Art People Are Strange (This Means You): Tim Burton Goes to LACMA

June 9, 2011 - 10:19 am

Tim Burton @ LACMA

Unlike so many modern art museums, with their half-assed, 1-painting-every-10-feet exhibit rooms, the minds behind LACMA’s new Tim Burton display have made it a fully immersive event. From the crooked walls which compliment his labyrinthine mind, to a giant monster mouth you must brave to get there — suburbanites and city-slickers alike are being plucked from their ordinary world and thrown into the strange. Consider it less a museum space than sanctuary inside Burton’s pleasantly twisted brain.

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Art Featured Artstar: Kambriel

June 8, 2011 - 10:52 am

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Kambriel’s designs define elegant decadence. Beloved of both celebrities and goth kids, her red satin bustles and riding jackets take wearers back to a different era. Here we talk about history, rock stars, and getting your start as a designer.

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Art Gallery Ryan McGinness Presents: Women – The Blacklight Paintings

June 3, 2011 - 11:58 am

The world is full of intriguing art that makes you want to stare. Nothing captures a gaze as intensely, however, as painted nude women. If you want to make a splash in the art world, follow in the footsteps of artist Ryan McGinness and choose a canvas with curves. The artist, known best for his paintings, sculptures, and environments in which he incorporates the use of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, has upped the ante with a series on women.

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Art Artstar: David Mack

June 1, 2011 - 10:58 am

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David Mack is the award-winning creator, author and artist of KABUKI published by Image Comics, and the writer and artist of Daredevil (one of the top ten best selling comics in the United States) from Marvel Comics. He is never without his sketchpad

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Art Gallery Behind The Curtain: The Chicago Street Art Show

May 25, 2011 - 9:42 am

When it comes to street art, graffiti, or any artwork that winds up in public, there’s a certain process involved that can be as interesting as the final piece itself. With The Chicago Street Art Show, the work of Chicago-based artists like Don’t Fret, Chris Silva, Goons, and Mental 312 is hardly framed in a neat display; this show held at the Chicago Urban Art Society exists freely on and off the walls of the gallery, allowing people to really see the work and layers involved in contemporary street art. Personally getting to witness the final day of setup for this show illustrated how much life these pieces take on—especially when multiple artists bring their individual visions together.

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Art Featured Tara McPherson’s Cotton Candy Machine

May 24, 2011 - 10:27 am

Tara McPherson is one of the world’s top pop surrealist artists. Known for her heartless, candy pink and turquoise damsels, her staring balloons and her sweetly creepy creatures, McPherson has exhibited from the Phillipines to Sao Paulo. Along the way, she’s created an extraordinary range of merch.

Cotton Candy LOGO

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Art Gallery Artsy-Fartsy in Suburbia: The Echo Park Art Walk

May 23, 2011 - 11:11 am

Echo Park is the perfect place to have an art walk (preferably during the day, before the Tec-9 fire/stabbings erupt). It’s also a somewhat chaotic affair, strung throughout suburbs surrounding the local paddleboat haven/mini-tropical Watts: galleries in garages and lofts; museums in backyards, and hawkers peddling hand-crafted wares in front of their houses. Obviously it ain’t like walking into your local MOCA/MOMA, especially since the actual ‘museum’ is 2+ miles long and a good 15 degrees hotter.

And pleasantly disorienting: my accomplice and I got lost almost immediately; thank god those starving artists had child laborers to provide us with chalk drawing-maps and cotton candy!

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Art Livin’ LRG

May 23, 2011 - 11:00 am

LRG

Anyone can sell cloths… Well maybe not anyone, it actually seems like a fairly impacted market to me, I digress, but my point being is this, there are a lot of companies out there to sell threads, and then there is LRG.

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Art Gallery Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Age

May 20, 2011 - 10:26 am

If I had enough of a reason to actually dig through my closet and do a serious deep cleaning, I’d definitely find some comic books in there. Those were a staple in my youth, as they were for many. While some people actually purchased them to read, I’d preserve them in little plastic sleeves, occasionally popping them out to stare at the elaborate artwork that graced the covers. This hobby might teeter on the neurotic side of the spectrum, but I associate it with my earliest days of collecting and appreciating art. Those that will admit to sharing in my comic book hoarding adventures should check out Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Ages at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.

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