Here are some ways to celebrate May in LA: buying a fresh set of skimpy clothes for what promises to be another long, hot summer; investing in a UV lamp (for the June gloom) and a window air conditioner (for those days when the gloom burns off and you think you're going to fry to a perfect golden...
Artmag Juxtapoz decamps from Los Angeles for the wintry goodness of Minneapolis for the purposes of its 2006 Group Show . On view will be work from 70 artists, most heavily into the street art thang (highlights include titans like Shepard Fairey, the "Obey Giant" guy). The show is spread over...
The Roundup Roundup collects recent "roundup" articles or general material about cities and city travel worldwide. Bangalore City Guide: Bangalore [Wallpaper*] Buenos Aires It's time for a tango or two in Argentina [LAT] Dublin Browsing Avoca [NYT] Events Party On! [New York Post] The World's...
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Wish I'd caught this earlier: the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has an exhibit entitled " Villa America ," highlighting a lot of American Moderns who don't get as much attention these days. There are plenty of heavy hitters though, such as Georgia O'Keeffe and (pictured above) Paul...
The Roundup Roundup collects recent "roundup" articles or general material about cities and city travel worldwide. Amsterdam Postcard from Tom [WP] Cape Town In Cape Town, Anything Goes, and Usually Goes Together [NYT] Events Now, Let's Get This Party Started! [WP] - Antalya (Turkey), Jalu...
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art starts a new exhibit this Saturday, November 19: " Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 ." Close is a pretty amazingly prolific artist, and his strangely pixilated portraits (of himself and others) are usually the product of taking a photograph and gradually...