Just cause someone gives you their trophy, doesn’t mean you actually received the award.

“When I was small, not much bigger than a pollywog,” said Frog, “my father said to me, “Son, this is a cold, gray day but spring is just around the corner.”

From our pal, the amazing @laloalcaraz.bsky.social

can someone explain to me how ice goons could possibly have blanket immunity when cops and soldiers don't? like i understand the current admin isn't big on the law, but is there any legal basis for this?

happy new year world. here's my first list for 2026 of ten LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...

Yeah I’m doing dry January…dry martini January!

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Was the clue when he said we were going to occupy Venezuela for years to make sure we took their oil

Pluribus spoiler: it was just a prank bro.

i contributed 2 blurbs to @hyperallergic.com's list of the best shows around the world in 2025: "Nadya Tolokonnikova: Police State" at MOCA Geffen and "Temporary Home" curated by Beatriz Cortez at the Galka Scheyer House / Blue Heights Arts & Culture Residency hyperallergic.com/the-best-art...

LACMA workers vote to unionize, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/lacma-worker...

been watching the indiana jones films with my kid and it struck me that there are no jewish characters, even though the nazis are the big baddies in 3 of the 5 films. that's weird right? (yes, i realize spielberg and ford are jewish, and indy could be seen as "jewish-coded")

Hey fam, I’ll be in conversation with the LA Creeps - Liz Walsh and Kim Weller - at LAST Projects this Sunday Dec 14 at 6pm on the closing day of their show “mirror, mirror” come thru!

Pilar Tompkins Rivas's exit from the Lucas is the latest shakeup at the $1 billion museum, following May's layoffs of much of the education team, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/lucas-museum...

my picks for 10 LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...

Attn art world: I will not be attending the Miami fairs this week. Thank you for respecting my privacy during this difficult time.

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?