(Casting/Booking by Greg for Starworks)

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Ed Ruscha show in Los Angeles at the Honor Fraser Gallery

This weekend is Ed Ruscha’s gallery showing of his collection of mixed media art; a collection of prints, books, paintings, works on paper – all in the theme of the “Standard Station”.

Ruscha has consistently combined the cityscape of his adopted hometown with vernacular language to communicate a particular urban experience. Encompassing painting, drawing, photography, and artist’s books, Ruscha’s work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Ruscha’s early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach.

Ruscha has been the subject of numerous museum retrospectives that have traveled internationally, including those organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1982, the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1989, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2000, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 2002, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney in 2004. Also in 2004, The Whitney Museum of American Art organized two simultaneous exhibitions: Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Ed Ruscha and Photography. In 2005, Ruscha was the United States representative at the 51st Venice Biennale. The traveling exhibition Ed Ruscha, Photographer opened at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2006.

Adam
(from Starworks Los Angeles)

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(Tonalism: Farmlab Mantra. Photo by dublabrat)

On my trip out to LA, this past weekend, I stopped into dublab.com.
Their motto: positive.music.driven.lifestyle.

Getting a dose of a little sunshine, some great music and positivity – it’s always a stimulator of new ideas. Tonalism, an ambient music festival, started by dublab just confirmed it will be at the Santa Monica piers on July 19th. I can’t wait to see the line-up…

(Ale and Frosty of dublab, Mia Doi Todd, session with Morpho)

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Full dublab photos on their official Flicker Site

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Paris Fashion Week

Was kinda into these elegant bumps on the backs of ladies in the new collection by Giambattista Valli.

Photos by Chris Moore/Karl Prouse

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After years in the making, Phase 1 of LACMA’s Transformation is now a celebrated reality. This includes The Broad Contemporary Art Museum, the BP Grand Entrance, and the new modern galleries — which all opened their doors this month.

The $56 million BCAM, designed by Renzo Piano, is the county art museum’s first home for contemporary art. It mainly contains pieces from the massive holdings of LACMA trustee and donor Eli Broad and wife Edythe, who funded BCAM’s construction.

Architectural drawings from Renzo Pianos designs for the new LACMA addition

A longtime trustee of LACMA, Broad stepped in after voters rejected a bond issue in 2002 that would have paid for a massive redesign of the complex. Instead, Broad and his wife, Edythe, footed the entire $56 million needed to build the new wing. He attacked the project with his trademark efficiency, convincing Italian architect Renzo Piano, famous for his work on the Centre Pompidou in Paris and a dozen other prominent museums, to come on board. Piano agreed only if he could help redesign the entire museum complex, something Broad got the rest of the trustees to agree to.

Adam
(from Starworks Los Angeles)

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