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Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Sunday Video: The National VegOil Board

This week’s Sunday Video marks Artlurker Founder Thomas Hollingworth’s new venture, to convert and live in a 1981 MCI model 9 that he will pick up from West Arkansas on Monday, returning to Miami late next week to begin the veggie conversion with the help of Transit Antenna Founder, Bob Snead. Assistance and donations welcome! [...]

Jet Set Saturdays: In Bed Together at Royal T Café

Richard David Sigmund, “Untitled #1″ from the Simplicity Series (selected by Jane Glassman), 2009. Photo by Allison Stewart. Culver City is the Santa Monica of the Millennium – chic, earthy, and replete with trendy shops and restaurants – and it’s quickly becoming a destination for the glitterati. The Royal T Café is one of those [...]

SUPER 8 NIGHT at Bas Fisher Invitational

SUPER 8 NIGHT. Photo courtesy of Alexandra Kuechenberg. Last Tuesday Bas Fisher Invitational launched SUPER 8 NIGHT, an evening of Super 8 film screenings.  Hosted (on this occasion) by Barron Sherer, Clifton Childree and Kevin Arrow, the films, while interesting, took a back stage role to the actual event, which in of itself was for [...]

The Sunday Video: Fightin’ Texas Aggie Bonfire

This week’s Sunday video is dedicated to anyone whose AC is also broken and whose log pile also got saturated in yesterday’s rains. Here’s to the bastard cold front and the inconvenience inherent in spontaneity! “Aggie Bonfire is a long standing tradition at Texas A&M University as part of the college rivalry with the University [...]

Jet Set Saturdays: IN THERE, OUT HERE at Leo Koenig Inc., Projekte

Installation view at Leo Koenig Inc., Projekte: Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman, Jim Drain. IN THERE, OUT HERE opened last night at Leo Koenig Inc., Projekte – a space next door to Leo Koenig Inc. that focuses on exhibitions by artists outside of the gallery’s roster. Curated by  Bill Saylor, an artist inside the gallery’s roster, [...]

Jet Set Saturdays: Shizu Saldamando at Steve Turner Contemporary

Shizu Saldamando, Irina and Ami / Las Tres Adelitas, 2009. Color pencil and collage on paper, 30 x 49 inches. Los Angeles, like every other international city, expresses its own ethnic flavors via arts and culture. Shizu Saldamando’s art work in her solo exhibition There is a place at Steve Turner Contemporary embodies a specific [...]