I don’t know what it is about paintings on cardboard, but I usually love them. Maybe it’s something to do with the humility it connotes, or the fragility, I’m not sure, but the art show I attended on the weekend at Studio Eleven in downtown L.A. featured an artist who used it beautifully. Her piece Route 66 is elegant and playful, and keeps you guessing as your eye moves around unraveling the many meanings and materials. Fantasy at the Edge is the name of the exhibition which

The dazzlingly eclectic art show Thanks for the Mammaries! took place last night at For Your Art on Wilshire Blvd. in the Miracle Mile district in L.A., right across the street from the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). It was packed! I’m in an art show!!!! My brilliant artist friend Bettina Hubby put on the show in association with Klowden Mann gallery, asking all her artist friends to contribute pieces about boobs. Why boobs? Well, Bettina underwent a double mastect

My friend Craig Daniels is the coolest. Ever since I saw him at the ‘North doors’ in high school with dentures hanging off his leather jacket, I just knew. He’s responsible for some of my favorite bands like The Leather Uppers and The Tijuana Bibles and now he’s got a new band New Horizzzons whom you can see below. He also has a celebrated artist partner Fiona Smyth who’s work you will likely recognize if you go here. So when Craig messaged me to say his bandmate Robert Dayto

The art world’s been abuzz for months about the opening of the brand new Pérez Art Museum Miami. It’s a huge civic project that developer Jorge M. Pérez put his name to after donating $40M and a chunk of his personal collection. Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (who designed the Tate in London) wanted to create a space that lured people from the beach and blended in with the jungle foliage, and as you can see, the vertical gardens are already starting to do that. There wer

Merike Lugus and I have opened a brand new art shop called Elu Gallery! Merike Lugus also happens to be my mom, so it’s a family affair. And fittingly, the first person I connected with on the Etsy marketplace was my cousin Liisa Priyanka Lugus, who sells her beautiful “jewelry with soul” at Ratna Rani Bracelets. My father is also a painter, using oil with knives and focused on the natural world – you can check out his work at www.tiberiusart.com. But back to the shop. Mom is