Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice Beach
Once called Main Street, Abbott Kinney Blvd in Venice, CA was renamed to honor the neighborhood’s quixotic founder who envisioned the area as a paradise for arts and culture, grafting the canals and an amusement park on the marshy swamplands. Venice has gone through many transitions since it was founded as recreation area in 1905,…
CARTWHEEL Pop Up: Mini Art Fair with Events and Entertainment
It’s not just art at the second annual CARTWHEEL Pop Up at PROJECT Gallery. Since the eight artists were drawn from art fairs across the country and are coming to Los Angeles for the event, CARTWHEEL founder Cindy Schwarzstein thought it would be fitting to create a mini art fair environment with special events every…
PREVIEW: Armory Arts Week NY 2013: The Armory Show, Scope, Fountain, and Volta
The oldest art fair in the United States, The Armory Show, has spawned a massive series of events that encompasses all five boroughs of New York City bringing international artists, galleries, dealers, collectors, and enthusiasts to the city for a week of non-stop art and culture activities. Armory Arts Week running March 5-10, 2013 includes…
CARTWHEEL Interview: Corey Hagberg in his Rockford, Ill. Studio
When 33-year-old artist Corey Hagberg was four years old, he watched his dad draw super heroes and fighter planes with a mechanical pencil and equated the scents of lead and erasers with magical abilities to stop time. Two years later, at a garage sale, I remember coming across this skateboard with some of the most…
CARTWHEEL Street and Outsider Art Pop-Up Show March 21-24, 2013
CARTWHEEL brings a mini art fair to Hollywood’s PROJECT Gallery, with live painting, music, community events, and artists from across the country who will be participating daily. Join us at the CARTWHEEL Street & Outsider Art Pop-Up Show March 21-24, 2013, a unique opportunity to connect with some of the most innovative and engaging artists…
Corey Hagberg Joins CARTWHEEL Shop’s Six Featured Artists
CARTWHEEL is now representing Rockford, Illinois artist Corey Hagberg! Corey Hagberg’s CARTWHEEL representation is thanks to a Miami art fair encounter: While exploring Fountain Art Fair in December, CARTWHEEL founder Cindy Schwarzstein rounded one of the labyrinthine fair’s corners and immediately spotted the artist’s psycho-chromatic layered paintings. She was drawn to his use of machinery…
Photos from Fountain Art Fair Miami Beach
Fountain Art Fair Miami Beach, Dec. 6-9, 2012, is the annual emerging arts fair held in the Wynwood Arts District. It’s hot. There’s loud music. And paint. And beer, and bicycles, and puppet shows. It’s the best place to find young talent, and guess what? We found one we especially admire — Corey Hagberg. Keep…
Exploring Wynwood Walls in Miami
This December, while the Miami Beach art fairs were going on, hundreds of people made a trip to the Wynwood Arts District, home to The Wynwood Walls street art courtyard and a thriving young gallery scene. This district is unique in the United States, where cameras are slung around every shoulder and people — some…
CARTWHEEL: Highlights of 2012
Just six months ago CARTWHEEL launched our website, and in that time we’ve visited studios and galleries, interviewed artists and collectors, and explored art fairs, with nearly 300 posts and thousands of photos that document our excitement over the art scenes in Southern California and beyond. One of the most thrilling things for us…
The Best of 2012 Miami Beach Art Fairs
CARTWHEEL’s List of Trends, Successes and Discoveries at Miami Beach Art Fairs, Dec. 6-9, 2012 I didn’t know I had reached maximum art stimulus overload in Miami until it was 4am east coast time on Monday. The fairs were over, I was on a plane about to land in Los Angeles and, coming out of…