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This Saturday, April 14, Electronic Arts Intermix and Dia Art Foundation have jointly organized a 12-hour video tribute to artist Mike Kelley, who passed away on February 1 at his home in South Pasadena, California.
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The beginning of January marked the opening of Hoodwinked, a two-man show featuring Richard Prince and Mike Kelley at Nyehaus gallery in Chelsea. I had the pleasure of visiting the exhibition several times and the unnerving but positive opportunity to revisit it after the artist’s death, as the gall
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LOS ANGELES — LA's art world has been in mourning ever since artist Mike Kelley died earlier this month, an apparent suicide. At the College Art Association conference and at various events, artists and art lovers are finding ways to remember him and keep his work alive. The most poignant and effect
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Popular LA-based artist Mike Kelley has died of an apparent suicide. One of the most recognized names of the American contemporary art scene, Kelley is best known for his pop culture-infused sensibility that combined the abject with the everyday.
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Pope of Trash, filmmaker John Waters, who is known for his filthy classics like Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Hairspray, has joined a biker gang. Surprisingly, it is a contemporary art biker gang.
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This edition of Required Reading has a heavy dose of California and some very critical texts. Jon Jackson says goodbye to LA with billboards — Mike Kelley shows in LA after 8 years — Donald Kuspit tears apart John Baldessari — Paddy Johnson gives Brad Troemel the thumbs down — House Republicans hate