David Bowie

The Victoria and Albert Museum was once a fusty old place chock full of every kind of artifact you could imagine. It still is in many ways. When I first...
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Scott Grieger’s billboard in Venice, California

There really are too many rats in the cage.  Ulysses, the Greek adventurer, only had to deal...
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This is an article that appeared in the LA Weekly May 2, 2013 in an issue featuring the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District.

How the Arts District Got Its Name

By Catherine...
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The Art Dockuments – Tales of the Drive-by Gallery, The Art Dock was named the winner in the Art and Fine Art categories of the 2013 Beverly Hills Book...
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The Art Dock and The Art Dockuments will be featured in the In Your Face art exhibition at the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles sponsored by the Los Angeles Downtown Arts...
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For an intimate view of one of the best collections of impressionist and post-impressionist art there is no better place than the Barnes Foundation.  Along with the Frick Museum in New...
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View of the new Barnes Foundation from a side street

The American Institute of Architects has bestowed on the new Barnes Foundation building its Honor Award for 2013...
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YOKO ONO

“Art is my Life and my life is art,” Yoko Ono is quoted as saying.  I guess this means that everything Yoko Ono does is art, whether it be the most...
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333 River Street Hoboken, New Jersey today

The loading dock is a lowly thing (low to the ground and low of status), but it is a feature of every city everywhere. We...
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Alex Wand, Heather Lockie, and Jack Rosenzweig perform on Ear Meal

Strange Screeching and guttural sounds accompany Alex...
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The Los Angeles Weekly is listing the Art Dock Event at the Armory Center for the Arts as one of 5 artsy things to do the weekend of January 18th.

Here is the copy;

3. Downtown...
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Today January 16th a segment on “Which Way LA” about the Art Dock and the event about the Art Dock at the Armory Center for the Arts on January 18th at 7:30 pm will air on KCRW 89.9 FM...
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Mat Gleason interviewed Carlton Davis about the Art Dockuments for Creative Currents on the website Laartstream.com.  See the interview by clicking on this...
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Peter Clothier is a well known art critic. He and I exchanged books after I attended his program, “One Painting, One Hour,” at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.  I did not know...
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UTO PIA

Detropia from Loki Films by filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, is the visually exquisite documentary about Detroit and the urban devastation it has...
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Peter Clothier, a respected art critic and writer, has written the following review on his site “The Buddha Diaries.”

While the review was generally favorable, I was criticized...
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Clarion Review

The Art Dockuments: Tales of the Art Dock: The Drive-by Gallery

Carlton Davis

Four Stars (out of Five)

Those whose downtown...
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A personal, wide-ranging account of the artistic community in downtown Los Angeles during the 1980s.

Amid the squalor of an industrialized wasteland, a group of artists coexisted in an...
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Bees buzzing over The Art Dockuments

I have begun my campaign to promote the book.  I hired Author Marketing Experts to help me. They will concentrate...
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A Bigger Splash by David Hockney

Pacific Standard Time’s pool party of California art ended completely at the end of June 2012, when the last extended shows...
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Proposed Cover for the Art Dockuments...
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Cleveland Art Museum Addition by Rafael Vinoly

“Nobody comes to Cleveland! What are you doing here?” the African-American women with hair that...
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At the behest of Michael Mollett, artist, poet, and provocateur, I wrote the following DADA Poem.

Kill All...
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Eugene Choy’s Residence in Silver Lake Circa 1950 Photo by Julius Shuman

The many exhibitions of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980 create a...
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 The Pickle Factory, Gold Line, and 1 Santa Fe indicated from the First Street Bridge

The time to save the Pickle Factory is now.  The City has completed its...
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California Design 1930 -1965 by Hodgetts and Fung, Photography by Lane Barden

California represented an American paradise for much of its history, until the Watts Riots, the Symbionese...
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Ulysses Jenkins performs "Without Your Interpretation

The Hammer Museum interviewed Ulysses Jenkins as part of the Pacific Time...
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Poet Carol Rubenstein

Carol Rubenstein is an American poet and the author of The Honey Tree...
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Poet Carol Rubenstein

Carol Rubenstein is an American poet and the author of The Honey Tree...
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Poet Carol Rubenstein

Carol Rubenstein is an American poet and the author of The...
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Polet Carol Rubenstein

Carol Rubenstein is an American poet and the author of The...
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Carl Davis in Red High Heels from Sheri Gaulke’s piece Peep, Totter, Fly

September 27, 2007 at LACE

At the end of September 2011 the hot ticket in the Southern...
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The Pickle Factory at First and Center Streets. Los Angeles

Save the Pickle...
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The “Art in the Streets Exhibition” at MOCA Los Angeles April 17- August 8, 2011

I wanted to hate this show, and the first thing I saw confirmed my...
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