…Berlin-based British friend, super intriguing young artist, in the band Asia Today (with b-friend Ingar Dragset), who recently finished writing a novel while in residence at L.A.’s MAK Center – is just announced as the winner of this years Cartier Award – kudos! Frieze Art Fair is delighted to announce that the winner of The ..

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…is a friend from college days – whose studio I visited, to check out the installation she just opened at Optical Project in Houston called Rockslide Rocksolid, featuring abstracted patterns of rough faux-rock – inspired by LA freeway retaining walls – silk screened on fine linen curtains and songs, “Landslide” & “Solid as a Rock,” ..

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…scheduled for this Sunday with Friends of the LA River was just announced by an email from Jenny Price, copied below…. The first-ever ALL-VALLEY LA River tour! — w/Friends of the Los Angeles River Sun. May 16  9:00am – 4:00pm (option to leave midday) Carpool tour – Headwaters to Griffith Park, with Thai noodle-shop and ..

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…the Manhattan roof-top artist-run space opens Parallel Play this Sunday featuring Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Lee Maida, Jen Smith, presented by the previously-mentioned, L.A.-based Artist Curated Projects here are all of the details: Los Angeles based Artist Curated Projects presents Parallel Play, a three-woman show, featuring the work of Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Lee Maida and Jen ..

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…is an organization that I became aware of yesterday on my visit to Phoenix, they are doing great work to keep alive the heritage of the native seeds of the desert Southwest – more information from their website… Native Seeds/SEARCH (Southwestern Endangered Aridlands Resource Clearing House) conserves, distributes, and documents the adapted and diverse varieties ..

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…my Mexico City/Los Angeles writer friend (who co-organized Sundown Salon # 21: LA Literary in 2005, and wrote a fun piece about the experience in the Sundown Salon book) got her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at USC – so tonight was the celebratory dinner – check out her book  “Controlled Decay.” (Gabriela’s..

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…(the fantastic L.A. hybrid project/collective of artists, architects, dancers, geographers, historians, writers and even a real ranger, that epitomizes why LA is so fertile & interesting these days initially formed in 2004 for the GardenLAb Experiment – a large-scale ecology-themed exhibition/fair/convention that I curated/produced with François Perrin – for which the founding Rangers, Sara Daleiden,Therese ..

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…will be having a May Day grand opening event this Saturday inaugurating it’s space at 510 Bernard Street with projects and performances including Mad Gregs and Wounded Lion; performance collective My Barbarian; performance artists, Lucy Indiana Dodd, Corey Fogel and Dawn Kasper; and video presentations from Sharon Hayes; and W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater ..

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