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…

Save the Date: 2016 LA Art Show, January 27 to 31

Celebrating its twenty first year anniversary, 2016 LA Art Show promises to be the biggest ever! For four days, the Los Angeles Convention Center will be host to over 50,000 attendees who can visit more than 120 galleries representing 22 countries. In those twenty years, LA has become a major art world center. Our city…

2015 Cartwheel Art/Cartwheel Art Tours in Review

This year was an amazing year for art, and for those of us at Cartwheel Art! We kicked off the year with a special exhibition booth at the 2015 LA Art Fair, “Dark Progressivism: Metropolis Rising,” curated by Rodrigo Ribera D’Ebre and Lisa Derrick, and featuring14 artists, including Chaz Bojorquez, Defer, Big Sleeps, Prime, Abel…

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 3 “Beyond Eden” the Final Edition

“Beyond Eden“–the multi-gallery event at the LA Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park celebrating the New Contemporary Art Movement–is the fall season’s major art event. This year marks the fifth and final year for “Beyond Eden.” The the event opens October 3, with a reception open to all from 6pm to 11pm. Sunday the gallery…

Chinatown’s the Place for Labor Day Celebrating!

This weekend Chinatown celebrates in the end of summer with four days of music and art on Chung King Road and an over-the-top, all-you-can-eat taco event with live painting and DJs on Sunday at KGB Gallery. Chung King Road kicks it off Friday night with two stages of music from 7pm to 11pm featuring Ruthann…

Odd Nerdrum: “Pupils of Apelles” and the Crime of Art

Artist Odd Nerdrum is controversial and influential, and his show at Copro Gallery opening Saturday November 15 featuring new works, may be his last in a very long time. The Swedish-born, Norwegian-based painter, who draws on classical imagery and has a worldwide following, was  convicted of tax evasion in Norway. During his  two year and…

Photos & Video: Krampus Art Walk, a Los Angeles First!

The celebration of Krampus continues! A dozen of Dark Yule Lords invaded the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, carrying switches and dragging naughty  maidens in chains, led by St Nicholas, and accompanied by an oompah-pah-pah band. Beginning at the DTLA Art Walk Lounge, the troupe and about a hundred followers trundled and lumbered down the…

Los Angeles Krampusnacht 2013 at the Red Lion in Silverlake

The League of Steam hosted a fun Krampus-themed event at the Red Lion Tavern in Silverlake on Dec. 6 2013.

Krampus is Coming to Town! The Anti-Santa is Here! Krampus Ball, Krampus Run and Art Show

Krampus is coming! Krampus is coming! The dark and devilish character of the winter holiday season, the anti-Santa, arrives in Los Angeles for the first time ever with a series of events over the next week. Krampus owes his American popularity in part to author/collector Monte Beauchamp who compiled images and history for his books,…

Miami 2103: Scope Art Fair on the Miami Beach

Scope, an exciting satellite art fair in Miami, will show art from a hundred contemporary galleries from around the world on Miami’s beach.