On Tuesday night, I joined several folks to attend Feminist Art in Southern California, a panel discussion with Eleanor Antin, Barbara Carrasco, Maren Hassinger, Rachel Rosenthal, Faith Wilding, moderated by writer and curator Jodi Finkel. This talk, and about a zillion other things happening around town all circle around the focus on women in [...]

I get a fair amount of art related junk mail. Proposals from Eastern European artists shotgunning for massive career retrospectives, PR in Spanish for shows I could have less than zero interest in, baroquely worded introductions from clueless art agents, hilariously stupid art world remixes of Nigerian 419 Scams, you name it, I’m roundfiling [...]

Tonight is the reception for Through the Looking Glass at El Camino College Art Gallery. I previewed the show during an early phase of its installation, so all of my images are only teasers. There’s some really nice works in the show, but I saw everything way to early to even really have an [...]

A whole bunch of awesome folks have been gathered at the Don O’Melveny Gallery for what looks like an awesome gathering of artists. This is Edith Abeyta’s last show before she goes off to the Netherlands for her “Beer Project”. Several of these guys are from Chicago, so catch them while they’re in town.

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Well Tyler Green has put out another top five – Top Five: Paintings into Movies?

My crank is turned. I’m going to concentrate on military/war/conflict themed works. Only one is a “battle painting” though, or rather a series of battle paintings. Here they are, in no particular order to speak of, with a short [...]

I finally made the trek to the Huntington Library today, as Michele had a school assignment related to the Constable show that’s on view now. More about the whole place later, with pictures, gripes, impressions and other whatnot. Now is about Joseph Wright of Derby’s awesomely cool painting Vesuvius from Portici. I’m going to [...]

Given that I just previewed the next show, and Centripetal Force is already gone, I should get back to the rest of the images from the exhibition and get them up here. Beyond Keiko Fukazawa’s amazing collaborative ceramics, the show had two other primary elements – clothing decorated by juvenile inmates at Camp McNair [...]

As I was returning from Thailand, I was asked to participate in an Art Club activity at El Camino College, a Futurist Lunch. I was asked to read Umberto Boccioni’s Manifesto of Futurist Painting, a sort of proto-fascist art document that quickly followed on the heels of Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto, which was oriented [...]