LA Weekly’s Urban Exploration for Artopia with Cartwheel Art Tours
As part of LA Weekly’s Artopia programming, join Cartwheel Art Tours with “Insiders,” founder Cindy Schwarzstein and Steve Grody, author of Graffiti LA, for a FREE urban adventure on the streets outside of The Container Yard. This urban adventure has been created for participants to discover, explore and experience what was once a gritty section…
April 30 “Artopia” Flowers with Mud Baron
On April 30, the Container Yard in the Downtown LA Arts District will be aglow with murals and art for LA Weekly’s “Artopia” a one-night only celebration with art, music, food and drink. Adding even more color and bursting with Nature’s bounty: “Flowers on Your Head” an ongoing living art project from the amazing Mud…
Save the Date: LA Weekly’s Artopia, April 30 at The Container Yard
It’s a mega-art Thursday at The Container Yard on April 30 from 8:00pm to 11:00pm, featuring live art, music, fashion, artisanal cocktails and food trucks. Artopia is back for its third year and for 2015, art world superhero Shana Nys Dambrot has curated a sensory event to delight, entrance and expand your mind: My vision for…
Art & Sound: “A Journey Into the Mind of Music” Opens Tonight in Palm Springs
In now well-established tradition, tens of thousands of music-lovers are flocking to the desert this month for the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. While festival goers are soaking up the desert rays at the Empire Polo Club, Eddie Donaldson will be offering a similar experience, sans heat stroke, at Gallery 446: Art…
Joseph Arthur’s “Alien Flowers” Solo Exhibition Opens in LA Wednesday 4/8!
Gallery Go will be hosting critically acclaimed musician and avid visual artist Joseph Arthur in his first LA solo gallery exhibition in several years. Featuring brand new mixed media works on canvas, Alien Flowers visually recants Arthur’s own personal story upon leaving Akron, Ohio and embarking on his ever-evolving journey as an artist. Using abstract forms, intricate…
The Gabba Gallery with “Outside Lies Magic” Opens tonight!
The Gabba Gallery‘s “Outside Lies Magic”, an exhibition curated by Jason Ostro and Phil Santos opens tonight with an artists reception from 7:00pm – 11:00pm. The exhibition will bring the street art magic happening outside, into this almost 2000 sq. ft. gallery. Many of the artists pained murals in the streets last week in the what is…
Preview: Richard Shelton, “50 Years of Painting” at Temporary Space
On March 21, Richard Shelton, “50 Years of Painting” opens at Temporary Space, featuring fifty works covering the fifty years of Shelton’s career. Shelton, whose work is in the Smithsonian Art Institute’s Hirshorn Museum and other museums in the United States, chose the paintings not based on the subjective “good/better/best” but rather to reflect pivotal…
“TEN : Orange County” Group Exhibition closes at AR4T Gallery in Laguna Beach this Sunday.
Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow, a gallery that we have been following in Laguna Beach, who showcases contemporary art from various regions, with a focus on artists connected to the action sports culture, has a show that we highly recommend seeing before it closes this Sunday, March 22nd. The show is called “Ten : Orange County”. It is a group show…
Bumblebee Loves You and Mikael Brandrup Mural Collaboration in the DTLA Arts District with Google’s Street Art Project.
Cartwheel Art Tours and Cartwheel Art spent time with Bumblebee Loves You and Mikal Brandrup while they were painting a new mural in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District at The Container Yard yesterday. The painting occurred during the Google Cultural Institute‘s Street Art Project launch. Check out some of the photos here from their work while we…
Knowledge Bennett presented by Guerrilla Atelier Gallery opens March 26th.
Carl Louiseville’s, Guerilla Atelier, known for fashion, art, home, decor and interior design in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, presents an opening reception on March 26, 2015 from 7:00pm-10:00p for Knowledge Bennet “Cojones” Series. The series is a continuation with new paintings and limited editions on paper available. There will be house grooves by D.J. Dodge. RSVP:…
Preview of Virtual Reality’s “Presence” by Zenka, Opening at District Gallery Saturday!
Presence: A Humorous Collection of Virtual Reality Goggles in Clay 1965-2015: opens this Saturday, March 7th at District Gallery in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District from 7-10pm. The show is open though April 26th. Cartwheel Art Tours, based in the Art District, was provided a preview yesterday for a private group tour with Talenthouse. The show…