I've got a horse but I still think of him as a pony. He certainly acts like it. Red, named for his sorrel color, is no longer young and he's far from old. That's part of the problem. He's getting too old to train, but he's too young to saddle....

This is huge. I was grinding pencil lead and burning paper as I furiously wrote down her confession. "I painted over Ed Ruscha's Sweetwater with thick blue enamel..." The perp was speaking softly, her voice dulled with regret. An art world mystery of half a century has been solved and...

In this artist's life, I have endured hardships and made many sacrifices to experience the sensual and revelatory pleasures of making art. All artists have. And now I must make a few more. I shudder, for I fear the stakes are graver than ever before.

I think of Robin...

What's new in Pussy Riot News? Nothing. What a shame.

This is an anniversary of sorts. It was over a year ago, on February 21 that the Russian art activists known as Pussy Riot stunned their Motherland with a midnight punk concert in Russia's most sacred cathedral. It...

Much has been written about Fallen Fruit, the prolific international arts collaborative. Few articles goes as deep and wide as a brilliant essay by Janet Owen Driggs. It is with great pleasure to present her effort for KCET Artbound, transmedia journalism exploring Southern California's arts and culture. ---Gordy...

Wanting to spend time with her young child in his formative years, young Russian mother Maria Alyokhina was denied a request to suspend her prison sentence. The Pussy Riot member is serving two years for the crime of hooliganism. She is guilty of a musical performance and an...

There are many, many articles on content marketing and social media with tips and steps and plenty of generalities. Very few seem to offer any real concrete ideas or practical examples. In this series of articles, we are publishing an actual case study for a very real company. We offer...

New Media Content used to market your product or service needs to be clever and creative. The practice must be expansive in order to engage all media resources. Marketing articles on this subject tend to offer platitudes, generalities and a flow chart to nowhere. Here, we will offer an actual...

As in every cataclysmic apocalypse, many die. The survivors are a mixed bunch. Some mutter to themselves, catatonic and shell-shocked. Others recover and learn to cope in a new, unpredictable world where the rules are changing frequently. Today, adaptation and survival demand a fast and uncertain dance. What does the...

On Saturday, the 15th of December 2012, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the persecuted members of Pussy Riot sit alone in a Russian gulag of untold horrors. The young mothers and artists are dangerously imprisoned for their act of art and free speech. At the same time, hundreds of miles...

My first visit to the Dallas Art Walk was their last monthly hike of the year, falling on the first of December. In the Design District, my first stop, the lights were on but no one was home. A colleague informed me that the crowd was small, at least a...

On several occasions, I have had the pleasure of performing with a fantastic poet, John Tottenham, who is now learning that he has a growing and sophisticated audience. The artist has arrived, and it is a well-deserved honor. His work is arch, smart and hysterically funny. His performance style offers...

In Pussy Riot News, we are at the part of their epic saga in which the two remaining brave artists have been sentenced to two years in prison. Separated and sent to remote gulags, the girls will not be able to cause any more trouble to the state. There is...

The artist's life runs on a hard road. After a long, exhaustive journey to create and produce art, the exhibition of your work provides a whole new set of adventures and challenges. Marketing a show requires a skill set that is generally unfamiliar to the artist. Over a series of...

What are you doing for Pussy Riot? No cause is unworthy of exploitation. As Americans, we will instinctively empathize, analyze then produce an effort to right the wrong. Justice is served and the problem solved as long as you can throw enough money at it. Sadly, in our declining world...

The Hawaiian Islands are newer and fresher than any land on the planet. Nature's beauty has never been on a brighter display. The flora and the fauna are breathtaking. For the seeker of divinity and transcendence, mo betta' beauty can always be found. The Honolulu Museum of Art serves as...

With so much byte-sized information zinging before our eyes, clogging our synapses and bulging our inboxes, it is hard to tell Who's Who these days. With a gaggle of great films over the recent season, it is very easy to get confused between the many Andersons of contemporary cinema. Following...

The dust has begun to settle on the glory of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time. Southern California art is now canon. The pioneering artists have been named, recorded and celebrated. One of the most curious aspects of the grand exhibition was a rustle of its theatrical curtain, parting for just...

On the street artist world tour, Echo Park serves as a Ground Zero for writing on the walls. Echo Park is an old neighborhood near downtown, in Los Angeles. Once a workingman's village, EP has a long history of communes, Bolsheviks and every manner of a counterculture lifestyle. Today, it...

I am in the thick of it, preparing for a retrospective. It is a unique experience, fraught with nostalgia. Rediscovering old art works is like going through an old family album; each picture elicits an emotion.

A retrospective is an artist's occasion, much like a wedding, a bar mitzvah...