In the entire time that I’ve lived in Los Angeles, I’ve never been interested in the goofy pomp and circumstance of granting entertainment celebrities a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but this past Monday everything changed. The Pope of Trash, the Prince of Puke,...
JOHNNY COME LATELY
Erica Weitz
Instagram, for all its corporate complications and endless lifestyle posturing has become a viable avenue for artists to share work. It’s the open, free for all, pop gallery of the world. Sure, there’s a lot of junk being algorithmically forced to the top, but with a...
Disgusting Feminist: Alicia McDaid
I rarely get out to galleries these days and often resort to Instagram for my visual fix. Like the internet itself, it’s a seemingly endless rabbit hole of memes, food porn, actual porn and hopeless narcissism. But occasionally some strange and inexplicable gems...
Junun Premiere at ACE Theatre
Paul Thomas Anderson took the stage at the the Ace Theatre last Sunday before the LA premiere of his new music documentary, Junun, to welcome the audience and apologize in advance for being an “asshole” for not participating in the “mandatory Q&A” that seems to...
Kane’s World
Last December, with little fanfare, a major monograph celebrating the great postwar photographer Art Kane came into being. A 20-years-in-the-making labor of love for his son Jonathan, it presents, in one gorgeous volume, the first truly cumulative collection of Kane’s...
Yoshua Okón of SOMA, Mexico City
Yoshua Okón came to prominence in the blossoming Mexico City art scene of the 1990s. In partnership with Miguel Calderón, another rising star of Mexican art, they founded La Panadería, an artist’s residency and gallery space in a four-story building and former bakery...