May 9 Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk
Art! People! Classic architecture! Restaurants! Bars! Musicians! The Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk, held the second Thursday of every month is one of the liveliest events in Southern California, drawing every type: Hare Krishsnas and hairy chinned hipsters to neo-beatniks and Bentley-driving uptightniks shared the sidewalks and elbowed for room on the sidewalks and in…
Reporting from Laguna Beach: Spangled and Spankin’ New
Laguna Beach is producing more diverse and vigorous shows than ever, and this month proves it. Within a few blocks of one another, close enough by foot to enjoy a warm fall evening, three art exhibitions opened last weekend. Like walking from Tomorrowland through Sleeping Beauty’s Castle past Fantasyland to the Haunted Mansion and then…
Creepy Cruisers Art Show Tonight at 225 Forest
Laguna Beach gets a dose of the creeps tonight at 225 Forest with the CREEPY CRUISERS Art Show. The show includes 75 artists and will be set to the sounds of Vooduo — a husband/wife duo from Long Beach who play awesome Cramps-y surf garage jams about monsters and everything else freaky under the moon.…
A Prequel To Adam Roth’s mural At The US Open Of Surfing
Before Adam Roth painted his mural at the 2012 US Open of Surfing, he tested out some illustrations on awesome participants’ flesh at the 6th annual Billabong Design for Humanity event. It was a way of practicing the art of staying focused while having a crowd around him and the pressure of a time…
The Hive Gallery and Studios: “Line Attack”
The Hive Gallery and Studios always offers a quadruple helping of art at each of their openings. They run a normal gallery in the front, a secondary gallery/stage in the middle, and then artists’ studios in the back. So, the following photos are from the main showing, which is entitled “Line Attack” and features the…