gets closer. ...

Last Saturday night I went to Robbie Miller's opening at @Space and over to J Flynn Gallery to check out the one year anniversary show. Here's some pics. Enjoy. Robbie Miller art David Michael Lee tending bar. Jack Flynn. Congrats. art J Flynn's Abby Billings Mindy Cherri. Sold out night. Congrats.   Artist Jeff Gillette ...

My Friend Julie Lee has been tinkering away in the basement of The Bowers Museum putting together The Bowers Museum Collection Blog and just let me know about it. So I'm letting you know about it. I need to get back over there soon. ...

This Saturday night Hooray for Humans will present You are Probably My Favorite Person In the Whole World at The Academy in Long Beach. The show will feature a bunch of artists riffing on the question, "who's your favorite person?" The opening will run from 6-10pm and will feature some musical performances. ...

The other opening you should hit this Saturday night is Robbie Miller's new show at @space Gallery. The opening for What I Would Wear If...

Continuing the anniversary theme. This Saturday night J. Flynn Gallery will be celebrating their one year anniversary. One Year Holy Fuck will run from 7 to 10pm and feature Brittany Howard, James Fish, Michael Trefzger, Mindy Cherri, Brian Viveros and Ken Garduno. Congrats guys. ...

OCAB TV went to Santa Ana on Saturday night to celebrate the 13th anniversary of the Art Walk. While there we asked a few folks who've been around a while what their favorite Art Walk memory was. Enjoy: ...