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‘Fashion Queen’ by Judy Ragagli
Opens  Saturday April 6th at the Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, featuring works from over 30 different artists, in a group exhibition curated by Brad Benedict.
This exhibition strives to highlight the absurdity of what passes as real life, using humor as a means to keep self-righteousness and pretentiousness [...]
‘TARMAC’ By Scott Yeskel
A new art exhibit opening at the Sue Greenwood Fine Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, this thursday April 3rd, from 6pm-9pm. (330 N. Coast Hwy)
Featuring the art of Scott Yeskel, this show focus’s on Scott’s Representational work of Cityscapes, including plains, homes, and automobiles. Equally adept at Abstraction, I’ve been a fan of [...]
Lot 1018: Arts and Crafts Brass Lamp
Lot 1083: Austrian Art Nouveau Bowl
Lot 1116w: French Art Deco Buffet
Is vintage your thing?  Then check out the upcoming 20th Century Decorative Arts Auction at Bonhams and Butterfields, here in Los Angeles on April 7th,  2008. This particular auction is stronger for what it has to offer in the [...]
‘Urban Light’ by Chris Burden
Photo: Romi Cortier
Jeff Koons
Photo: Romi Cortier
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is now open. BCAM architect Renzo Piano, who also designed the Pompidou Center in Paris, was hired by the LACMA Trustees to put L A on the map as  one of the premiere [...]
The pressure to look good in Hollywood never ends. Even the Easter Bunny dropped in this weekend for a quick touch up before heading out to spread some joy, hiding easter eggs for a group of well deserving  kids. We’ll have to check in next year to see if  the Bunny’s make over made [...]
Robin de Vick make over
Photos: Romi Cortier
Recently I spent a saturday afternoon with longtime client and friend Robin de Vick, in a photographers downtown loft, helping transform her into one of Americas favorite Icons. Having known Robin for close to 15 years, she’s always reminded me of ‘Norma Jean’ before her transformation into Marilyn Monroe.
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Wall Mural
Over the years I’ve had many requests about the source of this speech, as well as how I created it for the wall of my studio on Larchmont Boulevard in Hancock Park. The text is from Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural Speech in 1994, and is believed to have been originally written by Marianne Williamson for [...]
The third annual pre Oscar party, held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, was the scene of a lovely moment between a ‘Best Actress’ Oscar winner, and ‘Best Actress’ Oscar winner to be.Â
A guest at the party happened to be standing nearby when Cher, Best Actress winner for ‘MoonStruck’ in 1987, (can you believe it’s been [...]