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In keeping with this new "art about town" trend we seem to be experiencing...yesterday we went to see Robert Wilson's portrait show at Ace Gallery on Wilshire. If you've never heard of Wilson, he's an experimental performance artist and stage director who really came up in the 1970's and 1980's, but continues to do amazing stuff...and if you've never been to Ace, it's this massive space full of what seem to be endless rooms of art. A cocktail I couldn't refuse.



The portraits are actually done on video, where the subjects had to sit still for thirty minutes or more, so you notice little movements if you stare for a while and they're shown on these big flat-screen tv's that are hung on the wall like paintings. There are probably like 50 of these things in the show, with all different kinds of images. Some of my faves were the animal portraits like the porkupine, but there are also portraits of actors like Steve Buschemi, Winona Ryder and maybe my favorite one in the show, Isabella Rosellini (above). Believe it or not, these aren't that cheesy.



This dog face is like 10 feet tall and it's just sitting there panting with spit dripping off its mouth. It's worth seeing the show just for this guy.



Once fully inspired we made the trek over to The Smell to check out No Age and Barr. After a cross-country tour, this was Brendan Fowler's triumphant return to LA, and the first time he's played with his new "full band" lineup.



No Age brought the house down. They just keep getting better and better.



The NEW and IMPROVED look and sound of BARR.