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Required Reading: 'L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints'

“Until 30 years ago, it was routine practice to keep contemporary art and ‘ethnic’ art in separate categories,” New York Times art critic Holland Cotter wrote in a recent review of Hunter Drohojowska-Philp’s history of the contemporary art scene in 1960s L.A., Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s. Mr. Cotter continued, “Those days are over, or should be, but they linger on in this book, which ignores entire cultures while meticulously cataloging the marital mishaps and bad-boy pranks of a few Establishment ‘rebels.’”

Aiming to provide a counterbalance, Mr. Cotter pointed to L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints, a magisterial new volume on African-American artists in Los Angeles that has just been published by the Tilton Gallery.

The book is a beauty. It is also, for a writer whose knowledge of the L.A. scene has long revolved around a superficial knowledge of the activities of the era’s storied Ferus Gallery (which held shows with emerging stars like Ed Keinholz, Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha), a deeply unsettling read.

~ Andrew Russeth, New York Observer

Light the Way: Ingenious Solar Bottle Lights

 

Wooden Wheeler

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"Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, 'There's no place like home'."

A pair of the iconic ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" is going up for auction with an estimated price of $2 - $3 million.

California auction house Profiles in History said the slippers -- one of four known surviving pairs made for the 1939 movie -- are believed to have been worn by Judy Garland's Dorothy when she clicks her heels to return home to Kansas near the end of the film. 

The slippers will be auctioned on December 16 in Los Angeles as part of a Hollywood memorabilia sale. 

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Andy and Liz at Gagosian, Roy at Cooper

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Homecoming

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"The best fashion show is on the street -- always has been and always will be." ~ Bill Cunningham

'Servant's Dress'

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