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Temecula wine getaway • Rise against rises above • the Drug war turns 50 ® JUNE 4-10, 2021 / VOL. 43 / NO. 30 / LAWEEKLY.COM
2 FOOD tion of antique motorcycles and concludes with Doffo family, all of which ride and race on a WEEKEND WINE a traditional counter tasting for two. regular basis and will use any excuse to get on There are indoor tastings in two distinctly a bike – that includes 69-yearold old Marcelo different atmospheres as well as outdoor spaces on his BMW R 1200 RT . | June 4 - June 10, 2021 | L A W E E K L Y drenched in roses overlooking the rolling hills dotted with vineyards. Choose between the so- Sunset Dinner On The Colina phisticated tasting area and retail shop designed Perhaps one of the most delightful and reju- GETAWAY by Brigitte Doffo or watch MotoGP races on the venating reasons to come to the Temecula val- big screen of the main tasting room while sip- ley is the five course plated sunset dinner paired ping on a red flight. On weekends, Damian’s wife with Doffo’s best wine selections on a hilltop of Vanessa’s Fuego Y Sal catering sets up with break- the vineyard. The Argentinian inspired BBQ fast burritos and traditional Argentine fare like feast is presented by Damian’s wife Vanessa and beef empanadas with olives from the vineyard the tablescapes are handpicked from the vine- cured by Maria as well as churrasco steak and yard and designed by Brigitte. Damian greets It’s All In The Family At Temecula’s Doffo Winery fries topped with the Doffo family chimichurri. guests with glasses of sparkling Paulina wine while the rest of the family – Marcelo, Maria, Cruise The Valley In A Sidecar Brigitte and Samantha – mingle and sit down BY MICHELE STUEVEN Kickstands up by the barrel room. SoCal with the crowd for wine pairings compliment- Sidecars have deals with Doffo and other win- ing a dinner that includes a charcuterie grazing table, Morcilla crostini (Argentine blood sau- Argentine BBQ Breakfast at the sage) and Molleja, delicate grilled sweetbreads Malbec Estate that even the offal fearful will love. W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M The main plates are tender grilled lamb chops with herb sauce and garlic mashed potatoes alongside roasted vegetables and grilled flank steak with roasted turnip and parsnip puree and an emulsion made from the family’s chi- michurri recipe (jars are available for sale at the winery). Dessert is inspired by Maria’s Dulce de Leche obsession – a traditional sweet alfajor sandwich with flan and vanilla meringue. Golf cart rides are provided back to the Malbec estate from the hilltop. While this event is seasonal, it’s included at a discounted price if you’re part of the Doffo wine club, but also available to the public. The winery is open seven days a week, check the T MICHELE STUEVEN MICHELE STUEVEN calendar for upcoming events. Harvest season is just around the corner. here’s always something happening grapes. Nothing is machine harvested. An un- eries in the valley and will at the award-winning Doffo Winery usual California find, grab a bottle of the Doffo pick you up for a 45-min- Vanessa Doffo Charcuterie in Temecula, a short two-hour drive grappa. Also worth a taste is the late harvest ute ride through the Tem- from Los Angeles. Whether it’s a Tiago, the MotoDoffo Super Tinto and their ecula Southern California sidecar tour through the wine valley elegant deep purple red Syrah. White wine wine country. An exhila- with tasting stops on the way, an Argentinian lovers should sip the delicious concrete fer- rating way to start the day, BBQ on a hilltop overlooking the rolling hills, mented Viognier, with aromas of tangerine, helmets and blankets are motorcycle races or just kicking back at the peach, pineapple, mango, apricot and Marcelo’s provided. They also offer pool of the Malbec Estate – you don’t have to beloved Mr. Lincoln roses that dot the vineyard. door-to-door wine and leave the vineyard for a full weekend recharge. With the help of wife Maria, daughters Bri- brewery tours as well as When Marcelo Doffo came to Southern Cali- gitte and Samantha as well as Damian and his cocktail, food and custom fornia from Argentina in 1975, he got into the wife Vanessa, Doffo Winery has expanded into tours. If you’re lucky, you collision repair service and owned a body shop. a family run experience that is wine, song and may get an escort from His two hobbies were collecting and restoring food for the soul. two generations of the vintage 1960s motorcycles and making wine in his backyard in Orange County. The Malbec Estate A destination for On a trip to buy fruit in Temecula one week- Maria Doffo runs the Malbec Estate Airbnb motorcyclists MICHELE STUEVEN end, he came across an old school house next tucked behind the Doffo Winery, surrounded to a pepper tree similar to his native Argentina by palm and pepper trees. The 2,903 square foot and bought the property as a place to retire. house on 2.5 acres of gated property includes Together with his son Damian, Doffo spent four bedrooms and 2.5 full bathrooms with a two years planting vines, laying irrigation sys- private backyard including a furnished pool- tems for cabernet sauvignon, syrah, cab franc, side area, fire pit, BBQ area, bar, pool, jacuzzi zinfandel and malbec varietals. His intention and is a reasonable deal at about $533 a night for was to retire and make a little wine. He never up to eight guests. It’s located five to 10 minutes expected it to become a full-fledged award- from the other 60 wineries in the area, hot air winning estate winery and event space, excel- balloon rides, vineyard horseback riding and ling at the Malbec varietal. 15 minutes from Old Town. Breakfast platters, His obsession with wine is matched only by his poolside charcuterie and other items can be love of collecting motorcycles, which is evident ordered through Vanessa Doffo’s FYS catering. by the Doffo Winery’s tasting room’s décor. The warehouse space displays just a fraction of the Wine Tours And Tasting more than 300 bikes he’s collected over the years Starting with a glass of sparkling Paulina, alongside rows of signature wine bottles. Plasma your tour will be guided by a Doffo family screens of live motorcycle racing line the walls, member whenever possible. The tour takes you reflecting the family’s passion for bikes. through the vineyard and details farming prac- Wine flights in the tasting room are gener- tices and family history. It also includes some of ous and affordable, all made from hand-picked the production area and the MotoDoffo collec- COURTESY DOFFO WINERY
MUSIC are trying to get ahead and swim upstream the album, is “The Numbers.” The song 5 RISE UP, RISE the whole time. I feel like this is a lot of what works as a reminder that people are a ve- our fans were communicating to me, and hicle for change. Power comes from below. not just here in America but all over the “People really decide what happens,” L A W E E K LY world. I realized that we have been living in he says. “Our leaders can be compelled to a very tumultuous political climate for the make changes if enough of us demand those last four years.” changes. You certainly don’t need a Rise ABOVE, RISE For an American political punk band Against song to tell you that. We have a rich like Rise Against, the last four years have history of social movements that all started offered plenty of lyrical inspiration, low with one person or a group of people raising | June 4 - June 10, 2021 | W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M hanging fruit and easy targets. But McIlrath their hand saying, ‘I’m sick of this and want wanted to tackle the disease, rather than the it to change.’ 100 years ago, women didn’t symptoms. The bulk of the work for the new have the right to vote in this country. That AGAINST album was done in 2019 and it was intended was something that people fought for. So for a pre-election release. The pandemic ‘The Numbers’ is just a reminder of that.” knocked those plans to the ground. It’s a truth that McIlrath takes seriously, “It led to me way overthinking every- amplified by the fact that he’s the father of thing,” the frontman says. “I think I had two teenage girls. As he’s forced to think a picture in my head of what this record hard about the day that they leave home, he would be, and when it would come out. also wonders what sort of world he’s sending Political punks offer dark themes but a hopeful future When I realized it wasn’t coming out before the election, it was going to be a post- them out into. “It’s a lot more of a real thing now that my BY BRETT CALLWOOD election record, I thought ‘wait, is that going kids are a little older,” he says. “I want them to be a bad idea? Should we get this thing to have the experiences that I had if they Y out?’ When that came and went, I realized were good experiences. I want them to avoid that ‘no, we’re singing about things that are bad experiences. The world seems a little ou can always count on Chicago dystopian futures, and wretched political a little more timeless than just an election, bit like uncharted territory and so all those political punks Rise Against to situations. Even the title of the new album a president or an administration. This things were weighing on me when I was offer timely commentary. Their appears nihilistic. There’s more to it than record still very much makes sense.’ But writing songs like ‘Nowhere Generation’ last album, 2017’s Wolves, came that. then I went through the same thing with the and an awful lot of the stuff that pops up on out six months into Trump’s “Nowhere Generation is speaking to a pandemic and the lockdown, the rebirth of this record.” term, with songs such as “House on Fire” generation of people who feel a little bit the Black Lives Matter movement and the But still, McIlrath is feeling hopeful. The and “Mourning in Amerika” gifting us some invisible, and lost in the years of society,” riots around the world. I thought the same band just announced a tour that starts at the much-needed perspective. What the band McIlrath says. “People who feel like they’re thing: so much has changed in the world, is end of July and, while he’s yet to figure out has always done, from their 2001 debut The running a race but the finish line just keeps this record even still relevant to what’s hap- what those shows will look like, he’s happy Unravelling, is spell out the problems we moving on them. It’s giving an ear to those pening? Again, overthinking got the better that there is a light at the end of this damn face and then give hope. That’s what they’ve voices, and trying to listen in- of me because the more I tunnel. done yet again with new album Nowhere stead of dismissing the listened to the songs, I “The world looked totally different just Generation. complaints of people was like, we were talk- six weeks ago,” he says. “It could look total- “I think of Rise Against as a thing that will who ing about issues that ly different two months from now when we take you to a dark place, ask you to join us in were bubbling just finally get on the road. But I’m this dark place, but we’re never gonna leave beneath the sur- feeling pretty good about you there,” says frontman Tim McIlrath. face anyway.” it. It seems like things are “We won’t abandon you in the dark place. The latest trending in the right We’re gonna leave some breadcrumbs for single, and direction. Most people you to get out. We’ll come back into the the open- are taking the virus sunshine, and that’s when we’ll start ing track seriously, and people talking and thinking about how we on don’t want to go back change things so we don’t end up into lockdown whether living in that dark place. Dark- for health reasons or ness exists, and that despair will economic reasons. In exist on a Rise Against record, our world we’re vaccinated but I feel like our songs should be against everything from tu- like the arc of any good story. berculosis to polio, and It should lead you to a place this is something with a silver lining, lead you else that we’ve to a place where it’s not figured out how completely void of all to combat. All hope. That’s part of we need to do is the responsibility figure out how I feel as a song- to make sure writer but also everybody is how I feel as a on board. Then person.” we can look McIlrath at brighter describes future.” himself as Amen. an optimist, Rise something Against’s which Nowhere might Generation surprise album is those available from familiar June 4. They play with his the FivePoint Amphi- lyrics that CREDIT JASON SIEGEL theater in Irvine on deal with August 21.
6 ENTERTAINMENT into motivations and never had to consider the target audiences were children. still keeping her de-vil-ish. With fiendish per- formances and striking production, they more LA WEEKLY MOVIE & Which makes Cruella, the latest live action than succeed. take on a classic character angled at the dark | June 4 - June 10, 2021 | L A W E E K L Y comedy/goth crowd, so refreshing. The back- Halston / Netflix story here is bodacious but it has actual depth Ewan McGregor revisits the flamboyance TV REVIEWS and a twist you might not see coming, with and ghastly attitude he displayed as the villian complex characters that you’ll enjoy in spite of in Birds of Prey, the last Harley Quinn movie, their flaws. There’s no romance here whatso- for this un-likeable but nonetheless captivating ever, and yet, there are moments when Cruella take on Roy Halston, the American designer (Emma Stone, in one of her most charismatic who basically defined chic in the ‘70s. Seriously, The Friends Reunion Took Fawning Too Far; Cruella is portrayals ever) pulls at your heart strings. It’s to the actress’s credit that she does so as the sinister watch that movie before this, and tell us it’s not the same guy? a Devilish, Fashion-Filled Delight; Halston Turns Iconic two-tone tressed Cruella De Vil, but equally In this new biopic series Halston is preten- so as her meek and awkward alter-ego Estella. tious, at times nasty and impulsive to the point Designer into Couture Caricature; and Cruel Summer is a In 101 Dalmations (the cartoon and the live of seeming adolescent, but he had the talent to Hot Girl Whodunit action film from 1996 starring Glenn Close) we make up for it all. This Netflix series – executive didn’t know a lot about Cruella other than the produced and co-written by Ryan Murphy – is BY LINA LECARO fact that she wanted to kill puppies to make a so dazzling and unflinching in its portrayal of a fabulous fur coat. I, Tonya director Craig Gil- flawed but utterly fabulous figure, that you can lespie and writers Dana Fox and Tony McNa- forgive its faults as well. Murphy often walks mara clearly strove to humanize what’s essen- the line between substantive character study The Friends Reunion / HBO Max W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M – were and still are damn good, and that the tially been one of the craziest Disney villains in and cartoon-like portrait, especially when it For a show that was always very clear writing was clever, sexy and indeed, timeless- history. But even if they hadn’t, there’s enough comes to queer characters, and this series is about who it was for and what it was about, funny most of the time. Everything on Friends eye candy styling and raucous rivalry on screen no exception. The Friends Reunion (which premiered last just clicked and guest star Reese Witherspoon to delight regardless. But the fashion, backdrops and real life story night on HBO Max) was pretty all over the says, “each character is so distinct that they Set in ’70s London, Cruella unravels the here suck you in completely. We binged all five place. There was the candid walk-thru by cast could hold a television show all by themselves.” childhood of Estella, a girl with strange hair episodes in one long night and felt like we were members on the old set, a sit-down live talk In this way it is a lot like Cheers and Seinfeld, a and lots of moxie. When she sees her mother on a “contact high” watching the cocaine-fueled show thing with host James Corden, clips of potent ensemble with edge (re-watching a few die after falling off a balcony at a fancy gala, exploits of the designer and his friends includ- fans from around the world talking about the episodes last night after the special, I realized she loses her spark, blames herself and takes to ing Liza Minnelli (Krysta Rodriguez) and Elsa show’s impact, famous people (Lady Gaga and just how adult the humor could be, especially the streets, hooking up with two mischievous Peretti (Rebecca Dayan). Justin Bieber!) and co-star reflections, a game for ’90s network television). thieves and becoming roomies. Estella’s dream Director Daniel Minahan has a great eye, night memory test with the guys against the Last night’s love-fest glossed over a lot, was always to be a fashion designer and when capturing the glamour of New York and Studio gals, a table read-thru of a couple old episodes, though. The lack of diversity, Monica’s prob- she gets a job at Liberty of London as a clean- 54 (which we’ve all seen depicted hundreds and even a fashion show. It was weird and fun lematic fat suit, and Matthew Perry’s past – ing person, it ultimately leads her to a gig with of times by now) in a fresh yet gritty way. The but some segments definitely worked better hopefully not present – drug problems (so- Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), a series manages to be an aspirational escapist than others. cial media has been abuzz with speculation legendary designer who’s been in a slump and treat and a tragic cautionary tale at the same Friends ended 17 years ago and ran for 10 after he slurred a bit in the teaser last week; seeks the kind of edgy energy the young hope- time, and it resonates right now more than ever. years (making it 27 years old). I’m the same he seemed fine on the special, if a little low- ful displays when she goes rogue on a Liberty Halston may have sold his soul to JC Penney age as most of the cast are now, and I watched energy). window display. (and his name is slapped on any number of it every week with my own roommates at the The reunion’s everything-and-Monica’s- The Baroness is narcissistic, abrupt and ice- subpar products to this day), but as this series time, so it was relatable to some degree. As cre- kitchen-sink adulation was made for Friends cold. Her dynamic with Estella is a shameless reminds us, personal brands are more fluid ator Marta Kauffman shares in the special, the super-duper fans/stans, but it’s hard to believe reference to Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears than any one product or label, and time has comedy aimed to capture young adulthood that anyone (especially David Beckham, who Prada (and there are in fact, a few fierce Prada- a way of leveling out a legacy. Halston’s style- and that time in your life when your friends kisses major arse here) is still this passion- like ensembles on display worn by both char- defining hits ultimately resonated more than are your family. Did it reflect me and my crew? ate about the show today. There’s simply too acters) but it rings right because women have his misses. This Netflix project (and a few docs Not really. It was in New York and the gang much good stuff out there to give time to; to act that way to get ahead. Well they don’t out there) wouldn’t exist otherwise. could actually afford apartments in Manhat- stuff that’s fresher, wittier and cooler. A show actually, but as we saw in Maleficent and its tan without having to turn the living room about privileged NYC quasi-hipsters from the sequel, Disney always seems to need another Cruel Summer / Hulu into another bedroom. Everyone was white, ’90s can still be funny, but social media and villain to make its reconsidered protagonist less This Jessica Biel-produced teen drama obvi- straight, cute and reasonably well-adjusted/ streaming TV have changed things, even if distasteful by comparison. ously aims to toy with the viewer, weaving in problem-free. Okay, Phoebe was a wackjob, Botox makes everyone look like it hasn’t. And Thompson is effortless as The Baroness and and out of 1993, 1994 and 1995, during which Monica had OCD, Ross had ADD and prob- please: if anyone from the show is reading though her cruelty is cartoonishly over the top, times, main character Jeanette Turner (Chiara ably depression, Rachel was a narcissist, Joey this, the reunion was nice, but no one needs it matches what ensues – a riotous back and Aurelia) goes from nerdy 15-year-old to blos- was a fuckboy and Chandler was a dick – but a reboot, remake, revamp, re-imagining or forth romp filled with heists, grand events and soming 16-year-old to outcast 17-year-old. they were lovable at the same time (and they regurgitative next generation Friends project, outlandish runway take-overs that capture an Things go south after popular girl Kate Wallis’ clearly loved each other) and that made all the at least not for a while. If the show has to be anarchy-in-the-U.K.-style energy. The film is (Olivia Holt) is abducted by the local school’s difference. Just like it does in real life. “on a break,” it should be a long one, like at set around the time of what the press materi- vice principal and Kate accuses Jeanette of The reunion piled on the praise to an almost least 17 more years. als call “the punk revolution” which makes knowing about the whole thing. She certainly embarrassing level and I’m sure I’m not alone the lack of a Vivienne Westwood mention has motive, as she almost completely takes the in admitting that it made me wonder if the Cruella / Disney + a glaring omission, especially as the iconic golden girl’s place when she’s gone, dating Kate’s show really deserved it. Was it I Love Lucy, It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly Disney’s designer’s attitude and aesthetic are an obvi- boyfriend Jamie (Froy Gutierrez) and hanging Cheers, Seinfeld great? Never thought so. Un- villains became more interesting than their ous inspiration for everything Stella/Cruella with her girlfriends. Jeanette denies it all and like some of the celeb fans on the show who princesses, but somewhere along the way the creates. The styling, makeup and hair are stun- says it’s just jealousy; but she did have a key shared that they regularly watch syndicated company’s marketing geniuses figured out ning, regardless. to the abductor’s house, so... who’s telling the repeats, I never have. I won’t change the chan- that ominous figures driven by revenge could To this end, the Cruella soundtrack is pretty truth? nel if the other aforementioned three shows be just as aspirational – at least in a figurative incredible too; we’re talking The Stooges, The Each episode thus far has revealed another are on, but Friends never felt classic in the same sense – as beautiful ones driven by love. With Stones, The Doors and two Ike & Tina Turner piece of the puzzle, and the series is clearly de- way, it actually felt really dated. some contemporary exceptions, the goal for covers (“Whole Lotta Love” and “Come To- signed to make the viewer switch back and forth Still, the table read-thru of the Ross and Ra- female characters in the Disney universe has gether”), all of which informs both the narrative in surmising guilt. We honestly aren’t sure who chel first kiss episode and the ugly naked guy always been about snaring Prince Charming and the movie’s splashy montages in a way that’s we believe yet, but thanks to solid acting by the episode, plus the dissection of the couch “piv- (or Prince whoever) and living happily ever on the nose and music video-like, but maintains young leads, careful character development and ot” episode (which had me cackling, again) after. Its animal driven animated films are an- a wicked edge and sensibility, especially for a mostly, the period soundtrack, we’re invested confirmed that yes, these actors – Courteney other story, but even those tend to idealize in- Disney vehicle. This duality is in fact the essence enough to watch it unravel each week. Hope- Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeB- nocence and oversimplify evil, creating a black of the film, which aims to give its anti-heroine fully, the truth will be revealed by Summer. It’d lanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer and white narrative that never went too deep a relatable rationale for her provocations while be cruel if it wasn’t.
CANNABIS much of it a state-legal medical crop. So at least part of what we were being told last week was community by providing justice for wrongs they may have or will face. 7 BIDEN RAMPS UP we’ll go after the real bad guys. The DOJ noted some of the programs un- But is that the case? Over the last 50 years, der the plan will include FBI analytics being L A W E E K LY how many nonviolent offenders of color have provided to investigations at the local level, found their way to a jail cell for every real king- ATF agents embedding with local homi- ENFORCEMENT AS pin taken off the street. And always, someone cide units and The United States Marshals stepped in to fill the voids left by major en- Service, in coordination with state and lo- forcement actions over the years. Regardless cal authorities, conducting fugitive sweeps of the feds’ tactics, the black market carried throughout the country with a focus on war- | June 4 - June 10, 2021 | W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M on. The borders were just closed for a year and rants for homicide, aggravated assault with DRUG WAR TURNS 50 nobody ran out of drugs. a firearm, aggravated robbery, robbery with While transnational drug organizations a firearm, rape or aggravated sexual assault. were put in the crosshairs again by the DEA, And we want to emphasize we’re not hat- the wider plan suggests building trust and ing on the grants and prevention program- legitimacy in the community as the first step. ming planned in all this, which should be A couple of weeks ahead of the 50th Anniversary of the In the age of militarized drug raids and smart- a constant conversation unattached to this War on Drugs starting, Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is phones putting the worst police interactions on blast, it could prove tricky. But the DOJ response action. But again, for all the bad guys out there, picking up enforcement. believes meaningful law enforcement engage- there are concerns the low-hanging fruit will ment with the community and accountability end up filling the basket. They’ll likely end up BY JIMI DEVINE are key. One might argue accountability in being street dealers created by the prohibition itself is a meaningful engagement with the of drugs who are not willing to flip the on the next guy in the chain. Much of the time participants in the victimless crime of sup- ply and demand, but certainly not always. Some will flip, but many will be a nonviolent offender who wasn’t actually a threat to soci- ety ending up in a cage. Nevertheless, they’ll contribute to the eventual “dangerous people off the streets” number we’ll see from this wave of enforcement. Maritza Perez, Director of the Office of National Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, explained how the drug war has been waged in the name of preventing violent crime nu- merous times. “Associating ‘violence’ with drugs is the old- est scare tactic in the drug war’s playbook. This goes back to the same racist tropes used to villainize Chinese immigrants for their opium use in the late 1800’s, Mexican immigrants for using marijuana after the Mexican Revolution, and Black people for heroin and crack-cocaine in the present iteration of the drug war that has been going on for the last 50 years,” Perez told L.A. Weekly, “And the reality is—each and every time—we have not seen our communi- ties get any safer. In fact, it’s been very much the opposite, with Black, Latinx and Indig- enous communities completely devastated as a result. This administration doubling down on these same enforcement-first approaches, under the guise of fighting ‘violent crime,’ is BY NARESH777 / SHUTTERSTOCK unconscionable.” A The War on Drugs turns 50 on June 18th. s the 50 anniversary of the War the earliest violence interruption strategies to on Drugs approaches later this post-conviction reentry services.” month, Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has announced it will This all sounds well and good. But it quickly seemed like it may just be another extension of ANXIOUS? DEPRESSED? violent crime. be revamping its efforts to reduce the War on Drugs framed as an effort against violent crime. RELATIONSHIP ISSUES? Attorney General Merrick B. Garland re- “Violent crime is irrefutably linked to the Receive therapy in your home. vealed the new DOJ plans last week. 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In this endeavor, we will engage our was already targeting its resources at the most communities as critical partners,” Garland violent offenders, just look at the decades he- noted, “And through our grant-making, we licopters spent circling the hills of Northern will support programming at all stages – from California in search of cannabis, eventually The clinic of the Fuller School of Psychology
8 Breonna’s Garden poster art | June 4 - June 10, 2021 | L A W E E K L Y W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M FEATURE Coin Artist EQUITY IN NFTS F473 (Fate) Is the Cryptoart Space the Utopia We Were Promised? BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT T here’s no shortage of conversa- medium at least, have entered the chat. tions both on and off Clubhouse Also, some artists have been able to suc- about NFTs and cryptoart. But ceed financially, even wildly so, outside the most urgent, and the most the gallery realm; most have not. There interesting, are not the conversa- have also been concerning trends replicat- tions about money. Rather, they are the ones ing the racial and gender biases endemic around professional and creative freedom, in the traditional art world and import- access and inclusion. The cryptoverse is a ing them into this new space. This risks promised utopia, an antidote to the ivory repeating mistakes of the past, the kind tower, market-driven art world with its well- with which the traditional art world is documented preference for work made by currently reckoning. white men. Cryptoart is meant to be a set- The good news that a number of women, ting where every viewer/collector is on a non-binary and racially diverse artists level playing field regardless of fluency in are currently raising their voices and lift- artspeak, and every artist is properly re- ing up ideas in a move to protect a truly warded for their talents. So far though, it international and inclusive community. hasn’t fully turned out that way. This summer’s L.A. Art Show will feature The NFT boom has indeed elevated the a curated section of women NFT artists, practices of artists who have been work- and the show’s overall theme is Women ing in the digital, internet and blockchain in Technology. On Clubhouse alone you spaces for years. There is no doubt that will find dozens of thoughtful and high- an ocean of pluralistic voices, in terms of spirited rooms, forums and talks across
Gucci Aria JOSIE BELLINI Genesis 9 L A W E E K LY | June 4 - June 10, 2021 | W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M LETHABO HUMA Gogo (Grandmother) and Me clubs like Women’s NFT Art Coven, NFT ers, coders, artists and the family of Bre- Women, NFT Asian Women, Femme onna Taylor to build the joyful Breonna’s Kesh Osalas Table NFTs, CryptoVixens, Crypto Basel, and Garden memorial project; and she’s work- The Art Club. Similar groups exist to ad- ing on a Women in NFTs Conference in dress issues of race in this space as well; L.A. and on Clubhouse for around July 1. there’s a lot to be learned in rooms like The Weekly caught up with Lady Phe in Black NFT Art, AfricanNFTCommunity, L.A. to talk about how ideas of freedom BLK NFT Network, Black BitClout, and and community can be embedded into Crypto Noir. the fabric of this new galaxy within the One of the most high-profile practi- cryptoverse, how the projects happen- tioners in this dimension has been Lady ing this month all fit into that scheme of PheOnix, a peripatetic curator and pro- equity, and what it was like creating the ducer across cultural spaces from Crypto Christie’s show. “Proof of Sovereignty was Fashion Week to Crypto Sports Week and Christie’s first curated foray into the NFT Crypto Basel. She and her collaborators space, and among other things, the art- at Universe Contemporary are always ists keep 100% of the hammer price,” she looking for the progressive edge of the says, which is all but unheard of. So, does art and technology conversation. She’s she think that’s a long-term investment in the curator of the current show and sale the NFT market on the part of Christie’s? at Christie’s, Proof of Sovereignty; her team Some kind of trust-building exercise with has created a special IRL and AR hybrid the community? Or is it just them learn- environment debuting at Tribeca Film ing some of the (many) ways that working Festival Immersive, working with design- with living artists in the primary market is
10 Tamiko Thiel Unexpected growth | June 4 - June 10, 2021 | L A W E E K L Y W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M different from what they usually do? “They when Lady Phe connected with Ju’Niyah were founded in 1766, remember, so they Palmer, Breonna’s sister, at first just think- might be slow to change,” she says. “But ing about a web-based site, a place for an there are some there who are eager for that uplifting tribute to Breonna expressed in change. We are all learning together right beauty and joy. Soon they were collaborat- now, across multiple generations and dif- ing with Creative Director and renowned ferent understandings of what art means, new media artist Sutu (of the EyeJack app) of what it even is,” she says of the experi- because the role of technology in this in ence. “Anyway, it’s an exciting show!” both the experience and in access to it is so Proof of Sovereignty features artists like essential. Premiering this month in New IX Shells, Kesh, Josie Bellini, Tamiko York at Tribeca Film Festival Immersive, Thiel, Auriea Harvey and Coin Artist the AR experience will soon be available leading the charge along with familiar to everyone everywhere. names like Jenny Holzer, Nam June Paik, The planned Women in NFTs confer- Guy Marshall, Urs Fischer and the House ence is also a hybrid event, happening of Gucci. Its diversity of age, race, and both on CH and in Los Angeles, for sev- gender is embodied and manifested, and eral days right around July 1st. Acclaimed the works themselves cohere around an curator and activist Mashonda Tifrere aesthetic and narrative taste for the won- from ArtLeadHER is opening a physical drous, the gorgeous, the surreal and the gallery on Sunset on that date, and while sublime. But it’s also an enacted format, the summit’s first week will be on CH, the as the title implies, of empowerment for rest will be at the space. Lady Phe believes the artists. “This is the first of many,” she that idea shares like this are essential mov- says, “and everyone will be richly blessed ing forward. “It’s about consciously de- by reciprocity.” signing the world, doing it once, doing it “Breonna’s Garden is the most fulfilling right the first time,” and learning from our in some ways,” says Lady Phe. Described mistakes so we won’t have to repeat them as “a framework for veneration,” the and fix it later. Even writer Jerry Saltz can project uses augmented reality to create see the problem, recently remarking in a a lush and spiritual space, a living garden talk that, “Right now it’s an unfortunately in bloom, replete with the music and but- male world, with some really strange be- terflies Breonna loved. The project started havior. Otherwise, it’s a tremendous open June 18, 2021 Nancy Baker Cahill Contract Killers LtoR - Judicial, Civic, and Financial. Video_AR Performance
beautiful world.” Nancy Baker Cahill is a renowned artist Urs Fischer Chaos #17 Pardon 11 working in the AR/VR/XR/NFT space who is also well-grounded in traditional physi- L A W E E K LY cal mediums and site-specificity -- and equally suspicious of the dominance of the tech-bro dynamic in the present con- versation. She produces works “located” or elsewise meaningfully tethered to geo- locations, as well as portable deployable | June 4 - June 10, 2021 | W W W. L A W E E K L Y. C O M works that live in the shared immersive space of your phone -- such as via her platform, 4thWallApp. Her most recent project Contract Killers deftly weaves all these threads together in a single series -- one whose story, technology, imagery, actions, locations, social histories, physical objects, and even the smart contracts and cryptocurrency itself, are all part of the gestalt. As it interrogates the infrastructure of self-determinism, the end goal is equity. “The rule of capitalism is that you have to prove you can make money so you can get the microphone so you can start to truly subvert effectively. Right now that’s the only path, but we can still choose to protect the vulnerable,” says Cahill. Contract Killers ex- ists not only as a template for how to mint and for her that’s about accountability. By work independent of large, increasingly insisting on it for all her transactions, the coroportized publishing platforms, one platforms are forced to accommodate her enabling the artist to exert more control and, as she says, “that’s how you change over the carbon imprint of their work and things.” Like Bob Dylan demanding his the currency. The piece is also a conceptual royalties, in standing up for oneself, one emblem decrying all manner of broken so- can change the paradigm for everyone. “I cial contracts. “What is the promise of the have a critical engagement with the tools blockchain when there are no consequences of technology,” Cahill says. “But I believe for breaking contracts? We are used to stiff- in the potential of this unexplored terri- ing artists, and we all want that to stop, but tory. The promise has so far failed to be how do DAO and accountability interact, enacted, however, and ultimately, partak- beyond the honor system?” ing in a broken system isn’t the point. We Classifieds Cahill uses the currency Tezos because require a true dismantling. What does the of its drastically reduced carbon footprint, art world need more than real change?” Jenny Holzer present CA. Rqmts: Master’s in Bus, Hyperion System Manager university environ. 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