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Happy Monday! Here's our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/14/11
Louis Eisner and his friend Nick Darmstaedter grew up together and attended high school a block away from Bergamot Station, a gallery complex in Santa Monica, California, where they frequently ate lunch at the cafe. There, they initially schemed ways to leave their marks at one of the galleries next door. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/07/11
Land: Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Multi-platform, All-terrain, Non-profit Art Organization
When former Whitney curator Shamim Momin moved from New York to Los Angeles in early 2009, many of her peers thought she was leaving the epicenter of art activity for the wild west. But the truth was the 37-year-old curator had been coming out to Los Angeles for years on the hunt for fresh, untapped talent. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/15/10
In the 21st century, Los Angeles can no longer be called a single-industry town. Today there are new artists and art movements sweeping from Topanga to Silver Lake. Here is a showing of the creators, legends, radicals, collectors, gallerists, leaders, loners, and visionaries who are turning the city at the center of the entertainment world into the next capital of contemporary art. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/14/10
Raise the Bar: Dave Muller at The Mandrake
One Los Angeles-based artist puts his summer vacations to good use. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/09/10
The Rise of Rome: Questions for Emi Fontana
With one month remaining in Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's installation "A Voyage of Growth and Discovery," Los Angeles-based West of Rome brought the exhibition to life with a benefit event last week. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/03/10
Stars-behaving-badly isn’t the only scene in Los Angeles. Earlier this year, Band of Outsiders’ founder and designer Scott Sternberg jumped in his silver Mercedes—and brought along his Polaroid camera—to shoot some of his favorite characters in the city he calls home ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/26/10
Twenty-five years ago, Bret Easton Ellis’s splendorous debut novel, Less Than Zero—a dark maelstrom of sex, drugs, and rich kids, set against the backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles—made him one of America’s most controversial literary stars. Now, with his latest book, a sequel entitled Imperial Bedrooms, Ellis is embracing the subtle pleasures of finally finding his way home again—even if that home is nestled within a bastion of death, Botox, and soullessness high in the Hollywood Hills. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/21/10
