Couple of cool art happenings going around town right now. Went to both today and they’re worth checking out…
Kenn Sakurai and Dave O’Regan at Sixspace downtown. Both these guys gobble up pop culture icons/ephemera and reconstitute as culture-jam postcards and prints for the Adbusters set. Most of it is kinda spotty, but there are a few dead on ones.
After Sixspace, I headed over to LACMA to catch the Modigliani/Montparnasse show. Mmmm… Boho Paris proto-surrealists!
Rather nice show, because it’s all there. Everything. Paintings, sketches, sculpture, etc.
DANG!!! I was in LA too! But I didn’t go to LACMA like I’d planned – went to Norton Simon instead, cause I’d never been. It was good, but a Modigliani show!!! Like I said, dang.
Appropriate to nothing whatsoever, I did have a friend who was absolutely nuts about Zappa. After having a reasonably positive opinion of this person for nine years, they proved themselves to be a complete asshole.
Which is obviously just incidental.