It's totally cliquish, it's true. What happened is the Cal-Arts students do have a sense of community. Art Center students do. But the UCLA students, though, felt that they were completely lost when they came out of school, and they're just. . . . Two years ago, when the Dennis Anderson Gallery opened, that became a place where everyone sort of hung out.
Magazines are necessary here to stimulate ideas and let everyone know what's happening around town.
They get afraid of the idea of regionalism, which is too bad. Although the scene has changed so much when you think. I mean there's so many New York people showing now. And there's so many L.A. people showing in New York. And so, yes, it's quite different.