SAVE THE DATE & PREVIEW: Mash Gallery Debuts in DTLA with “Incarnadine” – Saturday August 25
Mash Gallery, a new gallery in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, is destined to be a red hot location. To drive that point home, the opening show, “Incarnadine,” curated by Mat Gleason, comprises work that features variations on the color red. This show defines the ethos that Mash, owned by Haleh Mashian, herself an…
Two Bit Circus Brings a High-Tech Carnival to the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District
There’s now a circus in town, one that tips, spins, and upends reality, reminding us that our minds are the greatest playground of all. Two Bit Circus, which opens Friday, September 7, has arrived in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District with bells, whistles, pixels, a healthy take on circus food, and even a robot…
Robert Williams Pop-Up Auto Show at NHRA Motorsports Museum – Saturday August 11
If Southern California is hot rod heaven, then the National Hot Rod Association Motorsports Museum at the Pomona Fairgrounds is Nirvana. And on Saturday, August 11, the living god of hot rod art, Robert Williams, makes an appearance at the NHRA Museum for a discussion with curator and hot rod historian Greg Sharp as part…
PREVIEW: Art at The Rendon // Hidden Rooms Explores DTLA’s Past with an Eye to the Future
Brothel. Dive bar. Murder site. Flophouse. The Rendon Hotel has been all of those, and because it’s Los Angeles, the four-story brick building eventually became a filming location. Now with Los Angeles blooming as a major art city, the Rendon Hotel has been reborn as an installation location called Art at the Rendon. The Rendon,…
Event Coverage: LA Art Show 2018: Will Not Be Assimilated, by Lisa Derrick
The 2018 LA Art Show gave a lot to look at: Orozco’s murals, a giant Mark Ryden head, Margaret Keane‘s paintings, Littletopia‘s whole section of Low Brow which is now a mainstream trend, political punching bags, a static sculpture of a giant resin American flag dropping into a giant meat grinder with a giant pile…
