Happy Halloween!

I actually carved a decent pumpkin this year.  I was at the market on the corner and they had these cheap pumpkins…  One thing led to another, and I ended up devoting this evening to carving the face of The Devil, from Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, [...]

Bananas at the Hammer

Last night’s Shakey’s performance by Joe Sola and Michael Webster, Bananas at the Hammer, was awesome.  I don’t have time to process all 380 photos I shot of them, and might not for a while, but here are some highlights, and a link to my Flickr set of images from the event.  They [...]

Joe Sola and Michael Webster at Night of the Living Dolls – Tonight!

Tonight at the I’ll be photographing Joe Sola and Michael Webster, who will be doing a version of their Shakey’s piece that they did for the FR8 show earlier this year, and that I’m hoping (cross grantmaking fingers!) will be transforming into a final version at Angles Gate early next spring in a [...]

© Murakami Gala Pics from Eric Nakamura

Again Eric comes to the rescue.  Those of us who attended the member’s opening were able to take a tiny peak at the rented wine glasses, tablecloths and round tables of the gala, but we weren’t special enough.  He’s got a write-up, too, and a Flickr set of images.

Above – the [...]

Serra at LACMA

LACMA’s steaming towards the opening of their new wing, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, and Curbed LA has the scoop on the Richard Serra that’s on loan from MOMA and has just arrived.  Here’s a link to their original post on it, and a new post with closeups of the sculpture arriving.  The [...]

More © Murakami Pics

So I went to the MOCA © Murakami member’s opening last night. A joy of feeder lines, but interesting and fun nonetheless. Last night was the big “Halloween Party Night” for the “I Have Somewhere to Be on Thursday Morning” set, so there was the interesting and highly appropriate addition of a variety of [...]

Lechón!

Above – a beautiful carved Lechón, eaten gleefully by a room full of well wishers of Roy and Kyoko Kunisaki at their US wedding party. I just couldn’t resist posting a picture of this beautiful pig. The first time I had Lechón was at a friend’s house, as I was picking him up [...]

Murakami photos form Eric Nakamura

Giant Robot’s Eric Nakamura (side note – the Japanese American National Museum opens a Giant Robot Biennale on November 3)went to the ©Murakami Press Day and shot a whole Flickr Set full of photos (83 in all).  From the look of it there’s a lot of old faves.  Enjoy.  Eric’s take on the [...]

More Getty Food

At Top – Devonshire Cream at the Getty. I was at a focus group for the Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program this morning, and of course there was some food set out for us guests. In all my life, I’ve only come across Devonshire Cream in Getty spreads. I actually had to look it [...]

A Full Listing of the Artists in California Video with Links

I got the press release for California Video in the E-mail the other day, and I realized that there’s no place on the Getty’s website or the web (that my searching and googling could find) that gives a full listing of all of the artists in California Video. So I figured I’d compile handy [...]