Steffie Nelson
Articles by Steffie Nelson:
Exene Cervenka
I’m sorry I made you do this; it’s gonna be horrible,” says Exene Cervenka, sitting in a booth at Denny’s in Santa Monica with a cup of coffee and a slice of peanut-butter pie. It’s just after 3 pm, and the punk-rock legend by night, schoolteacher and librarian by day, is apologizing in advance
REBIRTH OF THE COOL
The Ferus Gallery made Los Angeles safe for modern art
In the spring of 2006, the Centre Pompidou in Paris launched the splashiest exhibition of L.A. modern art the world has seen to date, “Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Artistic Capital,” featuring 350 works by 85 artists. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flew in for [...]