Critic, poet, and professor Bruce Hainley has written poignantly about Los Angeles art, and art around the world. His essays on William E. Jones, Tom Friedman and Trisha Donnelly probe visual culture with gaping honesty. Hainley, who has been a contributing editor at ArtForum and an instructor in

Pop, Sensual

France's David Guetta belongs to the sparkling wave of DJs that combine Daft Punk's sleek house music with a pinch of electroclash's punch. Guetta had been DJing around France playing popular tunes, but his brain was particularly rewired in 1987 when he heard a Farley Jackmaster Funk track on French

Bright, Joyful, Playful, Pop, Psychedelic, Techno/house/big beat

MGMT was formed in 2002 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut during Ben Goldwasser's and Andrew VanWyngarden's freshman year. The band was originally called "The Management but shortened their name to "MGMT" after discovering another artist using it. MGMT's sound has been situated at

Playful, Pop

Studied at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York; New York Studio School; New York University Lives and works in New York, New York The reductive painting made by Christopher Wool pares down artistic expression not in order to reveal an essential truth but rather to make the viewer aware of hi

Abstract, Figurative painting, Playful, Pop, Pop art, Text art