LA Art Show 2016 Event Coverage Summary: Cartwheel Art’s Guest Contributors Highlights
Celebrating its twenty first year anniversary, LA Art Show 2016 delivered on its promise to be the best ever! For four days, the Los Angeles Convention Center hosted over 50,000 attendees at more than 120 galleries representing 22 countries, and our guest contributors–author/filmmaker Rodrigo Ribera D’Ebre, author/historian Steve Grody, author/photographer Dr. Paul Koudounaris, and painter Marc Trujillo…
Marc Trujillo: 2016 LA Art Show Notes
Inside a large art fair there’s a geographical slippage that you feel at some point, you could be in Miami, New York, Basel, or any number of large cities where these fairs which cull galleries from all over the world happen. Sort of like being in a casino, indoor mall or a sprawling space with…
2016 LA Art Show: We have Special Contributors!
This year for the LA Art Show, we have asked some of Los Angeles’ stellar art talents to contribute words and photos about what excites and engages them at the LA Art Show. Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre is the author of Urban Politics: The Political Culture of Sur 13 Gangs, The NAFTA Blueprint, and A Grave…
October 18: Curating Homeboy Industries 5k Run Outdoor Art Show
October 18 I am curating my biggest art show yet, an outdoor, four-hour pop-up benefiting Homeboy Industries as part of their 5k run/walk, over forty artists and approximately eighty pieces of art that will be hung on a chain link fence. We start hanging at 5am, the show opens at 8am and is over at…
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 Recap: “The Mouseketeer Army” ~ New Works by Bob Dob
The opening reception for the exhibit seemed packed with a bunch of rad players in the lowbrow art world like Anthony Ausgang, Andrew Hosner of Thinkspace Gallery, Marc Trujillo, actress/singer Kate Flannery from NBC’s The Office who is also part of the Hollywood lounge duo The Lampshades. I wasn’t there to catch the action, but CARTWHEEL founder…
Art Platform Raises the Art Bar at Barker Hangar
Say Los Angeles, and people think traffic and celebrities. This weekend screw Carmageddon with its closure of the 405 Freeway–Art Platform is here bringing in stars and ingenues of the art world. Some of the biggest, established names in art along with exciting newer artists, emerging artists, alternative artists, and up-and-comers are on exhibit at…