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This post is for the locals...

Harveys handbags will be having a Grand Opening Party this Saturday (Sept.15th) from 8pm-Midnight in Santa Ana. Famed artist Gary Baseman will be onhand to launch the new line of Basemanbags he's done for Harveys, as well as showing a Special Exhibit. Tour all three floors, enjoy live music, and have a coctail. Rsvp right here if it's not too late!

Also checkout their $10 Buck Kit that they will be offering every month in honor of their 10 Year Anniversary.

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Just I'd thought you locals know that the wonderful artwork of Alex Gross (whose work you may recognize from the cover of Blonde Redhead's latest album) is on display this month at the Artist's District in Santa Ana.

Click here for more info.

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I posted a Caffeine-Headache Gift Guide earlier in the week, but I also contributed a few of those Christmas ideas to Crown Dozen's (very cool and lengthly) Gift Guide. It's seven pages long, so head over and give it look!

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At the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, CA is a new exhibit that explores contemporary art from a variety of Mexican regions and artists. "Art From Mexico: Visions of a New Century" comprises 35 works by 24 artists. The show runs through October 8th.

The exhibition focuses on two-dimensional work (painting, monotypes on paper) by artists residing in Baja California, Monterrey, Zacatecas, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Oaxaca and other cities.

Rising Tijuana artsist Mely Barragán has two works on display, including "Una de Dos" (shown here), an acrylic on printed fabric that blends two neon images of a woman's face in a way that suggests comics, telenovelas and Andy Warhol.

For more info visit the Muckenthaler Cultural Center's site.

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I recently recieved an email informing me of this NYC art opening. I don't live in New York, but if I did then I would definitly be there. Anyhow here's some great artwork to checkout regardless.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery Presents...Doze Green: The Left Hand Path and Andrew Schoultz: Cataclysmic Mayhem...Capturing the Feelings of the Modern World September 9th - October 7th.



Doze Green:The Left Hand Path is a solo exhibition of new works by celebrated artist Doze Green. His exhibition of new paintings is inspired from roots in modern graffiti and based upon metaphysical and ethereal ideologies through stream-of-consciousness painting.



Andrew Schoultz: Cataclysmic Mayhem...Capturing the Feelings of the Modern World focuses on capturing an overall mood. Andrew Schoultz depicts such underlying themes as the resilience of nature and the beautiful dichotomy between man and his relationship with nature. His new works comment on current tragic and catastrophic global politics and environmental and economic concerns.

The Jonathan LeVine Gallery exhibits a genre of work influenced by illustration, comic books, graffiti art and pop imagery. Their goal is to expand the genre beyond its Pop Surrealism or Low Brow roots and bring it to the forefront of contemporary art. For more info visit The Jonathan LeVine Gallery site.

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It wasn't until I was in college that I discovered that Pop Art consisted of more then just Campbell Soup cans and comic strips. Of all the artists that I learned about in my required art course only a few remain in my memory. Among them is Robert Rauschenberg who along with Jasper Johns helped ignite the Pop Art scene in the United States. Since summer is here I am obligated to drag my non-accomadating child to a musuem so that he can detox from his daily fix of non-stop video gaming. What can be better then the Rauschenberg exhibit at MOCA? Rauschenberg who became an artist late in life had a tendencey to use materials that were outside the norm. Pieces in the current exhibit include 'Coca-Cola Plan" (which features suprise suprise glass coke bottles) as well as other works.

For more info visit the MOCA website.

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Mark Ryden has an uncanny ability to evoke both glee and revulsion in his paintings. My particular favorite is "The Estacy of Cecelia", a piece that contains no less the eighteen eyes!!! Ryden has a new book out titled Fushigi Circus (that's 'mysterious circus' to those who are unfamiliar with the Japanese language), a clothbound collection of the works of Mark Ryden. It features new works, including Blood, Sweat, Tears, and The Creatrix, and a plethora of Ryden's most compelling works from past shows to the present. Ryden himself will be at MOCA in L.A. on May 13th in all of his eerie glory to sign copies of his latest attempt to make money....I mean enthrall us with his work.

Purchase Fushigi Circus here.

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{John Waters - Change of Life}

The “Sultan of Sleaze” John Waters made his way to a place that needs as much of his brand of subversion as it can get. Change of Life, Waters first major museum exhibit on view at the Orange County Museum of Art is full of all the vulgarity, display of American hypocrisy and subculture loving you’ve come to expect from John Waters. Turning a still camera on the television screen, the eclectic exhibit is a kind of cinematic moments as found objects, with and without embellishments. Exposing the obsessions of our society, while still managing to love it, the majority of the exhibit displays panels of stills according to theme or movie. My favorites are the string of cinematic vomit sequences and “twelve assholes and a dirty foot” across which in my catalogue book he wrote his favorite word, “antidisestablishmentarism." Also on view is a life size diorama of his working space, kitch objects, and sculptures, including a Divine inspired Jackie O doll holding a gun and JFK in a Marilyn Monroe dress. After all the free drink vouchers I got at the opening, meeting and gushing over Tracy Ullman, and the museum director trying to bum 2 cigarettes off me (he only got one) the exhibit itself might have burned less bright in my memory. But it was John Waters after all, and nothing could overshadow the legend and wonder of the only man who can pull off a pencil mustache with the same panaché and tongue-in-cheek mockery that he brings to everything he does.

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