Tim Biskup at Martha Otero Gallery
A new body of work by Santa Monica-born artist-illustrator Tim Biskup is showing at West Hollywood’s Martha Otero Gallery Sept. 28 through Nov. 2, 2013. The show is titled “Charge,” and is inspired by “color charge” as well as complex personal references. Read more and join the event on Facebook.
Station to Station: The Train Comes to L.A.’s Union Station
This train traveling from New York to California will take three wonderful, well-paced weeks to comb artistic experimentation into the fabric of the United States. Many things are best done on a slow and steady course; behold, this spectacle on train tracks. “Station to Station” is a series of art installations and musical performances that…
Airbnb Says “Hello LA” with Inspired Pop-Ups: Moby, James Franco and More
People love Airbnb. They love being guests in homes as they travel, they love having paying guests visit. And now Airbnb is showing its love for LA and our city’s own special landscape of celebrities with Hello LA, a special series of five pop-up “listings” that include artworks contributed by the Broad Collection. Each listing…
Preview: Calavera Gallery Part of Evolving Urban Landscape
Northeast Los Angeles has new gallery: Calavera Gallery on a strip of Cypress Ave that also houses the new bar from punk rock filmmaker Dave Travis who took over the Tops Club, keeping the interior intact adn renaming it Cafe NELA, at 1906 Cypress, conveniently located next to a taco joint–a dollar a taco! Perfect…
Moby Listening Party at Sonos Studio
The Moby Listening Party at Sonos Studio held on Monday, Sept. 23 from 7-10pm will include a first listen of the new album, an artist Q&A, an acoustic performance by Moby, and screening of three never-before-seen music videos from the new album. Fans can submit questions for Moby via Twitter to be answered during the…
“Outside the Lines” Coloring Book at MOCA
Keith Haring, Laurie Lipton, Shepard Fairey, AIKO, Exene Cervenka, RISK, Steven Harrington, Tyler Gibney, Gary Baseman and Tofer Chin are among the 100-plus artists who have work in “Outside the Lines: An Artists’ Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations,” now available at the MOCA Store at MOCA Grand Ave. A launch party and signing event, during…
TarFest 2013: Live Painting, Bands, Food Trucks and More
Through September, visitors to La Brea Blvd are seeing murals between 1st and 2nd Streets, a lead up to TarFest 2013, a live music and community event at the La Brea Tar Pits, now in its 11th year. Free for all ages, TarFest features live painting, food trucks, outdoor arts and activities, plus a wine…
“Parallels” at Fabien Castanier Gallery
“Parallels” is a duo show at Fabien Castanier Gallery featuring new works by French artists L’Atlas and Thomas Canto (pictured at a Paris installation, courtesy of Fabien Castanier). The show opens with an artists’ reception on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 from 7 to 10pm. The two street artists explore geometry, space, pattern, and abstraction in…
Art at Atwater’s Alias Books East
Alias Books East is one of the many treasures that lay just over from Silver Lake and Echo Park. The bookstore, which is crammed with books on art, history, popular culture as well as poetry, fiction and literature, is a bibliophile’s haven and potential harem. All…those…books….And art! There’s art at Alias, a wall of it…
Brandon Boyd’s Book Signing
“So the Echo” is a new art book by Brandon Boyd. The visual artist and musician will be holding a signing of the new book at Bookmarc in West Hollywood on Weds., Sept. 18, 2013 from 5 to 8pm. The book is Boyd’s third art book, a collection of the last five years’ progress in…
Save the Date! TJ Martell Artworks for the Cure October 11-13
Over 100 artists fill Barker Hanger in Santa Monica the weekend of October 11-13 for the TJ Martell Artworks for the Cure, celebrating offbeat, eclectic and irreverent art while funding innovative medical research focused on finding cures for leukemia, cancer and AIDS. The list of artists is fresh, exciting and impressive. The participating galleries include…