He’s putting all his chips on New York City.
Himmel + Meringoff Managing Partner Stephen Meringoff told The Commercial Observer that he has sold the last building in his Los Angeles portfolio, leaving the firm with a roster made entirely of New York City properties.
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Art dealer Perry Rubenstein, who recently decamped from New York for Los Angeles, revealed his new gallery plans to Jori Finkel in The Los Angeles Times today, and he sounds like a complete and total convert to L.A. Read More
In the founding myth of American contemporary art, New York in the 1960's has long been considered an epicenter of vanguard activity. However, in recent years, scholars and filmmakers have made a powerful case for Los Angeles’s role in that story. This weekend, New York-based writer Peter Plagens took to the pages Read More
Trying to prove that Los Angeles is an art world center second to none, as the organizers of "Greater LA" have done by bringing the work of several dozen LA artists to a loft on lower Broadway seems, at first, like an unwitting irony. So does proposing that a center can be "distinctly horizontal"--i.e., decentralized. Read More
Few know the true genesis of CIM, but the legend goes like this: In 1986 two Israeli soldiers, who worked on a kibbutz together, came to California on vacation and decided to stay. They started a small landscaping business and bought a couple of cheap apartment buildings, when one day they struck up a conversation Read More
Financial troubles at the iconic porn mag Playboy have led Hugh Hefner to invite ten strangers into his famous mansion. In an effort to increase sales of the magazine, which plummeted 34 percent last year, Hefner is hosting a Willy Wonka-esque contest in which ten "golden tickets" will be randomly distributed in Read More
Fox News analyst Margaret Hoover confirmed that, in spite of his denials, Zach Galifianakis did indeed light up a marijuana joint on the set of HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." Hoover discussed the questionable doobie on Thursday night's episode of "The O'Reilly Factor."
"If you've been to a rock concert you know that Read More
President Barack Obama has been giving fundraising speeches on the West Coast and apparently causing logistical headaches in the process. Obama's speaking engagement in Los Angeles on Monday caused considerable irritation for LA commuters:
We have one word for you, Mr. President, the next time you want to sweep into Los Angeles on a Read More
Frances Bean Cobain, the 17-year-old daughter of rockers Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain, sold out her first solo exhibition at L.A.'s La Luz de Jesus Gallery, which runs from July 2 through August 1. The ten drawings feature distorted faces, bulbous nudes, and cryptic, graffiti-style messages like, "Treat me like your mother or Read More
It's fun to imagine Andre Leon Talley doing just about anything, like being fed cubes of cheese and grapes with a bib on, even if it might not be true.
But this is true: Mr. Talley recently took Pulitzer-winning New York Times staffers Maureen Dowd and Michiko Kakutani shopping in Los Angeles in Ms. Dowd's Read More
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In L.A., foreclosures jumped 249 percent annually to 5,982 in July, according to a report Read More
The report defined a new foreclosure as a property scheduled for a foreclosure auction Read More
Los Angeles recorded 4,540 newly scheduled foreclosure auctions in April, up an astounding 466.8 percent from the number in April 2007. New York City recorded 329 foreclosure auctions in April, up 84.8 Read More
Mocking Los Angeles is a time-honored pastime for New Yorkers. We cling to the L.A. that Woody Allen imagined in Annie Hall: a culturally barren land of liposuction and libidos, a crass, one-industry town full of phonies. Sure, the weather is better on the West Coast, we tell ourselves as we trudge the city’s sidewalks Read More
