CARTWHEEL Launches Online Shop
CARTWHEEL today announced the opening of our virtual gallery, CARTWHEEL Shop. Featuring original, exclusive artworks by a selection of hand-picked artists, the online gallery brings contemporary art to collectors with cutting-edge tastes. Potential buyers with a range of budgets can browse the selection online; all art will be authenticated and signed by the artists. Curated…
Eat a Taco, See Great Art – Restitution Press at C.A.V.E. Gallery
In a truck. At a restaurant. From a drive-thru. Nothing quite gets me as excited as a delicious, mouth-watering taco. Or should I say tacos – plural. Living in Los Angeles basically means residence in taco heaven. From big-chain restaurants to hole-in-the wall eateries, you can find tacos practically everywhere in the city. And visitors who…
CARTWHEEL’s Guide to Miami Art Fairs
Art Basel Miami Beach, the most exciting art fair in the world, is fast approaching on Dec. 6-9! Three, two, one, liftoff: CARTWHEEL is Miami bound! Art Basel is the overall term used to describe a week of art fairs and events in Miami that center around the actual Art Basel fair where blue chip,…
Stay Up! Book Signing at The Last Bookstore
For street art fanatics, Saturday evening was super exciting as professor and author Jim G. Daichendt hosted a signing for his book Stay Up!: Los Angeles Street Art at the Last Book Store As the first street art book dedicate solely to Los Angeles, “Stay Up!” has been received warmly by the street art…
Senor Chips Puts Gringo Twist on Dia de Los Muertos
A day of sugar skulls, painted faces and pan de muertos (bread of the dead), Dia de Los Muertos proves one of the most artistically inspiring days of the year with easily recognizable aesthetic themes. The biggest one is the most simple – the skull. That sent self-proclaimed gringo Senor Chips on a quest…
“Abandon All Hope”: Destroy all Design and Septerhed Join Forces at Lab Art
A few people sat inside the cafe, laptops open. A sign nearby reminded patrons they should take their calls outside. On one of the outdoor tables, a woman video-chatted with a friend and next to her sat two men laughing about the first time they met. Not everyone would recognize Septerhed and Destroy all Design sitting outside the cafe…
CARTWHEEL Launches Blog Section for More Personal Art Coverage
With so much art in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and the CARTWHEEL team traveling throughout California, the U.S., Europe, and other destinations, hitting art fairs, galleries, museums, and openings, we launched a blog page. Along with our travel adventures, we’ll be writing about our own collections, museum pieces and exhibits that excite us, and other…
Baron Samedi’s Rituals of Sex and Death Rule the Fowler Museum’s In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art
West African Diasporic Religions—especially santeria and that all-American version, hoodoo—are important aspects of my belief system, and have been for decades, spawned by my Southern roots and fascination with Haiti, where the syncretic religion Vodou (popularly known as “voodoo”), combination of West African faiths and Catholicism, was one of the driving forces in the island’s…
Ken Gonzales-Day’s Captivating Images
It’s not until you get behind a camera that you realize just how much thought it takes to create a stunning photograph. At least that’s the lesson I’m taking away from my film photography class. Now when I step into the gallery space, I appreciate more a photograph that can not only aesthetically blow me…
Saying Goodbye to Who Shot Rock & Roll
It’s not easy to capture someone’s complex personality in one simple photograph. That’s something I’ve come to learn in taking amateur portrait photographs. So it came as a real treat to me that the Annenberg Space for Photography was hosting a show dedicated to the photographers who caught the musical and intimate personality of some…
“Ping Pong Show” New Works by Shark Toof at C.A.V.E. Gallery
I’ve been quite the Shark Toof fan as of late. When my love for street art grew, he was naturally an important name to know, and now with the release of his new book and the opening of a new show at C.A.V.E. Gallery, it’s great to see this artist continue to grow. Some of…