{"id":9667,"date":"2019-03-02T03:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T10:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2019-03-04T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T10:46:13","slug":"frieze-la-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/02\/frieze-la-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Frieze LA Destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/blog\/la-diary-issue-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Art Newspaper<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Frieze LA diary: Leibovitz\u2019s photo finish, Destroyer smashes it and a mushroom-powered rocket (doesn&#8217;t) take off<\/h1>\n<p><b>Plus, Suzanne Jackson\u2019s modest gallery revival<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/maxwell-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MAXWELL WILLIAMS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.graph.cool\/v1\/cj6c28vh912680101ozc2paxj\/cjs6i1qjz45hb0146mth42hxa\/0x0:900x1200\/960x960\/frla19_diary_mw_destroyer_lo.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Destroyer playing at the opening for Friedrich Kunath\u2019s monograph, Sincerely Yours at Blum &amp; Poe Photo: Max Williams<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subheading-comp\">Destroyer smashes it at Blum &amp; Poe<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s a certain candor in Friedrich Kunath\u2019s paintings, which often have text crossing lush, romantic landscapes like an aerial banner with no airplane, that pairs well with music. For the launch of his monograph, I Don\u2019t Worry Anymore, which includes contributions from a substantial cast of characters\u2014the poet Ariana Reines, the novelist James Frey, and the former tennis player-turned-art collector John McEnroe\u2014Kunath invited the Canadian troubadour Daniel Bejar, aka Destroyer, to perform in front of one of those dreamy landscapes. The upstairs gallery at Blum &amp; Poe was packed (whether there were more people there to support Kunath or to see Destroyer, we may never know) and Destroyer\u2019s songs felt exactly right: romantic without being mawkish, funny without being inane. The musician and the painter were a pairing no DJ could have mixed better. \u201cThis is big for me,\u201d said Kunath, who was a huge fan of the musician. Bejar played a mix of old and new songs while propped on a stool on top of a bear rug with a camel sculpture in front of him. \u201cI want to thank Friedrich for letting me out tonight,\u201d he joked. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to get out of Canada once in a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/blog\/la-diary-issue-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Art Newspaper<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Art Newspaper Frieze LA diary: Leibovitz\u2019s photo finish, Destroyer smashes it and a mushroom-powered rocket (doesn&#8217;t) take off Plus, Suzanne Jackson\u2019s modest gallery revival MAXWELL WILLIAMS Destroyer playing at the opening for Friedrich Kunath\u2019s monograph, Sincerely Yours at Blum &amp; Poe Photo: Max Williams Destroyer smashes it at Blum &amp; Poe There\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}