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Patrick Jackson’s two life-size, realistic human figures lie supine on the floor of two separate galleries in the Hammer Museum…
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CAFFEINATED STYLE, PART I: MADDENINGLY BEAUTIFUL COFFEE SHOP DECOR!
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NEW PROJECTS: ART IS LIFE – AN INDISPENSABLE VISUAL REFERENCE TO AN ART CRITIC’S BOOK!
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Swiss artist Mona Caron‘s building-size murals inject larger-than-life images of verdant botanical life into otherwise drab urban landscapes. Many of…
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“Suspiria” is cult-classic supernatural horror film of the 1970s by Italian filmmaker Dario Argento. It was part of a horror…
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Yesterday we went to a suburban California outpost of the American restaurant chain Dave and Buster’s. It was a dizzying,…
PRINTED MATTER: NEW ISSUE OF APARTAMENTO MAGAZINE ARRIVES!
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Last week we went to the exhibition of Detroit Techno pioneer and artist Carl Craig at MoCA in Los Angeles.…
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We’re now fully in the deep end of the Netflix series “Beef.” We’ve only got an episode and a half…
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In the grand spectacle that is the art world, few artists can command attention quite like Jeff Koons. With his…
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Like something out of a Wes Anderson film, this Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Nagoya, Japan, is a too-perfect, polished,…
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Tucked away on a hillside between two leafy residential blocks of central Tokyo sits Sakurazaka Park. Better known colloquially as…
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It was a sweet surprise to see the street art of San Francisco-based artist Fnnch (pronounced “finch”) in Tokyo a…
IN YOUR FACE : TOKYO ELECTION BILLBOARDS COLOR EVERY CORNER OF CITY WITH PORTRAITS OF POLS!
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Japanese artist Motohiko Odani’s massive, fantastic, classical-style neon and plaster sculptural object “Surf Angel (Provisional Monument 2)” towers in a…
EVERYBODY HATES PUBLIC ART, EXCEPT WHEN THEY DON’T : THE INCREDIBLE, INEDIBLE AND POPULAR “TOKYO EGG”!
It seems almost axiomatic that most public art is bad. Like really, really mind-blowingly f*cking bad. And though it is…
PRINTED MATTER: HIGHLY ENTERTAINING “THE NINETIES” IS MUST-READ ROMP THROUGH A DECADE’S POP CULTURE HISTORY!
We’re reading the paperback edition of Chuck Klosterman’s most recent book, a look at 1990s pop culture and historical trends…
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We’re back in Tokyo and it feels so good. Except for the mad jet lag, which feels very much not…
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Takashi Murakami is perhaps the best-known among a handful of Japanese contemporary artists who have over the past couple of…
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It’s here. The fourth and final season of the HBO dramatic black-comedy series “Succession” aired in the United States Sunday…
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Well, well, well, looks like we’ve got ourselves a little “NePo baby” on our hands. For those of you who…
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Well, well, well, if it isn’t the latest internet sensation: hyper photo-realistic A.I.-generated image memes of former President Trump being…
CINEMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE: WHY “EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE” DESERVED ITS OSCAR!
The film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2022. Some may argue that…
FROM THE STREET TO THE WHITE CUBE – WHO IS THE ARTIST KNOWN AS “KAWS”?
The work of KAWS, the pseudonym of American artist Brian Donnelly, has been taking the art world by storm for…
STREET ART 101: IN PRAISE OF SUBVERSION — WHO IS BANKSY?
Banksy, the elusive street artist, has become a legend in his own time, carving out a unique niche in the…
ART 101: THE POLKA-DOT PRINCESS OF CONTEMPORARY ART – WHO IS YAYOI KUSAMA?
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who has captivated the world with her mesmerizing polka dots and psychedelic installations, is nothing…
CAFFEINATED BY DESIGN: THE COFFEE TABLE BOOK ABOUT COFFEE!
The name of Italian espresso-machine maker La Marzocco may not roll off the tongue easily or be a household name.…
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SPEED FREAK: DESIGNER HANS LOHRER’S BOLD VISIONS FOR PORSCHE!
Hanns Lohrer was a German painter and commercial graphic designer based in the city of Stuttgart. In spite of his…
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We’re fans of artist Alex Israel. It may in part be due to the fact that we’re surfers here at…
FILM 101: WHO IS WES ANDERSON?
Wes Anderson is a renowned American filmmaker and screenwriter who has made a name for himself in the film industry…
ARCHITECTURE 101: WHAT IS “GOOGIE” ARCHITECTURE?
Googie architecture is a style of modernist architecture that emerged in the United States in the mid-20th century, predominantly in…
“GOTHIC FUTURISM” : THE BLOCKBUSTER ARTWORK OF PIONEERING HIP-HOP ARTIST RAMMELLZEE!
We went to Deitch Projects gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday for the last day of the blockbuster “Gothic Futurism”…
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The recently opened Orange County Museum of Art (“OCMA”) is an architectural cautionary tale. When the $94-million-dollar new museum opened…
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If there’s only one graphic novel you buy this year, “The High Desert: Black, Punk, Nowhere” should be it. It’s…
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We’re blown away by the artwork of Navajo artist Eric-Paul Riege. His current show at the Hammer Museum in Los…
INCREDIBLE EDIBLE: ARTIST CREATES GIANT FOOD SCULPTURES TO DROOL FOR!
We checked out the whimsical “Fulton’s Exhibit” in Hollywood last weekend. The show is a collection of giant food sculptures…
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We spotted yet another vehicle adorned with artwork by the artist Kenny Scharf in Los Angeles. This one was on…
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The Broad museum in Los Angeles has several major works by the influential American artist Barbara Kruger in its permanent…
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A cluster of vending machines stands on a Roppongi street corner next to a small public parking lot a few…
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On the shiny, new gentrified south end of Downtown Los Angeles there are remnants still, old and recent, of the…
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Between 1972 and 1973, the late great pop-art pioneer Andy Warhol created 199 silkscreen paintings of the notorious Chinese revolutionary…
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British artist Sam Cox, better known as Mr. Doodle, spent roughly two years during the COVID pandemic painting black-on-white doodles…
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The New York Times has an excellent photo essay on how the streets of Milan come alive with style beasts…
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So we made a little surf film. Though the word “film” here is used broadly. “Somewhere” is a short surf…
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We’ve just started watching the second season of the Hulu original series “Only Murders in the Building.” We’re three episodes…
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Two dark-pink, disembodied cartoon heads by Los Angeles-based artist Kenny Scharf bookend the signage on the facade of a tire…
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It’s the little bookstore crammed with enough books to fill a shop twice its size. It’s the Shelf bookshop in…
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Awesome street art mural by Mr. B-Baby near intersection of Venice Boulevard and Centinela Avenue in the Mar Vista neighborhood…
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Desdemona is her name, and she is a pop singer and a robot. Mechanical, life-size and driven by artificial intelligence…
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According to the New York Times, there’s a new lamp that seems to be ubiquitous in New York City restaurants.…
LONG GAME : LEGENDARY 95-YEAR-OLD “PAINTER’S PAINTER” PREPS FOR HIS NEW SHOW AT GUGGENHEIM!
The New York Times had a great article on the artist Alex Katz last week. The artist is a giant…
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Driving around a major U.S. city long enough and you’re bound to see unused billboards that have been hijacked with…
STREET ART P.S.A. : HOUSTON GRAFFITI GIVES IMPORTANT HEALTH REMINDER!
Here’s an important message we should all heed: “Breathe.” A lovable and small graffiti artwork on the side of a…
BREAKING – THE PASSING OF A FASHION VISIONARY : R.I.P., ISSEY MIYAKE !
We awoke this morning to the news that Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has died. He was 84. The Washington…
ON THE BOOKSHELF: A CHEEKY LOOK AT MEMES!
“The Memeing of LIfe: A Journey Through the Delirious World of Memes” is a droll, entertaining study of a most…
CRYPTO ART : MURAL OF THE BORED APE YACHT CLUB NFT AS GYM DECOR
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been around for few years now, but it was in 2021 that these captured the public’s…
ARCHITECTURAL DESSERTS : GEOMETRIC VANILLA MATCHA POPS!
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POST-MODERNISM IN THE PARK : CONTEMPORARY ARTWORK AS PLAYGROUND
Dubbed the “post-modern playground slide” in the park across the street from my in-laws’ home near Roppongi in Tokyo. The…
“KONNICHIWA!” : BACK IN TOKYO AND IT FEELS LIKE HOME!
We got to Tokyo early in the morning just after sunrise. It was a bright, hot morning with the humidity…
UP IN THE AIR : BACK TO TOKYO!
Yup! We’re heading back to Tokyo. After getting all our COVID booster vaccinations and updated health documents and customs and…
BEYOND “SUPERFLAT” : AT THE MIND-ALTERING TAKASHI MURAKAMI SHOW IN L.A.!
We finally made it to the landmark Takashi Murakami exhibition at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. We posted about…
UN-CONTAINABLE : AT THE OPENING OF THE BRILLIANTLY-CURATED “VESSEL” ART SHOW IN LA LA LAND!
On Saturday we went to the opening of a new group show at Hashimoto Contemporary in Los Angeles. It’s called…
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The Mollusk surf shop in Santa Barbara, California is a beautiful showpiece of a retail space. It’s the recent addition…
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Artist, filmmaker and photographer William Klein is arguably one of the 20th Century’s greatest image makers. While Klein worked in…
NIFTY : NFT STREET ART SIMULTANEOUSLY EVOKES AWE AND EYE-ROLLS IN TOURISTY POST-GENTRIFIED OVER-HIPSTERED VENICE HOOD!
On a wall in an alley behind a block of fashionable cafes, luxe-hipster boutiques and a foodie-grade ice cream shop…
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This weekend saw the opening of a major Takashi Murakami exhibition at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. It’s the…
ARCHITECTURAL DEATH: THE DEMOLITION OF ICONIC TOKYO BUILDING!
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