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Jet Set Saturdays: A HARMONIOUS MIX OF OBJECTS at Mihai Nicodim Gallery

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Michael Brown, “Books (cardboard box)”, 2010. Books, adhesive tape. 22 X 19 X 7 in.
You gotta love a good line. One of the great pleasures of dating in Los Angeles is listening to the solipsistic creative overtures of the hip and famous. “A Harmonious Mix of Objects,” the show at Mihai Nicodim Gallery in Culver [...]

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Second Saturday: A night in pictures

Friday, March 19, 2010

Psychic Youth Inc inaugurate the project room at Del La Cruz Collection. Image courtesy of the artists.
Before we resume our regular Saturday coverage of LA shows, we’d like to make up in some small way for a slack week by sharing some images from last Saturday’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Originally an exclusively Wynwood thing, [...]

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Welcome to the world of Chatroulette

Monday, March 8, 2010

Image credit.
Thanks to my friend setting their GMAIL status as the link to a website, I was exposed to what is in my opinion the powerful cultural experiment called Chatroulette. Essentially, the site is a place to video chat people from around the world, but unlike most chat programs in the Chatroulette world you have [...]

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2.20.2010 at Twenty Twenty Projects

Monday, March 1, 2010

2.20.2010 installation view. Image courtesy of the artists and Twenty Twenty Projects.
Interspersed within the perceptual mechanisms by which we account for tangible reality we humans are reputed to possess a number of latent faculties, their fruits often discredited as mere superstitions, which when developed can facilitate skills that open whole other worlds. Irrespective of conventional [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Robert Mallary at The Box

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Robert Mallary, Corner Piece, 1962 – 63. Image courtesy of The Box, LA.
Good morning, adults and adulteresses! I hope the excesses of Friday night don’t ruin your afternoon. Plan to make it this weekend, or any weekend until April 4th for that matter, down to The Box Gallery in Chinatown. The Box is a risky [...]

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I’ll Write That Review When I Get To It

Monday, February 22, 2010

UPDATE (2/22/2010): If this review seems sloppy, rushed, or hastily written, it’s because it is. All of the above. I’ve set certain parameters for myself in writing it, much like Bert Rodriguez has for the art pieces in his latest exhibition “I’ll Cross that Bri
UPDATE (2/23/2010): dge When I Get to It,” currently on view [...]

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