POW! WOW! Long Beach – Mural Photo Coverage, by Melinda Sanchez
POW! WOW! Long Beach has returned for it’s second consecutive year. Artists from around the globe are participating in their week-long event bringing art and culture to the city. POW! WOW! is a gathering of contemporary artists who engage with the broader community in the process and creation of art. Long Beach began playing host on Monday to an exciting week filled…
POW! WOW! Long Beach – Mural Photo Coverage, by Julie Faith
POW! WOW! Long Beach has returned for it’s second consecutive year. Artists from around the globe are participating in their week-long event bringing art and culture to the city. POW! WOW! is a gathering of contemporary artists who engage with the broader community in the process and creation of art. Long Beach began playing host on Monday to an exciting week filled…
Special Events: for “Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends” – Last Weekend!
This is the last weekend to see the exhibition “Hearsay: Artist’s Reveal Urban Legends” curated by Wendy Sherman, at LosJoCos gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. Gallery hours are today and tomorrow 2-7PM. To celebrate, there are also two really special events planned for the closing weekend, as listed below: Saturday June 11th: Tonight from 8-10pm, there will…
Coverage: Opening Reception for /Brit-fluence(d)/ a BritWeek Art Show at The Gabba Gallery
Saturday April 23rd, was the opening reception of /Brit-fluence(d)/ an official BritWeek group art show, at The Gabba Gallery, curated by Cartwheel Art founder Cindy Schwarzstein,. The show explores the art of UK x LA emerging and urban artists, and how they’ve been influenced by British Culture. Event coverage photo album here Note: Top Photo and all photos…
Site Specific: A Graffiti Micro-History at Hauser, Wirth and Schimmel, by Steve Grody
There are innumerable sites of graffiti activity across Los Angeles. Some have been one-time spots, while others have been and may still be considered “yards,” a place where graffiti is done regularly. These sites cover the continuum from legal and even commissioned work, to illegal. The continuum of the “non-permission” i.e. illegal work runs the…
Save the Date: “Out Of Line” at Subliminal Projects – Opening Reception April 9th
Out Of Line featuring four distinct artists exploring contemporary drawing and mark-making techniques will be opening at Subliminal Projects on Saturday April 9th from 8pm-11pm. Using primarily graphite, pen, and ink, the artists selected for this show examine and expand upon traditional concepts of drawing. Each artist takes their own illustrative liberty to magnify the…
Photo Coverage: Sneak-Peek of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel “Revolution in the Making” in the DTLA Arts District!
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel (HWSLA), our new Cartwheel Art Magazine and Cartwheel Art Tours neighbor in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, previewed the former Globe Mills flour manufacturing plant’s complex that’s been converted into the largest west coast art complex, located on a two-and-a-half-acre city block, and the exhibition ‘Revolution in the Making,’ during a press/VIP event yesterday. The…
Road Trip to Riverside with Cartwheel Art Tours & Obscura Society LA, Coverage by Albert Vitela
Albert Vitale is a painter living in Los Angeles. A recent graduate of the California State University Los Angeles MFA program, Vitale is know for his figurative expressionist paintings that draw on history and religious mythology. Here are his impressions of Cartwheel Art Tours/Obscura Society LA’s tour in Riverside, CA Twelve of us assembled in the…
“Dark Progressivism” Screening at Orange County Museum of Art
The sneak peak screening of the documentary Dark Progressivism at the Orange County Museum of Art, presented by the OCMA and the Newport Beach Film Festival, was both the culmination of two years of hard work by the filmmakers and the beginning of the film’s path through festivals. The documentary follows the careers and progress…
Coverge from Tuesday Night’s Book Signing & Talk, with Lynn Goldsmith, at the Morrison Hotel Gallery
West Hollywood’s Morrison Hotel Gallery (located at Sunset Marquis Hotel) hosted acclaimed photographer Lynn Goldsmith in a book signing & talk with close friend & jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, on Tuesday February 9th, 2016. The 100 person audience clamored to hear of Lynn’s very early start in photography, the evolution of her career, and inside…
LA Art Show 2016 Event Coverage Summary: Cartwheel Art’s Guest Contributors Highlights
Celebrating its twenty first year anniversary, LA Art Show 2016 delivered on its promise to be the best ever! For four days, the Los Angeles Convention Center hosted over 50,000 attendees at more than 120 galleries representing 22 countries, and our guest contributors–author/filmmaker Rodrigo Ribera D’Ebre, author/historian Steve Grody, author/photographer Dr. Paul Koudounaris, and painter Marc Trujillo…