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Nicole Garton lives in her native Los Angeles. She writes about lifestyle trends, cultural events, and creative people with guts.

In 2010 she developed the Ingénue Interview series while living in Paris as a means of featuring select artists and scene-makers from around the world who are actively defining the next wave of cultural innovation. (Scroll below to read the interviews.)

Inspired by the soirées artistiques et familiales of painter Henri Rousseau and his avant-garde troupe of revelers, Nicole and friend Allison Ashmore have recently launched Banquet Days, a new trajectory in the way Los Angeles experiences art.

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To contact Nicole, please email her at nlgarton@gmail.com.

Blog Entries by Nicole Garton

Ingenue Interview: Melissa Unger

(0) Comments | Posted October 9, 2012 | 6:59 PM

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Image courtesy of Melissa Unger

The Ingénue Interview features select artists and scene-makers from around the world who are actively defining the next wave of cultural innovation. This week, Paris-based creative consultant and founder of Seymour Projects Melissa Unger talks life lessons from...

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Catching Up With Vanessa Prager at Gallery for the People's Summer Pop-Up

(0) Comments | Posted July 13, 2012 | 9:30 AM

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Image courtesy of Gallery For The People


As a merciless heat wave swept much of the rest of the country, confining many to air-conditioned interiors, Angelenos mingled with alacrity in the pleasant vernal air during Gallery For The People's...

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First-of-Its-Kind Listening Gallery Opens in Los Angeles

(1) Comments | Posted June 1, 2012 | 1:41 PM

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Sonos Studio | Photo Credit: Ralf Strathmann | Courtesy of Sonos/Jessie Cohen PR

At a time when more and more Americans are listening to music exclusively through headphones, Sonos Inc. is leading the counter-cultural revolution toward listening the old-fashioned way: out...
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Ingenue Interview: Ugo Nonis

(2) Comments | Posted December 1, 2011 | 3:31 PM

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Photo: Seth Ricart

The Ingenue Interview features select artists and scene-makers from around the world, revealing their inspirations, cultural tastes, and upcoming projects. This week, Los Angeles-based artist Ugo Nonis discusses his transformative move from New York to L.A., the woman who inspired...

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Ingenue Interview -- Chloe: Chasser Croiser/The Surreal and Its Echo

(0) Comments | Posted October 13, 2011 | 5:28 PM

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Chloé, video still from her live performance at the Centre Pompidou.

The Ingénue Interview features select artists and scene-makers from around the world, revealing their inspirations, cultural tastes, and dance party playlists. This week, French DJ, artist, and composer Chloé discusses Surrealism, the...

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OohLaLA Festival Charms Again

(0) Comments | Posted October 10, 2011 | 1:38 PM

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Amid the hubbub of the Pacific Standard Time-anchored art extravaganza unfolding all across town, the OohLaLA Festival sashayed onto the scene last weekend for a third installment of its French musical showcase. Running from September 29th to October 1st at the...

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Ingenue Interview: Elena Rossini

(0) Comments | Posted August 5, 2011 | 11:32 AM

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Elena Rossini on location in Jordan. Photo by Katia Belmadani, provided courtesy of Elena Rossini.

The Ingénue Interview features select artists and scene-makers from around the world, revealing their inspirations, cultural tastes and dance party playlists. This week, Paris-based filmmaker, photographer, and

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Mapping Memories: Natalie Turturro's Pieces of Paris

(1) Comments | Posted July 29, 2011 | 9:08 AM

American artist Natalie Turturro unveils a whimsical collection of twenty small-scale works on paper in her first European solo show, "Pieces of Paris," now on view at Café des Initiés.

Installed in a wall arrangement evocative of a Renaissance map room, "Pieces of Paris" presents scenes captured in watercolor and...

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Ingenue Interview: Vanessa Prager

(0) Comments | Posted May 31, 2011 | 1:19 PM

The Ingénue Interviews feature select artists and scene-makers from around the world, revealing their inspirations, cultural tastes, and dance party playlists. This week, Los Angeles-based artist Vanessa Prager talks travel, Mommie Dearest, and her penchant for weird yard sale art.

In addition to being an artist and sometime model for...

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Ingenue Interview: Rosa Rankin-Gee

(1) Comments | Posted May 25, 2011 | 11:34 AM

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Photo courtesy of Amaury Choay.

The Ingénue Interview features select artists and scene-makers from around the world, revealing their inspirations, cultural tastes, and dance party playlists. This week, Paris-based writer and A Tale of Three Cities co-founder Rosa Rankin-Gee talks Solidism, the...

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Sunny Suits' "The Wild Heart," a Privileged View Into the Life of an Artist

(0) Comments | Posted May 6, 2011 | 4:29 PM

California-born, Paris-based artist Sunny Suits debuts a series of compelling photographs in her first solo show, "The Wild Heart," now on view at Daniel Reich Gallery.

Like the photo diary of an itinerant young bohemian, "The Wild Heart" invites the viewer into the East Village kitchens and Left Bank bedrooms...

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Gagosian Gallery Opens in Paris, Part 1

(0) Comments | Posted December 21, 2010 | 11:08 AM

On the eve of FIAC, France's largest international contemporary art fair, the second-latest addition to the Gagosian gallery empire opened its doors in Paris. (Gagosian has since debuted a gallery in Geneva.) I had the opportunity to attend the preview of the gallery's inaugural exhibition, having relocated from...

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