…”until the rats come out” is the long-standing annual birthday ritual of native-NYC friend, and I’m always happy when I am in town for it like I am today- which was preceded by the treat of an aerial view of the park from a fancy CPW apartment just redesigned by some clever friends – and ..
…(which is a surrogate for a vertical dead tree, or snag, serves as a collective model home to accommodate six native species that would otherwise take up residence in the cavities of the snag, and was originally commissioned for Animal Estates 5.0: Portland, Oregon by The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College) opens ..
…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 ..
…or do you plan on visiting this summer, and would you like to lead a Sundown Schoolhouse workshop in the cozy headquarters of a geodesic tent pitched in the museum front lawn during part of the run of my “Something for Everyone” show, Fridays to Sundays, 12 noon to 1:30 pm, from July 2 until ..
…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,” ..
…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 ..
…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 ..
…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 ..
…is where I am today – giving a talk, and taking a tour of the amazing landscapes of colorful, geometric, and monumental, succulent and cactus gardens (which is bringing back fond memories of annual Spring Break visits here during my high school years to spend time with my grandmother who wintered in Sc..
…came over for lunch today, we met ages ago when he first moved to L.A. in 2003, and I’ll be seeing lots more of him while we are in residence at the American Academy in Rome for a year starting this fall (Radical Craft..
…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..
…(new expanded 2nd edition just out from Metropolis Books) is distributed in Europe through Idea Books in Amsterdam, copies in Australia and New Zealand are available through people at Oooby.com (email them here), and check it out on the new Facebook page set up by the U.S.A. distributor DAP (Distributed Art Publishers). (boo..
…is coming up on June 9th, and here is a preview of my contribution to the auction – something new using my recently acquired sewing skills entitled “Geodesic Outfit for a Radical Faerie.” (2010 Whitney Art Part..
…(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 ..
…both lovely NYC friends – are featured in today’s New York Times Summer 2010 T Magazine Design Issue. (Eagle Street Rooftop Farm / Work AC / NY..
…was tonight with lots of inaugural performances, a cedar smudging ceremony by My Barbarian, and lots of excitement & love for the new L.A. collective performance social space in ..
…is such a great story – just watched it last night – about the librarian and postal worker who gradually and obsessively amassed one of the great collections of late 20th Century New York art, completely filling their Manhattan rent controlled one bedroom apartment, only to donate it to the museum they visited on their ..
…in The Unbearable Lightness of Being reminded me of how awesome she is – and now I’m having a Juliette Binoche moment – watching Damage (1992), Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (2007), Paris (2008), Caché (2005), and Chocolat (2000)… ..
…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 ..
…on the famous redwood deck (designed by her recently deceased husband, renowned landscape architect, Lawrence Halprin) at her mountain home studio in Kentfield, CA were just announced in an email I received today – they are open to anyone and I really wish I was in Northern California so that I could participate – she ..
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