{"id":2338457,"date":"2026-03-20T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2338457"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:51:19","slug":"how-to-have-the-best-sunday-in-l-a-according-to-kenny-scharf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-to-have-the-best-sunday-in-l-a-according-to-kenny-scharf\/","title":{"rendered":"How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Kenny Scharf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is no such thing as a day of rest for artist Kenny Scharf, not even Sunday. \u201cI wake up super early. It\u2019s still dark outside,\u201d the Los Angeles native says.<\/p>\n

Rising before the sun anchors his active day. \u201cI always have to keep moving,\u201d Scharf says. \u201cOtherwise, I\u2019ll get very depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

An avid hiker and swimmer, Scharf, 67, also maintains a disciplined yoga practice and cycles daily from his Culver City home to his Inglewood studio. There almost everything serves as a canvas, including painted trash doubling as decor and the silkscreened couch on which he\u2019s seated.<\/p>\n

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In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like to waste good paint and silkscreen ink. Why wash it? We apply it everywhere until we use it up,\u201d Scharf says.<\/p>\n

Scharf, who grew up in the Valley before making his way to New York City, first gained acclaim in the \u201880s East Village art scene alongside his friends and contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, his former roommate. The trio also befriended Andy Warhol, who predicted Scharf\u2019s fame.<\/p>\n

Renowned for his self-coined \u201cpop surrealism,\u201d Scharf often populates his bold, colorful work with grinning cartoon faces, elastic blobs, and sci-fi creatures floating through cosmic landscapes. Anxieties about overconsumption and environmental degradation lie beneath the playfulness.<\/p>\n

Like their creator, Scharf\u2019s works are always on the move, either rolling down the street on the cars he\u2019s painted \u2014 featured in his recently published book \u201cKarbombz!\u201d<\/u><\/a> \u2014 or traveling to forthcoming exhibitions in Wuhan, Tokyo and Paris.<\/p>\n

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.<\/i><\/p>\n

5:30 a.m.: Wake up and feed the cats.<\/b><\/p>\n

My cats, Cutie and Socks \u2014 one\u2019s a tabby and the other is a tuxedo cat \u2014 wake me up by mewing and walking on me. They\u2019re like, \u201cHey, I\u2019m hungry.\u201d So I get up and crack open the cans. They like that disgusting, smelly canned food. And then they go out into the yard.<\/p>\n

I got the cats because I went to New York for a show. I was gone for five days and I live next to a park, so there are a lot of animals. I came back and my entire house was overrun by mice. I was like, \u201cWhat the hell am I gonna do? I need cats.\u201d The mice are gone and now I have these cats. They\u2019re so cute and so much fun. They take over my life.<\/p>\n

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6 a.m.: Detox<\/b><\/p>\n

I make lemon and hot water. It\u2019s a good way to start the day and clear out the toxins. Right now, I have a lot of citrus because Ed Ruscha\u2019s studio is across the street from my house, and in the back of the studio he has a citrus farm. I go there, especially during this time of year, and get bags of citrus. It\u2019s like a farm community in the middle of L.A. I love L.A. because you can surround yourself with trees and gardens and kind of pretend that you\u2019re not living in a giant metropolitan area.<\/p>\n

8:30 a.m.: Iyengar yoga <\/b><\/p>\n

An Iyengar yoga instructor comes to my house. I find Iyengar is great for aging. You use ropes and gravity to hang and do different things, using your body weight so you can relax into the positions. I also have a swing to go upside down on. When people walk into my living room, they go, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on here?\u201d because of the ropes on the wall.<\/p>\n

In the summer, I\u2019ll go to the beach in Venice<\/b> and swim in the ocean. It\u2019s wonderful when I\u2019m out in the water. It\u2019s cathartic and cleansing, and sometimes I see dolphins. I\u2019ll go early in the morning before the crowds come.<\/p>\n

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11:30 a.m.: Mar Vista Farmers\u2019 Market<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s fun to go there with my daughter Zena, who\u2019s a chef, and my grandkids. We stroll around and get food. All the food stands are delicious. I grew up here in L.A., so I\u2019m into Mexican food. I don\u2019t really want to eat American food. I\u2019m not into hamburgers. I want all the stuff with the culture. I like hot and spicy.<\/p>\n

I also buy apples and berries, whatever I can\u2019t grow, because I grow my own food at home.<\/p>\n

And I buy stuff from an Indian man who sells Chyawanprash, which is kind of a jam. It\u2019s really concentrated and like an elixir. He also sells Shilajit, which almost looks like tar. You put a little bit under your tongue and it dissolves, and it\u2019s got like every single mineral in it.<\/p>\n

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2 p.m.: Painting at the studio<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m painting seven days a week, but I really love coming here on Sundays because nobody\u2019s here and the phone doesn\u2019t ring. Sometimes, my granddaughter, Lua, will come. She paints. Upstairs at the studio I have a little painting area with easels for my grandkids, but my grandson, Jet, isn\u2019t that into painting. I do my work, and Lua\u2019s up there keeping herself busy painting, and it\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

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Kenny Scharf in his paint-splattered studio he bikes to every day.<\/p>\n

(Myung J. Chun \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

5 p.m.: Hike <\/b><\/p>\n

The easiest one is right behind my house. It goes up to the top of the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook<\/b> where the [Culver City] Stairs go. It\u2019s one of the best views in all of L.A. You can see from the airport to the ocean, downtown, Mount Baldy. You can see almost all the way to Palm Springs, Mount San Gorgonio. The view is amazing.<\/p>\n

We also hike a lot in Kenneth Hahn [State Recreation Area]<\/b>.<\/p>\n

My grandkids often like to go on a waterfall hike, so there are a couple in Malibu. There are also a couple over in the San Gabriel [Mountains]. We\u2019ll get into the car and drive an hour and hike.<\/p>\n

6:30 p.m.: Dinner at a restaurant<\/b><\/p>\n

Zena, Lua and Jet live close to me, so we have dinner together at least three or four times a week. Because Zena\u2019s a chef, we don\u2019t go out to eat that often, but sometimes we go to a restaurant called Madre<\/u><\/b><\/a> that I love. It\u2019s on National [Boulevard]. The food is so good. They often have squash blossoms. They fry them and put a little cheese in them.<\/p>\n

I also love Gjelina<\/u><\/b><\/a> in Venice. Sometimes I take people from Europe there because it is quintessential California. All the food they make is from the farmers market, so you get a tomato salad with incredible tomatoes.<\/p>\n

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8 p.m.: Read<\/b><\/p>\n

I just finished Patti Smith\u2019s latest book, \u201cBread of Angels.\u201d<\/a> It\u2019s beautiful. I love her. I saw her perform at Disney Hall recently, and she was selling this book. I actually saw her perform at the Santa Monica Civic [Auditorium] when I was 19. I\u2019d been wanting to move to New York for a lot of reasons, but when I saw her performance, it was, \u201cI\u2019m moving there.\u201d There was so much energy in her.<\/p>\n

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9 p.m.: Bedtime<\/b><\/p>\n

Usually I\u2019m in bed by 9 and asleep by 10. When I was young, I was very involved in nightlife. I was working in nightclubs, all of my friends were in nightclubs, so I lived that big time. But now I\u2019m jaded. I don\u2019t want to sound above it all, but I don\u2019t see anything going on that I\u2019m getting excited about the way it was. And I\u2019m not a nostalgic person, so I choose not to go out. I\u2019m happier getting a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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