On Father’s Day weekend, June 19th and 20th, Pasadena hosted their 18th annual Chalk Festival in which over 500 artists from across Southern California came together to create 175 chalk murals on Paseo Colorado. If that sounds impressive, that’s because it was; the artists actually made history by setting the Guinness World Record for the Largest Display of Chalk Pavement Art. That involves a lot of organization, and a lot of chalk.

Los Angeles was chockablock with art openings all over town Saturday night and I had my mind set on attending at least two of them before the night was through. Thankfully I made it across town to both, dodging traffic on the 10 with the help of my human navigator and date, Tim as well as my electronic navigator Garmin, or “Lady Gar Gar” as Tim likes to call it.

In honor of the upcoming E3 Expo, on June 15th, The Hive hosted B3, a video game-themed show that featured their 26 resident artists, 70 group show artists, and 10 performances. Being a slight video game nerd myself, I was particularly intrigued with the prospect of an entire exhibition dedicated to gaming’s pop cultural influence. I wasn’t disappointed; The Hive turned into a happening, game-friendly place, where underground art lovers and gaming nerds could mingle, drink, and play Mortal Kombat.

If over Memorial Day weekend you found yourself stuffed from too many hot dogs at the BBQ, or looking like a lobster from too many hours at the beach, then this past weekend was a perfect time to just take it easy and recover from the unofficial start of summer by enjoying some very fine art. And that’s just what I did on Saturday at The 5th Annual Art Walk in Culver City which lasted from Noon to 8 PM.

In honor of ForYourArt’s Public Art Party in Beverly Hills, Sprinkles was giving out free red velvet cupcakes to those in the know. And you were going to need that sugar rush if you wanted to explore this expansive art-fest to enjoy the public art of Beverly Hills, like Roxy Paine’s Erratic (also known as that giant steel boulder on Santa Monica), up close.