PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
BEST MISSING LINK: 2ND CITY COUNCIL GALLERY Some shows play off the actual 2nd City Council Gallery space better than others, but at its best this place is hard to equal—for its link to antiquity and to old Long Beach. You’ll remember: This place used to be Wille’s Tin Shop. It was [...]

SANDOW BIRK’S “THE LIBERATION OF BAGHDAD”
According to the LA Times, a mural by Long Beach artist Sandow Birk (who we’ve written about here, here and here) has apparently rankled more than a few residents of Boyle Heights. The LAPD-commissioned mural was created for the department’s Hollenbeck station but has yet to be installed because of [...]

Artist Sandow Birk will autograph the book based on his latest show, “The Depravities of War”
The size changes but Sandow Birk’s nightmarish Iraq war vision, “The Depravities of War,” is still gripping. Even writ small, in a book at a book signing Saturday at DDR Projects.
How could it not be? It’s our story even if [...]

The Depravities of War: Sandow Birk’s newest exhibit of war-torn oils and reworked post-modern classics opens today at Cal State Long Beach.
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach 90840. 562.985.5761; csulb.edu/uam.

Crystal Antlers: Long Beach Blue Cheer out in Pomona with These Arms Are Snakes. 7pm. $10-12.
GLASS HOUSE 200 W Second St, Pomona 91766. 909.865.3802; [...]

Sandow Birk gets ugly

SANDOW BIRK’S “THE LIBERATION OF BAGHDAD”
Poor Lynndie England! If you’re Paris Hilton, you can move past the night-vision sex scenes—or at least flood the universe with other images of yourself to make the night-vision recede into the unending tide. But Ms. England can’t show up on a thousand red carpets until we [...]