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CAI GUO QIANG. SKY LADDER. Few of photos from his Solo Show at the Guggenheim here.

CAI GUO QIANG

MOCA(G.C.) :: Transmission LA AV Club. Curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys.

MOCA :: Transmission LA

My old friend Katie from College made this piece. This was one piece from a series she made. During her crit we all found out why she made it.. She grew up with a Phobia of fire, from a childhood burn.. It’s made out of wood, painted gesso, and matches.. The process of her making […]

Katie

Levitated Mass: Michael Heizer’s latest artwork en-route to LACMA. The megalith weighs 340 tons (680,000 lbs). “At 340 tons, the boulder is one of the largest megaliths moved since ancient times.”  

Levitated Mass

Hedi Slimane California Song at MOCA Pacific Design Center.

Hedi Slimane

Andy Warhol Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Boxes, 1971.  Permanent collection Broad Gallery at LACMA VS. L.E.S. NYC Fortune Cookie Boxes on Pallet 2011. Any given day L.E.S. past Delancey

Corn Flakes Vs Fortune Cookies

Banksy: Meat Packing

Banksy

Banksy’s Park in down town LA.

Park

Photo: “Brain Waves” Series.

Brain Waves

Photo: “Brain Waves” Series.

Brain Waves

Photo: “Brain Waves” Series

Brain Waves

Photo: “Brain Waves” Series

Brain Waves

Photo: “Brain Waves” No Photoshop..

Brain Waves

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. R.I.P. Jeanne-Claude (Nov. 2009). The Gates : Central Park : Winter 2005 : 35mm

The Gates – NYC

Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Chris Burden Charles Ray Barbara Kruger Bill Viola Charles Ray Dave Muller Jean-Michel-Basquiat Jeff Koons Jeff Koons Larry Johnson (My old mentor) Mathew Barney Mathew Barney Richard Hawkins (My old mentor) Richard Prince

MOCA’s First Thirty Years

Our buddy HAZE recently relaunched his website, InterHaze. American Flag by HAZE. Hanging @ EM Studio

American Flag by HAZE

Word from the street… Josh Madden played at Webster Hall NYC the other night… He took a snap of what he saw on the wall…. BooYeah.

Webster Hall NYC

I’m really into Jose Parla’s (aka ease) work.. I think it strikes a cord in me cuz of the graff/street background.. Jose has successfully honed that flavor into the white-box art world.  His work is always an inspiration… I could only hope one day to own a small scribble of Jose Parla’s work.. Between the […]

Jose Parla

Rolled over to Imaginary Foundation artshow at suru and got to see the Drumming Astronaut preform.. Couple of window shots on the way to the DCMA shoe launch party..

Drumming Astronaut

Went for a visit to Stash’s office, studio, warehouse.. The place is ill… Stash goes way way back.. He had us in stitches… calling out guys when they were just getting their teeth cut.. He’s sitting on a lot of history.. Nuff Respect.

Stash

Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel.. GPH is one ill hotel.. If you like modern art.. check it.. especially the roof top… Pics of the Rose Bar..

Rose Bar

Mark Franandez took us over to Kandisnsky’s studio….

Kandinsky

Gramercy Park Hotel..

GPh

Disney Hall- Los Angeles: Frank Gehry-Designer 111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, California

Disney Hall- Los Angeles

The Futura Preview opening was last night.. Futura presented a huge body of work for the show…. Some people said it was one of his largest presentation yet.. There was an “A” list of underground peoples came out to represent… Really good time to catch up with people I haven’t seen in ages.. Shout to […]

Futura LA Preview

Our buddy SuChin was in town for a hot sec. Before going back to New York she found some free time and swung by the studio. On our way to get some food we swung by to pick up Rickey Loc.. 1) The Yummy yummy.. “Cha Cha Cha” {Virgil and Melrose} 1) Shortstop.. {Sunset} . […]

SuChin – Pehrspace

Charles Ray one ill ass artist.. born 1953, Chicago Illinois, USA. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA. Firetruck 1993.. (Life size toy truck..) (not a medicom collabo)

Charles Ray

Cindy Sherman b. January 19, 1954. An American photographer and film director of the office killer, best known for her conceptual self-portraits. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA.

Cindy Sherman

Mike Kelly The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA.

Mike Kelly

John Michael Basquiat The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA.

John Michael Basquiat

John Baldessari a conceptual artist born June 17, 1931. California The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA.

John Baldessari

Jasper Johns Flag, 1967 The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA. triptych

Jasper Johns

Robert Therrien’s Under the Table. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA. Your average person is as tall as the chairs seat..

Robert Therrien

Damien Hirst, British Installation Artist, born in 1965. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA.

Damien Hirst

Richard Serra: American Minimalist Sculptor, born in 1939 This is huge.. Solid Forged Steel.  The Broad Contemporary Art Museum. 1)Richard Serra @ the Broad LACMA 2) The Comme des Garcon store in Tokyo has a striking resemblance.

Richard Serra

I’ve been meaning to hit up the new addition to LACMA, The Broad Contemporary Art Museum.. I’ve been hearing some pretty amazing things about it.. Our buddy Rickey said he went and rattled off a few names that were on view.. The Broad collection is a collection of heavy hitters.. Sad to say, the catalog/roster […]

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum @ LACMA

LA CONFIDENTIAL: YONE SOLO PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT House of Cassette, Mighty Printing, and Evil Monito was pleased to host a solo show for Yonehara Yasumasa at the 523 Cassette experimental space. Yone is a revered photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. He has been featured in countless magazines over the last 15 years…Dazed, Eyescream, Ollie, Cool Trans, […]

YONE – LA CONFIDENTIAL

Across the street legendary graffiti artist HAZE had his opening the same night as our Yone event. It was a family affair. Peace HAZE!! Big up yourself.

HAZE – LA

Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed ill ass dude. Solo show at the Guggenheim nyc.

I Want to Believe..

LA CONFIDENTIAL: YONE SOLO PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT House of Cassette is pleased to host a solo show for Yonehara Yasamasa at the 523 Cassette experimental space. Yonehara is a revered photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. He has been featured in a variety of magazines: Dazed, Eyescream, Ollie, Cool Trans. His signature photography, often times portraying young […]

YONE – LA CONFIDENTIAL

The Murakami show is literally around the corner from our studio.. I have been meaning to go since it opened.. When we heard that they were having a closing show, had to roll up to check it out..

Takashi Murakami

My last night in town; had a late meeting with a really nice director cat Giles and his assistant Kate over at the Shoreditch house. We met just a few hours before he leaves to South America for a month to shoot a new commercial. The Shoreditch house is a members only multi floor estate, […]

The Shoreditch House

My first night stay was on Old Street in the Eastend.. What seams like L.E.S. of nyc.. Eastend is a little more diverse. You can find the NewRave kids, Rudeboys and Coolguys, all hanging around the way from each other.. A side note you know your in a good place if they have Kabab/Fish ‘n […]

EastEnd

Arrived in London this morning. And shortly after I checked into the hotel long time buddy Paul Taylor came to pick me up to show me around. Haven’t been back here in a while. We walked around the East end. Headed over to Tower bridge and then walked over to the Tate Modern. Tower Bridge […]

EL-Oh, EL-Oh.

Just accross the street from the Sartorialist show was the 4 Friends show– Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Donald Baechler, and Kenny Scharf.

The 4 Friends Show

Been in China for a minute. Although Hong Kong is considered a part of China now. It’s good to be back in Hong Kong. My dude Andy Lee turned me on to the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. They counldn’t have picked a better place to hold the Hong Kong & Shenzhen […]

Refabricating City

Stopped by Rickey’s place yesterday to say Merry Christmas and to see him befor he left for Korea. Old chap is gonna be gone for three weeks. We got a chance to catch up and did a little philosophysing. Before I left he said E. Haze wanted him to give me a numbered print for […]

E. Haze

Three new paintings to coincide with three of his newest toys.

Michael Lau

Fashion photographer Terry Richardson’s exhibition “From Rio to Hong Kong.” The show had a whole bunch of inflated tits, ass, and dudes holding their ding dongs. Here’s a couple… Life size Toy of Terry Richardson by Michal Lau

Terry Richardson : Michael Lau

L.A.’s emerging punk scene from 1978 now showing at Bergamot Station at Track 16. Photographs by Ann Summa. —— Quoted from the poster. —— Los Angeles: Photographs by Ann Summa Ann Summa was returning from five years in Sierra Leone, Africa, and Tokyo, Japan when she landed in the mist of L.A.’s newly-born punk scene […]

Punks Jump Up

We all went down to the Barry McGee aka Twist show at the RedCat gallery in downtown(Los Angeles). Twist is one ill cat. Big up, Margaret Kilgallen (R.I.P.) who also had a solo show there a couple of years back. Both shows equally as powerful. We’re huge fans of both Twist and Margaret’s work, have […]

Twist

James introduced me to Brett at our trunk show at American Rag Cie. Brett is a really cool guy. Brett has a really good postive energy about him. Brett is the man behind unholy matrimony and has worked with Comme des Garcon.. nuff said. Pics from Brett Westfall’s opening for his “Sherf” paintings across the […]

Brett Westfall presents “Sherf”

A few weeks ago a lond time good friend of ours, Yuske told us about Yone’s show over at the Reed Space as well as Fafi’s show in N.Y. to with Le sport sac. (Yuske knows I am a huge fan of both Fafi’s and Yone’s work.) He also has been working with Parra of […]

Parra

My older brother is a pretty cool guy. Not only do I look up to him, he never ceases to suprise me. Especially when he showed me his finished new oldie. I have been to a number of car shows, and have friends that have had some pretty smooth rides. In comparison to the many […]

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