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…

Hiding In Plain Sight: “Freestyle” at Fabien Castanier Gallery

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Hiding In Plain Sight: “Freestyle” at Fabien Castanier Gallery

Friends mean well, most of the time, and I’m not the easiest person to talk to, so I understand that they’re just trying to connect with me on some level. Yet I have come to approach their art recommendations with a certain amount of trepidation. Do you know this artist so and so? You should…

Jesse Hazelip Touches Up his Mural at The Red Fort

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Jesse Hazelip Touches Up his Mural at The Red Fort

Jesse Hazelip made the trip back to Venice Beach from New York in order to touch up his recent mural. The piece is representative of a Cockney slang term for being broke, and unfortunately due to its proximity to the ocean and exposure to sunlight the original wheat pastes he used for the animals and…

Public Works Opening at LALA Arts

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Public Works Opening at LALA Arts

No matter your opinion on the form, street art undoubtedly continues to shake up the art world. Plenty of gallery and museum shows have been paying close attention to street art’s forerunners and the impact of their art on everyone from unsuspecting passersby to established art critics. One of street art’s biggest supporters, Daniel Lahoda,…

Hennessy presents a Street Art Tour of Los Angeles guided by SABER

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Hennessy presents a Street Art Tour of Los Angeles guided by SABER

In celebration of their recent collector’s edition bottle featuring the artwork of Futura, Hennessy gave a selected group of journalists the opportunity to go on a Los Angeles street art tour guided by SABER. For those who don’t know, SABER is one of LA’s most well known graffiti artists, who came to fame with his 1997 piece in the…

I Got Big Balls at Griffith Park

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I Got Big Balls at Griffith Park

  You can easily find art in museums, galleries and the streets, but how about a golf course? Ghettogloss founder Fiora Boes made it happen, using an LA golf course to house the talent of 100 artists from various backgrounds. On a warm summer night, Griffith Park’s Wilson Harding Golf Course displayed the work of…

Art Blooms in the DTLA Arts District!

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This past weekend’s BloomfestLA was another fitting tribute to the late Joel Bloom, a DTLA fixture and proprietor of Blooms General Store until he passed on July 13, 2007.  Bloom was a community activist who improved safety, lobbied for bus service, better street lighting, and eventually helped win the Arts District designation. The corner of…

Speedy Graphito French Invasion Print Signing at Moura Starr

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Speedy Graphito French Invasion Print Signing at Moura Starr

Artist Oliver Rizzo, aka Speedy Graphito – well known French street artist, hanging out in town for the “French Invasion” art exhibition at Fabien Castanier Gallery featuring Graphito, JonOne and Tilt at Fabien Castanier Gallery, did a print signing event at the Moura Starr showroom, in what is called the Avenues of Art, Fashion & Design in Beverly Hills.

Augustine Kofie’s “Working An Angle” at KNOWN GALLERY

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Augustine Kofie’s “Working An Angle” at KNOWN GALLERY

AUGUSTINE KOFIE creates incredibly rad abstract paintings that appear to the viewer as mystical plans for some yet unknown form of architecture. They are the kinds of works that can get anyone stoked about art – from young kids to serious buyers. And so it was really cool that the gallery had several prints available…

Ryan McIntosh – Print release on the street

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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…

LALA Gallery – Grand Opening

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LALA Gallery – Grand Opening

LALA GALLERY was filled to the brim with young people on its opening night. And the industrial space, which is located somewhere in downtown LA, was easy to spot since it had a giant RETNA mural across its largest wall. However, it still kind of felt like we were in a part of the city…