5797 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD

from the series "Even Sleepers Are Workers"

I have long eschewed the Los Angeles artworld’s penchant for kitschy marketing monikers which implicitly cede its aspirations toward seriousness in favor of New York.

MOCA’s Mondrian Mondays and its equally portentous Night of the Living Masters, LACMA’s Early Renaissance Singles Weekend, the Hammer’s Post-Modern/Post-Partum: New Mothers Paint exhibition are all cases in point.

The Culver City ArtWalk, a worthtwhile, and potentially even important event will take place on May 30th. Advertised as something resembling a daytime pub crawl with pony rides, I’m told by an insider that the reclusive David Schoffman may be offering a few drawings from his Even Sleepers Are Workers series at a gallery so newly minted it has yet to have a name.

This typically clandestine maneuver by Schoffman is designed, as usual, to discourage the idle , disengaged collector. Furthermore, I’m told, the drawings will only be found in the gallery’s back room and one must actively inquire about them at the desk.

Help confound Schoffman’s childish stratagem and visit the gallery at 5797 Washington Boulevard. Maybe we can coax a more public posture from the city’s most adored anchorite.