Todd Gibson is doing a bang up job of subbing for Tyler over at Modern Art Notes.  Today, in response to criticism that the Andy Warhol Foundation has been on the receiving end of in relation to their Art Writer’s Grant Program, he asks the question -

If Andy Warhol were alive today, and [...]

I guess these don’t really count as action figures, they’re really figurines, since they’re non-poseable, but I’m a simple, simple man.  What matters is that they were collectible, and in this case the the design seems totally proto-anime.  The action figure or figurine is possibly one of man’s oldest art forms, and it’s [...]

…and I checked out the Grand Avenue museum store, and it’s surprisingly well equipped, from a book selection standpoint. The selection of non-book stuff, bags, pens and household goods is surprisingly good, too.  But it’s not without the evilly cute finger of Takashi Murakami’s devious merchandising empire. No Vuitton in sight, though.

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Michele and I had a meeting with some folks at the Getty today, and it ended up being quite the interesting visit. Maybe I was in a good, post-got-that-grant-in-the-mail mood, or maybe it was the overpowering power of the GRI Exhibition Gallery that just ices any cake, but I was primed for viewing. Maybe [...]

I was out cruising the art blogs and I discovered this on the Walker’s Off Center Blog – Takashi Murakami’s cover art for the upcoming Kanye West album, Graduation. I used to have shades like that bear is rocking – in purple with pink stripes. Damn I miss feeling cool. I normally hate [...]

The LA Times has gotten a confirmation out of MOCA that they’re planning to have a fully functioning Louis Vuitton boutique smack dab in the middle of the Geffen Contemporary, as part of the upcoming Louis Vuitton show (rendering shown above).  Modern Art Notes’ Tyler Green quickly noted that this is very different [...]

I was visiting with Edith at work today, and I got a peek at one of her “handkerchief delivery systems” for her installation Cry Me a River, from her upcoming show, Salty: Three Tales of Sorrow at El Camino College.  I get to install the piece, since it’s based on the the Lim(b)it [...]

I don’t want to get anyone in trouble, so I’ll be slightly vague here, but I was in conversation with a group of people today, one of whom had recently participated in a talk at MOCA where a curator or other employee had talked about the upcoming Takashi Murakami retrospective.  During our conversation, we [...]

My favourite biblical subject for painting is the Book of Judith, specifically paintings depicting any part of the beheading of Holofernes by Judith, a Jewish widow. So it was with great joy that the pathways of the internet drove me to the website of Isabel Samaras, who painted Golden Silence, in which Barbara [...]