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Gallery Exhibits & Art Showcases
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Long Beach Art Scene: L.A. artist Fay Ray to unveil exhibition at Compound; current group show leaving Feb. 9
In the space's first large solo exhibition, Compound will bring on L.A.-based, feminist-meets-machinist artist and sculptor Fay Ray come Feb. 15.
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Raven and the Wolves—Long Beach’s underrated art gem—continues its rightful legacy of forging tattooing into the fine arts world
The Raven and the Wolves is one of the city's most underrated art gems—and it goes far beyond the tattooing.
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Long Beach Art Scene: Dark Art Emporium’s ‘Nocturnal Dysphoria’ is masterfully macabre
The Dark Art Emporium—DTLB's heart for all things dark arts, crafts, and creatives—has brought on guest curator Cristina Rodriguez for their October group show, "Nocturnal Dysphoria."
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Long Beach Art Scene: Much-loved DTLB Art Walk returns Oct. 12
The DTLB Art Walk is returning Oct. 12 thanks to some spearheading from the Downtown Long Beach Alliance.
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Long Beach Art Scene: Yes, there’s a Childless Cat Lady Art Works Show—or CCLAWS. And it’s everything you want.
One should not mess with cats or their owners. Or you shall rightfully receive the wrath. Like a full on, two-space exhibit dubbed the Childless Cat Lady Art Works Show (or CCLAWS) coming to Long Beach on Sept. 27.
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Long Beach Art Scene: With new executive director, Compound unveils group exhibit, ‘When the Veil Thins’
Compound, the Zaferia-based art-meets-food concept, has not only named a new executive director but will also be unveiling its first major group exhibit, When the Veil Thins, curated by artists Tofer Chin and Mari Orkenyi.
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Long Beach Art Scene: Cool Cat Collective launches Monster Cats art show
Oh yes, the Monster Cats art show is making its debut, Long Beach. Cool Cat Collective, the city's sole space dedicated to all things furry'n'feline.
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Long Beach Lost: Bill Viola’s death reminds us we once owned the world’s most prominent collection of video art
Following complications with Alzheimer's, famed and pioneering video artist Bill Viola died—reminding us we (literally) gave away an important collection of art.
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Cool Cat Collective is the ultimate space for the cat lovers (and rescuers) of Long Beach
Long Beach's Cool Cat Collective is, indeed, the consummate cat lover space. The newest addition to 4th Street's growing business district as it sprawls beyond the confines of Retro Row, Cool Cat Collective is part humanitarian effort, part art space, part retail business that seeks to bring in All Things Kitty.
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Compound Long Beach—the art-meets-food-meets-music hub—leans into its nonprofit roots
Compound Long Beach is many, many things: Art gallery. Restaurant thanks to The Union. Community hub for everything from wellness seminars to mini-markets. But the thing that people should know first and foremost is that it's a nonprofit.
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The ‘Keith Haring: Radiant Vision’ exhibit is the artist’s first solo show in Long Beach—and that’s important
"Keith Haring: Radiant Vision" at the Long Beach Museum of Art marks the famed artist's first solo show in the city—and it is not just a cultural bookmark for Long Beach but is reverberating throughout the museum world because "Radiant Vision" could arguably be the most intimate exhibition of the artist's work to have been shown this century.
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Dark Art Emporium opens in its new East Village space in Downtown Long Beach
After it was announced that the Dark Art Emporium would be vacating its space inside The 4th Horseman pizzeria and into a new space in the East Village Arts District, time has sped by and the entire crew behind both projects have moved quickly as DAE is officially open for business in is new home.
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Long Beach Art Scene: Show celebrates the rich history of LBSU Dirtbags
A gang of 12 artists—led by Long Beach artists Jon Brong and Jeff McMillan—are invading the Port Long Beach space off of Retro Row to showcase an art exhibit honoring the LBSU Dirtbags as they prepare for their annual rivalry game against the Fullerton Titans this weekend.
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Long Beach’s 4th Horseman pizzeria to expand; Dark Art Emporium to move
The 4th Horseman—Long Beach's horrorcore-meets-metal, beer-gone-macabre, fuck-around-and-find-out-style of pies pizzeria—will be expanding: the Dark Art Emporium, the art gallery attached to the Horseman, will be moving over into the East Village Arts District next to House of Hayden while the Horseman will push into the gallery space for its expansion.
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Get a look inside the former Acres of Books in Downtown Long Beach at this free art event
Yes, Long Beach, you will finally get to step back inside Acres of Books—but it will, of course, be nothing like, well, Acres of Books. And that is okay because this is about activating a space that once was, seeing its potential future, and discussing how it can fit into the future of the Downtown Long Beach landscape.
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CSULB’s ‘Drag Show’ exhibit is an ode to the queer community of the ’80s and ’90s—and this is your last chance to see it
'Drag Show,' an exhibit at CSULB's Kleefeld museum, is more than an ode to the queer culture of the 1980s and '90s—it's an outright celebration of resilience.
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Long Beach Lost: The stained glass house on the sands of Long Beach, ‘Camouflage House’
Part of Long Beach Walls's 2021 collection of art, 'Camouflage House' greeted passersby on the shore of Long Beach with its array of colors, reflections, and hope—and was one of the city's coolest art installations.
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CSULB’s latest installation cements it as Long Beach’s finest collection of sculptures
The installation—the first sculpture unveiled on the campus's grounds in nearly 30 years—is a testament to the university's dedication to creating one of the region's most rich collection of freely accessible sculptures, now totaling nearly 20 formal sculptures spread across the CSULB campus.
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Dark Art Emporium’s new, double-artist exhibit not only happily dances with the macabre—it helps actually sell art for artists
These fine words from Dark Art Emporium co-owner Jeremy Schott have always the perfect description of the gallery that has long existed has a...
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Long Beach Lost: The story of the glass house on the shore of Long Beach
Part of POW! WOW! Long Beach's 2021 collection of art, the temporary sculpture has been greeting passersby on the shore of Long Beach with its array of colors, reflections, and hope.
