"Artwork Benefits Joplin Relief Efforts"...

Cleanup efforts are well underway from the deadly tornado that devastated the town of Joplin, Missouri only three weeks ago. Brook Boyer of the design firm Moosylvania came up with an idea to start an Art for Joplin campaign.

The screen-printed posters have a common message of hope and resilience, and 100 percent of the proceeds benefit United Way's Small Business Fund. The cost is just $25 for each one, and they will be signed by the artist, numbered, and screen-printed by hand to order. Link to buy posters: http://moosylvania.bigcartel.com/.

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Banksy Pays For Your MOCA Admission...

According to LAist: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced it will offer free admission every Monday until August 8, courtesy of British street artist Banksy.

Banksy's contribution is in tribute of the “Art in the Streets” exhibition, which is on exhibit in the “Geffen Contemporary at MOCA” until mid-August. The contentious graffiti artist, painter, and filmmaker's logic for the gift is straightforward -- "I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti," he told MOCA's blog. Banksy artwork and other renowned street artists has been discovered all over LA free of charge.

Art in the Streets, has been "drawing record attendance," according to MOCA Director and exhibition co-curator Jeffrey Deitch. The exhibition also addresses the development of graffiti and street art, and highlights the photographers and filmmakers who document the notorious genre.

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"TIM BURTON'S WONDERLAND... THE ARTIST & FILMMAKER'S EXHIBIT AT LACMA."

The Tim Burton's exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is quite large, and serves as a retrospective on Burton's career. The exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects.

Tim Burton was born in Burbank in 1958. After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), he worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios before becoming a filmmaker. He was often inspired by popular culture, fairy tales and customs of the gothic, Burton has transformed Hollywood film making with his unique personal vision.

Mr. Burton's exhibit is comprised of some 700 hundred objects, the pieces show range from drawings to mobiles. Tim Burton's fans will delight at being able to view up close props and sketches from all his works, both unseen and well-known. If you have an opportunity, check out this "amazing" exhibit that will be on view through October 31st, though LACMA is closed on Wednesdays.

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