Keiko Fukazawa’s ceramics at El Camino Community College

I’m taking an evening class at the college this semester, which gives me plenty of opportunity to visit my old haunt the ECC Art Gallery. I don’t think I have time to cover the show in detail (it’s really interesting – I’d like to spend more time with it – go see for yourself), [...]

MAN on Tut at the De Young

Not to be MAN-centric, but given all the bitching I’ve done about the De Young lately, I feel I need to second Tyler Green’s dissatisfaction with the De Young as an AEG King Tut venue.  It’s bad enough that this turd/scam fell on LACMA, but the De Young, too?  In my two visits to [...]

Kim Schoenstadt at the Harris Gallery

I recently did a studio visit with Kim Schoenstadt, whom I caught up with on Tuesday night at the opening for her new exhibition at the Harris Gallery at the University of La Verne. It’s awesome, and everyone should see it. Kim has a really thorough flickr set of the exhibition, including process/installation [...]

My Five Favourite American Buildings

Art blogger Tyler Green threw this question out there in response to the American Institute of Architects list of 150 favourite American buildings. So I’m responding with my list. I’m sure this list will come across as pedestrian or “out of it”, but I don’t care. Personally, my favourite building hasn’t been built yet. [...]

Berkeley Art Museum & Bruce Nauman, too + Tara Donovan

On my last trip up to the Bay Area, as mentioned in my previous post, I made an unplanned visit to the Berkeley Art Museum to see their new show, A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s. I’ve never really given much thought to Nauman’s work, primarily associating him with his [...]

Yoko Ono at the UC Berkeley Art Museum

I’m still writing about my trip up to SF last month. I just saw too much stuff. Anyways, Michele and I were advised that a new Bruce Nauman show had opened up at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. We were going to be in the area the following day, so we added it to [...]

More Netsuke at LACMA #3 – Two Gods

Moving up the spiritual ladder, you’ve got your straight out gods. Japan has always been a melting pot of religious beliefs, home to a multitude of characters chock full of raw mojo. As a Jew, I find polytheistic traditions tempting like forbidden fruit – my own beliefs seem colourless and uptight compared to the [...]