Urban Exploration of the Southeast Quarter in the DTLA Arts District with Artists and Makers.

  Join Cartwheel Art Tours on Sunday March 15 from 1:00pm – 4:30pm for a unique perspective and immersive urban experience in art, food/beverage and history.  This exciting new tour itinerary provides an opportunity for guests to meet artists and makers along with learning about the new developments occurring in one of Los Angeles’s most unique, dynamic, art-centric…

Photos, Wrap Up: Lightning in a Bottle 2014

What happens when three ever-engaging, ridiculously charismatic brothers invite 15,000 of their closest friends to camp, picnic and party somewhere in the wine valley, midway btween San Francisco and Los Angeles? The answer is the biggest and most inventive Lightening in a Bottle to date. The location of this year’s LIB at a new rural…

Lightning in a Bottle 2014 is Here!

  Lightning in Bottle 2014 is here! And we’re letting you know about what to expect, do and see where beauty, art and matters of the heart abound. Its that time of year! Festival season is here! Kicked off in April with Coachella, we now move into full festival-ing with this coming weekend’s much anticipated…

Coachella 2014 Interviews:The Diverse Visual Art From Major Production to DIY

Coachella definitely put the ‘Art’ in its 2014 Music and Arts Festival. For the first time in its history of 16 years, the festival’s official poster bore the names of its visual artists alongside the musical acts. The presence of visual art is inseparable from music and performance at Coachella, and it’s been an important…

The Do LaB Presents Lightning in a Bottle 2014 – “The Adventure Continues”

Come experience art, music, and the incomparable conscious festival atmosphere of Lightening in a Bottle’s 2014 weekend event in Bradley, California.

A.S. Ashley’s “Critters and Creatures” at The District Gallery in the Arts District

A.S. Ashley is featured in a solo show at District Gallery, where her fantastical and mesmerizing paintings, shrines, sculptures and assemblages all in the theme of animals are available for viewing.

The Arts District: History and Architecture in Downtown L.A. with the L.A. Conservancy

Since moving to the Downtown LA Arts District in the summer of 2010, I have become fascinated with the original warehouse buildings in the area and the history of the neighborhood. I live at Santa Fe and 2nd St., directly across from the new One Santa Fe complex, which is scheduled to be completed in…

“Heavenly Bodies” Beautiful Bones and Diadems of the Dead

Gloriously decorated with gold and gems, dressed in elaborate finery, in life these bones once supported purported saints and martyrs, and now in death show the historic veneration, an appreciation of miracles once worked, having reminded the faithful living of the spiritual treasures that awaited them upon death. These bones are more than beautiful expressions…

Richard Newton, “La Gruta Azul/The Grotto”

  Conceptual artist Richard Newton’s newest installation,”La Gruta Azul/The Grotto” blends Jewish, Catholic and Buddhist religious symbolism with empty drink cans and water bottles that create an otherworldly environment. Opening at Jancar gallery on Saturday night–the only evening “The Grotto” will be able to be viewed in the nighttime light–“The Grotto” will in place until…

Lightning in a Bottle: Interactive Art & Music Festival

If you use summertime as an excuse to act / feel / dance like a kid again, good news: tickets are on sale now for Lightning in a Bottle, the popular outdoor music and arts festival and our choice for frolicking among installations and waterfalls in the summer heat. The five-day event will take place…

Artist Interview: Scott O’Keefe on Mandalas, Joshua Tree and MRSA

Mandala artist Scott O’Keefe discusses art, spiritualism, Lightning in a Bottle, Joshua Tree and being stricken with MRSA