Jerry Hall’s Face, as “sculpted” by Ed Ruscha in Contour Gauge

What a pleasure to find this on the internet.  Uberglambabe Jerry Hall is selling off a bunch of her stuff, via the garage sale of gods, a.k.a. Sotheby’s, including the above, her profile rendered in a General Tools 6″ contour gauge.  Possibly one of my favourite hand tools, used to duplicate shapes in [...]

The Deitch “Street Art” at MOCA Shoe Has Dropped

LA Times has some of the details, noting that Aron Rose and Roger Gastman are stepping in to “assist” on the LA side and Fab 5 Freddy will be handling the New York side of things.  Apparently Deitch is leading the curatorial effort?  Wonder what the curatorial staff at MOCA is up to these [...]

Baldessari is 2 Cool 4 U

It’s about a summer late for this to be timely, but everyone’s favourite local conceptual artist and amateur Dr. Zaius lookalike, John Baldessari, benefits from a pair of Mr. Cool shades on the cover of July/August’s artillery. His show at LACMA, Pure Beauty, is mandatory viewing for Angelenos and is up until September [...]