Tom Koren

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happy birthday to my one and only @muggimuggia The gift that keeps on giving איזה מזל שאת

Unhinged times call for unconventional art shows… “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem” On view through March 20 Variety Arts Theater, 940 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles Free admission + free popcorn Presented by @juliastoschekfoundation Edited by Udo Kittelmann slides: 1. Lobby designed by the women of the Friday Morning Club (1924) x @faraguna (2026) 2. Wu Tsang, Wildness, 2012 3. The basement bar aka the id of the show 4. Bunny Rogers, Mandy’s Piano Solo in Columbine Cafeteria, 2016 5. Robert Boyd, Xanadu, 2006 6. Doug Aitken x Jacolby Satterwhite, installation view 7. Ulysses Jenkins, Mass of Images, 1978 8. Chris Burden, TV Commercials, 1973-77 9. The War Pigs 10. Jeremy Shaw, Quickeners, 2014 11. Cyprien Gaillard, Cities of Gold and Mirrors, 2009 12. Maya Deren, Meditation on Violence, 1948 13. Barbara T Smith, Outside Chance (reenactment via @hardtoread ) 14. Travers Vale & George Cowl, Betsy Ross, 1917 15. Lu Yang, Doku The Flow, 2024 16. Jon Rafman, Oh the Humanity!, 2015 17. Douglas Gordon, The Making of Monster, 1996 18. Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978 19. Catalogue (I wrote some stuff) 20. Miley Cyrus, End of the World (live from Chateau Marmont). Screened every night before midnight

A very (very) exciting start to 2026: In the summer of last year, I had the opportunity to intern for Udo Kittelmann in Berlin through my MA program at @svacuratorialpractice During my first week, he asked me to do some research on silent films, without telling me what it was for. He also sent me to visit the @juliastoschekfoundation exhibition space in Berlin, which turned out to be one of the best art experiences I had that year, and probably in general. At some point he shared that he was curating a show with the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Los Angeles, placing time-based works from the collection in dialogue with early cinema experiments, under the title ‘What a Wonderful World.’ An audiovisual poem, a century-long archive of moving images, or an intense hall of mirrors reflecting the brutal and beautiful complexities of the human condition. For someone with strong feelings for film and video, destabilized disciplinary boundaries, moral ambiguity, and Los Angeles mythology - this is the dream project. We continued working on the exhibition over the last year and a half, found the perfect location—an abandoned vaudeville theater that originally housed LA’s first women’s club, and the monumental (!!) list of artists speaks for itself. I am very grateful to Udo for the visionary mentorship, to JSF for the unmatched collection and amazing team, and I urge everyone I know to come out to LA next month and see the show if you can (what better reason to escape the endless New York winter?) What a Wonderful World Feb 6 - March 20 Variety Arts Theater, Los Angeles

ho ho whoooaaaaa it’s the goods shop encore with a mixtape by @mot_ @gumaranks our posse from overseas - we attached a track list too. thank you we love you - happy holidays everyone, xx cassata link in bio <3

This year I spent Halloween on a plane so here’s 2024 Fran Leibowitz 🚬

curbside romance / missing @muggimuggia

LA is always a fever dream

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