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19 Aug: BumblebeeLovesYou Short Film (Downy, CA)
Carmichael Gallery
Bumblebeelovesyou
A film by HANDi
With new work by Bumblebee
Epic Lounge
8239 2nd Street
Downey, CA 90241
Reception: Sunday, August 19, 2012, 6pm (Screening wil commence at 7pm.)
Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce a special screening of the new documentary short Bumblebeelovesyou, a visual profile of Los Angeles-based artist Bumblebee. Presented by The Downey Arts Coalition, Bumblebeelovesyou was produced by HANDi, a team of Downey-based filmmakers.
There will be a reception and screening at the Epic Lounge in Downey on Sunday, August 19, 2012, followed by a discussion on the documentary and the growing art scene in Downey. A series of new works by Bumblebee will also be on view.
About the artist:
Bumblebee’s work first came to life on the streets and abandoned…
Read moreVandal Stencils Original Picasso (Video, TX, USA)
Police are investigating after a vandal defaced an original Pablo Picasso painting at a Texas museum last week and it happened to be captured on video by another museum-goer.
A grainy cellphone video on YouTube shows a man in a suit spray-painting a stencil of a bullfighter killing a bull on the 1929 Picasso painting "Woman in a Red Armchair" at Houston's Menil Collection museum. The man also wrote the Spanish word "Conquista" (meaning to conquer) before he fled.
The person who posted the video online alleges the culprit is a Mexican-American artist. Further to that, the museum-goer who filmed the spray painter told KPRC Channel 2 the vandal identified himself as an artist looking to honour Picasso's work.
Houston police spokeswoman Victor Senties told the Houston Chronicle they are investigating it as a criminal mischief case.
Museum security immediately took the painting to its in-house expert for repair June 13, the newspaper reports.
The value of…
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