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Latest Additions to the Blog
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
The Shabbiness of Today’s Art Criticism
As a longtime art critic, and as the Senior Curator for the Riverside Art Museum, one would assume Peter Frank would know the difference between
LACMA & the Spin Doctors from Hell
I’m not sure just when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art acquired the services of the high-powered public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton,
A New Year message: Hope & Beauty on leave of absence
In 1627 the French Baroque artist Simon Vouet created the remarkable oil painting, Time defeated by Hope and Beauty. The masterpiece depicts Father Time dragged