SAVE THE DATE: INTO ACTION in DTLA Chinatown – January 13th through January 21st
Join us at INTO ACTION, a large scale pop-up art exhibition and series of free community cultural events taking place over the course of 9 days in DTLA’s Chinatown. The groundbreaking social justice festival of art and ideas will feature nearly 175 artists with hundreds of inspiring works of art, large scale installations by world-renowned…
SAVE THE DATE & PREVIEW: “Know Your Thug:Tony Puryear’s Gankstas!” at Jason Vass, Two–day Pop-up Opens January 6th, 2018
African-American political satirist, activist, and writer Tony Puryear takes aim at the Trump administration in his humorous lambast of our current political regime. There will be a gallery debut of his ongoing on-line series of political portraits, The Gankstas! at Jason Vass Gallery in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District as a Two-Day Pop-Up on January…
Interview: Nicholas Ganz, aka Keinom, Talks Graffiti, Women, Tibet and Burma
Nicholas Ganz, alias Keinom, is a well known German graffiti artist and the author of some worldwide famous books. His first book, Graffiti World, was published in 2004, followed by Graffiti Woman in 2006. He has also published several books on Burma and Nepal. Cartwheel Art’s European correspondent Rebekah Schranez talked with the artist/author/activist about…
Eyeone Captures Los Angeles’ Streets
Los Angeles prides itself on diversity. At this point in the city’s history, it’s cliché to refer to the sprawling space as a melting pot of cultures, but that argument still holds. Just think of the art scene–walk into any gallery opening and you can view work from an artist that works halfway across the world…
Elephants & Asses at AR4T Gallery
“Elephants & Asses” at AR4T Gallery is the perfect excursion in the days before, or the hours after, casting one’s vote Nov. 6. With most of the show poking at the storm of media during election season, “Elephants & Asses” is a cacophony of 27 minds releasing an intense amount of tension that sounds like:…
Andrew Schoultz: Ready to Take Over Los Angeles
As you drive east down Washington Boulevard, right before you hit Fairfax you might notice something different: Where there used to be a blank, brick wall there is now a sprawling, carefully detailed mural. The mural transforms the whole wall into a battlefield of sorts, large horses seeming to charge outside its boundaries carrying billowing…