Visual arts
HAVE A GREATER WEEKEND: GODDESSES, PAGEANTS AND REGRETS
From D.W. "El Imagenero" Gastelum's photographic tribute to Eve in the Garden of Eden at the Art Theatre ... to Greggory Moore's performance-style reading from his wonderfully titled first novel at Gatsby Books ... to Jenelle Hutcherson's bid to become the first lesbian Miss Long Beach at the Grand Long Beach Events Center --- this weekend ought to leave you feeling greater.
PATCHWORK IS TODAY, RAIN OR SHINE—PLEASE DON’T BE A WUSS
The Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts Festival features about 100 booths stuffed with creative people and the stuff---clothing,
accessories, art, pottery and glassware, pet items, jewelry, soaps, candles, stationary and paper goods, plushies, purses, handbags, gourmet chocolate with sea salt on it---they have created. Sure hope it doesn't rain..
LONG BEACH: THE OTHER COAST CITY WITH A COMIC CON TRADITION
A week after the third annual Long Beach Comic & Horror Con wrapped up its successful Halloween weekend run, there is a sense that a tradition is taking shape in the LBC. It's not like San Diego, which has a four-decade connection with its Comic Con ... but it feels a bit like San Diego used to.
THE HORROR: LONG BEACH COMIC CON RETURNS … AND ITS NOT ALONE
In an expansion that fits with its yearly appearance around Halloween, the Long Beach Comic Con has added an element of horror---lots of them, actually. Now it's being called "Long Beach Comic & Horror Con," proving yet again what we've always said about the people who attend this convention: they love comics ... and horror.
SIDEWALK ART CONTEST: CHALK UP ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR JUSTIN RUDD
Belmont Shore's annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest---presented for the eighth time last Saturday by Long Beach's ubiquitous promoter of community, Justin Rudd---allows spectators the rare opportunity to observe artists during their process of creation while simultaneously getting some exercise as they stroll along 2nd Street.
ZOMBIES ARE GONE … BUT JUST IN CASE, OUR “ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE”
Zombie attacks are always remembered for massive casualties, usually after lots of runnin' and screamin'. As thousands of zombies prepare for Zombie Walk IV's downtown invasion on Oct. 29, we at GreaterLongBeach.com offer our Zombie Survival Guide. We suggest you shut up, calm down and read it.
KENDRICK DOES HER TAKE ON GRAFFITI BESIDE A STREET MASTER … KaPOW!
Kirby Kendrick is best known for her Impressionist paintings, but in the exhibit at EXPO she explores new relationships among form, function and historic meaning through a take on graffiti. She shows the results next to Los Angeles graffiti artist Randy “Rebornz” DeLeon, and the results are ... Ka-POW!!!
HAVE A GREATER WEEKEND: BODY SLAMS, BIXBY PARK, MAN MEAT & POETRY
Spend a Saturday in Bixby Park, where locals have been doing exactly that for more than a century, and in the process help ensure that this recreational gem will be polished preserved for future generations. Friends of Bixby Park is presenting this carnival as a fundraiser.
BIKE SALON: LONG BEACH’S TWO-WHEELED LOVE AFFAIR COMES FULL CYCLE
Most bike-related art shows focus on modern trends and politics of urban cycling. But the Long Beach Bicycle Salon is a multi-disciplinary exhibit, spotlighting the creativity that arises through the humand-and-machine connection and paying homage to the bicycle’s history, innovation and current place in culture.
GOOSEFIRE GALLERY BRINGS LONG BEACH ITS FIRST TOUCH OF GLASS
Clinton Roman’s delicate work is famous for his mastery of potion blowing borosilicate glass. It features many archetypal symbols from the world’s myths and religions, including Native American culture, blown from every color of the rainbow.
BUMBLEBEE IS LOVIN’ THE LOCAL BUZZ OVER HIS STREET ART
“Creativity is everywhere, but it seems to bee [sic] lacking in Downey and its surrounding cities,” said Bumblebee via e-mail. “That really got me thinking about how I could change that, and making my art public was the answer."
THAT ART WE THOUGHT MIGHT BE BANKSY’S? IT’S DOWNEY’S OWN BUMBLEBEE!
Bumblebee, born-and-raised in Downey (exit at Firestone, not through the gift shop), has been building such a high profile in the downlow world of street art---not only painting on walls, but sculpting in abandoned phone booths and newsracks---that he has recently brought his stuff into galleries.
Christian Brown & George Manzanilla / The Downey Patriot link=”http://greaterlongbeach.com/04/03/2011/downeys-grafitti-bee-and-ballerinas-might-they-be-banksy”]
DOWNEY’S GRAFFITI BEE AND BALLERINAS: MIGHT THEY BE … BANKSY?
Although British street artist Banksy typically targets notable venues and large metropolitan areas, three unique art pieces in elusive locations around the city have residents speculating whether the famed artist ever brought his popular graffiti art to the streets of Downey.
KRYLON AND ON … A SUPERHERO FOR OUR TIMES
If you like graffiti murals—murals, not tags; taggers can barely write their names—then Long Beach and Signal Hill are pretty great places to live right now. The minute the real estate market slowed, you could just hear taggers and muralists zipping up backpacks full of Krylon to spraybomb the vacant houses, abandoned factories and rolled-up newspaper buildings.
{OPEN}: LONG BEACH’S ALTERNA-INSTITUTION PRESENTS NEW ART BY MATTY BYLOOS TONIGHT ON RETRO ROW
The owner/operators of {open} might not like to admit it, but the quirky bookstore/art chapel they founded in downtown’s East Village in 2003 has become a institutional pillar/load-bearing wall of Long Beach culture/cool since its 2007 move to Fourth Street/Retro Row. And by “might not like to admit it” I mean that they “might prefer [...]
