El Velorio Celebrates Dia de los Muertos with Art and Music at Plaza de la Raza – Saturday, October 13
Now in its ninth year, El Velorio returns to Plaza de la Raza on Saturday, October 13! Cartwheel Art is excited to support the event as a media partner. Antonio Pelayo, the artist and event producer behind El Velorio, says it all started because he wanted to give his creative friends a way to show…
SAVE THE DATE: Fabrik Expo Art Fair and Photo Independent – Friday, October 5, to Sunday, October 7
Two international art exhibitions—Fabrik Expo Art Fair and Photo Independent—open at The Reef in DTLA on Friday, October 5, 2018. Cartwheel Art is a media partner for both events, and this year, we’re also bringing our programming and curatorial expertise to Fabrik Expo as presenters for the Experience Lounge. Join us for “The Sereal Killers,”…
Cartwheel Art Presents VALTD’s “The Sereal Killers” at Fabrik Expo Art Fair – Friday, October 5, to Sunday, October 7
Fabrik Expo Art Fair returns to The Reef in Downtown Los Angeles next weekend, kicking off with an opening night party on Friday, October 5. Cartwheel Art will present a new art activation at the event. Join us in The Experience Lounge for “The Sereal Killers” by art duo VALTD. While Cartwheel is well known…
Gregg Gibbs’ Paintings of Sensual Sandwiches Are Showing at Philippe The Original – Saturday, September 29
Longtime DTLA favorite Philippe The Original turns 110 years old on Monday, October 1, 2018. The celebration starts a few days earlier, when an art exhibition of Gregg Gibbs’ work called “Sandwiches & Carvers” opens on Saturday, September 29. The restaurant’s menu and staff inspired the paintings in the collection. A third-generation native Angeleno, Gibbs…
Cartwheel Art’s New L.A. Vice and Paranormal Nights Tours Explore DTLA’s Dark Side
Big news! Cartwheel Art is preparing to launch two new walking tours—the L.A. Vice tour and the Paranormal Nights tour—and they’re our creepiest ones yet. Are you brave enough to join Cartwheel on these explorations of DTLA’s disturbing past, including murders, mysteries, serial killers, suicides and spooks? Historical journalist Hadley Meares leads the tours, which…
Artist Tanner Goldbeck on Downtown L.A., Playing With Imperfections, and His Upcoming Show at Castelli Art Space – Saturday, September 15
In anticipation of his upcoming show “If You See Something, Say Something” at Castelli Art Space, Cartwheel Art visited artist Tanner Goldbeck at his studio for an exclusive preview and chat. Goldbeck is a painter, illustrator, Art at the Rendon participating artist, and downtown dweller for thirteen years now. His studio overlooks Fourth Street, its…
Meet Artists (And Buy Their Merch) at Mercado Los Olvidados #3 – Friday, September 21 to Sunday, September 23
The pskaufman… gallery, located in Downtown Los Angeles, will host the third annual Mercado Los Olvidados next weekend. Footwear designer Paul Kaufman, who co-created the pop-up marketplace with artist Camille Rose Garcia, says, “It’s an artists’ market that’s different from other markets in that it’s a little more merchandise driven, with small exclusives that the…
ICA LA Celebrates Its First Year in the DTLA Arts District with an ‘INCOGNITO’ Benefit – Friday, September 7 & Saturday September 8
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, better known as ICA LA, emerged in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District last year. The museum’s previous incarnation, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, needed a new home, and after a short time when it was known as SMMoA Unbound, the museum settled in DTLA, not far from…
Join a Mural Tour of the DTLA Arts District to Benefit Art Share L.A. – Saturday August 11
Cartwheel Art has partnered with Art Share L.A.’s Emerging Leaders Board on a mural tour of the DTLA Arts District—and it’s happening on Saturday, August 11. The tour, led by Cartwheel Art’s Cindy Schwarzstein, will feature murals by artists such as Nuke, El Mac, Augustine Kofie, Hueman, Christina Angelina, Tristan Eaton, and Kent Twitchell. Ticket sales…
Gabba Gallery’s Jason Ostro Talks Art, Music, and Giving Back to the L.A. Community
On Saturday, August 4, Gabba Gallery is hosting a public reception to celebrate the launch of “Remix: The Art of Music,” a group show of visual art inspired by music. As in the gallery’s previous exhibitions, “Cratedigger” (2016) and “Cratedigger, Vol. 2” (2017), part of the Remix show will feature pieces that are 12 inches…
PREVIEW AND INTERVIEW: Lucy Sparrow’s “Sparrow Mart” at The Standard DTLA – August 1 – 31
Sparrow Mart is a grocery store stocked with 31,000 items, every single one of them made from felt. It’s hard to fathom the concept until you’re actually standing in an aisle, plastic basket in hand, deciding among fuzzy boxes of Twinkies, adorable roller-grill hot dogs, and squishy boxes of Johnny Cat kitty litter. Each piece…