Distressed Stucco
Wandering through the apartments of Unite d’Habitation in Marseilles, the late critic Robert Hughes noted how deeply architect Le Corbusier…
Posts Tagged 'Los Angeles'
Reading Bill Mohr, Hold Outs: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, 1948-1992
Twice I’ve seen the poet and critic Bill Mohr hold aloft a copy of Laurence Goldstein’s Poetry Los Angeles. Mohr…
Los Angeles Made Wild: Eloise Klein Healy, Artemis in Echo Park
Eloise Klein Healy is one of those writers whose style became associated with L.A. after the 1960s: loose lines, conversational…
Signs and Portents
Toward the end of my usual walk in Venice, I was confronted by a graffitied warning, on Hampton Drive: GET…
Still Life with Pedal Car
Five weeks ago, a carefully arranged still life appeared on a nearby street. It consisted of a bike frame, a…
On Drought and Salt
Tonight, thankfully, it’s raining. About time. L.A. supposedly saw off a brutal drought a year ago. Then came last year’s…
Flotsam
A dead fish, washed up on a beach, is unremarkable. A hundred are ominous. So with shopping carts and their…
I Remember the End of the World
A couple of days ago, I finished reading Joe Brainard’s I Remember. It’s been used as a model for kids…
Memory. Oblivion.
I’ve taken a break from Karl Ove Knausgaard’s massive novel-memoir My Struggle to read a very different kind of autobiography: Georges…
Ai Weiwei Sojourns in Venice
Last year, Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident, popped up in posters and graffiti throughout New York. Now he’s…
Left Write & Centaur 