CARTWHEEL: Highlights of 2012
Just six months ago CARTWHEEL launched our website, and in that time we’ve visited studios and galleries, interviewed artists and collectors, and explored art fairs, with nearly 300 posts and thousands of photos that document our excitement over the art scenes in Southern California and beyond. One of the most thrilling things for us…
Baron Samedi’s Rituals of Sex and Death Rule the Fowler Museum’s In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art
West African Diasporic Religions—especially santeria and that all-American version, hoodoo—are important aspects of my belief system, and have been for decades, spawned by my Southern roots and fascination with Haiti, where the syncretic religion Vodou (popularly known as “voodoo”), combination of West African faiths and Catholicism, was one of the driving forces in the island’s…
Tiki Oasis 12 Exotic Espionage and Polynesian Pulp. Or, What Happened After Too Many Mai Tais
I have finally escaped the plumeria-scented, rum-fueled embrace of Tiki Oasis 12, making my way home from the headquarters of Exotic Espionage and Polynesian Pulp at the Crowne Plaza in San Diego where spies, bad guys and glamour girls frolicked. Though there appears to be a slight gap in time… Now that my amnesia is…