October 18: Curating Homeboy Industries 5k Run Outdoor Art Show
October 18 I am curating my biggest art show yet, an outdoor, four-hour pop-up benefiting Homeboy Industries as part of their 5k run/walk, over forty artists and approximately eighty pieces of art that will be hung on a chain link fence. We start hanging at 5am, the show opens at 8am and is over at…
Arts District Flea Grand Opening Cartwheel Art Tour
On July 11th, Cartwheel Art hosted a free Cartwheel Art tour of the neighborhood as a tie-in to the grand opening of Arts District Flea, a permanent indoor flea market in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. Cartwheel Art’s Founder Cindy Schwarzstein led the tour drawing attention to the murals and street art blossoming among the alleys,…
Cartwheel Art Takes Atlas Obscura on Arts District Tour
On July 20th, Cartwheel Art created a Cartwheel Art Tour in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District for Atlas Obscura Society LA, that sold out within twenty four hours of its announcement to a capacity of 25 persons. The Atlas Obscura Society LA, Los Angeles’ exploration arm of Atlas Obscura – the online guidebook to the world’s most…
Avocado Festival at Angel City Brewery, Cartwheel Art Tour of Arts District
One of Los Angeles’ most anticipated summer beers, Avocado Ale, and the celebration that helped put it on the map, is returning in all of its green glory on August 17th for an all day celebration at Angel City Brewery from 12:00pm – 8:00pm. Expect Avocado festivities, an avocado bazaar and avocado amusements to include an…
Arts District Flea Grand Opening with Cartwheel Art Tour : July 11
The Arts District Flea a unique permanent indoor flea market in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, one block from Urth Cafe, celebrates it’s grand opening this Friday, July 11 from 6:00pm – 11:00pm with art, music and a Cartwheel Art Tour. Occupying a 15,000-square-foot, 100-year old building with brick walls, 14.5 high exposed wooden beam ceilings and concrete floors,…
Save the Date: July 20th Atlas Obscura Cartwheel Art Tour
On July 20, join Atlas Obscura Society LA, Los Angeles’ exploration arm of Atlas Obscura–the online guidebook to the world’s most wondrous places–on a Cartwheel Art tour in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, led by Cindy Schwarzstein. The Atlas Obscura Society LA guides fellow adventurers through the unknown, the curious, and the obscure across the…
LACMA Panel: A Mural Journey from Teotihuacan to Los Angeles
If you follow us here at Cartwheel Art, then chances are you know last fall, the Los Angeles city-wide ban on murals, imposed in 2002, was finally lifted. The reasons behind the ban were varied, and arguably unclear, but whatever the logic behind the original ban, it led to a sad 11 years for…
Cartwheel Art Takes Create: Fixate on Sunset Mural Tour
The murals and street art of the Arts District have turned the neighborhood into an outdoor gallery of urban art. A lively pulse is felt as you stroll down the neighborhood and witness how the murals create this beautiful juxtaposition of old and new with the surrounding architecture. As a regular in the Arts District, I…
Paul Schimmel Announces HUGE Arts District Gallery
Former MOCA chief curator Paul Schimmel who left over MOCA’s then-director Jeffrey Deitch’s shall we say “deitchiness”–has returned victorious and triumphant to downtown Los Angeles, specifically to the Downtown Art District. On his Facebook page, Schimmel posted: My new home in downtown LA -a late 19 th early 20 th Century flour Mill. The 100,000…
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…