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By Debra Barrera on December 17, 2012
On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in Los Angeles. Since most major galleries were closed that weekend, I visited the Geffen Contemporary, LA MOCA and LACMA and ate local fare including frozen [...]
Posted in Blog, The Open Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged amy sillman, beauford delaney, black friday, geffen contemporary, Jean-Michel Basquia, john mcracken, ken price, lacman, los angeles, mark bradford, martin kippenberger, Melvin Edwards, stanley kubrick, Sunia Shakya, taryn simon |
By Sarah Fisch on October 2, 2012
This is an essay about learning Photoshop. I have to learn it for a class. I am in graduate school, see. I still have a hard time believing this. I’m in this multimedia experimental MA program in Specialized Journalism The Arts at the University of Southern California. I’ll tell y’all more about tall this later. So, [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged barbara kruger, Chupacabrona, cow tools, electracy, graduate school, greg ulmer, los angeles, photojournalism, photoshop, Sarah Fisch, university of southern california, USC, wendell willkie |
By Carol Cheh on May 30, 2012
Not unlike Texas, Los Angeles suffers from some art world stereotypes. In honor of our recently launched Southern California site, Glasstire SoCal, we present Los Angeles writer Carol Cheh’s “Seven Most Annoying Misconceptions About LA.” There are some interesting Texas parallels to be found; see number 2 in particular. Los Angeles is the most [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, The Ten List, Uncategorized | Tagged cultural wasteland, glasstire socal, los angeles, New York, Reyner Banham, startucker, The Architecture of Four Ecologies |