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Ed Ruscha at MOMA: A Pop Art Career Fueled Along Route 66

By the time 18-year-old Ed Ruscha lit out on Route 66 in 1956, enroute from his home in Oklahoma City to study art in Los Angeles, the venerable U.S. highway had already been carrying motorists from Chicago to the coast and back for 30 years. Bobby Troup’s famous song, (Get […]

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Photo LA 2020

Snapping into the New Year, Photo LA was in the Barker Hangar for the second year. Remembering the Civic Center early days when it was more like a flea market with vendors in an open room of cardboard boxes on tabletops. It has grown into a fine art photo fair. […]

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LA Marler (Louise Anne Marler) is an American Contemporary Photographer and Pop Artist, She weaves her publishing experience into her artwork. Her early work in the typewriter business lead to the daily newspaper and moonlighting on other local publications, owning a commerical printing company and becoming the artist and Los Angeles Managing Editor of Art 511 Magazine.
Marlercreatesmixed-mediaimagesfromoriginalphotography,graphicdesign, illustrations, printing, painting and other techniques. She is best know for Vintage Typewriter, Retro Camera and KeyWord art.
LA Marler recently curated a group exhibit saluting the literary arts at the Mike Kelley Gallery in Venice, California. Louise's artwork has been included in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Tom Hanks' art collection and she has appeared in “The Typewriter in the 21st Century” and books. Her art has also been in 13 primetime TV shows. LA Marler exhibits and ships internationally.

Website: http://www.lamarler.com

Email: lamarler@mac.com

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Conjuring the Sex Positive: WITCHES, SLUTS, FEMINISTS

Conjuring the Sex Positive: WITCHES, SLUTS, FEMINISTS by Kristen J. Sollee, with illustrations by Coz Conover, is a pristine work of critical theory spruced up with enough stylish words to keep the modern woman thirsty with curiosity and flushed with diabolical pride. Kristen Sollee, professor of Gender Studies at The […]

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Exploring Your Extraordinary, Elaborate, Ever-unfolding Miracle

Katie Cercone: Really excited about your upcoming Dream Tending workshop. I have heard that you can follow your initial impulse when it comes to interpreting a dream, although I also believe our dreams dredge up unconscious shadow work we don’t want to look at. In that sense, our ego could […]

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Sacred Sadism, Gaia’s Cord & The New Matriarchy

by KATIE CERCONE Recently hailed with her partner Themba Alleyne “the first eco-fetishists” by i-d Magazine with the release of their new sex-toy line Sacred Sadism, Genevieve Belleveau is an artist you should know. Her recent body of work traverses the territory of eco-sexuality, bridging new age/ecofeminist discourse and sensibilities with […]

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A Look at LA’s Art Fair – ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY

The casual and discreet ALAC (Art Los Angeles Contemporary), an art fair I had never heard of (but have now experienced over the weekend as eager observer and art enthusiast), contained hidden gems of masterly painted and strangely fabricated art objects. Caramelized sugar, cross-sections of animal bones, and virtual reality […]

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L.A. Marler “Keywords,” an exhibition at DNJ Gallery

Last year, a Lyft driver told me “Los Angeles will always be an entertainment city first, and an art city second,” describing his experience as a gallery assistant in the City of Angels. Hollywood, television, and the market for entertainment should be taken into consideration for artists based in L.A., […]

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10 Organizations Helping Artists Build Community

  BEAT Global www.beatglobal.org BEAT Global bridges the gap between arts and education by engaging and inspiring youth to create a culture of respect, collaboration, and freedom of expression. BEAT Global offers young people a platform to discover and express themselves without fear of judgment. Through a “cypher” based pedagogy, […]

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Katie Cercone is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, yogi and spiritual leader. Cercone has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary and C24 Gallery. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, REVOLT, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Follow her on instagram @0r__Nah

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U2’s 30th Anniversary of “The Joshua Tree”

“The Joshua Tree” by U2 and their 30th Anniversary Tour has special meaning to me—it was 1987 when U2 led me to an obscure place to find my true expression. U2 created music that spared suffering souls and longing hearts with raging energy that consoled not only twenty year olds, but […]

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