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Arcane Candy’s 2008 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Sir Richard Bishop – Polytheistic Fragments LP (Drag City) • Rhys Chatham – Guitar Trio is My Life! 3-CD (Table of the Elements) •…
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Beautiful Losers
Orange County Museum of Art Newport Beach, California Feburary 6 – May 15, 2005 Beautiful Losers is a group art show curated by Aaron Rose of New York’s Alleged Gallery and Christian Strike…
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Rich Jacobs – Raw Dogs
New Image Art Los Angeles, California January 8 – February 28, 2005 Read Listen With Your Eyes first. In 2005, Rich Jacobs belched out a flurry of art shows. Raw Dogs, a group…
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Rich Jacobs – Listen With Your Eyes
Four x Four Los Angeles, California January 7 – February 25, 2005 The friendliest person you’ll ever meet, Rich Jacobs (born 1972) is an internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited throughout the United…
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Chris Johanson at the Hammer
The Hammer Museum Los Angeles, California May 1 – July 29, 2001 Born in 1968 and raised in San Jose, California, Chris Johanson started making art in the mid-1980s, when he festooned his…
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Liquid Liquid at Santos Party House
New York, New York November 19, 2008 This show was a rare treat, even though it was in kind of a weird environment. Liquid Liquid started with no announcement right after the DJ…
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Tony Conrad at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery
New York, New York November 9, 2008 I walked into a Tony Oursler book signing and heard Tony Conrad totally droning out and feedbacking really loudly. No one was paying any attention at…
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My Bloody Valentine at the Santa Monica Civic
Santa Monica, California Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Photo by Randy Randall. Sit back, kick your shoes off and I’ll tell you a little story. It’s a tale of two friends, who will remain…
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Wilco at Outside Lands
San Francsico, California August 24, 2008 Here’s a photo of Wilco with Nels Cline wailing on guitar with them at the Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gate Park. I curated the art…
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88 Boadrum at the La Brea Tar Pits
Los Angeles, California August 8, 2008 The concept: 88 drummers play for 88 minutes at 8:08 p.m. on 08-08-08. Can you say numerology? The original Boadrum event, conceived and led by Tokyo band…