Baseman's Holiday: L.A. Exhibition to Celebrate 'Beauty of Bittersweetness of Life'

For most people, whimsical and world-weary are mutually exclusive. Lucky for us, Gary Baseman is not most people. In a series of new works that goes on view Saturday in Los Angeles, the self-described “pervasive artist, painter, producer, toy designer, and humorist” has injected his distinctive band of sprightly sinners with a Latin flavor (think Brazilian Carnivale meets tribal craftsmen in an otherworldly landscape that glitters with doom). The new solo exhibition, “La Noche de la Fusión,” promises to turn Corey