Preview – Actions, Conversations and Intersections Opens Today

Actions, Conversations and Intersections is having its opening today, from 2-5pm.  I visited the exhibition while it was being installed and shot this set of delicious Flickr photos.  Also opening today at the Municipal Gallery is Ideational Architectures.

This exhibition, co-curated by two Department of Cultural Affairs employees and taking place in the [...]

500 More City of LA Job Cuts Coming? Department of Cultural Affairs to suspend all outgoing grants?

More foul wind coming from the City of LA, again via the LA Times.  Read the whole article.

City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana has backed off from his plan to reduce the Department of Cultural Affairs staff by 48%, going with a still crippling and unacceptable 24%.  And he’s now going after the entire [...]

Do The Weekend

There’s a tone of awesome kicking off today, but I’m keeping it brief.  Get yourself to the Municipal Gallery on Sunday for the opening of Actions, Conversations and Intersections & Ideational Architectures (preview image of installation in progress at top).

Thursday, January 28

Elyse Pignolet: urban abstractions @ Fullerton College Art Gallery.  AGCC [...]

Jonathan Meese Goes Bananas in Mumbai

As always Jonathan Meese speaks for himself (and in all likelihood, for only himself). Uploaded by YouTuber AnuBobby in 2008, these videos represent an incomplete record of a Valentine’s Day performance (or lecture, perhaps) that I presume was related to Meese’s 2008 show, General Sweetie, at Galerie Mirchandandi + Steinruecke in Mumbai. Only parts [...]

Department of Cultural Affairs to Get 48% Staff Cut?

I’m sure that the news that the City of LA is going to cut 1000 jobs as its budget collapses into a full on landslide has had many of us in the arts concerned about the often cut and cripplingly and embarrassingly underfunded Department of Cultural Affairs. Well the bad news is in print [...]

Moment of Gaga – Where’d My Salad Go?

Aaahh, 2005… Bush was president, and proto-Lady Gaga made her first appearance in the media, as a fussy customer on MTV’s Boiling Points, a candid camera-style reality show, the point of which is to irritate [...]

Do The Weekend

Thursday, January 21 – Sunday, January 24Los Angeles Art Show 2010 @ LA Convention Center.  15th annual booth-fest.  Is the art market still in collapse?  Go see for yourselves!  Go support Meeson Pae Yang who will have an installation, Dispersion,  on display at the LA Art Association booth.  Check the LA Art Show [...]

Self-Obliteration in Three Parts

1967 Yayoi Kusama film with psychedelic sounds in three pieces, YouTube style.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Technorati Tags: Yayoi Kusama, art, performance art, art film, 1967, obliteration, self-obliteration, Japanese [...]

Do the Weekend

We have two shows opening up at Angels Gate this weekend.  Vessels, for the crafty folks, and New Studio Artists, for those who want to meet our newest additions.

Thursday, January 14

Steven Severin: Music to Silents @ Cinefamily. Severin, best known to weepy, sensitive teenagers as a bassist with Siouxie and the Banshees [...]

Deitch of the Day

The artblog world is in a Deitch tizzy, the uncertainty of the moment blowing the speculation index through the roof.  Fun to read, but ultimately, unless MOCA pulls a giant “just kidding!”, we’ll all just have to sit on our hands and see how this whole thing turns out.  Maybe it’s because the [...]