Cartwheel Art Tours x Atlas Obscura: “Shrine’s Haunted Shacks Gardens After Dark” – Pasadena

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Cartwheel Art Tours x Atlas Obscura: “Shrine’s Haunted Shacks Gardens After Dark” – Pasadena

Self-taught painter, installation, and performance artist Brent Allen Spears (a.k.a. Shrine) has spent the past 20-plus years transforming his Pasadena home into a vivid sanctuary of altars, totems, and sculptures. Join Cindy Schwarzstein, founder of Cartwheel Art Tours, for an exclusive “after dark” tour of this architectural wonder known as Haunted Shack Gardens. Guided by…

Coverage: DENK Gallery Opens with Inaugural Exhibition “JUNGLE CITIES”, by Arne Quinze

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Coverage: DENK Gallery Opens with Inaugural Exhibition “JUNGLE CITIES”, by Arne Quinze

Downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District planted a new art gallery, DENK, who opened its doors on Wednesday January 25th, with the showering of colors, textures, and chaotic aesthetic created by Arne Quinze’s new exhibition, “JUNGLE CITIES”. Cartwheel Art is excited to welcome them into the neighborhood! Born in Belgium in 1971, Quinze has become well known for…

Save the Date June 2 – June 5: Art Gathering, Queen Mary Long Beach

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Save the Date June 2 – June 5: Art Gathering, Queen Mary Long Beach

This is gonna be huge! Art Gathering brings over 400 artists together for a tattoo-influenced fine art fair weekend aboard the Queen Mary.  Michael Keith of New Era Arts Group, Art Gathering’s parent company, explains: We noticed that many kids out of art school would jump straight into tattooing, while many longtime tattooists also were…

“The Big Art Experience” Grand Opening Gala with Artists and Performances at Big Art Church!

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“The Big Art Experience” Grand Opening Gala with Artists and Performances at Big Art Church!

The Big Art Church, a former church built in the 1920’s in East Hollywood that has been converted into an event venue and art gallery space for the Los Angeles arts community and the local neighborhood, is hosting their first major event today with a schedule of events from 11:00am-3:00pm and 5:00pm-9:00pm. The event will…

More Photos! Burning Man 2014

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More Photos! Burning Man 2014

More photos of Burning Man 2014 from our friends on the Playa!    

Burning Man 2014 Photos

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Burning Man 2014 Photos

We’re so lucky to have friends at Burning Man–friends whose internet connections were working! Check out these pics–with more to come!

Book Review: Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

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Book Review: Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

In June, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr delivered a speech, saying: Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Twenty-three years later, the Cacophony Society was formed (and those who follow the Goddess Eris may see a connection to that span of years!); the world as we know it has not been…