Isabel Samaras on ArtPadSF, aka “Fun In The Sun”

  ArtPadSF, now in its third year, pulled in about 9,000 attendees who all seemed to realize the same thing: it’s a great place to spend a sunny afternoon.  Unlike the giant fairs where you’re locked inside a huge, windowless Thunderdome of art, ArtPadSF allows you as many mini-sanity breaks as you need while you…

ArtPadSF 2013 VIP Opening, SFMOMA SECA Benefit

I knew I would be having an artfully art-filled weekend at ArtPadSF when I saw that the exterior of Phoenix Hotel, decorate by Zio Ziegler of Wallspace. The VIP Preview on Thursday was a benefit for the upcoming San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Art Award exhibition. SECA, Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary…

CARTWHEEL’s Guide to ArtPadSF May 16-19, 2013

For three days and four nights beginning the evening of May 16, a selection of contemporary California galleries will all be poolside in San Francisco, and they’ll be doing more than just kicking back and relaxing! Quite the opposite: At ArtPadSF, the art fair at ultra-hip Phoenix Hotel, the whole complex is abuzz as collectors,…

ArtPadSF May 16-19

Now in its third year, ArtPadSF returns to the uber-hip Phoenix Hotel, located in San Francisco’s once notorious Tenderloin District, now home to a burgeoning blend of art galleries, restaurants and high tech businesses. ArtPadSF 2013 will host 40 galleries in the boutique hotel’s groovy rooms which surround the vintage kidney-shaped pool. The art fair focuses…

Fest300 Launches, Website Brings In-Depth Look at Festivals Worldwide

CARTWHEELart loves festivals! From Glastonbury and SonicFest to Lightning in a Bottle, Coachella, and Burning Man, our writers have experienced the music, art and  immersion into these short-lifespan-universes. Now a new website is bringing the best of the fests together in one location, Fest300.com. Created by  Joie de Vivre Hospitality founder Chip Conley, the man…

Behind the Scenes with The Karma Underground: Ransom & Mitchell “It Will Be Ours”

Ransom & Mitchell are director-photographer Jason Mitchell and his partner both in business and in life, art director-photo illustrator, Stacey Ransom, who together run Purebred Studio, a San Francisco based film and sound stage which doubles as their art studio. Friends of CARTWHEEL, the couple spent time with Cindy during ArtPadSF, and are participating in…

Isabel Samaras on ArtMRKT: “More Art Than You Can Shake A Stick At!”

ArtMRKT moved to Fort Mason this year, into a vast space filled with 70 booths representing everything from blue chip to alternative and non-profit arts organizations.  Because they feature galleries from far and wide, once you’re inside the windowless, anonymous white enormity of the Festival Pavillion you could be anywhere in the world (it was…