Overview: Los Angeles Reflections
Type “Los Angeles” into the search box of iStockphoto.com and you will see over seventy thousand images, many of which look very much the same. For the works in a recent exhibition at Gagosian in Beve…
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That Is the Back of Klaus Biesenbach’s Head on the Cover of James Franco’s Book About Lana Del Rey
Penguin announced today that it is publishing a new book by James Franco, written with David Shields, called Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey. At first look, it…
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Work It, Working Mother: L.A. Summer Performances
A.i.A. attended two recent L.A. performances that mobilize thegenre's own productive frictions as fodder for satisfyingly complexwork.
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The Ultimate Map of Art-World Feuds
William Powhida and Jade Townsend are back with a satirical drawing of a lurid battleground where artists, posers, critics, dragons, Internet trolls, and Modernist ghosts fight for their lives
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Jay-Z Serenades the Art World
The track proclaims the rapper's desire for glitzy art along with other gratifications of the senses: "I just want a Picasso, in my casa / No, my castle / I'm a hassa, no I'm an asshole / I'm neve…
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Performa Playbill: James Franco and Laurel Nakadate
Laurel Nakadate and James Franco's Three Performances in Search of Tennessee was a semi-rehearsed, semi-conceptual piece of theater that invoked the spirit of Tennessee Williams and used two parts…
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Linzy-Franco Collaboration Rises
33-three-year-old performance and mixed-media artist Kalup Linzy met actor and jack-of-all-trades James Franco at the Raleigh Hotel during Art Basel Miami Beach in 2009. A spark was lit, with Linzy…
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Video Made the Music Art Star
In the age of the mp3 and the dusk of the traditional music video, how do you get someone to sit down and listen to an entire album, beginning to end? If you're Michael Stipe, lead singer of the band…
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What Cant He Do
Early in this interview, Franco and I are sitting in one of the plywood houses, watching the tail-end of an imagined romance between Star Trek's Captain Kirk and Spock (Kirk Slash Spock), which…
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