June 2 to 5: Art Gathering, Long Beach’s Biggest Art Fest Gonna be HUGE
Pop Surrealism! Lowbrow! Tattoos! Performance! Installation! Film! Punk Rock DJs, Collectibles! Utter coolness! Art Gathering–the giant indie art fair and tattoo convention aboard the Queen Mary–is going to be huge! On board the venerable ship will be over hundred independent artists hanging on the Kulture Klash walls and showing in booths. Ron English and Chet…
New Urban Exploration Tour: DTLA Arts District Southeast Quarter with Artists and Makers.
Join Cartwheel Art Tours on Sunday March 15, from 1:00pm – 4:30pm for a unique perspective and immersive urban experience in art, food/beverage and history. This exciting new tour itinerary provides an opportunity for guests to meet artists and makers along with learning about the new developments occurring in one of Los Angeles’s most unique, dynamic, art-centric and…
Save the Date: Cartwheel Art Tour for the LA Art Show, “The Development of An Art Scene and The Art of Development”.
Join us for our one-year anniversary celebration of Cartwheel Art Tours as we travel by bus from the Convention Center to the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District on an immersive experience in the most unique, art-centric, and rapidly changing part of Los Angeles. This special Cartwheel Art Tour, designed for LA Art Show guests, as…
Street Artist Faith47: New DTLA Mural
We’ve beeen following Internationally acclaimed street- and studio-based artist, Faith47 who currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and now we can see her work in person–she just finished a new mural in the South Park area of DTLA last week titled The Preciousness of the Hunt. Faith 47’s poetic elegant swan mural, painted across…
Save the the Date: Aug 30, Skate & Create at Flower Pepper Gallery
We’re in a drought. The last time there a drought this bad in California, a new sport flowered–skate boarding. All those empty pools made for great neighborhood skate parks, legal or clandestine. The skateboard culture of Southern California played a seminal role in the early influences of many graffiti and street artists. The growth of…
Paul Schimmel Announces HUGE Arts District Gallery
Former MOCA chief curator Paul Schimmel who left over MOCA’s then-director Jeffrey Deitch’s shall we say “deitchiness”–has returned victorious and triumphant to downtown Los Angeles, specifically to the Downtown Art District. On his Facebook page, Schimmel posted: My new home in downtown LA -a late 19 th early 20 th Century flour Mill. The 100,000…
California Locos Speak: “The Origins of Rebellion” Panel Discussion June 7
Saturday, June 7th at 4pm, the California Locos–five artists, who over the past five decades, have shaped the Southern California art scene–discuss the evolution of LA surf-skate-street-art culture in panel, “The Origins of Rebellion” moderated by artist Anna Pomonis at Red Pipe Gallery, as a compliment to the “California Locos” group show. These native Angelenos–Chaz Bojorquez,…
Jasmine Worth “Sacred Feminine” Opens June 6 at La Luz de Jesus
Jasmine Worth is a La Luz de Jesus superstar. With an almost unprecedented series of four sold-out shows, Worth returns to La Luz on June 6, 2014 with her signature exploration of the feminine element in Western religion and mysticism. Drawing on the concepts of feminine spirituality and occultism, Worth has developed her own iconography,…
Kharen Hill “Out the Window (5 Days in Kenya)” Opens June 7
Photographer Kharen Hill’s solo exhibit “Out the Window (5 Days in Kenya)” is a straightforward title for a new series of photos that give a different, unanticipated view of Kenya. Instead of lions, elephants and gazelles, we are confronted with urban scenes and jarring trans-nationalism. Kharen Hill’s photos leave the viewer wondering what occurred immediately before …
Photos: Mark Ryden “Gay 90s West” Opening at Kohn Gallery
Mark Ryden’s “Gay 90s West” opening May 3, 2014 at Kohn Gallery was a gala event, with the artists and his wife, painter Marion Peck greeting fans and collectors, many in costume. The show runs through June 28, 2014 at Kohn Gallery’s newly opened and huge space. For our additional coverage by Iris Towery of…
New York: “12 Mexican Street Artists” Opens at Dorian Grey Gallery
Manhattan’s Dorian Grey Gallery opens a stunning show, May 2, 2014 featuring Mexico’s top modern street muralists with photographs by Christophe von Hohnenberg. If you are in NYC and love street art, this is a must see. The show runs through June 16, 2014. Mexican street art is vastly different from the NYC free style…