Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends was curated by Wendy Sherman and includes over 35 artists who have created artwork based on an urban legend with special significance to them. Each work will be accompanied by text explaining the artist’s personal connection to their chosen urban legend. Urban legends serve as our modern day mythology. Based […]
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Twitchell’s Ed Ruscha Mural Returns to Arts District
For Immediate Release Tuesday, June 9, 2021 On Thursday, June 11, Los Angeles City Council Member Jose Huizar and artist will reveal where and when the muralist will paint an updated version of his portrait of Ed Ruscha. The announcement will be made around 6 pm at the Art District’s weekly farmers’ market at Traction and E. Third St. […]
‘In Full Bloom’ Documentary Screening Mon June 22
Board member Michael Brewer will be screening his feature-length documentary In Full Bloom presented by The Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West (BADWest) and Canon Hollywood. In Full Bloom…..transcending gender Monday June 22, 2021 Doors open at 6:30pm. Event begins at 7:15pm. This event is FREE. To attend this event you MUST rsvp/sign up at http://4thmondaycanon.eventbrite.com Canon […]
Carlton Davis at the District Gallery
“The Past Retooled; The Present Rebooted,” new and old works by artist, architect, and writer Carlton Davis April 30 through June 12 District Gallery, 740 East Third Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 The Art Lunch Regurgitated The exhibit surveys 50 years of Carlton Davis’s art. The 28 works in the show trace his interests in drawing, […]
Artists Take On Augmented Reality
AR on the Streets of Los Angeles Augmented Reality is well known to NASA and hardcore techies but now artists and gamers have begun to flex the boundaries of this tempting new medium which allows viewers to mix the real with the surreal. The result are experiences which are not tied to desktop computers - […]
John Craig Freeman brings AR to the Streets of LA
The recipient of of LACMA‘s inaugural Art + Technology grant is John Craig Freeman — founding member of Manifrst.AR, the artists’ coalition that took over MOMA with renegade virtual artwork back 2010. Freeman is in town for a few final weeks to show off his piece “EEG AR: Things We Have Lost” on the streets […]
Uncommon Ground 4
Uncommon Ground IV was a community planning workshop for the Arts District sponsored by the LaDAD space, the ADCA, and the NEA Artworks. The workshop was an all day event that was held on the campus of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) on Saturday, September 27th 2014. The purpose of the workshop was […]
Downtown Buildings Are Creating Art Spaces — and Some of the Art Comments on Downtown
By the end of this week, the new residential high-rise at Eighth and Hope streets downtown will have tintype portraits of its initial residents, and the construction workers who built it, in its collection. Artist Omar Lopez took these in a portable dark room he set up just outside the building, which is dubbed 8th + Hope. […]
Invitation - Uncommon Ground IV - Sept 27th
You are invited to attend Uncommon Ground IV Creating a Cultural Master Plan for the Evolution of the Downtown Arts District Saturday Sept 27th 9am to 3pm Keck Lecture Hall Sci Arc LADADSpace and the Arts District Community Designing and building the ADCA @OneSantaFe Catered by Americano (Coffee and Lunch) Paid for in part by […]
Fauve & Milica Opening Sept 11 @ District Gallery
Ramiro Fauve & Milica Jelisavcic Vavavoom: Sexy New Works Sept 11 2014 – Oct 19th 2014 Artists Reception Thurs Sept 11 7-10pm