Jarritos Flavor City Winner: Congratulations, David Flores!
We’re thrilled to announce the 2013 winner of the Jarritos Flavor City Art Contest David Flores! Jarritos: We’re not from here!
May 9 Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk
Art! People! Classic architecture! Restaurants! Bars! Musicians! The Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, held the second Thursday of every month is one of the liveliest events in Southern California, drawing every type: Hare Krishsnas and hairy chinned hipsters to neo-beatniks and Bentley-driving uptightniks shared the sidewalks and elbowed for room on the sidewalks and in…
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk: 2nd Thursday of Every Month
The Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk happens on the second Thursday of every month, when galleries along Spring and Main from 4nd to 7th open their doors and the people from all over LA mingle. Park in a lot, or if you don’t feel like driving, take Metro (starting in May, you can pick up…
Exclusive Preview: Speedy Graphito Braves “NewWorlds” at Fabien Castanier
Elfin art world trickster Speedy Graphito landed in Los Angeles two months ago from Paris, France with a suitcase full of stencils and a head full impressions and ideas germinating from his previous visits to L.A. Working out of Malibu studio provided by his gallerist Fabien Castanier, Speedy lived up to his name, working 14…
How Selfish? “The Selfish Show” at Katherine Cone Gallery
While some might disagree, there is a school of thought that every piece of art is a self-portrait, unintended or not, revealing as much about the creator as the subject. Southern Californian author Ross MacDonald wrote: Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged…
The Force Was With Them All Day: Sean StarWars at Coagula
Mat Gleason is bold, creative, smart, and goofy as hell, so having a Star Wars themed show on International Star Wars Day (May the 4th, for the non-nerds reading this) with an artist who legally changed his name to Sean StarWars seemed totally reasonable. Kind of. As the show was setting up, Gleason joked: Yeah…
Preview: All Jazzed Up About the 1920s–The Great Gatsby at the Century Guild
It may not be the art you’re used to us covering at CARTWHEEL, but I couldn’t pass up the invitation from the Century Guild for a solo preview of Academy Award-winning designer Catherine Martin‘s costumes and sketches for The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann. Martin created the sketches, which are printed on watercolor paper,…
Welcome to Art Walks!
Art builds communities, and with that in mind: Welcome to our new section, designed as an exploration of neighborhoods and communities in Southern California that are home to artists, galleries, and museums. Some of these neighborhoods have actual Art Walks on a regular basis; some of them just have a lot of art, not only…
William Stout’s “Legends of the Blues”
We all get the blues. When you’re feeling blue, listening to the blues can certainly ease the tears. William Stout’s Legends of the Blues will fill your eyes with wonder and take away the pain. Stout–an award-winning artist and writer who has worked for over 45 years in various media from comics and album covers…
Beachwood/101 Photo Mural
This meta-photo by an underground filmmaker and artist–who prefers to remain anonymous for now since he doesn’t feel like a visit from the graffiti police–is of a photo mural he shot at the location under the 101 at Beachwood, visible if you’re driving north. To take it even further, his photo of the location shows…
Julie Tolentino “Raised by Wolves” at Commonwealth & Council
Julie Tolentino‘s current multidisciplinary work glows at Commonwealth & Council, an arts space in Koreatown that is a combination short-term residency, studio, exhibition space, forum for dialogues, and workshop for cooperative knowledge and skill sharing. Gallery director Young Chung had followed Tolentino–whose most recent projects have been presented at Soma Arts, SF; UCLA Center for…
