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It’s my bandwith, so it’s self-promotion time here. This weekend, Five Feelings, Angels Gate International Exhibition 2007: Thailand, opens at Angels Gate. My trip to Thailand earlier this year wasn’t just motivated by my desire to expand the range of rodents, lizards and insects that I have established my food-chain dominance upon. I [...] Right now much of my time is occupied by playing host and preparing the Thai exhibition at Angels Gate. Last Sunday, Jessada Kongsommart, who’s in the Angels Gate show had a reception for his solo exhibition, Kalasin, at LA Artcore. He gave a great artist talk – I’ve had the pleasure of coming [...] Long title for a short post. I’m beat. Saw the SoCal show at LACMA today – why on Earth had I not realized the total brilliance of Craig Kauffman? Looking at the show, seeing some work that was really surprising, but man, Kauffman’s work has aged really well (LACMA’s online image sucks, sorry – [...] I occasionally get phone calls from folks who have an issue with either something I’ve written or something I’ve photographed. Usually, they’re slightly confused, either not understanding the nature of my photographic copyright, or their vast sense of self-importance causes them to over-imagine the impact and magnitude of my writing. So when my intern [...] My garden has finally moved into “to many damn tomatoes” mode. I’m eating heirlooms two out of three meals a day, and snacking on salted tomatoes between meals. It’s always so hard to go back to market tomatoes when the plants finally succumb to the cold. I’m in [...] When you visit the same museum a lot, you start to notice objects that seem unusual, or that really just stick out in the collection. One of those is Francesco Laurana’s marble sculpture of Saint Cyricus. It’s rare to see a sculpture of an infant with correct anatomical details, and the story behind [...] I can’t imagine not liking this project. It was born for me to like. The Screamers were the most perfect punk band that ever was, when I was a younger fellow, and playing keyboard in a noise band, they were the band I truly wanted to be in. Having never released an official [...] I hadn’t seen this before, and I thought it was plenty cool. Last week I ate at ToT in Little Tokyo and encountered the squeeze-it-yourself soju citrus cocktail. I don’t know why paying for the privilege of squeezing one’s own grapefruit is so much fun, but it is. That’s Edith doing the squeeze, [...] This is why audio tours and the “focus on the famous” theory of art education sucks. Everyone in this viewer cloud is probably already pretty familiar with this painting before they walked into the museum, but they choose to give it all of their attention, while they ignore much, if not most of [...] UPDATE/CORRECTION – I was directly contacted by Dustin Shuler who informed me that he only get’s 1% ($1) from T-shirt sales, and it sounded like that’s an agreement that pre-dates the Spindle’s current crisis. I look at a lot of art, in a lot of places. When I’m looking at a piece of work, [...] |
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