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[Summer Guide 2012] Painting 'takes balls'
By JOSH DULANEY
Todd Marinovich's first work of art was inspired by a movie his mother took him to when he was 6 years old: Jaws. When his kindergarten teacher... More >>
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[Summer Guide] The definitive guide to celebrities, drugs and more
As told to JOSH DULANEY
APPROACHING CELEBRITIES"I think it's totally cool when somebody comes up and expresses that you have affected them in any way. I get 'I lost... More >>
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Anja Van Herle's show at JoAnne Artman Gallery makes us want to rock
By STACY DAVIES
Now that I'm wading into my 40s, one of my favorite pastimes is to drone on and on about how much better everything was when I was a kid. It's... More >>
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'Made In California' isn't the same old state gold
By STACY DAVIES
Whenever I hear a phrase such as "made in California," my thoughts immediately scatter like shrieking bats into the farthest corners of my mind... More >>
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OMC Gallery's Parisian bohemian retrospective of the legendary photographer evokes a yearning for yesteryear
By STACY DAVIES
Those who obsess over the past and steep themselves in nostalgia to block out the shallow, mass-marketed mayhem of our modern, trend-chasing... More >>
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The Laguna Art Museum hosts a perfect exhibition on the Mexican-American painter/scultpor
By DAVE BARTON
It's the rare moment when I attend an exhibition and fall in love, but after the exhilarating kiss of not one, but two perfect exhibitions, I'm... More >>
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The Colombian artist's exhibition at the JoAnne Artman Gallery is the real deal
By STACY DAVIES
In a world that rewards derivative creation, it's rare to walk into a gallery and encounter work influenced enough by past masters and movements... More >>
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'Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series' shows the mysteries of the drawn and redrawn
By DAVE BARTON
I appreciate abstract artwork intellectually, and puzzling over its hidden meanings while drinking coffee with friends is a favorite pastime, but... More >>
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The Coastline Community College exhibit presents a brilliant, vicious circle
By DAVE BARTON
A sealed box of mementoes that brings up a host of troubling thoughts when opened—that's the darkness lurking behind the white walls and... More >>
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The Santa Ana gallery invites you to drown your demons in angst-y art
By STACY DAVIES
Everyone I know has recently had a nervous breakdown—including me. It's the times, it's the age, it's the chorus of voices—in our... More >>
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Popping and locking with UC Irvine's dance crew and the movement it helped to create
By MICHELLE WOO
They were missing . . . something.
Technically speaking, the dance routine was near-perfect. Every jive kick, every side leap, every knee slide... More >>
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'Two Schools of Cool' pairs older with younger artists to fruitful results
By DAVE BARTON
Artists are generally strange, solitary creatures whiling away their time in studios, building intimate relationships with paper, clay, canvas... More >>
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New exhibit remembers when UC Irvine art scandalized OC—and helped to shape the SoCal scene
By DAVE BARTON
Documenting the furious creativity of the early years of UC Irvine's School of Fine Arts, curator Grace Kook-Anderson's revelatory exhibition... More >>
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Scenes from the Anaheim chapter of the alt-girl life-drawing extravaganza
By DAVE BARTON
"We have a request to see more décolletage," says turquoise-haired Kelly Castillo as she adjusts the ponytails of Kelsie Blackwell, the... More >>
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The Newport Beach museum's exhibit includes the less-sexy, more powerful side of self-exposing females
By STACY DAVIES
A few weeks after my piece about Barbara T. Smith's 1981 "Birthdaze" performance ran ("The Angry Penis Lives"), a friend of mine's artist husband... More >>
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The performance artist's 'Radicalization of a '50s Housewife' still struggles for exposure and against assault
By STACY DAVIES
Amid the hearty backslapping at lectures, performances, galas and dinners celebrating the Getty's massive Southern California-wide arts... More >>
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'Steampunk: History Beyond Imagination' suffers from a conflicted vision
By DAVE BARTON
Coined in 1987 by novelist K.W. Jeter, the term "steampunk" is a literary subgenre of sci-fi and pulp stories, a retro melding of Jules Verne,... More >>
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Three exhibits show the world in perpetual Occupy mode
By DAVE BARTON
Curators Dorian Rooney and Carl Berg's "Eyes of the World: Exhibition of Visual Journalism" at Irvine Fine Arts Center begins with what you would... More >>
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'Cinema Verite' at JoAnne Artman Gallery shows how the artists preserves humanity the old-fashioned way
By STACY DAVIES
The other day, a friend of mine posted to my Facebook page an image of Steve Jobs with the headline "1 Person Dies and 100 million cry"; next to... More >>
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[BEST OF 2011: GAME ON!] World of Warcrafters from Blizzard Entertainment
By MICHELLE WOO
Embrace your inner geek.
It's a motto of all those in the Blizzard Entertainment tribe, and one that Tom Chilton, Chris Robinson and J. Allen... More >>
