Wolverine should keep his dance routines to himself in the future. Too bad STILLER didn’t win a statue for this performance…

Barry McGee steps up to the plate with Phil Frost…

It really does seem like only yesterday that ripping surfer chick and art connoisseur MARSEA GOLDBERG opened the doors to her NEW IMAGE ART GALLERY. In that time the West Hollywood hotspot has been a home (oftentimes literally) to a vast array of the underground art world’s young upstarts and a proven incubator for talent that has nurtured the careers of Ed Templeton, Clare Rojas, Jo Jackson, Judith Supine, Tauba Auerbach, Matt Leines, Jeff Soto, Taylor McKimens, Chris Johanson, Phil Frost, Jordin Isip, The Date Farmers, David Ellis, Barry McGee, Ashley Macomber, Os Gemeos, Neck Face and Thomas Campbell, to name a few, all of whom are among the contributors to “15 Years,” the space’s impressive celebratory group show that opened on Saturday nite. Of course, LA’s hipster elite turned out in full force to help mark the occasion, bolstered no doubt by a special live performance by rippers NO AGE and an endless supply of free booze. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Nasty Neck makes an appeal for more than just “change” from Obama…

Last nite, graffiti gremlin NECK FACE took advantage of some down time between billboard postings on the front wall of Hollywood fashion hotspot BARRACUDA to leave a note for freshly-inaugurated President OBAMA. Representing “la gente” to the fullest, Nasty Neck lets the Big O know his economic reform package should indeed be the first order of business this week: “we don’t need change, we need dollars, homie!” In other news, Barracuda is expanding to include an art gallery component this summer. Stay tuned to Supertouch for details coming soon. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Ron English brings “Abraham Obama” to Hollywood, and the cold heart of Seattle…

Supertouch’s own RON ENGLISH has been a very busy man in LA and Seattle this week following his stop in DC to celebrate BARACK OBAMA’s inauguration on Tuesday. Located at the corner of Pico & Fairfax in Hollywood, this newly “liberated” billboard features Ron’s iconic “Abraham Obama” hybrid portrait created for the Big O’s presidential campaign last year. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

The platypus of the auto industry never looked finer…

In his aptly-titled new show “She” opening tomorrow nite at MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, art star RICHARD PRINCE pays ample tribute to the LA-centric institutions of female nudity and car culture with the facility of someone well acquainted with the finer nuances of both. The centerpiece of the show—a split exhibition with Prince’s late artist friend WALLACE BERMAN—is a 1986 El Camino wrapped by Prince in an array of photos from his “Girlfriends” series that makes it the perfect Hollywood cruiser for any nite of the week. Fleshing out the exhibition (literally) are offerings from his ongoing series of “Nurse” collages and large scale C-prints from his “Girlfriends” series alongside a real mailbox plastered in vintage black & white porn images that breathes new life into the stale governmental institution. A VIP reception tonite with Prince in attendance will be the hot ticket of the early LA art calendar, and you can expect ample coverage on tomorrow’s ST. Meanwhile, HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

In town for his ROUGE STATUS opening in Venice last weekend, London bad boy wall banger INSA did a little Hollywood swingin and dropped in on BARRACUDA  for a little rooftop renovation, adding his trademark high-heels to the sunset skyline in the process. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Miguel de la Barracuda and his blackhearted quiver of Hammerheads…

OG skate legend CHRISTIAN HOSOI is best known for his signature “Christ Air” and the inimitable and groundbreaking shape of his best-known deck design, the original HAMMERHEAD. Now, teaming up with LA fashion boutique BARRACUDA, Hosoi has produced a limited run of 50 exact reproductions of the pioneering board shape in the to-die-for color combo of black-on-black. Releasing at noon this Friday, May 9th at the Barracuda store (7769 Melrose across from Fairfax High School), and online at Barracudashop.com, each board will be signed and numbered by Christian Hosoi himself. DON’T SLEEP…

Modern board shapes suck so bad…