The title of Flash Art s fall issue, THE ALWAYS ALREADY, refers to a space that belongs to all of us to the issue’s artists, authors, and readers. It is a space in which one can listen closely to an artwork, to the solitary and rarified thoughts that leak out. Eventually, those thoughts become a kind of literature. The entangled, gorgeously convoluted relationship between contemporary art and literature curls and spins throughout this entire issue.
LAST TUESDAY NIGHT, the LA art world converged on Western Avenue just south of Melrose among a strip of futon stores, smoke shops, and gas stations to witness the unveiling of David Zwirner’s new outpost. The block was mobbed as I arrived with the artist Larry Johnson. “Oh my god,” he whimpered with incredulity. “This is where it is? I spent my whole life on Western Avenue . . .”Located at the conflux of Hollywood (a few blocks from the Paramount Lot) and Koreatown, this stretch of Western was once a hotbed for seedy gay bars (Larry favored the Black Lite) and still is for sex work (it’s not
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