Graffiti Since the Beginning of Time As ubiquitous as its namesake trees were the laminated warning signs recently posted around Joshua Tree: “Rattlesnake Canyon Temporarily…
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The Schorrs’ collection and career as collectors are bifurcated by their move to LA in 1989; before that, they were New York collectors, enjoying Soho…
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RETROSPECT
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (1887–1986)
If sex has been around in art for so long, then why do O’Keeffe’s vulvalistic flowers generate so much special negative attention, as in the…
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LONDON CALLING
DIG: Daniel Silver, a new commission by Artangel
London has an ancient history. Londinium was established on the current site of the City of London around 43 AD and served as a major…
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DECODER: Immune from Criticism
Immune from Criticism
I spend a lot of time finding ways to make paintings that (I always hope miraculously) look like they aren’t paintings. And then I get…
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BUNKER VISION
PATRON OF THE INTANGIBLE
In a world where art is purchased to display as trophies, it can be hard to remember what a real art patron looks like. While…
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UNDER THE RADAR: WRITING Noise
Chronicling the Chaos of DIY Media
The Los Angeles Free Music Society had its original heyday back in the 1970s, as much a dada and LSD-inspired piss-take on the high seriousness…
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DECODER: UNION STUDENTS WONDER
Where’s Contemporary Cooper?
The Cooper Union’s School of Art is a very good place to go to college, and it’s free if you get in, but everyone who…
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RETROSPECT
Claude Monet (1840–1926)
For me, Claude Monet stands between two of my favorite artists who played with the disintegration of the object rather than its creation: J.M.W. Turner…
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London Calling: ALTERNATIVE GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE
at HAYWARD GALLERY
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,…
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BUNKER VISION
PHYNX SAVE USA TREASURES!
In the late 1960s and into the ’70s an odd confluence of events made for some very curious cinema. Many stars that had become famous…
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Tottenham Corner
Respect for Acting
I awoke at dawn, fuming. I had been having a drink with an actor friend the night before when he dropped the news on me…
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Decoder
Between Cool and Uncool
I was, for six or seven seasons, baffled by The Cool Wall. It’s a wall full of pictures of cars on the British car show…
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TOTTENHAM CORNER
The V Generation at Vons
It doesn’t seem long ago that the sight of a young white face in this supermarket was a rare thing, but now the place is…
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TOTTENHAM CORNER
Dinner with the Beardos
I found myself at a dinner gathering attended by CalArts graduates. Weak-witted art-damaged blather drizzled around the table. A bearded young man sitting opposite me…
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Well, it seems to me that with all this talk about who or who will not be merging with MOCA, the question ought to be:…
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