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If you’re in LA, you need to see his new exhibit at Residency Art. Or search his videos so you can watch him magically create Renaissance-inspired portraits up to ten stories tall using only spray paint - it’s bonkers.
Feb 4, 2024
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this photo sucks but his exhibit at the tate modern is amazing. very otherworldly -- i’ve never seen anything quite like it. if you’re in london, go!!!!
Feb 23, 2025
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If there were a gun to my head pointed by an assailant who demanded that I describe the feeling of living in the USA using only pictures (hey, this is my unreal conditional—worry about your own), I’d simply point them in the direction of Michael St. John’s “Portraits of Democracy,” which are currently on view as “These Days” at Pio Pico gallery in LA (now extended thru Jan. 1). St. John is probably your favorite artist’s favorite artist: a lifelong student of the aesthetic form who cares more about the Big Issues than making big paintings just because that’s what someone said collectors want. He’s also a preternaturally gifted painter (by practice, no less!) whose every choice involves the deliberate reproduction of the very tension that makes life in 2020 one nonstop “Party in the U.S.A.” if you know what I mean. If you’re gonna look at art, why bother with anything you couldn’t spend your whole afternoon uncovering the intricacies of, anyway? Viewings are by appointment only, but don’t let that intimidate you—it’s literally a phone call, prolly even a DM away.
Nov 24, 2020
I met this beautiful painting in the Met during a Hockney retrospective and it floored me. It's massive (6.5ft by 10ft) and the colours are so saturated. It was painted of a route Hockney used to drive whilst listening to Wagner symphonies and plan routes that revealed beautiful views at key points in the musical composition. I think you can really hear the music and the awe in the painting
"He bought a beach house at the bottom of Las Flores Canyon, and in the early nineties he began plotting mountain routes that could be timed with Wagner selections. These expeditions informed his ideas about the play of light on landscape, both on canvas and in the theatre. When he experienced hearing loss, he had his Mercedes outfitted with a potent stereo system. Friends and fellow-artists were invited along for the ride."
Jul 27, 2024
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Jackie O is entranced by lowbrow casseroles in particular (Frito pie, anyone?). Best sick day companion.
Mar 6, 2024
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Antidepressants have worked in the past to dig me out of acute depression, but my big monster is the anxiety. A daily beta blocker for the anxiety has helped me work on what I need to in therapy. A process still but getting somewhere.
Feb 14, 2024
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My husband and I had thought a devoted pair of mourning doves come to splash in our pool while we swim laps because they recognized we are cool to hang with. Then we realized it‘s because they figured out the hawk that hunts from our roof wouldn’t attack them with us there. I hope they tell the bunny family we are stellar guards. I wanna whole coterie like a Disney princess.
Feb 18, 2024