This week’s Featured Interview with artist Gary Baseman will be a five part series, a new part of the story released every day of this week. Welcome to Garypalooza!
Gary’s identity as an artist is something ingrained in him by his parents, who stressed that he could be whatever he wanted. As the only person in his family born in the United States, the idea of freedom and expression and being the self that you want to be is something very heavily instilled into his narrative.
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Yesterday was the annual Thai New Year Street Festival in Thai Town. Every year around the end of March or top of April, one Sunday is picked for Hollywood Blvd from Western to Normandie to shut down and become a portal to Thailand, with vendors, performers, and tons of Singha paraphernalia to ring in the new year.
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Piano music survives for a tiny minority like Apple products exist for the vast majority; it doesn’t have fans, it has raving enthusiasts. Though dwindling their numbers may be, masters Mario Feninger and Ian Brooks welcome a small but dedicated few who brave tough criticism and prying eyes for a chance to learn from two of the very best pianists alive today.
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This week’s Featured Interview with artist Gary Baseman will be a five part series, a new part of the story released every day of this week. Welcome to Garypalooza!
Gary Baseman has to be the most Hollywood artist. He’s an artist that is from Los Angeles with international name recognition, known by people in Milan, Italy to people in Des Moines, Iowa. He is simultaneously an artist whose work is safe and commercial but very edgy and provocative. He’s carved a niche into the art world that is high art with a rogue sensibility. Gary Baseman is an artist and personality that needs no explanation but needs a lot of explanation: he is a deeply fascinating character.
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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Scoli Acosta is a sculptor/painter/photographer/installationist who is based in Echo Park. Acosta is repped by Paris’ Galerie Laurent Godin and has shown a lot in Europe but not really that much in Los Angeles. His work is about taking common objects and showcasing them in weird ways, often transforming them and the space into something new.
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