LA Story
Los Angeles Love Letter
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Your gift to us is the fact that you don’t really exist.
You’re not a brick and mortar place.
You therefore make all of us – no matter how solid our homes –
mere travelers with a temporary base.
Watch the tourists desperately trying to make sense of you, ending up with everything you are not. Your Hollywood Sign (residue of a failed real estate enterprise), the hands and footprints of forgotten stars gathering dust in front of old shoe and liqueur stores…
One could feel sorry for those tourists that are offered nothing more than cardboard cutouts. But then isn’t this what makes you unique, the fact that you never are what you are perceived to be? While your fixed identity is still settling in one area, new life is already gestating under your still fresh asphalt layers in another part of town, and soon there too the surface will crack under the weight of cranes – themselves symbols of incompletion, and cement trucks and construction crews sweeping the dust up in the air and on our cars’ hoods while waiting at traffic lights in the hot summer sun. Continue…
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Information at The Signal: A Conversation With Ed Ruscha
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ED RUSCHA is as much a part of LA as its sunsets, freeways, wildfires, and beaches. Lest we limit him as a regionalist, let us remember that California itself is a slippery character, an idea as much as a place. As the artist incisively observed in one of his late 70s pastels, “Hollywood is a verb.” Ruscha moved to LA ... continue -
Morono Kiang Gallery: Portal To New Chinese Art
no responses - Posted 10.21.08
Even after the Olympics, eyes remain fixed on China – that is, on the Chinese art scene. Over the past several years the floodgates have opened, and even as the international art world keeps penetrating this potentially vast, recently affluent market, a concomitant rush of new art is making its way out of the once-closed society. Chinese artists have actually ... continue -
Visualizing A New Los Angeles, 1962-81: The Architectural Renderings of Carlos Diniz
no responses - Posted 10.21.08
This portfolio is drawn from an exhibition at the Edward Cella Gallery in Santa Barbara that explores – through the drawings of one of the most important architectural illustrators of his time – the transformation of Los Angeles as it matured from a loose conurbation into the more self-conscious, consolidated, and monumental metropolis we know today. CARLOS DINIZ Carlos Diniz grew up ... continue -
Size Is Relative: Matrushka Construction
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Artist and designer Laura S. Howe sews “Size is Relative” onto some of the labels identifying her clothing line. The practice informing this admirable flexibility can be experienced through her clothing store, Matrushka Construction. Every single one of the garments showcased in Howe’s airy and intimate Silverlake atelier is made by hand, on site, usually during store hours. ... continue -
The Indomitable Spirit Photography Auction
1 response - Posted 10.21.08
On November 13, Starlight Children’s Foundation is hosting a photography exhibit and auction in Los Angeles called The Indomitable Spirit to honor the inspirational strength of seriously ill children and their families. Participating photographers have contributed portraits, landscapes and other images that they feel best exemplify the indomitable spirit that is displayed on a daily basis by the children and families ... continue -
Jeff Hurlow “The Collector”
1 response - Posted 10.21.08
One of the first things I bought that I considered art was a Robert Rauschenberg poster I saw advertised in Playboy back around 1990. It’s a bit embarrassing to admit I was actually reading it for the art. I don’t necessarily look at what I do as collecting art. It seems more like art gathering. As a child I’ve always ... continue -
Tanzore Restaurant
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Design Divo Reveals an Extreme Makeover Remember Gaylords, the only ‘fine dining’ Indian restaurant in Los Angeles for years on La Cienega? Same owners, but Tanzore is an ultimate frog-turned-prince makeover worthy of any reality show fodder. Ignoring the uninviting dark window exterior, I enter and am enveloped by an oceanic turquoise lounge, complete with transitional striped furniture, inviting pink ... continue
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