Category: Pop Art/Culture
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Art, Drinks and Food Trucks: A Match Made in Heaven or a Recipe for Disaster?
The only thing hotter than the 113° degree heat wave in Downtown L.A. was the firestorm created Friday by one little press release. DTLA’s famed Art Walk, a monthly event where visitors eat, drink and participate in self guided gallery tours was reportedly at risk when the Art Walk’s Director unceremoniously issued a press release stating…
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Fat Beats: “The Last Stop In Hip Hop” Reaches the End of the Line
Somewhere in the midst of Youtube videos, MP3s, digital downloads, Pandora, and Serato Scratch, a unique art form has been lost. Vinyl. It’s not just the gritty, raw sound of vinyl records that I love, but the art of the album cover is a unique medium in its own right. Album art complimented the artistic…
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The Brewery Artwalk, Spring 2010
Downtown Los Angeles has been cultivating a thriving underground art scene for years, but l was unaware that DTLA is the home of the world’s largest Art Colony. The Brewery is an artist enclave containing over 500 live/work lofts in converted industrial space off the 5 Freeway on Moulton and N. Main. The complex spans…
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“Street Fight!”
A fierce rivalry is a great source of entertainment. In the art world, when artists espouse the merits of one style over another, the debate can quickly descend into vitriol, jealousy and animus. In the underground world of street art, one artistic debate is between the styles of graffiti vs. stencils, and each showcases a…
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The “Awesome Bears”
Part of what makes street art so fascinating is when it appears in very unexpected ways. When I was stuck at a light looking around at some boarded up storefronts on an economically challenged street between Silver Lake and Echo Park, I was greeted by the morning pleasantries of two bears in dialog. A white…
Colony Little, Culture Shock Art 