MISS READ – Berlin
E-readers, Steve Jobs, and Google’s stamina to conquer E-books will never defeat the independent publisher. The physicality of turning a page and seeing something on paper is just too damn sensuous to be made extinct. If you love your publications, you simply must try to get along to MISS READ in Berlin this weekend.
MISS READ [...]
OBD-X LA block party
Downtown LA, it’s time to party. OBD-X is a huge block party happening in the Old Bank District on 4th Street between Spring and Main Streets and Main between 3rd and 5th Streets this Saturday, August 21st from 4PM to 1AM. Admission is free! Think Art Walk. The street celebration will include food and drinks, art [...]
Bloomfest 2010 – Los Angeles
Bloomfest 2010 is a celebration of all things Downtown Arts District, and features open studios, live bands, food trucks, vendors, and all the famous and infamous art that Downtown LA is known for. A little like the Downtown LA Artwalk, but this one strikes us as awesome.
Happening on August 14th, downtown LA will fling open [...]
Michael Pukac: A Dreampunk Review – Los Angeles
Now’s about high time you go check out fast-emerging LA artist Michael Pukac. Relevant, timely and timeless, and beautifully executed, Pukac is well-situated in the current steampunk art movement, while distancing his work through content and tone. This Friday the 13th, the Imaginary Light Bulb Factory proudly presents Pukac’s solo show, “A Dreampunk Review”, at [...]
Porn in the USA meets Beverly Hills
Looks can be deceiving, which seems to be the central theme for Jonathan Yeo’s “Porn in the USA” collage exhibition in Beverly Hills.
Our chance encounter with the work began with three little words: Viewer Discretion Advised. Seeing that statement on the doors of what appeared to be an enormous flash gallery space on Beverly Drive, [...]
Circassians, Curiosities, & Conspiracies – Los Angeles
Thought you could just sit at home and watch reality shows on this random Tuesday evening? You thought wrong! Enrich your life with art from young local emerging artists at the Circassians, Curiosities, and Conspiracies show at the Daydream Republic tomorrow night. Circassians, by the way, are the original inhabitants of Caucasus. You life is [...]
Das Prinzessin Projekt, A Must-See – Berlin
Emerging Berlin artist and graphic designer Dorit Bialer has one heck of a start in the thriving Berlin art scene. If her first solo exhibition, Das Prinzessin Projekt is any indication, write down her name on the back of your hand so you don’t forget – this artist is one to watch!
In her solo exhibit [...]
Dorit Bialer: Das Prinzessin Projekt – Berlin
Hold on to your hats and get ready for a trip to Prenzlauer Berg this Friday to catch up-and-coming indie artist Dorit Bialer’s first solo exhibition in Berlin. If you don’t know emerging artist Bialer by now – get on the stick! Playing with themes of traditional gender roles, activism, and the turbulent world of [...]
Visit an Imaginary Land
Visit an imaginary land during a performance of this contemporary opera. Overtone Industries presents Songs & Dances of Imaginary Lands a site-specific opera that follows the journey of two people searching for what they have lost. The show follows Tom and Sue as they search for their lost identities by visiting imaginary places that hold the [...]
Art Barter – Berlin 2010
The .HBC Space at Alexanderplatz in Berlin has just finished hosting the first Berlin Art Barter art show, where you can literally barter for art, exchanging anything except money. Seems like an intriguing concept, so I went to check it out, fully prepared to haggle my way into art ownership by grossly exaggerating my palm-reading [...]
Professor Bad Trip Tribute – Berlin
Kreuzberg is pretty trippy as it, but until June 30, you can catch the trippiest show ever down on Skalitzerstr. at X-Lab Corrosive Art Farm. The all-screenprint exhibition featuring the works of the late psycho-genius artist Professor Bad Trip (aka Gianluca Lerici) is an exercise in eye-vibrating information overload. Professor Bad Trip’s name says it [...]
Dzi Croquettes Will Leave You Dizzy
Dance Camera West (DCW) presents an outdoor screening of Dzi Croquettes, a lively Brazilian documentary exploring the outrageous all-male cabaret group, Dzi Croquettes, who used an empowering sexuality to counter Brazil’s military dictatorship and revolutionize the gay movement worldwide during the 1970’s.
Directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez, this revealing [...]
Hori Smoku is Sailor Jerry: A Film Screening
Would you let that guy tattoo you? All unsanitary with his tobacco pipe, pronounced lack of sanitary gloves, and insistent use of a rotary phone?
Yes, you would in a heartbeat. He’s Norman K. Collins, king of tattoo art, and man behind the infamous Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum art. Ed Hardy is remedial compared to this [...]
Environmentally friendly digital art show at the A&I Gallery
A&I Gallery in Hollywood HostsCommon Ground 2010An International Touring Digital Art ExhibitionAt the Intersection of Art + Technology + Environmental Stewardship
Presented by Hewlett-Packard & FujiFilm
Exhibition Runs from July 8 through August 13, 2010
Eco-Friendly Opening Reception – Thursday, July 8, 2010
Mark your calendar for Common Ground 2010 — an environmentally-friendly digital art exhibition hosted by A&I [...]
Nick Cave | Meet Me at the Center of The Earth NOW.
THIS IS IMPORTRANT. Really Important. Like, it’s really really important that you make plans RIGHT NOW to get to UCLA’s Fowler Musuem to see the Nick Cave exhibit: Soundsuits. Consider this a best visual experience, not to be missed if that’s at all possible.
Textile arts are not nearly as well represented as they should be, [...]
Two Exhibitions to Open at FIDM in May
FIDM has long been a place where young creative designers come to hone their chops in the heart of the cutthroat city of fashion that is LA. This month, they continue to explore the craft, process, and impact of costume design in film with two new exhibits, The Art of Costume Illustration, which covers a [...]
Put on your 3-D glasses!
Have you caught the 3-D movie bug? Do you refuse to see a movie unless it’s in 3-D? For all you out there who love the recent 3-D craze here is a fun event to check out! This Saturday May 15, 2010 is the 7th Annual LA 3-D Movie Festival presented by the Los Angeles [...]
Cupcakes! Cocktails! Comedy! Oh My!
The Daydream Republic is hosting the “Don’t Quit Your Daydream” show this Saturday, May 7th from 8:30pm – 11pm. It’s an all-lady show, featuring five hilarious comediennes, over 20 lady artists, and more estrogen than you can shake a stick at. Because the list of comediennes is as-yet-unnamed, we can only imagine that there will [...]
Create:Fixate: Vitalizes Your Eyes
“We awaken this spring Vitalized, by the knowledge that all possess the power to evolve and reinvent ourselves and the world around us. In a time when so much revolves around conflict or passivity, by tuning in, showing up, and making LIFE happen, we move everything forward. How will you Vitalize [...]
An Inevitable Unveiling: Masque Films
I first caught Sandra Powers films at The Night of Sinister Amusement at the Unknown Theater in December. Horrifyingly beautiful, her exquisitely-shot films provoke a squeamishness that you just can’t look away from, and that you can’t help but want to see more. From the creators of decadent and dark short films, music videos and [...]
UCLA radio (.com) for indie music?
Every Sunday morning DJ Octoon arrives at the UCLA radio studios at a bright and way-too-early hour (for most partyin’ indie rock fans) to crank up his show: “I’m in a Band..”
Thrashers Unite!
This weekend, Tony Alva, Richard Villa III, and Levi’s presents Daggers Rule, an Exhibit A Gallery Exhibition on Saturday, Feb. 27 from 7pm – 11pm. Curated by Catharina Pedersen, this show features are done on Dagger denim vests, in true metal head-style, from artists Tony Alva, Christian Hosoi, Eddi Reategui, Jake Brown, Steve Olson, [...]
SOUP’s On! SOUP Kitchen 7 Is Here!
After a long, long, long, wait, you can wait for the long-awaited SOUP Kitchen 7 no more! SOUP Kitchen 7 features, once again, the absolute best in LA’s emerging art, music, and film, performed live right before your very eyeballs!
SOUP Kitchen 7 @ Neon Venus Theater
7023 Melrose Ave @ La Brea (by Pink’s!)
Saturday, Jan. 23, [...]
January Downtown LA Art Walk: The Mixed Bag
…Just like every other Downtown LA Art Walk. But the art walk last week was the first I’d actually “art-walked” as a spectator. First off, even though LA is a driving town, there was a distinct lack of wine present. I’m comparing, naturally, to the artwalks of Chelsea and the Meatpacking Districts of Manhattan, where [...]
