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…
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…
CARTWHEEL’s Guide to ArtPadSF May 16-19, 2013
For three days and four nights beginning the evening of May 16, a selection of contemporary California galleries will all be poolside in San Francisco, and they’ll be doing more than just kicking back and relaxing! Quite the opposite: At ArtPadSF, the art fair at ultra-hip Phoenix Hotel, the whole complex is abuzz as collectors,…
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…
Gag Me With A Toon 5 at WWA Gallery!
If you think WWA Gallery is preying on your easiest emotions with their fifth annual “Gag Me With A Toon” exhibit, well, you’re absolutely right. This is a very specific vein they are tapping. The first dramatic connection many of us have with art is through cartoons, comic strips, comic books. and for Generation…
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,…
La Luz de Jesus Highlights Contrasts: Vicki Berndt, Dave Dexter, Mark Gleason
Contemporary artists Vicki Berndt, Mark Gleason, and Dave Dexter at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, through June 2, 2013
In Your Face: How Artists Transformed LA’s Urban Landscape
Although there are “3 Movements” (or sections) to the “In Your Face” exhibition, which opened at the Angel City Brewery in conjunction with the District Gallery on April 11th, the majority of the show is the devoted to the Art Dock, the world’s first drive-by art gallery, located in the original Downtown Los Angeles Arts…
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…