News bits: artist interviews, galleries closing, new magazine

• Do not miss this amazing Flickr set that recreates classic photos using Legos. For instance the image posted here of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Behind the Gare Saint Lazare. thanks wil.
  

• A new contemporary art magazine based in and on Los Angeles is launching shortly. It’s called THE Magazine.

• Galleries in Los Angeles are changing. Silver Lake’s Gallery Revisited is closing their current location and states to have a new direction soon. SCALO|GUYE Gallery will also be closing as of July 14 because Christophe Guye is becoming the Managing Director of Zurich, Switzerland-based Zur Stockeregg Gallery. Wilshire gallery Milo Gallery’s last show opened on June 7 and will be going private as of July. Of course you know I’m leaving and there are rumblings of Culver City and Chinatown galleries changing shape soon too. Interesting times.

• Karl Benjamin interview on Geoform.

• Not quite L.A. related but if I were going to be anywhere near Santa Fe in July I would be sure to see the keynote speech by Dean Sobel, the Director of the Clyfford Still Museum, as part of the annual international art fair ART Santa Fe 2008. How I love Clyfford Still.

Photo credit: Classics in Lego set on Flickr by Balakov.