They Come in Threes – Ray Dennis Steckler, 1938-2009

She-it. On top of Mantalbam and Van Bruggen, a giant of B-movie culture has passed. Ray Dennis Steckler, best known as the director of the low budget feature The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?. Before making his own films, Steckler got his star as crew on the must-see [...]

As if we didn’t see this coming…

The Afflicted Yard: The Rock from Rickards Bros. on Vimeo.

Folks sawing off wall sections with Banksy pieces and then trying to move them on Ebay. It’s funny – at my old gallery, about every other show had some site specific, painted directly on the wall work, and every time I would have [...]

Khan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s a bit of a sad day, Ricardo Mantalban has died at 88.  LA Times obit.

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Coosje van Bruggen, 1942-2009

My first encounter with contemporary art (not counting the spectacular piece of neo-pagan performance art that was my birth), was likely with Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Binoculars in Venice beach. While other children spent their weekends playing with friends or going to sporting events, every Saturday of my childhood was spent [...]

Love, Forever Style

I’m in love with this poster of Yayoi Kusama from her 1998 MOMA show that hangs in one of the bathrooms at The Loft.  Had to share.

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Nicholas Klemek’s Post-Post-Apocalyptic Family Film Festival: Purple Section

This is is – your last chance at double feature joy.  We’ve had fun watching movies in the blanket fort that Edith and I have constructed for ourselves at the Loft, and we wish we had more opportunities to show films in there.  But this is the last one of the series.

Purple [...]

Do The Weekend

Had to take some time off from posting about shows, because I’ve been knee deep in my own.  But we’re back. Thursday, January 8

Flashpoint between the Fleeting and the Eternal @ AndrewShire Gallery. Group show featuring Ginny Cook, Marilyn Galosy, Laura Menz, Christine Nguyen, Tracy Powell, Linda Sewallius, Carly Steward and Kristine [...]

Your Moment of Apocalypse: In the Now/Future, Everyone Will be Well Armed for 15 Minutes

I don’t know why, but the above banned XBOX 360 commercial, and the suggestion that we are, as a species, now trained to recognize and participate in gun play, sans guns or any kind of actual threat/reason, telling. The audition tape is possibly more compelling. It’s like Pavlovian social programming put on more [...]

Nicholas Klemek’s Post-Post-Apocalyptic Family Film Festival: Blue Section

Blue Section, will start this Sunday, January 4, @ 6PM.  Since we keep The Loft locked up during events, if you’re interested in attending, be there between 5:45 & 6 PM, when we’ll have the loading dock door open.  If you arrive late, no worries, just call the number posted on the door [...]

Chanting

Betsy Lohrer Hall chants during Silence Not Cake: An Offering.  Thank You, Betsy.

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