INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID by Christopher Bonanos
Book trailer for INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID by Christopher Bonanos from Princeton Architectural Press on Vimeo. INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID, a richly illustrated, behind-the-scenes look at the company, tells the remarkable tale of Land’s extraordinary and beloved invention. From the introduction of Polaroid’s first instant camera in 1948, to its meteoric rise in…
Interview With The Collective Known As Negativland
Erica White attended the opening for Negativland’s “Our Favorite Things”, at La Luz de Jesus which included a rare live musical performance by Negativland. She conducted the following interview via email with the collective.
SUPRA presents The Photography of Mike Miller
SUPRA, the streetwear shoe company, has announced a series of exhibitions featuring Mike Miller’s photographs at the SUPRA retail locations. Miller’s iconic hip-hop images will be on display in this traveling exhibit and series of limited edition t-shirts featuring Miller’s photographs will also be available for purchase. Even cooler, Miller will be in attendance and…
Wet Plates with Photographer Ian Ruhter
L.A. River, Ian Ruhter Photography Ian Ruhter is a wet plate photographer with a camera on wheels, always going somewhere, so I consider myself one of the lucky few for getting to see his large, unprecedented 24×36-inch and 48×60-inch silver nitrate collodion wet plates in person. His special camera truck was parked at the Brewery…
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…