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WEEKLY WRAP UP | AUGUST 11-15, 2014

‘Seafood,’ collage on paper, © Sammy Slabbinck 2013

This week on the blog we discovered, the wonderful public library collection at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA, and the lotus bed in Echo Park Lake. We shared photos of Oscar Tuazon’s Live Steam Shift Whistle on The Downs, Bristol, UK, Joe Bradley’s exhibition at Le Consortium, art group Gelitin’s cave art in Costa Rica, and Maria Eisl’s new book 207 Photograms. We announced X-TRA magazine’s open call for applications for their writer-in-residence program in Pasadena, their magazine launch in Berlin, and a little taste of the upcoming fall issue. And, we gave you a sneak peak of the latest install at The Velveteria: Museum of Velvet Paintings.

THE VELVETERIA : OPENING PARTY TODAY

The Velveteria is a truly unique museum, whose collection is comprised entirely of paintings made on velvet. The museum recently relocated from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles’ Chinatown. Owners Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin started collecting velvet paintings 15 years ago and their collection now boasts 3,000+ paintings. The museum houses about 500 velvet paintings, and today marks the opening of the first reinstall since moving to their new space in L.A.

Today! | Friday August 15 | 11am – 9pm

Velveteria | 711 New High St., L.A., CA 90012

2 for 1 | $10 gets 2 in

Bring your shooting partner!
Mongrels & Moonshine
Vittles & Venom

The 60s are ending, the West is yet to come. Velveteria: Museum of Velvet Paintings presentation of the Wild West includes: Bandito Land, Country Music Outlaws, Cowboys & Indians, Heros & Villians and The World Premeire of Louie Behan; he put the magic on velvet like no other artist for 50 years from the Bronx, New York.