[Pablo Avila, Granada Hills, CA. Acrylic, 24″x 18″]
Los Angeles-based arts education organization Ryman Arts is now staging its annual exhibition of student work. Included in the exhibition are paintings by members of this year’s graduating class of over 40 talented teens (presented here in full color). Check out Ryman Arts’s website here for more information about the show, the organization’s mission, and the young talent it works with! The collection of work is up until July 20th at the California African American Museum in Exposition Park.
Art and Living’s publisher, Jeff Marinelli, was the featured commenter in a June 27th USA Today piece about rock stars as visual artists. You can check out the article here. Rock on.
[Emmanuel Jean Carlu, “The Eyes of The King.” Courtesy of the artist]
Emmanuel Jean Carlu is a timeless artist. His captivating work allows the mind to do more than simply wander through time and space — it incites reflection of that time and space’s infinite value. Read the rest of this entry »
[David Hockney, “Red Wire Plant.” Courtesy of the Zimmer Museum]
Art and Living is proud to support the Zimmer Children’s Museum and its current Show & Tell: The Art of Vision exhibition and fundraiser.
Art of Vision artwork was donated by over 70 artists to help support the Zimmer’s youTHink arts education program in public schools. The youTHink initiative utilizes the power of making art to foster students’ critical thinking about contemporary issues and empowers them to find and use their voices to take action for positive social change.
Last Saturday, culture aficionados from all over made their way out to West Hollywood for the city’s annual Avenues of Art and Design Walk. The weather couldn’t have been better — a mild and sunny afternoon provided a perfect setting for perusing some of the L.A. area’s finest art galleries, design showrooms, and fashion boutiques.
[Artist Jose Picayo, “Mug Shots,”2008. Courtesy of Robin Rice Gallery]
Christy Dusablon checks in with her weekly exhibit, chef and theater picks for this week’s art dating and matchmaking
Robin Rice Gallery is showing Jose Picayo’s new exhibit Mug Shots through June 22, 2008. With this exhibition, Picayo attempts to get away from “artificial beauty,” which he contends has become a standard for our society. Picayo asks the question: what does the real face of humanity look like? The exhibit is an examination of bare beauty — without make-up, without help, flawed. I’m happy to let the public in on this exhibit in that it reveals some poignant truths about what we are and what society has become.
[The interior of Ambrogi Castanier Gallery. Courtesy of the gallery]
Christy Dusablon checks in with her weekly exhibit, chef and theater picks for this week’s art dating and matchmaking
Ambrogi Castanier Gallery is currently displaying Four Months in Heaven, a solo exhibition by Vahe Berberian running now through May 24th. The gallery employs artists with a sense of presence and a raw touch; Vahe Berberian is no stranger to creating this sort of powerful work.
Christy Dusablon checks in with her weekly exhibit, chef and theater picks for this week’s art dating and matchmaking
In collaboration with Marian Goodman Gallery, Tracy Williams Ltd.is hosting PONG, a new exhibit featuring artists John Baldessari and Matt Mullican. The exhibit will open this Friday, May 2 and runs until June 28. The opening reception is from 6-8 pm, so be there or be square. This is not an exhibit to miss!
Christy Dusablon checks in with her weekly exhibit, chef and theater picks for this week’s art dating and matchmaking
ModernbookGallery in Palo Alto is showing Claudia Kunin’s new exhibit titled 3-D Ghost Stories. Her work offers a new kind of mythology, making bold statements about heaven, hell, earth and life. Her latest photography collections, Ghost Stories and Holy Ghost Stories, rise out of an imagination influenced by visionaries such as Caravaggio and Bosch. Kunin first shoots the images and then assembles them through Photoshop, producing a final image that requires 3-D glasses to view. The process adds a whole new dimension to her photography.
Los Angeles: Exhibit, Chef and Theatre Picks for this Week’s Art Dating and Matchmaking
Art and Living checks in with Christy Dusablon for her weekly dish on the best places to see art, dine and enjoy a night out on the town! If you have a gallery, museum, exhibit, chef, or performing arts event you want to see on Art Date, e-mail Christy at christy@artandliving.com.
New York: Exhibit, Chef and Theatre Picks for this Week’s Art Dating and Matchmaking
Art and Living checks in with Christy Dusablon for her weekly dish on the best places to see art, dine and enjoy a night out on the town! If you have a gallery, museum, exhibit, chef, or performing arts event you want to see on Art Date, e-mail Christy at christy@artandliving.com.
Winston Churchill is best known for his leadership of Great Britain during WWII, and his historic speeches. Yet, few people realize his brilliance as a painter. Normally, Churchill paintings are not sold in the United States. They are usually reserved for sales in the United Kingdom. This Wednesday, April 23, 2008, a Winston Churchill original will be auctioned at Bonhams in New York City. To date this is the sixth Churchill painting sold in the United States over the past twenty years.
New York: Exhibit, Chef and Theatre Picks for this Week’s Art Dating and Matchmaking
Art and Living checks in with Christy Dusablon for her weekly dish on the best places to see art, dine and enjoy a night out on the town! If you have a gallery, museum, exhibit, chef, or performing arts event you want to see on Art Date, e-mail Christy at christy@artandliving.com.
Los Angeles: Exhibit, Chef and Theatre Picks for this Week’s Art Dating and Matchmaking
Art and Living checks in with Christy Dusablon for her weekly dish on the best places to see art, dine and enjoy a night out on the town! If you have a gallery, museum, exhibit, chef, or performing arts event you want to see on Art Date, e-mail Christy at christy@artandliving.com.
New York: Exhibit, Chef and Theatre Picks for this Week’s Art Dating and Matchmaking
Art and Living checks in with Christy Dusablon for her weekly dish on the best places to see art, dine and enjoy a night out on the town! If you have a gallery, museum, exhibit, chef, or performing arts event you want to see on Art Date, e-mail Christy at christy@artandliving.com.
Los Angeles: Exhibit, Chef and Theatre Picks for this Week’s Art Dating and Matchmaking
Art and Living checks in with Christy Dusablon for her weekly dish on the best places to see art, dine and enjoy a night out on the town! If you have a gallery, museum, exhibit, chef, or performing arts event you want to see on Art Date, e-mail Christy at christy@artandliving.com.
Art and Living is on the art fair circuit, getting you up close and personal with some of the faces and minds behind the world’s greatest art fairs
SCOPE New York had a strong showing this past week with galleries recording record sales—you could definitely feel the high energy level all weekend as hordes of visitors mingled with the fantastic art brought in by galleries.
Throngs of visitors came out this weekend to witness the latest presentation of Art and Living’s Art to Life Awards. In this incarnation of the vaunted award ceremony, commendations were given out to a distinguished group of women in the visual arts as part of A.I.R. Gallery’s Inaugural Gala during National Women’s History Month.
Art and Living is on the art fair circuit, getting you up close and personal with some of the faces and minds behind the world’s greatest art fairs
New York City is still cloaked in her early-spring grayness, but SCOPE New York is going green. The vaunted art fair is kicking off its new Green Initiative by introducing an assortment of eco-friendly offerings to this year’s show: a hybrid VIP car service (courtesy of ZipCar), VIP cards printed with soy ink, and various other environmentally helpful projects. In doing so, SCOPE hopes to inspire global art communities to re-imagine their roles in the preservation of our planet.
New York: Exhibit, Chef and Theatre Picks for this Week’s Art Dating and Matchmaking Â
Art and Living checks in with Christy Dusablon for her weekly dish on the best places to see art, dine and enjoy a night out on the town! If you have a gallery, museum, exhibit, chef, or performing arts event you want to see on Art Date, e-mail Christy at christy@artandliving.com.
Los Angeles: Exhibit, Chef and Theatre Picks for this Week’s Art Dating and Matchmaking
Art and Living checks in with Christy Dusablon for her weekly dish on the best places to see art, dine and enjoy a night out on the town! If you have a gallery, museum, exhibit, chef, or performing arts event you want to see on Art Date, e-mail Christy at christy@artandliving.com.
As a way to kick off their 50th year of existence in style, L.A. Mart and L.A. Mart Design Center held a gala celebration to christen the center’s new, Christopher Gaona-designed main lobby on January 10. A plethora of Los Angeles’ most influential figures made their way out to the Downtown L.A. event, which was organized for a good cause—proceeds from the evening benefited Inner-City Arts, an L.A.-based, non-profit arts education center founded to enrich the lives of inner-city children through the arts.
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