Eli Diner is a writer and critic based in Los Angeles.
Eli Diner
Articles
We Are the Whirled
Eli Diner endures the Divine Wrath of AI fireworks art at the Coliseum, courtesy of C(AI) Guo-Qiang.
What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy
Eli Diner probes his Dome trying to Intuit why anyone would sink four billion dollars into the L.A. Clippers infrastructure.
Outside the Lucky Few
Eli Diner joins the vandals, metalheads, and nitrous ballooners in viewing Kevin Bouton-Scott’s Downtown L.A. painting retrospective.
Rebranding a Hill
Eli Diner witnesses patrons refusing to pay for their own art (why should they?) at the Brick gallery’s Allan Sekula–estate book sale.
Quality Control
At the Lucy Bull opening’s after-party, Eli Diner assesses the state of criticism, L.A. art, and the ridiculous way collectors are treated.
Agreeable Objects: On Ken Price
In Her Fashion: Lisa Chaney's "Coco Chanel"
as any devotee might tell you, the woman makes a slippery subject.
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