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New Coagula is out, and it sounds like a good one.
The late Dennis Hopper was an integral player in the American art world for half a century and his thespian personality was energized and informed by the boundless creative forces at play in the L.A. art world. In Coagula issue #103, publisher Mat Gleason pays tribute and offers his personal recollection on what made Dennis tick.
Coagula Issue #103 is packed with lots more: Gordy Grundy is riled up about drinking in this month’s GENUFLECT column. Alan Bamberger walks us through great strategies for artists to get a solo show in his TURNING PRO column. Victoria Barkley has a thing for Rosé Wines and DaVinci in her ART + WINE column. Jim Caron’s comics and Gerald Locklin’s LiterARTure poetry about art are featured as always.
Artist Ben Talbert is examined in detail by Matt Dukes Jordan, artist Lun*na Menoh’s solo show at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica is previewed along with a pictorial survey of her edgy balance between art and high fashion. The dean of LowBrow art, Robert Williams is celebrated on the eve of the world premiere of a career-spanning documentary ROBERT WILLIAMS MISTER BITCHIN’ which premieres on June 16 at LACMA. And if all that were not enough, we have a feature review of William Wegman by Frank Charlie Woods and 32 (yes 32) L.A. reviews of galleries in Culver City and Chinatown.
» Deitch to have Julian Schnabel curate a Dennis Hopper retrospective for inaugural show.
Some people may not be into this, but I really am. Schnabel is a more than competent curator, Hopper is an incredible and underrated photographer who’s oevre covers not only the hayday of American art in the 70’s and on, but he captures the essence of Los Angeles(and other cities) as well. I think this is overdue, and focus on Los Angeles artists is never a bad thing.
In this weeks edition of my most indulgent feature, here comes “Book I Really Want, Do Not Have, and Cannot Afford”.
Taschen has come out with a collector’s edition of an extrememly covetable book of one of my fave photographers, Dennis Hopper.
During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye. A reluctant icon at the epicenter of that decade’s cultural upheaval, Hopper documented the likes of Tina Turner in the studio, Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. via…
Swooning for days. However, at a robust $700, I will not be adding it to my collection…YET!!!
» 10 things New York Magazine Learned at Chelsea Openings
1. Artwork has shrunk. Lots of artists are doing work they — or their dealers — hope collectors will pick up, cash-and-carry, like candy bars at the supermarket checkout line. Kehinde Wiley, Raoul de Keyser, Kara Walker, and many others showed more-portable art.
2. Sex still sells. Or draws eyeballs, at least. While most viewers gave two seconds to everything before moving on, Moscow painter Dasha Shishkin’s vivid golden sex scenes at Zach Feuer won long gazes and much discussion.
3. Art loves Hollywood. And vice versa. Dennis Hopper’s exhibition at Shafrazi blended both crowds. Matt Dillon and Sean Penn posed in front of Hopper’s photographs of Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, and the twentieth-century art-world elite. Video monitors poking out of the wall at angles screened Hopper movies. (Larry Gagosian even dropped by the after-party at Indochine.) “I like the show, and there are already pieces I think are very special — the Paul Newman photograph, and the Andy Warhol holding the lily,” Salman Rushdie told us. Nonetheless, he’s probably not buying. “I collect contemporary Indian art,” he said.
Obviously there are 7 more, however I won’t post them because it gets long and you can figure out how to click the above link on your own.
Art crush of the day: Dennis Hopper Double Standard
*I reconnected with an old work colleague that I just adore and she has inspired my crush today. I am so happy that I remember her email and she still works where she works!
