CARTWHEEL Book Review ~ Billboard Bandits: Outlaw Artists in the Sky

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CARTWHEEL Book Review ~ Billboard Bandits: Outlaw Artists in the Sky

  Walking down a street in Los Angeles you might encounter a wheatpaste poster on a wall, a stenciled face on the sidewalk, a sticker on a lamppost. And when you look up you can also find giant, spray-painted letters or characters on the most visible canvases of the street–billboards. Last month, I visited the…

Rebel Yell: Stay Up! and Billboard Bandits Join Forces for Show

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Rebel Yell: Stay Up! and Billboard Bandits Join Forces for Show

As the Los Angeles art world kept chugging along with opening after opening inside its pristine, white walls, a group of artists went out under the cloak of the night and made art in the darkness. Working on any surface they could find, these brave souls created illegal street art unafraid of any legal consequences…

The Art of Letting Go: THEFL on His Art and Impermanence

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The Art of Letting Go: THEFL on His Art and Impermanence

Last month, I attended a signing at The Last Bookstore for Stay Up!: Los Angeles Street Art in my ever-present goal to keep up with the street art scene. I came across quite a few familiar street artists but a name I didn’t recognize was THEFL, also known as The Forest Lawn. Intrigued, I researched the…

Stay Up! Los Angeles Street Art a Focus at West Hollywood Book Fair

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Stay Up! Los Angeles Street Art a Focus at West Hollywood Book Fair

On a significantly hot day in the City of Angels, the grassy grounds of  West Hollywood Park and the city’s adjacent library hosted the 11th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair. Tents upon tents dedicated to all sorts of literary themes filled the space and in one corner of the area sat a group of men…

Stay Up! Los Angeles Street Art

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Stay Up! Los Angeles Street Art

From Downtown to Midtown to South Central, Los Angeles’ streets have become canvases. After MOCA’s “Art in the Streets,” street art not only grabbed Angelenos’ attention, it became a hot topic in the art world. Attempting to shed light on the city’s street art scene is Azusa Pacific professor and writer Jim Daichendt, author of…