“Even though we didn’t have any evidence, we were completely
convinced we were doing the right thing, and that everybody else was
full of shit.” That’s what now-legendary artist Robert Irwin says of
the early days of L.A.’s contemporary art scene, remembered
vividly in Morgan Neville’s fun, fast-paced,
jazz-and-testosterone-fueled new documentary, The Cool School.
Everybody’s in there, and there’s even a black-and-white, Broadway Danny Rose–style reunion of the old
guys—Irwin, Craig Kauffman, Ken Price, et al. (Northwest Film
Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 329-2629. 7:15 and 9:15 pm, $5–$8.50, Feb
22–28.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...