When YBA’s Roamed the Earth

Again, Nicholas Klemek finds hot truth on YouTube.  Released in 1996, The Beloved’s video for Deliver Me is one of those “art imitates art” moments.  Whomever directed the above was certainly a mirror of his/her era.  If you read the gallery invite viewed at 1:14, you can see the dates for the exhibition [...]

Nicholas Klemek’s Post-Post-Apocalypse Family Film Festival Starts Sunday

Regular readers of this site know that Nicholas Klemek is an unparalleled source of film information and inspiration.  I asked Nicholas to organize a film series to accompany Post-Post-Apocalypse, and he delivered a four-phase film exploration that will take us from the pre-apocalypse, through the apocalypse itself, and into the post-apocalypse.

Green Section, [...]

Enter the Mayor, MOCA Edition

The Mayor’s office has been disturbingly quiet during MOCA’s conflagration.  Not any longer.  I would have rather had the Mayor’s office out front on this – it’s feeling a bit like the 10th hour, if not the 11th – we’re kind of chasing the snowball downhill at this point.

Here’s the Mayor’s letter to [...]

MOCA, MOCA, MOCA

I’ve avoided writing about the MOCA fiasco until now, largely because I feel like the information space around it has been too vague from my limited vantage point. Being that I don’t hang with cocktail dressed museum trustees, that I don’t have the fly on the wall perspective of the many, many meetings going [...]

Alternate Living Arrangements

I’ve been processing some of the non-exhibition photos from my trip to Thailand this year.  Yesterday I put up a series of photos of cargo barges and ships taken in Sriracha Harbour, a largely breakbulk operation.  I took these pictures while accompanying S. Ian Song to the island of Ko Si Chang, which [...]

Getting the Last Word

What else can I say, thank you Muntadar al-Zaidi for speaking for so many of us.

Technorati Tags: Muntadar al-Zaidi, shoe thrower, insult, George W. Bush, farewell, goodbye kiss, last [...]

A Severed Head at LACMA

I shot this a while back, but I neglected to upload it.  LACMA also owns an Auguste Rodin Severed Head of Saint John the Baptist, like the one on view at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.  This one is totally different, with the head more merged into [...]

I am Authorized to Use Physical Force.

This is for Nicholas, the only artist to ever exhibit Clarence Boddicker themed work that I know of.  Robocop isn’t just an awesome movie, it’s an important film, possibly the  one film that best carries the spirit of dystopian 1980′s cyberpunk.  I know some people hate Darren Aronofsky, but I can’t wait to [...]

Your Moment of Hirst, Wherin Hirst Beats Up a Child and Takes His Toys Away

Courtesy of C-Monster, The Independent has the scoop on Hirst’s pathetic efforts to control the derivative life of For The Love of God.  Oh, and when did 16 year old kids in Britain who make collages get gallery representation?  WTF is going on over there?  Is the bar that low?  Ally, please explain this [...]

Post-Post-Apocalypse: Ruins Photo Recap

Last Thursday’s Ruins performance was awesome. A ton of people came by, and folks were beyond supportive, getting all involved, wearing Edith’s gorilla suits, engaging with the work, the whole shebang.  My evening was made by the appearance of one of San Pedro’s most active lunatics, an apocalyptically-minded conspiracy theorist who goes to [...]