February 2010
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LA Never Liked The Taurus Anyway. In Memorium...
“That won’t work, it will not get you far in Los Angeles. THAT is not an LA car” the art dealer prophesied, pointing at the Legman’s Ford Taurus outside a Williamsburg gallery when we announced our bailing the Big Bagel. His words were driven home each day since. From dirty stare downs at reds from blond air heads to comments from valets (this at the Beverly Hills Hotel...
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She Shot The Wife Shooter
We’re catching up on the blur that was the past two weeks, and cut off from the company supply cabinet as we are, that means sorting the loose scraps and cocktail napkins accounting for our meandering across LA’s cityscape. Top of the pile here is a Miller coaster with notes from last night’s opening of LA punk photos circa 1978 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery which was nothing but...
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Huff Po Links to The Fringe
” One of the things I love about new media is how fluid it is. You never know where an interesting link might take you — or where you may come across compelling content” writes Arianna Huffington.
So is that democratic notion why her Huffington Post drives traffic to the lunatic fringe, cop killer inspiring, Alex Jones site? The Anti Defamation League cited Jones as a dangerous...
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Out From Under the Bus
The man who was Hipster-In-chief
Artists, idealists, genuine cultural producers just don’t mesh with the worker bee world of cover your ass/ do as little as possible without getting caught/risk management; immersed in all that square shit they are simply out of their element. Case in point: Yosi Sergant, the LA publicist who coordinated a youth-centric arts front for the Obama election...
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A Dimension Beyond That Known By Man
February 3, 2010 - Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Last night’s opening at ACE Gallery in Beverly Hills was proof there is an Art World, as distinct from reality as that dimension we call the Twilight Zone. No recession specials here among the municipal scaled bronze works. And you’d never know the pawn shop on Wilshire was doing record business if you just touched down for the evening,...