New in Los Feliz: The Inn Gallery
The Inn Gallery, next to Ye Old Rustic Inn on Hillhurst Avenue is a perfect local gallery. It’s got a parking lot, a Chinese restaurant on one side and a popular, funky drinking dive on the other, and it’s on a busty walk street. Open for openings and closing, and evenings after 6pm, the gallery…
LA Art Show 2014: Preview Photos, Coagula, Century Guild, Murals, and More!
It’s not a sculpture, but rather some huge thing mover, used ot move many of the things I saw Tuesday when I went down to preview the LA Art Show during install. What a scene! And oh thank goodness for LA’s unofficial city food, the bacon wrapped hot dog, which was the fuel of necessity…
LA Art Show 2014: Photo Preview of Littletopia
Littletopia is here! The LA Art Show special section curated by Red Truck Gallery features a brash, smart selection cutting edge galleries. Red Truck founder Noah Antineau wanted to show exciting non-mainstream art and throw a party with his friends, so he invited Breezeblock from Portland, Mexico’s FIFTY24MX, New Eye-ACCD Projects, Sloan Fine Art and…
LA Art Show Opens This Wednesday January 15, Red Truck Curating “Littletopia”
Art! Art! Art! Five days of non-stop art as the LA Art Show returns January 15 to 19th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As media partners, we’ll be bringing you coverage from the VIP opening, plus in-depth looks at the various themes, exhibitions, and dealers, along with coverage of panels and special events. CARTWHEEL…
Two Johns and a Whore: Conjugating Myself
Sunday’s LA Times let the cat of the bag: If you read to the end in the awesome profile of Mat Gleason, you’ll see that I’m an artist and I’m curating an art show that opens January 11, 2014 at Coagula Curatorial. Part of the reason I began writing about art is that I love…
Interview/Preview: Karrie Ross, Our Ever Changing World Pop-Up
So exciting! Chung King Road is loaded with art January 11 with five galleries staging the their openings. At Chung King Studio, 975 Chung King Road, award winning author, visual artist, and professional book designer, Karrie Ross launches her one-night-only pop gallery, showcasing the many artists in her recently published book, Our Ever Changing World…
Photos: Irish Street Art and More
Snapped a few quick pics around Dublin’s Temple Bar district, and found a street art piece in Dalkey, the historic seaside suburb where I’m staying. Plus an Arts & Crafts frieze and two portraits from a private home. Happy New Year! (top: off Castle Road, Dalkey) Mural wrap, celebrating 100 years of unions, on the…
Photo: Highland Park Murals
Went for a stroll with friends in Highland Park after a Bat Mitzvah service at the historic Temple Beth Israel and spotted these murals in the alley and behind Highland Park Swap Mall on Figueroa. Technically, these murals were illegal until the recent passing of the Los Angeles City Mural Ordinance.
Photos & Video: Krampus Art Walk, a Los Angeles First!
The celebration of Krampus continues! A dozen of Dark Yule Lords invaded the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, carrying switches and dragging naughty maidens in chains, led by St Nicholas, and accompanied by an oompah-pah-pah band. Beginning at the DTLA Art Walk Lounge, the troupe and about a hundred followers trundled and lumbered down the…
Preview: Krampus at Copro “Naughty or Nice”
And again I’ve been debating how to approach CARTWHEEL story because (full disclosure) there are some rather full disclosure of me in Louie Metz’s Krampus painting that will be part of the Krampus Art Show, Naughty or Nice opening Saturday. Now granted, Louie is a gentleman, so he discreetly covered parts of me, but yeah,…
Murals Approved for Private Homes in Parts of Los Angeles
Get your paint cans ready! Murals can now be painted on single-family homes in northeast Los Angeles, Boyle Heights, and parts of South Los Angeles under a pilot program given final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council! This approval was the final step for the Los Angeles Mural Ordinance, spearheaded by councilman Jose…
