Kobe Bryant, Solvin’ Art Crimes

In which Kobe Bryant uses his driving and ball handling skills to top a man stealing what’s probably the world’s most worthless, cheap giclee on canvas painting. Interpol would be proud. Watch out Kareem and Wilt, Kobe’s gonna be the next Laker to trade in his rings for silver screen [...]

By Part 3 of the Interview, Meese Manages to Jump from Beuys to How We Don’t Know What Whales Want to Hitler, Oh and Then the Smell of Scarlett Johannson Comes Up…

And that’s just the approach to the conclusion of the interview. I think this is actually one of his more focused interviews/rants, and his general notions are more clear/less distracted here than anywhere else I can think of. There’s a whole performance after the interview… Jonathan Messe is a spellcaster, a contemporary art conjurer [...]

Nam June Paik – Video Flag Z

Currently on view at LACMA.  This thing is hypnotic.

Robot Prom Coming to a Theatre Near You

The photos from the Cypress College Class of 3011 robot prom were unforgettable, and the teaser for what I think it’s safe to describe as the most anticipated robot dance party film of the coming Oscar season is an accelerated cardboardstorm of pure joy.

Why Bother with the Song?

In which our post-post-modern hero, Lady Gaga, frontends a lazily written, sloppy sounding disco song with what should be the intro to 90 minutes of an awesomely bad sci fi movie.  There’s a unicorn at the end, and enough subculture mining of Skullboy to spook the mundanes, but it’s mostly a rehash of [...]

Scenes From a Robot Prom

My prom involved rocking the world’s most fabulous, glam pants only to end up double booked at my table, left with no seat or food for me and my lady, being tailed by a hotel detective and discovering that the Poorman was the DJ.  I doubt I was in the building for more [...]

The Nowheres that Roads Lead To

Peter Wegner’s installation, The United States of Nothing, all lit up, as seen at SFMOMA. Paint neon, based on the lat/long locations of towns with names that refer to nothing. I love being on the road, love the mystery of yet-unvisited town names. Embiggen.

With Talking Heads accompaniment, if you please.

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I just changed brands to GEORGIA

Multi-part Twin Peaks x GEORGIA Coffee crossover ads are proof once again that David Lynch can do no wrong.

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More Fire in My Belly: Warhol Foundation vs. Smithsonian

Former Los Angeles City Councilperson and current Warhol Foundation President Joel Wachs has written a letter condemning the Smithsonian’s censoring of Wojnarowicz’s Fire in My Belly, threatening to stop financing exhibitions at the Smithsonian if the work is not reinstalled.  The Warhol Foundation supported Hide/Seek to the tune of $100,000, and has given $375,000 [...]

Hide/Seek Momentum Keeps Growing

Hideseek.org is up, a clearinghouse of Hide/Seek & Fire in My Belly information, including a listing of all screenings.  The Hammer Museum in LA, Yerba Buena in SF, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Wexner in Ohio, SFMOMA , Boston ICA, Contemporay Arts Museum Houston, Stanford and many others are now showing Wojnarowicz’s [...]