I realize I may have been a little hasty condemning Tarantino as an opportunist weasel and dooming his recently appropriated LA moviehouse New Beverly to a calendar fisted up to the teeth with kitsch violence. That was probably overreacting on my part. Read more »
A $250,000 video art display is slowly creeping up at Los Angeles International Airport. 17 artists from all over the States are participating. Hopefuly, they won’t all make silly looking screensavers.
Despite the sunny weather, access to beaches, and high concentration of blonds, LA isn’t as easy-living as everyone thinks. Also, this income figure is just depressing: “Los Angeles County has 250,000 millionaires among its 10 million residents.”
Quentin Tarantino has just purchased New Beverly Cinema, saving the struggling moviehouse from becoming a Super Cuts. The landmark is one of Los Angeles’s few cool culture hubs, but is it in danger of being smothered with Grindhouse kitsch or will the new landlord leave some breathing room for auteurs and masters? Read more »
MAK Center for Art and Architecture utilizes LA’s many billboards as art displays, rather than capitalist pandering with gigantic vodka bottles and Klein-ed boobs. Art: now that distraction’s [almost] worth rear-ending fellow drivers.
Tomorrow at the at the downtown Los Angeles Upper Playground Gallery, Tarantino-heads can buy a limited edition, Basterds-themed art print for $300 a pop. Artists David Choe, Alex Pardee, Jeremy Fish, Sam Flores and many others have created their own versions of the Inglourious Basterds movie posters, available on a first come, first serve, one-per-buyer basis with the profits going to Haiti relief. Read more »
Apart from the dispensaries and warm weather, Los Angeles sucks. It might be the only city where someone would complain about cutesy street art and say it “seems ghetto.” Graffiti we understand—being all scary and gang-like—but does this bear and his woodland friends by artist Phil Lumbang look dangerous? Read more »
The Army Corps of Engineers has triumphantly announced that they’ve wiped out graffiti in the LA River. Yes, months after contractors began covering up SABER’s giant piece and MTA’s massive roller, the glorified ditch has been whitewashed, thanks in no small part to more than $800k in federal stimulus funding. Read more »
A New Era cap collection isn’t exactly what one would expect from Mister Mort, who more often chronicles the tweed and faux fur toppers of the elderly. Never the less, the New York-based fashion blogger has designed a series of fitted caps, including this Los Angeles Dodgers declaration and other embroidered styles that are on sale for $60 a pop at A Continuous Lean. |High Snobiety|
A Los Angeles gallery owner is sorry for telling lies in a failed bid to distance himself from an arrest at the opening of his graffiti exhibition. Read more »
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