This is my favorite music / art gallery / performance art space in this area of LA. The staff who…read morerun the space are very friendly and community-facing! If you're thinking of going to a show or perfromance there, I recommend checking out their instagram page (@waterandpower_life). The variety is awesome, and it's also often very affordable.

Beautiful space for an ambient show, featuring experimental and performance artists as well as…read moresculpture and installation

Stopped by on Saturday, 05/31/25. This night market is small compared to the other ones in LA, but…read moreI really enjoyed walking around to see what's out there. Boyfriend and I ended up ordering some drinks from a local, mom and pop shop called 'MichelAdi's'. I got the strawberry lime margarita which was very good; I also was able to keep the mason jar which was pretty cool too.

This is probably one of the worst night markets in LA County…read more [Hours]: Friday from 6 PM to 11:30 PM & Saturday from 5 PM to 11:30 PM & Sunday from 5 PM to 11 PM. [Parking]: Free street parking on Sunday. There's a small parking lot right next to the night market, but I had no idea whether the rate was $7 or $15 (later I checked Parkopedia - $7 flat rate out by 6 PM and $15 flat rate out by 10 AM. [Vendors]: Free admission. The organizer basically grabbed a small parking lot and had approximately less than 20 vendors took hold of this lot. I noticed few shelter tents located just outside of the night market and one corner of the night market had garbage bags piled up. Food options were very limited and many of these vendors can also be found in other night markets. Skip this night market and visit other night markets such as Ave 26 On Imperial or Night Market El Gato.

Amazing artists and experience. Highly recommend going to the art walks hosted here! You will find…read moregreat artists and great items to purchase

I grew up in the Rust Belt in a city which is prominent on every year's "Top 15 Most Dangerous…read moreCities in the US" list. Flanked by mobsters and gangs, my hometown was brought to such devastation due to the fact that it was a steel mill town which became abandoned after shut downs. Typical story of the mid-west. However sad this may be, this environment made me who I am and caused my art to bud. My love for photography of industrial and abandoned places grew into a passion in that city and continues to this day. What does any of that have to do with the Brewery Lofts? The Brewery Lofts are not only a welcome haven as a work/live space for eccentric artists but it is also conducive to visitors to the premises. It doesn't take a scientist to know that these lofts were at one time an actual operating brewery. Thus, the compound has several warehouses, steel buildings, factories, and other industrial formations which provide studios for budding and established artists alike and lovely grounds for industrial photographers such as myself. Alright, maybe you don't think of rusty steel as "lovely" but I sure do. The Brewery Lofts provide various studio space layouts which range from one floor studios to 2-floor spaces which look straight out of Ikea. The best thing is that the artists have free-reign and live within their art with very little rules. I've attended some get-togethers at various studios and everyone lets their creativity run free. As a visitor, I feel the same freedom being allowed to walk the grounds and photograph the buildings to my heart's content without some guard telling me I need a permit which is usually the case at many LA buildings and parks. Basically, the Brewery Lofts satisfies my photography outlet of abandoned and industrial buildings which although rampant in the city I grew up in; more of a needle in a haystack in LA. Finding a spot like this provides me with a creative outlet and release which I direly need. If you want to check out the works of the artists and to roam the grounds, the Brewery Artwalk weekends provide free art entertainment. Photographers, woodworkers, avant-garde exhibitions, sculptures, cooking classes; you will find it all at the artwalk. The best part is that most of the attendees are truly art-appreciators versus pretentious folk whom want to seem artsy. Whether you are an artist seeking some studio space, an art-lover, or a individual who loves industrial settings; the Brewery Lofts will satisfy your cravings.

I had never been to the CAAM. I am not sure why. I wanted to rectify my negligence with style. So I…read moredecided to make my first visit to this lovely museum on this past Juneteenth. It seemed more than approrppriate, it seemed low key necessary/destined. Visiting this museum on Juneteenth was quiet excellence. I especially enjoyed seeing different folks in celebratory clothes. Please do not imagine a woman dress in festive garb like a woman wearing a blue and white and red cowboy hat on the 4th, and firework earrings, and matching lipstick and nails. I, more saw, Juneteenth tshirts celebrating the value of freedom and reminding us all that freedom was once a luxury not a standard. And I have started to see these type of t-shirts more and more over the last few years. So it was kind of refreshing and cool to see more in a concentrated way. For me it meant that progress had become worthy of it becoming a tshirt emblem. In the past these tshirts would have been possible. So I guess I am happy enough to celebrate them. My favorite part of the day was the Juneteenth Community Quilt. The prompt was "Think of a food that means celebration in your home or neighborhood." My quilt added the following quote since I do not draw well: "True celebration is money eaten." I placed it into another quilt square that had a pineapple, orange and another fruit that is hanging from a branch, maybe peaches. The work was done by adults and children, each holding different artistic capacities and different world views, yet together all those things made a quilt. It is easy to understand that instead of society being a tossed salad or a melting pot it could now be a quilt. Different squares connected, not overlapping, and each have a purpose but still connected to the greater whole. Another quilt reminded that ice cream is a great celebratory food! And I agree with that too! The museum is free. And one floor. So I think most people can spend around 90 minutes to two hours within. On my visit I saw different works of art. I am not sure if they belong to a permanent collection or what but they were neat. For instance, there was a picture of a chef made by charcoal, I think. His face was not filled with pride. His face was full of tired duty. I always equate joy with cooking. But if someone has to cook when they are tired or forced than they probably would not be happy. But then again carrying out duty can also bring about joy. I guess what makes something enjoyable, in relation to a duty, is choice? And another word for choice is freedom. Another great celebration was named, "Celebration as Resistance." It was commentary on the experience of gay and black individuals during the 1970s and 1980s. Black people were being oppressed but black gay people were being oppressed in an extra special way because they were being judged negatively and treated accordingly for embodying an intersection of two minorities groups. Thus, the work celebrated places where a black gay man could celebrate freely. And those places of joy existence as a form of inclusion and resistance. And wow I am super happy that they created, because everyone needs to dance in a place where they are judge for their twirls, and their twirls alone. In the museum there was a quote by Pat Parker, and the person said in 1978, "The Day all the different parts of me can come along, we would have what I would call a revolution." It was a special kind of grand knowing that the work that is so known today was still known back then just not in company mission statements. The wall of resistance had hello kitty, pink bubbles, and blackmen standing against purple walls. It was the freedom of joy expressed with queer coloring. It it is both a happy and grim reminder that the parades we hold today that have become spectacle were ones joyful resistance. This place had a lot to see and view and engage with. I am glad I went to observe Juneteenth in a way that made the day mean something to me, then just a day off.

Came here for the absolute first time and it was impressive!…read more Unfortunately, I had just gotten out of a movie at the nearbor California Science Center/Imax, and miss- timed everything so that I only had a good 30 to 40 minutes to really check this place out. While here I was able to check out exhibits on Gordon parks, Langston Hughes, and prominent LGBTQ activists from the African-American community-from those who have since passed on and some who are still with us today. And while I wish I had more time, I'll definitely return. This space is excellent and also doubles for various speaker series, and community events. And did I mention the best part? It's 100% free! I'll be back for sure, and give myself more time to explore the remaining exhibits. Might even catch part of a speaker series when I'm here too.

An Art Walk in Los Angeles should be expected to be a scene where culture and artful expression…read moreknows no boundaries and embraces established techniques, modern absurdity and the limitless quanity of weird in the globe to produce what moves emotion or in other words to produce art. And my recent trip to the Downtown LA Art Walk was exactly that a collection of techniques, practices, talents, mediums, and modes of communication that came together and landed to create an amorphous experience that was shaped, like clay, to create visual and sensory craftwork. There were different galleries offering different works. I will begin this review by naming some of my favorite. There was this gallery showing photography that was enhanced, played, or showcased light and that is where I found the dinosaurs of Cabezon come to life by the angles of a camera. I clipped the picture of the drawing (art inception) and it shows a long neck dinosaur that I want to call a jirrafasuaraus but I know that is wrong, walking toward a twilight colored horizon-- where the low of the sky was orange, layered above by a lemon-yellow strip of sky, then followed a soften almost transparent orange, with the rest of the sky being a early evening blue. I could not tell that the picture was fake. I do not want to say that I thought that Jurrasic Park was real, but, the picture did make me feel that the dessert has seen dinosaurs walking toward lovely sunsets. Another favorite was a negative of a picture of what looked like a swan floating in water that was completely black, like a swan swimming on black construction paper. But the only visible parts of the swan was is feathered body, its long neck, and regal tail. I could not see its eyes, I could not see its beak, I could not see its crest up high. The swan was averting the lens of the camera and yet the beauty of the swan was evident because its pure white ruffles were silent against a black backdrop. I could continue naming the pieces I like and why, but then the artwalk would becoming an art viewing. So I will conclude that I also saw a woman wearing a ruffled vest that dragged to the floor. It was inconvenient and kind of bulky, and maybe drag dirt along the train, but this was also art. I point that out because the show attracted people with style, and style on a body, is art, as everyone knows. There was also an apartment building that opens its doors. It offered a fondue fountain, chocolate, pool table, blackjack, and a giant arcade machine where one could play spade invader or pac-man. So the engagement level of Art Walk expanded to art one could make on the spot. And if you wonder how one makes art at a pool table--- then I suggest seeing a video of a player using a stick to make a ball jump to avoid one ball and hit the other. The movement is a type of ballet jump (a piroutte) that is prompted by a stick propulsion. If that is not artistic expression, then, a person living in a glass box suspended in air above the ground isn't either. As I walked the streets of LA, I also saw a truck that had four spotlights. I have always seen events that are signaled out by spotlights but now I know that these spotlights are ambulatory, and kind of, yes, art in their own way. They rose lights to the buildings side and to the night sky. The movement was a type of dance light, and I defy anyone to prove me wrong because at its core, art can never be truly define by words because, on its own, its a visual language.

Fun experience going into these private artsy businesses and checking out their collection. This is…read morea well planned art walk where maps are included. You essentially just get lost going from one art studio to the next. It's everything about art into one event. Traffic can be difficult but once you're in, it doesn't even matter anymore. This was a fun experience.

It's a free museum. How people gonna complain about free, especially in a prime area like Little…read moreTokyo. You got spare time to spend a lazy day? Go spend it regulating your blood sugar levels from that hearty ramen/sushi lunch by walking around the Geffen Contemporary. They definitely get some interesting work coming through here; from highly technical paintings to puzzling installations 'n shit that is so ugly, you can only call it a modern art masterpiece. Though among my favorites has always been Haruki Murakami and all the sculptures and prints around the concept of Super Flat and the marriage of pop art to a fine art setting.

I recently visited The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and was genuinely moved by the current…read moreexhibition. The show reflects on the histories and legacies of post-Civil War America and how they still shape conversations today. It brings together decommissioned monuments -- many of them Confederate -- alongside contemporary works that were both borrowed and newly created for this exhibition. Seeing these monuments removed from their original outdoor settings and placed inside a gallery changes everything. Some are unmarred. Others are heavily vandalized. Each state of transformation tells its own story. It forces you to look at them not as background fixtures, but as objects with weight, history, and consequence. The contrast between the historical monuments and the contemporary responses is powerful. It's not an easy exhibition, and that's the point. It invites reflection, discomfort, and dialogue. If you're looking for something visually impressive and intellectually challenging, this is absolutely worth your time.

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes is a center museum plaza dedicated to the history of Mexican and…read moreMexican Americans in Los Angeles. It is located in DTLA near Union Station. I like that they have monthly events from cooking to art exhibits. Moreover, its outdoor grounds were beautiful and clean. It's nice place to relax and have a seat, eat and drink cafe de olla. :D Overall, it is a nice public plaza.

Great place to host outdoor special events! We attended the LA Saki fest on Oct 24 2025. Plenty of…read moreoutdoor space for food booths and tables for seating. Restrooms were immaculate!

Noon Project is a new art gallery in Chinatown (or at least new time), on the Gallery Row…read more It is small, but nice, airy, with interesting art on display, contemporary art, various medium. In the back they also had a small room for video art and I enjoyed the video essay created by a Finnish artist. We enjoyed talking to the young lady working here, nice, chatty, very knowledgeable about the artists they had work for on display. Open Thursday to Saturday from Noon - 6pm. A great new gallery in Chinatown, I will be glad to check it out again!