Scene: Pete Wentz art show

Photo: Kristin Baker

Pete "Petenut Butter" Wentz crouched down to tag the walls at his gallery opening with Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy, a joint exhibit of their mixed-media work, "Without You I'm Just Me." The Los Angeles hipster scene soiree also drew the pair's bold-name babes (Ashlee Simpson and Katy Perry, respectively) as well as Wentz-crush John Mayer and his ex Jessica Simpson (no doubt why John came early in the night, long before the VIP reception), Nicole Ritchie and Joel Madden, Solange Knowles and Clark Duke (sadly not together) -- a fitting guest list for an impressively Warholian collection of pieces touching on fame, depression and mass-produced politics. I especially liked the rendering of Mickey Mouse as an American flag-waving hawk who proclaims, "I love war!"