Llyn Foulkes, Quintessential LA Artist, dies at 91, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1059544/llyn...

Same toad, same.

I wrote about the fantastic Hancock / Guston show at the @skirball.bsky.social for @cmonstah.bsky.social’s @kcrw.com Art Insider newsletter. Check it out!

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

LACMA workers form union, LACMA United, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1053478/lacm...

LA shows to see this november, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1052607/10-a...

Andrea Gyorody resigns as director of the Weisman Museum at Pepperdine after school administration removes "political" artwork, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1052299/cali...

hey maggots! I wrote about the most disgusting band in the universe, #gwar for @kcrw.com. Their wonderfully revolting show at Beyond the Streets focuses on the visual art output of this multi-faceted collective. Thanks to @cmonstah.bsky.social for bringing me on board! email.kcrw.com/shock-rocker...

why are LA galleries closing? please let me know your thoughts!

Pepperdine shuts down show after artists withdraw to protest censorship, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1048434/pepp...

wait, Barry White is taking over cBS?! let's go!

Just a nit pick, journalists don't "do the fucking news," they are supposed to gather, verify and report "the fucking news."

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1046144/10-a...

For @hyperallergic.com, I spoke with 5 artists included in this year's Made in LA biennial at the Hammer (opening this weekend!) who explore history, narrative, and time in their work. hyperallergic.com/1046894/five...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1045916/uc-i...

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

Superchief fights to survive through crowdfunding / membership via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1043395/supe...

LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model , via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042271/la-l...

If you aren’t already familiar with Horst Wessel, this is a good time to learn how people are turned into martyrs by authoritarian regimes for propaganda purposes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...

Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE - @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1040791/jorg...

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

LA’s Holocaust Museum Walks Back “Never Again” Statement, Sparking Outcry, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1040088/los-...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

can someone please explain this whole taylor lorenz / dark money thing to me like I'm 6

Seen out and about in Chicago.

just got a pr email to attend a "lobby reveal" so that's a thing now i guess.

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall: Radical Chicano printmaking, Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston, the LA and California biennials, American Artist on Octavia E. Butler, and more. via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1038473/15-a...

Pretty wild that Bari Weiss made a name for herself by claiming she's silenced for her beliefs and then just quit and then started a media company and is going to be getting hundreds of millions of dollars to merge with and control CBS. If that's censorship I'll take some please

Decades After “Heartbreaking” Thefts, Santa Ana Pueblo Recovers Stolen Artifacts, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1037100/deca...

Took my kids to see #kpopdemonhunters at the Baldwin Crenshaw mall last week and to see a multiracial group of kids singing and bopping along to a Korean-themed film about overcoming family trauma in a south central theater, I dunno, maybe the kids will be all right.

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

my dudes, i know the world is on fire, but i really need some basic, cheap, short-sleeve button-down shirts (because the world is on fire). any recs?

Numbers don’t lie. Data released by the FBI this month shows that Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — all of which are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C — had higher rates of violent crime and homicide than D.C. A must-read from @pbump.com www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Hey LA! I’m moderating a talk at the Brand library after a screening of “the Chicano Collection”. Panelists are artists Margaret Garcia, Michael Alvarez and the film’s co-producer, Melissa Richardson Banks. Sept. 11, 7pm. @thecheechcenter.bsky.social glendaleca.libnet.info/event/14411650

Ten LA shows to see this month via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1032430/10-s...

This is the last weekend to see "Temporary Home" a group show curated by Beatriz Cortez at the Galka Scheyer House, an historic Neutra building in the Hollywood Hills. Next year it will reopen as Blue Heights Arts & Culture artist residency, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1030087/galk...

How many of you have stopped posting on Twitter (x, ugh) or deleted your acct there?

“Elon Musk's 'Grok' AI Bot Goes Full Nazi” An astonishing story and development, even by Musk’s standards:

my picks for ten LA shows to see this month via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1022743/10-s...

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

LACMA may not re-open until next April, but I wrote about the first artwork to be installed, Tony Smith's "Smoke" for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1024111/reve...

Anyone know how I can get ahold of Adam Swisher, the technician who left this note inside Tony Smith's SMOKE when it was installed at LACMA in 2008?

Brad Lander may be a good guy, but he has one of the most goyish names for a Jew I've ever heard.

What is Jim Dangle Vance doing in LA anyway. www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-267...

Over and over, the Trump administration has used “fighting antisemitism” to defend its brutal immigration tactics. Mazel tov, ICE. You just pushed the highest ranking Jewish leader — of the country's most Jewish city —against a wall and handcuffed him for opposing your cruelty. 1/

ICE is cocking assault rifles and pointing them at civilians. This happened in Pico Rivera this morning.

Journalists mostly don't write their own headlines bsky.app/profile/pete...

I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.