Cartwheel Art Tours x Atlas Obscura: “Shrine’s Haunted Shacks Gardens After Dark” – Pasadena
Self-taught painter, installation, and performance artist Brent Allen Spears (a.k.a. Shrine) has spent the past 20-plus years transforming his Pasadena home into a vivid sanctuary of altars, totems, and sculptures. Join Cindy Schwarzstein, founder of Cartwheel Art Tours, for an exclusive “after dark” tour of this architectural wonder known as Haunted Shack Gardens. Guided by…
Coachella 2014 Interviews:The Diverse Visual Art From Major Production to DIY
Coachella definitely put the ‘Art’ in its 2014 Music and Arts Festival. For the first time in its history of 16 years, the festival’s official poster bore the names of its visual artists alongside the musical acts. The presence of visual art is inseparable from music and performance at Coachella, and it’s been an important…
Coachella 2014 Photo Essay
Coachella in photos: Global Inheritance brought the art of recycling to Coachella Music & Arts Festival VIP teepees: Live painting:
Moby’s ‘Innocents’ Closing Reception and Parade
If you happened to be on the block of Cahuenga and Sunset on Friday, March 28, you might have seen a vision that had you questioning whether you were wide awake (even in Hollywood). A procession of white-draped, colorfully masked figures trailed behind a scarlet-robed Moby with a kind of quiet excitement. En route…
Coachella Preview with Poetic Kinetics
This year marks the 16th anniversary of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which runs April 11-13 and April 18-20 where thousands of fans from around the world will attend in celebration of today’s best in music and art. Ever since the inaugural festival in 1999 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, Coachella…
Interview: Art Publicists Draw Attention to Clients
The Miami Art Fairs and the the upcoming Los Angeles Art Show make it clear that there are a lot of artists, emerging and established, vying for wall space be it in your museums or your home. In Los Angeles, there are gallery shows opening every weekend, and thousands of artists hoping to hang their…
Photos: Getting TRASHed at Coachella with Global Inheritance
Global Inheritance’s TRASHed: The Art of Recycling installations–over 100 recycling bins painted by artists–are some of the most noticeable features at Coachella Music and Arts Festival, along withthe giant Recyclosaurus Rex which “eats” cans and bottles. We covered the TRASHed preview in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District earlier this month, and Paul Koudounaris snapped shots…
Coachella: Herakut’s Snail
This year The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival offered so much art! There were seven never-before-seen, site specific installations (last year there were only two), including “TRASHed: Art of Recycling” and “Recyclosaurus Rex”presented by Global Inheritance. We’ll be bringing you images of those from Paul Koudounaris (aka Paul K), author of Empire of…
Collector Interview: Coachella Content Coordinator Jon Halperin
The secret to a good art collection? Form strong relationships with galleries. Have a good framer you can depend on. Buy at charity shows when you can. These pointers come from Jon Halperin, who has one of the most enviable pop art / street art collections of small-to-medium prints, original paintings and toys we’ve ever…
Meet Shrine On, the Artist Behind the Towering Coachella Installations
One of the literal high points of Coachella over the years has been the one-of-a-kind, mind-blowing complex, giant, towering installations built entirely out of trash and reclaimed items that loom over the weekend music festival. These dominating sky rises are assembled by artist Shrine On who has been building shine towers for Coachella and other…
Coachella Preview: “TRASHed: The Art of Recycling”
Despite this art project’s name, if you call these amusing works “trash cans” you’re wrong. They’re recycling bins, and they will be fully functional at The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival April 12-14 and April 19-21, 2013. The bins have been painted by 60 artists who were chosen from thousands of online submissions,…