Cartwheel Art Tours x Atlas Obscura: West Adams

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Cartwheel Art Tours x Atlas Obscura: West Adams

Join Cartwheel Art Tours and Atlas Obscura as we explore the hidden gems of West Adams and meet the artists, historians, designers, and creative entrepreneurs who are revitalizing this pocket of our city. A village of shipping containers has popped up around the legendary J “N” J Burgers & Bar-B-Que. Known as the Shops at…

Cartwheel Art Tours x Women Who Whiskey – LA Chapter: “South of Seventh” – DTLA Arts District

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Cartwheel Art Tours x Women Who Whiskey – LA Chapter: “South of Seventh” – DTLA Arts District

*NOTE: This is a private tour offered exclusively by the LA Chapter of Women Who Whiskey.* It’s on this urban adventure with Cartwheel Art Tours, that The Art of Whiskey with the Women Who Whiskey – LA Chapter, will be provided the exclusive opportunity to connect with makers and artists “South of Seventh,” an industrial area adjacent to the Downtown Los Angeles…

Save the Date: LA Times Festival of Books Art Programming — April 9th -10th

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Save the Date: LA Times Festival of Books Art Programming — April 9th -10th

  Now considered the largest book festival in the country, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books celebrates its 21-year anniversary. For 2 days the USC campus will transform into a literary paradise with writers, critics, reviewers, and such sharing stages to propel the national discourse of arts and letters, while audiences listen, meet, and get…

Site Specific: A Graffiti Micro-History at Hauser, Wirth and Schimmel, by Steve Grody

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Site Specific: A Graffiti Micro-History at Hauser, Wirth and Schimmel, by Steve Grody

There are innumerable sites of graffiti activity across Los Angeles. Some have been one-time spots, while others have been and may still be considered “yards,” a place where graffiti is done regularly. These sites cover the continuum from legal and even commissioned work, to illegal. The continuum of the “non-permission” i.e. illegal work runs the…

Save the Date “Los Angeles Times Festival of Books” University of Southern California April 9-10

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Save the Date “Los Angeles Times Festival of Books” University of Southern California April 9-10

Now considered the largest book festival in the country, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books celebrates its 21-year anniversary. The guest speakers at the Bovard Auditorium include Carrie Brownstein, member of the punk band Sleater-Kinney, and writer, creator and co-star, of the award-winning television show “Portlandia, and Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of the…

Save the Date: World Art Day LA Programming: April 14th – April 17th

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Save the Date: World Art Day LA Programming: April 14th – April 17th

World Art Day, an international event sanctioned by IAA-UNESCO, takes place on April 15th, Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthday. The purpose of World Art Day is to celebrate international collaboration through art. World Art Day: Los Angeles will be held over a 5-day window starting with an Opening Gala on April 13th, followed by several days of…

Save the Date: Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel – Grand Opening “Revolution in the Making” – March 13th

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Save the Date: Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel – Grand Opening “Revolution in the Making” – March 13th

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel (HWSLA), will be inaugurating its new Los Angeles complex located in the Downtown Los Angeles arts District, with ‘Revolution in the Making,’ a cross-generational exhibition that will bring together significant works by women artists who have transformed the language of abstract sculpture. The grand opening is Sunday March 13th from 2pm-6pm. Based in the…

Graffiti Primer by Steve Grody, author of Graffiti LA.

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Graffiti Primer by Steve Grody, author of Graffiti LA.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. — Frederick Douglass I should also add the phrase “don’t shoot the messenger.” Graffiti and its related activities, such as postering (“wheat pasting”), is very…

LA Art Show’s Cartwheel Art Tour: “The Art of Development and the Development of an Art Scene”.

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LA Art Show’s Cartwheel Art Tour: “The Art of Development and the Development of an Art Scene”.

Join us for our one-year anniversary celebration of Cartwheel Art Tours as we travel by bus from the Convention Center to the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District on an immersive experience in the most unique, art-centric, and rapidly changing part of Los Angeles. This special Cartwheel Art Tour, designed for LA Art Show guests, as…

N. Arts District Tour to benefit Art Share L.A., Sponsored by Angel City Brewery

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N. Arts District Tour to benefit Art Share L.A., Sponsored by Angel City Brewery

Cartwheel Art Tour founder Cindy Schwarzstein, will enthusiastically guide participants, while offering her “insider” knowledge through, the art and history of what was once a gritty section filled with disused warehouses, train tracks and manufacturing plants by the L.A. River, to what is now rapidly becoming the hippest and most vibrant and dynamic art-centric part…

N. Arts District Tour to benefit Art Share L.A., sponsored by Angel City Brewery

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N. Arts District Tour to benefit Art Share L.A., sponsored by Angel City Brewery

  Cartwheel Art Tour, founder Cindy Schwarzstein, will enthusiastically guide participants, while offering her “insider” knowledge through, the art and history of what was once a gritty section filled with disused warehouses, train tracks and manufacturing plants by the L.A. River, to what is now rapidly becoming the hippest and most vibrant and dynamic art-centric…