Draft:Art Tavana

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Art Tavana
Occupationjournalist, author, etc.
Website
www.clippings.me/arttavana

Art Tavana is an American journalist and author from the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. He initially achieved notoriety as a music journalist at L.A. Weekly.[1], covering everything from the Burger Records[2] scene to the reunion of Guns N' Roses.

As a columnist at L.A. Weekly and Playboy, Tavana won an L.A. Press Club Award at the 59th SoCal Journalism Awards.[3]

On April 1, 2016, Tavana became the only journalist to attend and review the Guns N' Roses reunion show at the Troubadour. The review[4] (published in the L.A. Weekly) went viral and helped Tavana secure a book deal with ECW Press.

His first published book was Goodbye, Guns N' Roses [5] (2021), which was described by PopMatters as an "important contribution to conversations about the legacy of hard rock and the ways we reckon with problematic art."[6]

Career[edit]

Between 2013 and 2017, Tavana wrote a weekly column for L.A. Weekly. His profile[7] of former porn actress and author Sasha Grey was nominated for an L.A. Press Club Award. Grey commented on the notable profile by stating, "Who is Sasha Grey anyway? I'm glad they [Art Tavana] wrote this story because maybe I'll find out."

Tavana has written features for Pitchfork[8], VICE[9], Spin, Billboard[10], The A.V. Club[11], Paste, and Consequence of Sound[12], among others. In 2014, Tavana profiled the reclusive internet celebrity and "Hollywood Heiress"[13] Lauren Alice Avery in a cover story for L.A. Weekly, which would mark one of Alice Avery's final public appearances.

Tavana's coverage focused predominately on profiling female musicians such as Colleen Green[14], The Death Valley Girls[15], The Vivian Girls[16], and L.A. Witch[17], the Go-Go's[18], and Lana Del Rey.[19]

However, on June 17, 2016, Tavana published a provocative essay on indie-pop star and "indie sleaze" icon[20] Sky Ferreira titled "Sky Ferreira's Sex Appeal is What Pop Music Needs Right Now," which received a wide-range of criticism[21], including a response[22] from Ferreira herself. Author Bret Easton Ellis would defend[23] Tavana in an "excoriating monologue,"[24] describing Tavana's critics as "snowflakes" and "social justice warriors." Tavana's writing was later discussed in a chapter of Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction, White[25] (2019).

Between 2017 and 2019, Tavana was a columnist at Playboy, where covered the emerging culture wars with profiles and interviews with everyone from Fox News' Tomi Lahren to provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Tavana conducted the final interview with legendary political satirist and former National Lampoon editor P.J. O'Rourke[26], who passed away on February 15, 2022.[27]

That same year, Tavana was hired as the Arts & Culture editor of The Spectator[28]. Tavana's work has been discussed by BBC Radio 5, TMZ, The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast[29], Business Insider[30], Nylon[31], and New York Magazine[32].

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tavana, Art (August 5, 2014). "Why L.A. is More Punk Than New York".
  2. ^ Tavana, Art (May 5, 2014). "Burger a-Go-Go: A Punk Rock Lilith Fair?". Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  3. ^ Club, Los Angeles Press (June 26, 2017). "59th SoCal Journalism Awards Winners Announced". Los Angeles Press Club. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  4. ^ Tavana, Art (April 1, 2016). "Here's What It Felt Like Seeing Guns N' Roses at the Troubadour".
  5. ^ "Goodbye, Guns N' Roses: The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America's Most Polarizing Band". ECW Press. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  6. ^ "Music Journalist Art Tavana Gets in the Ring with Guns n' Roses". www.popmatters.com. June 3, 2021. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  7. ^ Tavana, Art (May 26, 2016). "Who is Sasha Grey? My Day with L.A.'s Most Misunderstood Sex Symbol".
  8. ^ Nast, Condé (September 30, 2015). "Democracy of Sound: Is GarageBand Good for Music?". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  9. ^ Tavana, Art (February 17, 2015). "Colleen Green Is the Coolest of the Anti-Cool on 'I Want To Grow Up'". Vice. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  10. ^ Tavana, Art (December 22, 2018). "The Divisive Legacy & Surprising Future of Guns N' Roses' 'Chinese Democracy'". Billboard. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  11. ^ ""Sweet Child O' Mine" marked a turning point for Guns N' Roses". The A.V. Club. April 11, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  12. ^ "I Saw Ty Segall Four Days in a Row, and Here Is What Happened". September 3, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  13. ^ Tavana, Art (March 28, 2016). "The Night I Was "Kidnapped" by an Instagram-Famous Hollywood Heiress".
  14. ^ Tavana, Art (June 27, 2013). "Colleen Green: DIY Rocker, Unemployed Stoner".
  15. ^ Tavana, Art (February 27, 2014). "Five More Awesome Female-Fronted L.A. Bands".
  16. ^ Tavana, Art (February 17, 2014). "The Vivian Girls' Final Show in L.A.!".
  17. ^ "The Cult of L.A. Witch | Tom Tom Magazine". September 5, 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  18. ^ Tavana, Art (December 21, 2016). "Why the Hell Aren't the Go-Go's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?".
  19. ^ Tavana, Art (March 2, 2024). "Lana Del Rey: In Praise of a Difficult Woman". Arc Digital. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  20. ^ Pirovic, Jasmine (February 23, 2022). "Sky Ferreira is a well-seasoned icon of indie sleaze style". RUSSH. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  21. ^ Carpentier, Megan (June 22, 2016). "Sky Ferreira has a talent for more than looking sexy – despite one critic's crush". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  22. ^ Planes, Pigeons and. "Sky Ferreira Responds to Sexist Article: "I'm more than my sex appeal or my knockers"". Complex. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  23. ^ Ellis, Bret Easton (August 4, 2016). "Bret Easton Ellis weighs in on the 'snowflake generation'". LAmag. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  24. ^ "Read Bret Easton Ellis' excoriating monologue on social justice warriors". The Independent. August 10, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  25. ^ Ellis, Bret Easton (April 12, 2019). "A First Look at the New Bret Easton Ellis Book Everyone's Talking About". LAmag. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  26. ^ "Playboy Magazine". www.playboy.com. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  27. ^ Legaspi, Althea (February 15, 2022). "P.J. O'Rourke, Celebrated Journalist and Conservative Satirist, Dead at 74". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  28. ^ Tavana, Art (December 20, 2022). "Cleopatra still dazzles sixty years later". The Spectator World. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  29. ^ Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (Podcast Series 2013) - IMDb. Retrieved April 6, 2024 – via www.imdb.com.
  30. ^ Lesniara, Tomasz. "A discontinued Lana Del Rey necklace has gone viral, with people selling them for over $1,000". Business Insider. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  31. ^ "The Obsessive Virality Of Lana Del Rey Merchandise". Nylon. March 20, 2023. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  32. ^ "Comments: Week of June 19, 2023". New York Magazine. June 19, 2023. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
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