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How Korean painter Sihyeon Park captures Vuja de—seeing the familiar as if for the first time
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How Korean painter Sihyeon Park captures Vuja de—seeing the familiar as if for the first time

Traditional Korean painting on hanji meets California’s desert and sky as Sihyeon Park explores vuja de—seeing the familiar as if for the first time.

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I first saw Moti Tavassoli’s (@motimakes) work at The Other Art Fair (@theotherartfair) a year ago and was completely mesmerized. From a distance, the paintings felt almost like landscapes. Up close, they read more scientific/topographical, and
A friend asked me recently whether you can buy real art with a fewer zeroes. 

You can. You may just need to be more creative with framing, scale, and placement.

For this edition of What I’d Buy, I chose five works under $500 and created room
I get asked a lot where to start with art collecting - what to spend, what size to look for, where to even begin. The most common question though is can I just start with one wall?

This client started with one room and one wall above her dining room
Every year, I take stock of another year building LOTA. It’s a ritual I love and a milestone I choose to celebrate on this wild journey.

This year, I’m reflecting on ambition, becoming a creative, and the art, places, and people that hav
New Goods is up: The Things We Carry.

This one started, as many things do, with me trying to justify a tote purchase before a family trip to Alaska. But the thread got bigger as I was writing: Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s (@njidekaakunyilicrosby
The 2026 World Cup kicks off this Friday in LA and the kits are already telling us a lot.

Football shirts are cultural objects forms of national identity, fashion strategy, artist collaboration, tourism campaign, retail drop, and soft power all fold
My latest artist interview is with Alex Maceda (@alexmacedastudio ), who I had the pleasure to finally meet in person last week in New York at her MFA thesis show. 

Alex’s paintings live in the space between body and landscape, desire and rest
Touch is a sensation, and sensation is information! (@for____scale @colbo.nyc @bankston_architectural)

Last week in NYC for art week and a touch of design week (ha!), was perfection. My camera roll is filled with many moments of sensation and inform
IT’S TIME!! First Monday in May means Met Gala!

This year’s dress code is “Fashion is Art,” which sounds simple until you realize how easy it is to turn that into a painting printed on a dress.

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