Billy’s Thursday Night Fish Fry Brings Community Together with Cool Acts and Tunes
Every final Thursday of the month, La Luz de Jesus becomes a throbbing scene. Music, comedy and performance art resounds in the gallery as the crowd spills out into the back patio and onto the street, takes in the art, or browses through the huge collection of books, toys, and unusual items in the retail…
“The Breaking Bad Art Show” at Gallery 1988 Melrose
This summer, Gallery 1988 curated “The Breaking Bad Art Project,” a visual representation by artists of AMC’s hit series Breaking Bad. This exhibit was only up for seven days and Cartwheel was able to get a glimpse at the art from this show before it closed. Few pieces remain for sale from this collection, visit…
Soul Project Debuts New Art Tees by Julie Goldstein in October at Del Mar Fairgrounds
The Soul Project believes in the power of place, which is something I love about this OC-based apparel art tee project. Places are people, too, at least that’s what I think whenever I turn up in my short list of neighborhoods, beaches and wide-spots-in-the-road. Soul Project was started by Summer and Don Meek of Laguna…
UAM CSULB – Songbirds of Today and a History Lesson from Long Ago
Apologies for not including the decoder ring in the title, but UAM CSULB stands for University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach …whew! It’s a hidden gem on the campus and definitely worth discovering if you get the chance. Especially since over several months they will have an offering of three different exhibits within the same…
Palette Cleanser: Fall Group Exhibition at C.A.V.E. Gallery
Has the Los Angeles summer art season exhausted you? Have the crushing throngs of fashionista scenesters tested your patience? Has it all left a slightly bitter taste of pretension in your mouth? As usual, C.A.V.E Gallery has just the antidote with their palette cleansing annual “Fall Group Exhibition.” The show features over a dozen artists, and pretty much exemplifies…
Vega, Kimberly Zsebe “Girls Doin’ It” at The Loft at Liz’s
“Girls Doin’ It, Featuring a New Wave of Women Artists” is an all-woman show, curated by a man, but let’s not delve into the concepts of patriarchy, because they have no bearing on the nature of the work shown; nor is the work about “doin’ it” in the boy/girl, beast-with-two-backs sense. This lively and…
XVALA introduces the “Bieberbot” at Art Is Shit Editions
XVALA is an artist ahead of his time. A free spirit who does what he wants to do, when he wants to do it. So, when he stole Justin Bieber’s trashcan and painted it silver to display at Art Is Shit Editions it might make you scratch your head at first, but then it becomes…
Cannibal Flower 12 Year Anniversary Celebration
Cannibal Flower celebrated their 12th anniversary in grand style on Saturday, September 19 in their new location on the fourth floor of Hope and 12th in Downtown LA..
Home Room’s Final Days
Home Room was an indie gallery run by Walt Gorecki and Shaddy Zeineddine where each exhibit was dedicated whole heartily to its entire concept. For example, when they did a haunted house show last year they sourced and used the same wallpaper from the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, built special crevices to hide spirit projectors in, and even curated a…
Preview: KarmaBlast Art Show Benefiting the People of Tibet
The Karma Underground and KarmaBlast Charity Art Show and Auction to benefit the people of Tibet takes place on Friday, September 21 from 7pm – 10pm at Art Share LA, 801 East 4th Place in Los Angeles CA, 90013. This phenomenal benefit event features live painting by Samir Arghandwall of 7th Letter and DJ sets…
#DEFENDTHEARTS Skywriting Campaign Donation
This time last year graffiti artist Saber hired five jet planes to fly over the skies of Los Angeles to bring awareness to the masses of the mural moratorium here in this great city. SABER’s passion and ambition has now brought him to another cause: Informing us about presidential hopeful Mitt Romey’s desire to eliminate…