In a manner of speaking, the European knights of the Medieval and Renaissance periods were the original metal heads. Not only was their armor meant for protection during battle, but it also carried significant information and identification of their clan and country of origin. Bowers Museum presents a one-of-a-kind exhibit that brings (in stunningly preserved […]
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Seal Beach’s Still Life Tattoo Brings Suicide Awareness to the Tattoo Community
Tattoos and suicide awareness generally aren’t two topics that get discussed together too often, but Tim Shelton is looking to change that. On September 21 and 28, Shelton will be tattooing from a special flash sheet of designs (primarily related to suicide awareness) called Tattoos For Life and donating the profits to The Trevor Project […]
Nocturnal Wonderland Lights the Way For This First-Time Raver
UPDATE: According to Fontana Herald News, Timothy Hoang, a 23-year-old resident of Westminster, became unresponsive on Saturday, at approximately 1:45 a.m., in the medical tent of Nocturnal Wonderland. He was then transported to the Community Hospital of San Bernardino, where the San Bernardino County Sheriff Coroner’s Division pronounced him dead. Anyone wishing to contribute to Hoang’s […]
Elizabeth Turk’s Art Takes Flight at Orange Coast College’s ‘ThinkLab LIVE .002: Extinct Bird Cages’
It’s Elizabeth Turk’s first day at her open studio at Orange Coast College’s Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. One wall is covered with dozens of silhouettes of extinct birds; there’s a video of her at work setting up sketches and preparatory drawings, and then at play, rolling around the gallery in a desk chair; there […]
There’s Nothing Fishy About Coastline Art Gallery’s ‘Fish Out of Water’
Serving up fishy realness, but not in the way you might think, curator David Michael Lee and Coastline Art Gallery have cast a wide net and snagged a bevy of fun, often imaginative, quite enjoyable art around the eccentric theme of California fish. There are several images in “Fish Out of Water” that don’t really […]
‘Art Colony: The Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1935’ at Laguna Art Museum Revisits Another Time of Upheaval
A great art upheaval hit the United States in 1913, as the first abstract paintings arrived from Europe in such great numbers that an armory was needed to display them all. Horror and outrage was the response, not unlike European audiences’ near riots at The Rite of Spring, a ballet with dissonance in Stravinsky’s score […]
Some (Virtual) Ink for “Ink” at Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
The Museum of Latin American Art’s “Ink” is a complex, sophisticated history of tattoo art in California—in particular the way Navy town Long Beach served as a focus for artists who’d go on to help invent a distinctly Chicano vocabulary of imagery. Think of it as a lesson in art, history, sociology, culture and politics […]