Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Animal Charm is a video art group consisting of artist Rich Bott and Jim Fetterly. They are part high art video remixers, part comedy art video troupe, many times rivaling the video stylings of Everything Is Terrible–but replacing knee slapping with sharp, sharp wit.
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This week’s Featured Interview with artist Gary Baseman will be a five part series, a new part of the story released every day of this week. Welcome to Garypalooza!
Toward the latter end of Gary’s time in New York, he got a call from a little television network by the name of Nickelodeon: they wanted to see if he had any ideas for television shows. “Nickelodeon called me and asked if I had any ideas for an animated television show,” he said. “I lied to them and I said I did.”
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Red Bull is one of those cool brands that do a lot of art encouragement in small forums. Recently, they are paving the road to the far away/soon to come Art Basel, stopping by major cities and having local up-and-coming artists (namely street artists) design little mini-fridges for a chance to be exhibited at Art Basel. In LA, they’re working with La Brea’s LAB ART to put on an event Thursday to share the works with Los Angeles, where the Los Angeles representative will be decided. We stopped by the space yesterday and caught a preview of the artists working to give you an idea of what to expect.
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Blacks& (pronounced Black Sand) is a brand new Los Angeles based band. The four piece was formed last summer over some “whiskey and head-nods.”
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