Extreme Canvas 2: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana
Thank gods for Ernie Wolfe III! Extreme Canvas 2: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana—the title says it all– is loaded with hundreds of movie posters, celebrating Ghana’s movie poster artists and the Golden Era, 1985 to 1999, during which they plied their craft. The hand-painted movie poster is vanishing art form…
Preview: All Jazzed Up About the 1920s–The Great Gatsby at the Century Guild
It may not be the art you’re used to us covering at CARTWHEEL, but I couldn’t pass up the invitation from the Century Guild for a solo preview of Academy Award-winning designer Catherine Martin‘s costumes and sketches for The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann. Martin created the sketches, which are printed on watercolor paper,…
Ryan McIntosh – Print release on the street
Ryan McIntosh just enacted the most innovative art releases I’ve ever seen in the history of Los Angeles. He stapled 36 of his prints to a wall on Melrose near the intersection of Formosa and within several hours all of them were snatched up by his various collectors — which included everyone from museum curators…