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KINETICALLY INCLINED
by David DiMichele
WHEN I first visited Tim Hawkinson's studio in the early 1990s, we were living in lofts in downtown Los Angeles. Today, we still live in the same neighborhood, but instead of the urban artist village downtown, we both live in house/studios in the bucolic city of Altadena, located in the foothills above Pasadena.
MY BFF IS AN ARTIST
by Sandra Tsing Loh
Sandra Tsing Loh: Nicola, we are 40-something-year-old artists who met some 30 years ago in the most hilariously uncool way - as geeky teens at Santa Monica High School. I shrink to imagine how I looked to you - I took my senior photo in overalls as some kind of vague "art" statement, it's still unclear what that statement was - and you, by contrast ... Well, I remember you, Nicola, at 16, straight out of the box, as always having a complete, confident, quirky, totally unique, fully articulated style, a style which you still sport today.
A BALANCE OF MELANCHOLY
by Annie Buckley
A GENERATION, an outlook, and an approach to painting divide Los Angeles-based artist Gegam Kacherian and the influential Modernist, Arshile Gorky, but they share a home country and a love of painting. Kacherian has always felt a deep connection to Gorky and graciously agreed to walk with me through "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective" at MOCA.
WTF
by Betty Ann Brown
YOU might not know that award-winning television and film actor James Franco is a performance artist. I didn't realize this until I was struck by the tsunami of "buzz" about "Soap at MOCA." The museum press release announced that an episode of the soap opera General Hospital - an episode featuring Franco's character playing a performance artist and a walk-on by new MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch - was going to be filmed at MOCA.
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