ARTE: BON IVER x NABIL

Directed by Nabil Elderkin, it is stunningly beautiful.

ARTE: FIVE ART SHOW

Friday August 19, 2011 in downtown LA at 333 Alameda St, Los Angeles CA from 8pm-2am tickets can be found at www.tinyurl.com/5ArtShow2 Should be a great night of art, music and good times.  Tha Boogie who performed at our space last month is one of the headliners that evening!

ARTE: Matthew-Freemantle Arthurs 3D Paintings

Southern California painter.  If you have 3-D glasses while looking at these paintings you will see some interesting things fly off the canvas.

ARTE: Mequitta Ahuja

ARTE: MJP x LA RIOT

The Riot Starts Here...took this morning at the gallery, the day after our LA RIOT

ARTE: P.I.A. PROJEKTS

Update on Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:00AM by PAPILLION ART

Tuesday night was amazing, good times, music, people and film! The Riot (really did) Start Here. The album is on itunes so pick it up HERE

ARTE: Love Amy

We will most certainly miss her.

ARTE: Photographer Frankie C

We went to the opening of The Black Wall Project a solo photography exhibition by artist Frankie Castro.  Its up at 114 W5th St. DTLA. We highly recommend checking it out.

ARTE: Save Yours Art Auction

We are hosting an art auction benefit for Save Yours, a company dedicated to fighting for a cure for MS.  Funds raised tonight will go to the National MS Society.  Tara James the founder of Save Yours will be walking 50 miles over three days starting September 23 her goal is this year is to raise $10,000.  For more information please visit Save Yours blog

ARTE: Jerry Saltz x Generation Blank

Art Critic and judge on the Bravo reality show "Work of Art" Jerry Saltz recently pinned this article titled "Generation Blank" for his column in New York Magazine.  Have a read on Jerry's take about the new generation of artists, art schools and lack of voice in today's art.  Were inviting you to share thoughts on this one, so leave a comment below. 

"The beautiful, cerebral, ultimately content-free creations of art’s well-schooled young lions."

ARTE: Swing LA

Visit swingsetting.org to learn how to be apart of this project in other cities.  They are currnetly fundraising to do this in Bolivia.

ARTE: P.I.A. & FREE WAYNE Vintage Pins!

We were tagged on facebook in this photo of Chris Gonzales rocking our limited edition RGB P.I.A. pin produced for AFRIKAN BAZAAR and FREE WAYNE vintage pin made for The Hello Show.  This isn't the first time we've found our pins on LA creatives...remember Rob Roy when he was being profiled by AMP.

Update on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 11:06AM by PAPILLION ART

We love food & fashion blogger @TayeHansberry of Stuff She Likes for repping our PIA pin in style during New York Fashion Week! #InstagramLove

ARTE: Nate Hill

Visual and performance artist Nate Hill in NYC went in on twitter about #WhitePowerMilk and Steaks

ARTE: Essie Baroz

She is Palestinian. She lives in Tel Aviv. She is a painter and installation artist. She is Essie Baroz. Ask about her.

ARTE: The Kenn Law + Happy Memorial Day

Friend of the gallery and photographer Taye Hansberry introduced us to Kenn Law's work, he is an LA videographer, photographer and all around chic artist. HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY from Kenn and P.I.A.

ARTE: Ninjasonik x Spank Rock x Global

Because we LOVE Spank Rock and being Global.

ARTE: TURF SURF

TOWN BIZ

And finally you have to see this collaboration that director Spike Jonze shot of classical musican Yoyo Ma and dancer Lil Buck

ARTE: The Forecast

Were a fan of Curt@in$ so we were happy to see him featured on friend of the gallery site http://www.theforecast.tv/

ARTE: Mark Bradford x Pinocchio is on Fire

http://www.pinocchioisonfire.org

ARTE: Kerry James Marshall