Last week, Revok — a noted LA graffiti artist whose work is currently being featured in the MOCA’s Art in the Streets exhibition — was nabbed by cops at LAX after failing to pay $3,764.97 in restitution to victims whose property he had vandalized. He now faces 180 days behind bars for violating the terms of his probation. While the LAPD claims his arrest is just part of its “all-out war” against graffiti,” and not tied to the show at MOCA, it’s just one of many incidents in recent weeks that point to an increased crackdown. To show your support for Revok, tweet #FREEREVOK, and let the world know what you think about putting street artists behind bars. You can also head over to 1xRUN, where they’re selling a limited-edition print by Revok’s friend Askew, with 100% of the proceeds going toward his legal defense fund.
LA architecture — which many claim came into its own in the ’60s — is facing a mid-life crisis. The old new buildings, which ironically were all about rejecting the past, have become the new old buildings. Ahem. That is, the city’s “modern” architecture, that of aggressive lines and the machine aesthetic, is quickly becoming outdated, both visually and practically. So what’s the issue?
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New York Times best-selling author and former keyboardist for the Brian Jonestown Massacre Tony O’Neill has a new autobiographical novel out called Down and Out on Murder Mile, which draws heavily upon his experiences as a heroin addict in Los Angeles and London.
On Wednesday he will return to L.A. to read at Skylight Books on Vermont alongside his literary hero, Dan Fante (Chump Change, Mooch, Spitting Off Tall Buildings).
O’Neill says that he loves his old hometown, but there’s always a part of him that will regard that city as the scene of the crime…with that in mind, after the jump, find the three people who he doesn’t want to run into while he’s back.
Names and minor details have been changed to protect the guilty.
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This week PATRICIA FAURE, a 80-year-old art dealer and fixture on the Los Angeles art scene died in her sleep of natural causes.
During a career which took her from NICHOLAS WILDER GALLERY to ASHER/FAURE to her own space, Santa Monica’s PATRICIA FAURE GALLERY in 1994, she helped launch a handful of noted artists, including MARGARET NIELSEN a Canadian-born talent known for her lush landscape paintings.
After the jump, Nielsen pays tribute to Faure’s powerful force.
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