Preview: Julien’s Auctions Street Art Auction: Banksy Murals and More
The annual Street Art Auction by Julien’s Auctions offers works produced by the most significant and collectible artists in the urban art movement and several controversial lots: Banksy murals excised from walls in Bethlehem and Detroit, the latter of which contains portions of paint showing clear fingerprints of the unidentified artist. Banksy’s Donkey Documents, created in in…
3rd Annual Coaster Show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery Opens Tonight!
Who hasn’t sat at a bar, drinking a beer and doodled on a coaster? But many of us aren’t the extremely skilled painters, illustrators, animators, tattooists, sculptors or collage artists that are featured in the Annual La Luz de Jesus Coaster Show exhibition that takes a love of craft brewing and elevates it to high…
Curly: The Importance of Arts Education and the Legacy of Chouinard
When the California Locos were hanging at Red Pipe Gallery, the Locos–Chaz Bojórquez, Dave Tourjé, John Van Hamersveld, Norman Wisdom and Gary Wong–gave a talk about their evolution. The name on all their lips as Chouinard Arts Institute. Four out of five of the guys had gone to school there, and Dave Tourjé had bought…
Preview: Richard Shelton, “50 Years of Painting” at Temporary Space
On March 21, Richard Shelton, “50 Years of Painting” opens at Temporary Space, featuring fifty works covering the fifty years of Shelton’s career. Shelton, whose work is in the Smithsonian Art Institute’s Hirshorn Museum and other museums in the United States, chose the paintings not based on the subjective “good/better/best” but rather to reflect pivotal…
Save the Date, March 21: Richard Shelton Launches Temporary Space
Opening March 21, Temporary Space manifests artist Richard Shelton’s vision for a 21st century model of an art gallery. Shelton’s exhibition, “Richard Shelton–50 Years of Painting”, curated by Fatemeh Burnes, is the first the exhibition for Temporary Space which merges a traditional brick and mortar gallery with e-commerce. Temporary Space, at its 5522 Wilshire Blvd…
James Georgopoulos “There Is No End” Opens tonight at MAMA Gallery in the Arts District.
MAMA Gallery will be presenting There Is No End, James Georgopoulos’s first solo exhibition with the gallery on view February 28 through April 4, 2015. The opening reception for the artist will be held tonight in the DTLA Arts District, Saturday, February 28, 2015 from 6:00PM – 9:00PM. This exhibition of new work by American artist James…
A + D Museum “inCOLLABORATION: Michael Maltzan Architecture” tonight.
Join A + D Architecture and Design Museum from 6:30-9:00pm tonight, for a reception, presentation and discussion with Michael Maltzan of Michael Maltzan Architecture as part of their inCOLLABORATION series. Micheal Maltzan is the architect behind One Santa Fe in the Arts District that is the new mixed use development, that has created much controversy.…