Cartwheel Art’s “Top 15” Highlighted Preview List for SCOPE Miami Beach
This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of SCOPE Miami, the vibrant art fair held during Miami Art Week. Each year, over 350,000 visitors descent to Miami for the world’s most exciting and important international art-centric event of the year that incorporates art, music, fashion and design, creating a cultural phenomenon. SCOPE, whose emphasis is on expanding the careers…
Save the Date October 8: OUTSIDEIN at ArtCenter College of Design
Street art is celebrated as a force for social, cultural and artistic change with OUTSIDEIN ArtCenter College of Design, an expansive indoor and outdoor exhibition, with a public reception on October 8, 2015, and continuing through January 10, 2016, at multiple venues in Pasadena. In 1989, just months before his death, Keith Haring painted a…
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…
LA Art Show 2015: Dark Progressivism Debuts on International Stage
The 20th anniversary of the LA Art Show opens tonight, and I am thrilled–not only because the art is amazing (check out Littletopia with its collection of local cutting edge galleries, and The Mural Conservancy Los Angeles’ booth which features Petal and Blossom and Los Quatros, along with art galleries from around the world), but…
Ankore: Tearing It Down and Putting It Up
Because it’s true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and in my eyes graffiti is beautiful. For the love it gives me has been forged my heart by the same destructive force that allows me to cope with the pressures created by a social conscience. ~ Rafael Reyes, Living Dangerously Ankore roams…
Save the Date: October 25 Branded Arts Benefit for Vista de Mar
WOW! A mega art show featuring some of the biggest names in today’s art world benefiting one of Los Angeles’ best organizations, Vista del Mar Child and Family Services (and members of my family have been helped through this wonderful organization). Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services’ mission is to provide comprehensive, family-centered social,…
Dark Progressivism: LA Art Documentary Nearing Completion
Los Angeles sets global trend. Our art is exploding around the world. And can show your support for our city and its art through supporting the final stages of production on the LA art documentary Dark Progressivism: On Rupture and Rebellion. A few months ago, I began working as an associate producer on Dark Progressivism:…
“Scratch” at El Segundo Museum of Art
One of the most important museum shows to open this year, if not this decade, “Scratch” at the El Segundo Museum of Art works on numerous levels to highlight the past, present, and future of art, lettering, and Los Angeles. Last year, the Getty Research Institute began an ambitious program conceived by graffiti collector…