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Polaroids have been an important creative tool for me, especially prior to digital. I missed it so much when it went away because it was a way for me to capture quick photo “sketches” and to capture fleeting moments and … Continue reading
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Garden of Babylon, a “Selfie” Pop Art installation made from recycled paper and paying tributes to the history of gardens in the book & film, Being There, Candide by Voltaire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Library of Ashurbanipal, George Smith, … Continue reading
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The “Souvenirs Of Progress | Teach-In Library” built for the 2018 Getty Underground art show, with the panel insert: “The Great Wave of ‘69 | Flood Myths” inspired by Hokusai’s “The Great Wave” and Matisse’s “The Cut Outs” series of … Continue reading
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Souvenirs of Progress: A look back to March Forward… Art, memorabilia, photography & writing reflecting on the 1970s Souvenirs of Progress “Teach-In” art show & forum at Lobby Gallery. Visit during one of the walk-through hours to hear the accompanying … Continue reading
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FREE Ready-Made March or Protest Posters to download. These are in PDF format so you can print these at home (or at any printer) in whatever size works best for you: 16″x20″ poster size, tabloid sized paper, or even legal … Continue reading
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Art, memorabilia, photography & writing reflecting on the 1970s Collectibles and memorabilia included in the Souvenirs of Progress Box Set are presented as informational artifacts to reflect on an era of turbulence and change in American Civil Rights. It also … Continue reading
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The Herencia Trilogy narrative library built for the Getty Underground art show is a Greetings From L.A. tribute (featured in the Getty Research Institute’s Pacific Standard Time exhibition) and it is inspired by a variety of work by Al Ruppersberg and Orhan … Continue reading
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Bill Graham was a legendary music promoter behind many Bay Area bands for several decades, starting amid the 1960’s counterculture movement of San Francisco. His work affected not only acts like, Jefferson Airplane, the Fugs, Santana, Big Brother & the Holding Company … Continue reading
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Bobby Furst’s private art studio, gallery and creative retreat hosts spaces for live music, a screening room and workshops with rustic camp trailers and hiking trails that connect to Joshua Tree National Park. His installations of assemblage and found objects … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage to East Jesus, a desert art mecca in Slab City, California and a night voyage aboard a magical wooden caravan to the open air stage, The Range. (A few of the locations featured in the film, Into the Wild by … Continue reading
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Watts in Los Angeles, California hosts Watts Towers and Watts Towers Arts Center, with the original sculptural towers created by Simon Rodia between 1921 to 1955. It also includes permanent collections by Noah Purifoy, John Outterbridge,…
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Artist, Tanner Goldbeck curated and coordinated a one night only street art exhibition featuring local, DTLA/Downtown Los Angeles artists. The building where the multistory, urban art installation took place has since been redesigned, and none of the murals remain, but it … Continue reading
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The Branded Arts Buildings in Culver City, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, hosted iconic work by top local and international street artists. The urban art installments were temporary and the buildings have now been demolished, but it was a … Continue reading
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Channa Horwitz was a visual contemporary artist from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Her Sonakinatography (sound – motion – notation) compositions, based around the number 8, were performed with percussion, dance, spoken word, and electronic instruments. In January of 2012, her Sonakinatography #3 … Continue reading
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My so-called “plastic day” in Los Angeles, a.k.a. “LA,” began with a morning rally followed by a close-to-unanimous (13 to 1) vote of the LA City Council to ban single-use plastic shopping bags in supermarkets and to “penalize” paper bag usage with … Continue reading
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Herencia – serial novel trilogy During the millennium year of 2000, Amores Perros premiered in Cannes and the Venetian Hotel opened in Las Vegas. The first of the serial novels examines the physical and symbolic barriers between Los Angeles and Tijuana, setting … Continue reading
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So there I was, sitting in seat 12A as the plane took off…Thanks to the kind United Airlines counter attendant that rebooked my flight when I messed up and missed my original flight by an entire day. He must have … Continue reading
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Can art create change? Does art matter? Why do we need to support art? On my cynical, negative days, I feel that society and culture are still in the dark ages and that art and individuals are not enough to … Continue reading
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As local and specialty shops for selling books have been eliminated, first by the large chains and then by the online giants, like Amazon, there remains only a few spots to be able to enjoy physically browsing books. Since the … Continue reading
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Tonight’s opening of the Converse concept store in Santa Monica brought together a few of my favorites: art, music and shoes. True to its following, Converse launched it’s new flagship with an eternally youthful, fashionable, timelessly cool, artistic, athletic and rock & … Continue reading
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CamLab II set up a “Yurt City” of tents in front of the MOCA Geffen on February 2nd providing free workshops and MOCA sponsored sustenance of hot chocolate, coffee, tea, soft drinks and yummy baked goods, like macaroons, rosemary crisps … Continue reading
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Currently on view at CB1 Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles is Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia’s “Papel tejido,” exhibition, which means tissue paper in Spanish, but the actual constructions are much more substantial and made from acrylic paint on heavy cotton rag paper. … Continue reading
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On Friday evening, the 22nd of January, 2012, during an art performance ceremony at Los Angeles Police Department’s Deaton Auditorium, I turned and introduced myself to the person sitting next to me: an adult, female artist living in Los Angeles. … Continue reading
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A dawn to dusk view of the tidal wetlands, LA River, Ballona Creek and Ballona Lagoon areas; home to many wild plants and animals that share the land, air and water alongside Los Angeles residents and LAX, including: snowy egrets, brown pelicans, western … Continue reading
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A very charismatic Henry Rollins hosted a benefit show at the historic Avalon in Hollywood on Wednesday night (30 November 2011) for Drop in the Bucket, a Uganda based NGO that is building water wells and sanitation systems in sub-Saharan … Continue reading
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Buildings can tell a story about history, culture, community, art, design and the environs so that’s why buildings in Japantowns (Nihonmachis) throughout California are being preserved. Little Tokyo is a Nihonmachi located in downtown Los Angeles and in 1995 thirteen … Continue reading
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Photo collage of coastal areas around PCH – from Los Angeles to Big Sur, California. Click first image to begin slideshow.
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The ATM in Red Square gave me the option of USD or Russian rubles. I thought, “How convenient, a foreign ATM that will allow me to withdraw according to the equivalent US currency- very useful so I won’t have a … Continue reading
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Modern Art in Los Angeles: Assemblage and Politics » Pacific Standard Time | Getty Museum Research Institute. An evening of conversation with artists Ed Bereal, Mel Edwards, George Herms, Nancy Reddin Kienholz and Betye Saar. Moderated by Lucy Bradnock of the … Continue reading
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Study in pattern, texture, form, light and saturation in the color green. (Click on the images to view the larger slideshow.)
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Study in pattern, texture and form with the color blue. Shot primarily on 35mm Velvia 100. (My favorite, but now extinct chrome film from Fuji.) None have been cropped and the colors have not been enhanced other than what was … Continue reading
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The Fantômas have recently released a film to go with their live album, Director’s Cut, the tribute to, known and obscure, cult film theme music. The opening credits roll in as they appropriately perform their live salute to the Godfather … Continue reading
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THE JOURNALS OF SPALDING GRAY « Knopf Doubleday Knopf publishers have released The Journals of Spalding Gray in remembrance of the gifted actor, orator, writer, storyteller and artist. While not the inventor of autobiographical monologues nor of experimental theater, he was … Continue reading
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