Dani Katz

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Flesh for Fantasy

Dani Katz
After the beautiful, yet co-dependent energy suck that was my five-year relationship with a Swedish painter, I am happily unattached. And while single’s done wonders for my career, my self-esteem and my complexion, it’s left my libido in a lurch. Consequently, I’ve taken a slew of imaginary lovers to spice......

The Write Stuff

Dani Katz
I trudge into the Tonic Bar at Erewhon on a recent Friday in a terrible mood. I’ve just gotten off the phone with a vibrational doctor who informed me that aside from liver weakness and heavy-metal toxicity, I had no less than six curses swirling around my light body, which......
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Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show

Dani Katz
Some New York Times art critic called multi-media artist Matthew Barney the most important artist of our generation, and Los Angeles believed him. Upper-crust art lovers - beautiful people in beautiful clothes - came out of the proverbial woodwork to Regen Projects Saturday night, where Barney’s new movie premiered in......
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Getting to the Gala…

Dani Katz
When I finagled the invite to the Murakami Gala at MOCA, my girlfriends bombarded me with the same question: "What are you wearing?" It was a legitimate one, considering my sparse excuse for a wardrobe, overrun with tattered t-shirts, baggy jeans, moth-eaten sweaters and a few other shapeless things, all......
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Resistance Is Futile

Dani Katz
Paul Schimmel removes the odd stray hair from a canvas and straightens out misaligned panels as he leads me, room by room, piece by piece through the half-installed “© Murakami” exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo. Schimmel is in his 40s and has kind eyes and droopy jowls......
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Resistance Is Futile

Dani Katz
Paul Schimmel removes the odd stray hair from a canvas and straightens out misaligned panels as he leads me, room by room, piece by piece through the half-installed “© Murakami” exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo. Schimmel is in his 40s and has kind eyes and droopy jowls......

Best Chocolate Bliss

Dani Katz
The sun is imploding, the moon is weeping and the squirrels are racing for the hills. Nabbing yourself a chocolate high might be your next logical move. The antioxidants are irrelevant in the face of The Big One, but the bliss factor — well, that’s gonna come in handy when......

Biggest Fuck You, L.A.

Dani Katz
Heading west on Venice’s Rose Avenue, I screech to a halt at the red ?light at Main. Idling there, I try to avert my eyes from the offensive visage on the other side of the intersection. Fat chance — the thing is just too big; too bold. It’s too bad......

Best Revival of an Extinct Fashion Species

Dani Katz
In his seminal work The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1, Drunvalo Melchizedek offers a detailed breakdown of the impending dimensional shift, a.k.a. the Apocalypse. Melchizedek urges the reader to outfit himself in natural fibers because nylon and poly blends can singe the skin while passing through......

Lost Path to Shangri-la

Dani Katz
The apocalypse showed up early for the Rodeo Grounds. The idyllic artists’ community was decimated at the grubby hands of corporate greed and civic apathy in 2006 when the last of the residents were officially evicted. What remains is a heartbreaking mess of vandalized rubble and dried-out, unmanaged overgrowth. Three......