“The Big Art Experience” Grand Opening Gala with Artists and Performances at Big Art Church!
The Big Art Church, a former church built in the 1920’s in East Hollywood that has been converted into an event venue and art gallery space for the Los Angeles arts community and the local neighborhood, is hosting their first major event today with a schedule of events from 11:00am-3:00pm and 5:00pm-9:00pm. The event will…
Preview for Deedee Cheriel “Natural Resource” Opening Tonight!
Artist Deedee Cheriel’s new exhibition “Natural Resource” opens tonight at KP Projects/MKG from 7:00-10:00pm. The exhibition will be on display from August 1 – 29, 2015. Deedee Cheriel’s works are narratives based in identity and mythology. Drawing inspiration from punk rock, feminism, and temple imagery from her native India, Cheriel’s “Natural Resource” paintings explore figuration, color,…
“Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists” Panel Discussion – Tonight!
A panel discussion moderated by the original Mystic Arts World Gallery Director, Dion Wright, featuring many of the people involved with The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Mystic Arts World, is happening at 6pm tonight. The discussion is part of the programming correlating with the exhibition “Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists” that opened on saturday night and runs through…
“On the Wall” at Huntington Beach Art Center Photo Preview
The Huntington Beach Art Center–the exhibition location for Kustom Kulture in 2013, for which we were a media sponsor–presents a new exhibition titled “On the Wall.” The show consists of street art, featuring noted artists and many of those seen on the walls in Los Angeles by our Cartwheel Art Tours explorers in the Downtown Los Angeles…
Let the Orange Sunshine In with the Mystic Artists!
“Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists,1967-1970”, opening saturday night at Coastline Art Gallery, is the first exhibition to examine psychedelic art produced in Orange County by the Mystic Artists, a loosely organized group of artists interested in alternative culture, mystical experience, and the transformation of society. These artists congregated and exhibited their art at Mystic Arts World,…
“Art AIDS America” West Hollywood 30 Year Retrospective Exhibition
The AIDS era of the 1980s and 90s was awful: the horror of people dying, the horror of our government denying funding for research and medications, the resulting demonstrations and culture wars. During that time, thirty years ago, the City of West Hollywood was founded out of an unincorporated portion of Los Angeles County, the…
A + D Museum Grand Reopening in the DTLA Arts District with “Shelter”
In the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, A + D Museum, has just finished turning a warehouse into a museum, that will become their new home. They will open this saturday June 27, 2015, with a show titled “Shelter”. The exhibition, will celebrate the belief that a well-designed habitat creatively and functionally expresses its relationship…
Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape at The Long Beach Museum of Art
The highly anticipated “Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape” exhibition, featuring murals and multi media installations, by well-known US and internationally urban contemporary artists, opens at The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA), this friday, June 26. The exhibition which is a collaboration between Thinkspace Gallery, POW! WOW Long Beach and The Long Beach Museum…
JR’s “The Wrinkles of The City” : Photos of the last chapter in Istanabul
Many Angelenos are familiar with french artists JR‘s murals from 2011, still seen here in Los Angeles as part of his “The Wrinkles of the City” project, which portrayed elders who had lived through the changes of the city. Two in particular are seen often with Cartwheel Art Tours in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District located at Angel…
Tonight – The First Downtown LA Art Walk Short Film Festival & These Days with Wild Life and Calder Greenwood!
Photo by Stephen Zeigler from These Days of Wild Life for his installation this evening at 118 Winston. Tonight is the second thursday of the month and that means it’s time for the Downtown LA Art Walk – a great experience with people from all over the area, strolling visiting galleries, shops, restaurants, and bars. However…
Pacific Rim State of Mind: Gajin Fujita at LA Louvre
In 1939, the World’s Fair in San Francisco, also known as the Golden Gate International Exposition, exhibited a transpacific unity that included West Coast modern design, Mexican and Asian artwork, and Pacific Coast goods. Stemming from xenophobic hostilities against Asian and Mexican minorities in California, the exhibition tried to bring awareness and understanding of outside…