If you weren’t pounding the crowded Abbot Kinney pavement this June 5th in the gorgeous dusk of a Venice First Friday, you certainly missed a wildly growing phenomenon in the Westside’s art hub.

The Forth team just wants to reach out and say a great big THANK YOU to all of our supporters. We have a newly redesigned website so we can start bringing you even more dynamic art and literature tidbits from Los Angeles! Check out the new features. We’ve got all our magazine issues up online for you to browse. And, you can now comment on all the different pieces of work!

“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept…The plastic asshole of the world.” — William Faulkner

Fuck William Faulkner.

All Faulkner ever had to do was stroll the 2009 Brewery ArtWalk to understand that this town is more than just silicon breasts and sticky casting couches. The Brewery, a 22-building complex sitting on 23 acres, comprises a variety of structures, some dating back to 1888 and is acknowledged as the world’s largest live-work art colony, attracting nearly 15,000 art-loving Southern California residents, tourists, collectors, curators, dealers, educators, and students each year. The Brewery includes a combination of the former Eastside and Pabst Blue Ribbon Breweries, from which the community derives its name, and one of Los Angeles’ first power plants, Edison Power Station #3. Once a year, over 170 private studios in the 300-studio complex throw open their doors to the public, giving them a rarely-seen glimpse of the artists’ diverse creations and loft-dwelling lifestyle.

We had so much fun during our second live art party, we wanted to share the experience with you.

Forth Magazine is a free magazine, distributed to and with content created by artists and writers local to the Los Angeles area known as the “Westside.” There is an immense talent pool in Los Angeles, perhaps the largest in the world, and most especially along the western region of this fantastic city. Often, too many talented artists go unnoticed. This is why Forth exists: To create a forum for the unseen, a venue for the community’s artists. We’ll do our best to display the most interesting, merit worthy artists and writers from our area.