Art Party!

Since most of you will be traveling to see family this week, I thought I'd send out a little art guide for a few of the major cities people tend to travel to, so that once you're all stuffed on turkey bits and sick and tired of "family time" you can slip out and stuff your brain with the sweet gravy of art appreciation.

For those of you in Los Angeles, head down to the apparently troubled MOCA and check out this most awesome show by one of the coolest old ladies around, Louise Bourgeois. Her larger than life sculptures, paintings, and drawings make contemporary avant garde art look like yesterday's news, and the best part is that she's still alive and kicking. And working! So go check this funk out. You won't regret it, promise.

For all you peeps going to New York, put your feet on the street and go seeStreet Art, Street Life, a show at the Bronx Museum of Arts that chronicles performance art, found art, photography, and general street life from the 1950's to the present, with such artists as Amy Arbus (Diane's daughter), Claes Oldenburg, George Maciunas, and Yoko Ono. Yes. Yoko. Ono. Not to mention a bunch of contemporary artists that I'm not cool enough to know about until after they're relevant.

Going to Chitown? Be sure to take the L to the Chigaco MCA and melt the ice off your noses by basking in the glow of Jenny Holzer's exhibit. She blends together politics, feminism, and emotion and projects it - literally - on the walls of her surroundings. Check it out - it'll warm your feet and your soul. Aww...

For those of you who'll be here in the beautiful Bay Area, give me a call! Then we can hang out and be awesome together by going to see the Yves Saint Laurent show at the de Young. I would go into detail here, but if you don't know who Yves Saint Laurent is, then you're beyond help.

So there you go kiddies. Stuff yourselves silly, then take time to digest over some great art. I know I will!