Doug Harvey

Photo Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles Matthew Barney has had just about the cushiest career of any artist in the last decade. Already a figure in the then-hip world of fashion modeling, he was virtually plucked from Yale based on a couple of naked rock-climbing videos and plastered on the......

EVERYONE IN THE LOS ANGELES ART COMMUNITY HAS at least a passing familiarity with Sue Spaid. It's been five years since the pioneer alternative commercial gallerist (and a rare example of a younger woman as such) closed the doors on her space at 7454Þ Beverly Blvd. and joined the international......

EVERY SIX MONTHS OR SO, A GALLERIST OR WRITER IN ANY given art community will throw together a show of young, underexposed talent and try to spin a bit of hype for it as the hot new cutting edge of art-making. Maybe one out of 25 times, the hype sticks......

In spite of a beleaguering array of conflicts of interest (the artist is bringing me to Lapland as a guest lecturer in the spring, is a contributor to this magazine and produced about a quarter of the work in the show originally as commissioned illustrations for the Weekly), I am......

When people think of “celebrity art,” they usually conjure up images of Sylvester Stallone or Anthony Quinn striking hammy poses in front of their garish self-indulgences. To most artists, they’re trespassers -- spoiled dilettantes who use the leverage of their wealth and fame to elbow themselves an undeserved portion of......

R.I.P., Dan Bernier. The gallery, not the man. After only two years at the highly touted 6150 Wilshire complex, the dapper gallerist is closing the doors on his tenure as one of the more idiosyncratic and influential sensibilities in the ‘90s Los Angeles art scene. Graduating from managing the LACE......

Clui PhotosTHE TOURISTS BOARDED THE BUS AT THE BASE OF the Luxor Casino pyramid in Las Vegas. Fifty-odd people, mostly from Los Angeles, had made the trek to the desert to participate in the Center for Land Use Interpretation's guided tour of the perimeter of the Nellis Range Complex, the......

For the last several years, Buddhism has become something of a media phenomenon in America, with best-sellers, magazine spreads, big-budget Hollywood movies and celebrity spokespersons vying for bandwagonesque pre-eminence and faddish cachet. Like many eventually hip things, Buddhism has been a particular influence on artists for a long time. While......