The Summer issue will hit newsstands by June 12. Our cover story is an in-depth feature on street artist Mr. Brainwash who is as popular as Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles right now. Hot off …
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Located in charming and sophisticated Carmel-by-the-Sea, along California’s breath-taking Central Coast, the Carmel Art & Film Festival promises four days of total arts immersion. The festival will include: film, music, fine art, and photography, showcased throughout the picturesque village and the historic Sunset Cultural Arts Center – a gorgeous multi-use facility that includes exhibition space, lecture halls and a world class renovated 700 seat theatre with plush seating, beautiful architecture and superior acoustics. The director of the Sundance Film Festival is curating the film portion of the event, juried fine art and photography exhibitions will open that weekend, with outdoor projection photography exhibits, art lectures, music, and fine wine and food all promising to attract art lovers from all corners. The Carmel Art and Film Festival will run from October 8th – 11th. www.carmelartandfilm.com
Your opportunity to own one-of-a-kind Mr. Brainwash art will be this Friday (June 12 @ 3:00 p.m. PST). He created exclusive screen prints of Legend, 22 x 30 inches, with nine different background colors. Edition …
Ask soon-to-be first time parents how they feel and most will tell you the emotions are overwhelming; an explosive cocktail of fear, anxiety, love, hope and anticipation. For the mother, the physical changes alone are …
I met Sean Cheetham at the L.A. Art Show. There were several artists hanging out at the booth. We were introduced, but Sean didn’t say much. At first I thought he was shy, or maybe …
Armed with an armful of posters, a bucket of glue and more messages than an “I Hate George Bush” voicemail box, Shepard Fairey’s creative guns are blaring. Loud and proud, he’s literally sticking it to …
Two industrial-sized buckets full of pink paint rest on the floor of a dimly lit Los Angeles garage. Mr. Brainwash grunts as he heaves the contents against two bare, off-white walls. The stomach soothing shade …
The breeze whistles carrying with it the cleansing smell of sea salt. Fine grains of warm brown sand funnel through bare toes. The sun dances on a blue-green foreground giving way to navy and then …
The big cat sits quietly in a kind of artistic purgatory, but clearly closer to damnation than salvation. His paws have been severed and dried epoxy oozes from the crack around neck. The artificial glue …
If heaven exists… rolling timpanis will part the clouds, soothing strings will swing open the pearly gates, angels’ tongues will greet you in Italian and God will sing opera like Paul Potts.
Passione is the Welshman’s …
By Eastern European standards he was a child a privilege. The family had a nice third floor apartment overlooking the hospital where his father worked as a surgeon. A mortuary was located next to the …
He shared stages with The Rolling Stones, opened for a reunited Led Zeppelin and has smoked Willie Nelson’s weed. He sold millions of records, played everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Montreux Jazz Festival and …
It was a frigid January evening and Stephen Mallon was sitting in a bar in New York City during happy hour with his wife. Images of U.S. Air flight 1549 were all over the TV. …
Beckoning ten slouchy teenagers into his living room, Kim Weston announces with a sweep of his hand, ”Don’t be shy, look around. This isn’t a museum—this is my home!” In fact, it’s both. Kim does …
Help us – Help you! We at ARTWORKS have been noticing a trend. In tough times, artists tend to step up and take action. There are a lot of good things going on in the …
Mitch O’Connell, recipient of the “Most Handsome Chicago-land Artist Award” six years running, (1991-1996 until he graciously recused himself from nomination) is back with the most thought provoking show of the millennium (the thought being, …
I was in a restaurant the other day - you know, one of those high class-dining establishments that hands out coloring placemats and crayons for entertainment in hopes of containment. Naturally, they didn’t ask if …
Daniel Ochoa found refuge in art. Majoring in engineering, he was just beginning his sophomore year at Gonzaga University when he got the devastating news – his only brother had committed suicide. “We were just …
