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AI, the end of Illustration art
I recently came across an illustration of Elon Musk published on a popular news and commentary website. The credit for the likeness read “Image generated
Frida Kahlo and The Dream
The culture vultures have descended. On Nov. 20, 2025 Sotheby’s New York auctioned a 1949 self-portrait by Frida Kahlo. It is titled El sueño (La
Luigi’s Circle Jerk Army
On April 13, 2025, the antediluvian punk rock band from Los Angeles, the Circle Jerks, performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Singer
Three Random Blog Posts
War & Empire Opening in San Francisco
[ The Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, California. Photo by Mark Vallen. ] All three floors of the beautiful turn-of-the-century Beaux-Arts building that houses the
Charles White: Let The Light Enter
In April of 1967 the Heritage Gallery of Los Angeles published Images of Dignity, a monograph on the life and work of the great African
Chuck Close & New Realism
In the early 1970’s I came under the influence of those artists now known as the New Realists, or Photo-Realists. At the time I was