Highlights for BritWeek Los Angeles: April 23rd – May 8th!

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Highlights for BritWeek Los Angeles: April 23rd – May 8th!

Get ready for BritWeek in Los Angeles beginning tomorrow Saturday April 23rd and running through May 8th! Over the next two weeks BritWeek will be hosting a program of events promoting British culture to highlight the creative fusion between the United Kingdom and California. The mission of BritWeek, a non profit organization that began in 1977 by Nigel Lythgoe and then-Consul General Bob…

Cartwheel Art Tours x Dark Progressivism x The Container Yard in the DTLA Arts District for World Art Day IAA-UNESCO

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Cartwheel Art Tours x Dark Progressivism x The Container Yard in the DTLA Arts District for World Art Day IAA-UNESCO

Join Cartwheel Art Tours x Cartwheel Art Magazine, on an adventure in our neighborhood of the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, to celebrate World Art Day IAA-UNESCO, hosted by Downtown LA Art Walk! PART ONE: DARK PROGRESSIVISM PRE-SCREENING // Q & A HOSTED BY GREG ESCALANTE: Ticket price for the film and Q & A: $15.00 //…

Cartwheel Art Tours x Obscura Society LA in Gabba Arts District: Mural Tour and The Gabba Gallery Preview of \Brit-fluence(d)\, a BritWeek Art Show

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Cartwheel Art Tours x Obscura Society LA in Gabba Arts District: Mural Tour and The Gabba Gallery Preview of \Brit-fluence(d)\, a BritWeek Art Show

Cartwheel Art Tours and Obscura Society of LA are offering a special Atlas Obscura Day & World Art Day Tour. The tour will be led by Cindy Schwarzstein, Cartwheel Art founder and Erin Johnson, Atlas Obscura field agent, who will be providing the opportunity for guests to immerse themselves through art in the following way: –…

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: \Brit-fluence(d)\, a BritWeek Art Show at The Gabba Gallery – Saturday April 23rd through Saturday May 14

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Save the Date: \Brit-fluence(d)\, a BritWeek Art Show at The Gabba Gallery – Saturday April 23rd through Saturday May 14

  \Brit-fluence(d)\: A group art show, exploring the art of UK x LA emerging and urban artists, and how they’ve been influenced by British Culture, as part of the official programming for BritWeek. \Brit-fluence(d)\, represents a mix of artists influenced by British Culture. Whether it’s been with music, film, literature, fashion, architecture, philosophy, the automotive industry,…

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…

Cartwheel Art Tours in DTLA Arts District for “South of Seventh” Neighborhood Tour: Graffiti & Street Art, Artist Studio Visit, Distillery Tasting and More!

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Cartwheel Art Tours in DTLA Arts District for “South of Seventh” Neighborhood Tour: Graffiti & Street Art, Artist Studio Visit, Distillery Tasting and More!

Join Cartwheel Art Tours on Saturday March 5th for a unique perspective and immersive urban experience in art, food/beverage and history.  This tour itinerary will provide an opportunity for guests to meet artists and makers along with learning about the new developments occurring in one of Los Angeles’s most unique, dynamic, art-centric and rapidly changing neighborhoods–the Downtown…

Road Trip to Riverside with Cartwheel Art Tours & Obscura Society LA, Coverage by Albert Vitela

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Road Trip to Riverside with Cartwheel Art Tours & Obscura Society LA, Coverage by Albert Vitela

Albert Vitale is a painter living in Los Angeles. A recent graduate of the California State University Los Angeles MFA program, Vitale is know for his figurative expressionist  paintings that draw on history and religious mythology. Here are his impressions of Cartwheel Art Tours/Obscura Society LA’s tour in Riverside, CA Twelve of us assembled in the…

Cartwheel Art Tours & Obscura Society LA in Riverside: Road Trip to Tios Tacos, The Mission Inn and The Women of New Contemporary Art Murals & Exhibition

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Cartwheel Art Tours & Obscura Society LA in Riverside: Road Trip to Tios Tacos, The Mission Inn and The Women of New Contemporary Art Murals & Exhibition

Join Cartwheel Art Tours and Obscura Society LA, on a road trip, where we will transport you on a bus from LA to Riverside and back for an immersive neighborhood art journey. It is on this excursion, where the following will occur: Discover: 30 artists – 3 special installations – 5 murals, around the arts complex of Brandstater Gallery…

Coverge from Tuesday Night’s Book Signing & Talk, with Lynn Goldsmith, at the Morrison Hotel Gallery

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Coverge from Tuesday Night’s Book Signing & Talk, with Lynn Goldsmith, at the Morrison Hotel Gallery

West Hollywood’s Morrison Hotel Gallery (located at Sunset Marquis Hotel) hosted acclaimed photographer Lynn Goldsmith in a book signing & talk with close friend & jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, on Tuesday February 9th, 2016. The 100 person audience clamored to hear of Lynn’s very early start in photography, the evolution of her career, and inside…