Save the Date: October 3 “Beyond Eden” the Final Edition
“Beyond Eden“–the multi-gallery event at the LA Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park celebrating the New Contemporary Art Movement–is the fall season’s major art event. This year marks the fifth and final year for “Beyond Eden.” The the event opens October 3, with a reception open to all from 6pm to 11pm. Sunday the gallery…
LA Art Show 2014: Photo Preview of Littletopia
Littletopia is here! The LA Art Show special section curated by Red Truck Gallery features a brash, smart selection cutting edge galleries. Red Truck founder Noah Antineau wanted to show exciting non-mainstream art and throw a party with his friends, so he invited Breezeblock from Portland, Mexico’s FIFTY24MX, New Eye-ACCD Projects, Sloan Fine Art and…
LA Art Show Opens This Wednesday January 15, Red Truck Curating “Littletopia”
Art! Art! Art! Five days of non-stop art as the LA Art Show returns January 15 to 19th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As media partners, we’ll be bringing you coverage from the VIP opening, plus in-depth looks at the various themes, exhibitions, and dealers, along with coverage of panels and special events. CARTWHEEL…
Beyond Eden: See It Sunday!
Beyond Eden was jammed full last night with art lovers taking in this art fair featuring three major New Contemporary galleries from the Westside and San Francisco’s Spoke Art Gallery. Beyond Eden continues today from noon to 5pm at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, one of the loveliest spots in spots…
Save The Date! October 12-13 Beyond Eden 2013 Honors Greg Escalante
Los Angeles’ very Los-Angeles-in-the-best-way art fair, Beyond Eden returns to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood, October 12 and 13 after a one year hiatus. This celebration of New Contemporary Art–think Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, low brow, no brow, interpretive representational, neo-expressionism–is a multi-gallery show featuring bold…
Isabel Samaras on ArtPadSF, aka “Fun In The Sun”
ArtPadSF, now in its third year, pulled in about 9,000 attendees who all seemed to realize the same thing: it’s a great place to spend a sunny afternoon. Unlike the giant fairs where you’re locked inside a huge, windowless Thunderdome of art, ArtPadSF allows you as many mini-sanity breaks as you need while you…
Isabel Samaras on ArtMRKT: “More Art Than You Can Shake A Stick At!”
ArtMRKT moved to Fort Mason this year, into a vast space filled with 70 booths representing everything from blue chip to alternative and non-profit arts organizations. Because they feature galleries from far and wide, once you’re inside the windowless, anonymous white enormity of the Festival Pavillion you could be anywhere in the world (it was…
CARTWHEEL’s Preview to artMRKT San Francisco, May 16-19, 2013
Held at the Fort Mason Center-Festival Pavilion overlooking the San Francisco Bay, artMRKT San Francisco showcases 70 galleries, eight installations, and art discussions May 16-19, 2013. Travelers will be excited to see San Francisco’s newly unveiled project, the world’s largest light sculpture on the Bay Bridge, The Bay Lights. The sight of 25,000 programmed LEDs…
CARTWHEEL’s Guide to ArtPadSF May 16-19, 2013
For three days and four nights beginning the evening of May 16, a selection of contemporary California galleries will all be poolside in San Francisco, and they’ll be doing more than just kicking back and relaxing! Quite the opposite: At ArtPadSF, the art fair at ultra-hip Phoenix Hotel, the whole complex is abuzz as collectors,…
CARTWHEEL: Highlights of 2012
Just six months ago CARTWHEEL launched our website, and in that time we’ve visited studios and galleries, interviewed artists and collectors, and explored art fairs, with nearly 300 posts and thousands of photos that document our excitement over the art scenes in Southern California and beyond. One of the most thrilling things for us…
The Best of 2012 Miami Beach Art Fairs
CARTWHEEL’s List of Trends, Successes and Discoveries at Miami Beach Art Fairs, Dec. 6-9, 2012 I didn’t know I had reached maximum art stimulus overload in Miami until it was 4am east coast time on Monday. The fairs were over, I was on a plane about to land in Los Angeles and, coming out of…