Art Walk Wrap, February, 2010
Ed Fuentes
Gallery goers signing in at "Little Tokyo invades Art Walk," a show in the former Banco Popular space at 4th and Spring.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — For those who [heart] the Downtown Art Walk, the Valentine's Day edition was another night of crowds filling bars, cafes, trucks, and even galleries.
Interestingly, it was easier to look at art during the early part of the evening. It seems like the "party crowd" starts showing up 15 minutes later each month. According to the blogdowntown almanac, for the March Art Walk, the sun will set at 5:56pm and the non-art crowd will wander in around 7:45pm.
Let's take a spin through some visuals from Thursday night.
fragment on February 12, 2010, at 12:11PM – #1
Is this going on all weekend?
jim winstead (@jimw) on February 12, 2010, at 12:12PM – #2
i have definitely noticed a growing number of people hitting the art walk earlier in the day over the last couple of months, which is great.
(and boo to the willoughby road truck for setting up right outside the front door of the nickel. and for the art park folks for still not having figured out a way to get the vendors out of there without blocking the parking entrance at the rosslyn lofts.)
Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on February 12, 2010, at 01:34PM – #3
fragment: Art Walk takes place on the second Thursday of each month.
fragment on February 12, 2010, at 09:47PM – #4
thanks for that! I'm looking for something on the big V-day any one have any suggestions?
Guest on February 13, 2010, at 07:17AM – #5
About the trucks:
This is absolutely hipocritical of me, because I always DO buy food from the trucks, and of course I rather a thousand times would buy off a truck because is fast and impersonal than enter an establishment.
However on the other hand if it was up to me I would ABSOLUTELY ban the trucks, it is specially unfair to the owners of the establishments that pay rent, taxes and staff to have a truck park in front of the door and steal the patrons. UNFAIR.
Oh, one last remark I do believe is unnecessary to tip the people at the food trucks since there is NO SERVICE, on Thursday the guy at the truck that sells the beef and pork buns tried to keep my full $3.50 as tip, SACRILEGE!!! he waited for several minutes before he gave me my change, at first he wasn't going to, it was a standoff but then he finally did, so I took 50 cents and throw them at the tip jar like saying "this is all you deserve, if any"...
Oscar. --I'll sign up some other day when I have some free time--
Guest on February 13, 2010, at 10:04AM – #6
I'm leery of food trucks mainly because most of them are set up in such a way -- meaning they're staffed by few people, if not more than one person to begin with -- that the person who's handling the money also is handling the food. And visa versa. When disease and contamination are easily spread through people's hands, my reaction to a food truck is: No thank you.
Guest on February 13, 2010, at 10:40AM – #7
I'm beginning to hate the food truck fad. All of my friends are really into it and I don't know why.
Guest on February 13, 2010, at 11:55PM – #8
Who were the artists at the PE lofts ground floor gallery? Italian last name? They were fantastic.
Guest on February 14, 2010, at 03:11PM – #9
Things sure are going nicely without Kim and Richard. The new guy seems to be working out well and the absence of drama is refreshing.
Guest on February 17, 2010, at 03:13PM – #10
The french fry food truck had a dedicated person to handle cash. So did the Bool (booq?) korean taco truck.
I don't care one way or the other about parking in front of a restaurant. I don't think people are seeing the nickel diner and then a truck and deciding to go to the truck. Sometimes you want a sit down meal, sometimes a food truck is good enough.
Considering that this only happens once a month, and the sit down places are usually packed anyway, I don't see a problem.
Guest on February 18, 2010, at 12:26PM – #11
I heart LA artwalk!
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