Art

Mighty Whispers

Transcendental Vision inspires ambiguity, contemplation and quiet.

There’s a certain kind of salesmanship, promoted by the city council and developers and residents, that pushes the concept of Sand City as an arts enclave. But Sand City is stubbornly Sand City, a place ...

Artful Dodgers

Seven of Monterey County’s greatest artistic minds will be honored at the seventh annual Champions of the Arts.

It’s not the kind of thing you expect to hear from a film professor. “Film is one of those industries where if you’re good at what you do, it doesn’t matter what kind of degree ...

Eyes Have It - Pt.2

More of the interview with Face of Islam photographer Jean Brenner.

You started out as a painter. When did you start showing your photographs? I started in 1993, when I had my first show. I [had done] a lot of landscape paintings, based on things I ...

Eyes Have It

Face of Islam closes human and geographic gaps at Pacific Grove Art Center.

Jean Brenner has traveled across Muslim countries for nearly 20 years, each time bringing back pieces of each country, culture and people she’s encountered, both in stories and in the photographs she’s taken since 1993. ...

Art of Identity

Cheech Marin brings his magnetic Chicano art to Museum of Monterey.

OK, let’s just get it out of the way, because it probably appears prominently in many people’s minds when they hear the name “Cheech.” Richard Anthony “Cheech” Marin was (and, recently – sometimes – is ...

Music Biopic

Photographer Tom O’Neal reaches deep in the vault for his latest rock photo show.

Photographer Tom O’Neal is in an odd place. Not the place from which he spoke to the Weekly – Los Angeles’s Silverlake community, where last week he was visiting his rising music video director son ...

Mini Love

A Miniature Show at EXPOSED marks the first since Rachael Short’s accident.

A little more than a year ago Rachael Short, local photographer and co-owner of Carmel’s EXPOSED gallery, was paralyzed in a car accident in Big Sur. The diagnosis was devastating: a “C5-C6 fracture,” a vertebra ...

Different Perspectives

Quotidian Reconsidered stirs at MPC; MMA-Pacific braces for avalanche of mini masterworks.

“Everything has its beauty,” Andy Warhol famously declared, “but not everyone sees it.” MPC Art Gallery’s latest exhibit, Quotidian Reconsidered, aims to help more people (if not everyone), see it, by way of the works ...

Pop Bang

Monterey Museum of Art mounts a pop art show unlike any the area’s ever seen.

The Monterey Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, Pop Icons: Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, opens this weekend. We should just stop and consider this for a moment. Andy Warhol. Roy Lichtenstein. At the Monterey Museum ...

Celluloid Matters

The Carmel Art & Film Festival launches a deep and dramatic schedule of star-tinged events.

It’s just a fact of our culture: Film trumps visual art. Actors, directors, shoots, sets, gossip, previews, reviews, merchandising, festivals – all that film stuff captivates us. Art, on the other hand, not so much. ...

Frame by Frame

No one week in Monterey County all year has delivered as much vivid photography.

Last weekend the Peninsula bloomed with outpourings of art courtesy of two major events: Chautauqua Days in Pacific Grove and Art in the Adobes in Monterey. Starting this weekend the photographic world takes a turn ...

Knockout Art

Extensive events at Chautauqua Days and Art in the Adobes enter the art ring this weekend.

The collision of overlapping big events happens a lot in Monterey County, especially during the festival-prone summertime. It just happened two weeks ago, with the Monterey Jazz Festival and the American LeMans Series making noise ...

Con Artistry

Debut AnimeiCon convinces audiences that imaginative geeks equals creative cool.

Let’s start with the name. It’s pronounced “ANN-nih-may.” But what is anime? Anime is the genre of animated films—and TV and web shows (and, recently, video games)—that originated out of Japanese manga, or comic books. ...

Bad-ass B-day

The Alternative Cafe reaffirms its cred with annual New Brow super show.

Once a year, the Alternative Cafe throws a birthday party of sorts. This year’s is called New Brow IV. It’s a show of underground art, it’s their signature brand, it’s opening this Friday, and it’s ...

Close Encounters

Two stunning Monterey Museum of Art exhibits break down the barrier between viewer and installation.

Walking down the first light-infused hallway at Monterey Museum of Art at La Mirada, you don’t so much encounter the first work of its two new exhibits. It encounters you. Dramatically. It’s one of four ...

Far Eastern Eden

A new Japanese history exhibit headlines the Fourth Annual Salinas Asian Festival.

It was 1942 when Salinas native Mae Sakasegawa, her family and many of their peers, upon orders of the U.S. government, assembled at the Armory (near Salinas City Hall) to be bussed to the Rodeo ...

Loud and Proud

A Pacific Grove student vies for national POETRY OUT LOUD title.

What is a poem? The question pops into my head as I’m driving home, exhausted and satisfied after hosting another weekly edition of The Rubber Chicken Poetry Slam & Open Mic at East Village Coffee ...

Artistic Liftoff

Trash to Treasures gives Monterey Peninsula Airport two significant shows. 

The art gallery at the Monterey Peninsula Airport is an out-in-the-open secret. It sits above the bustle of the ground floor of the small terminal, waiting for people to find it. Eventually they do, says ...

Coming and Going

Chief Curator Marcelle Polednik leaves a reinvigorated MMA as big new exhibits arrive.  

The Monterey Museum of Art’s coming exhibition, The Art of California, 1880 to the Present, is an attempt to highlight part of the museum’s 14,000 piece permanent collection – in this case, early California paintings, ...

Art Listing for Dec 30, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK COASTAL ART AND POETRY CONTEST California school children (K-12) are invited to enter their California Coast inspired art, and/or poetry, into this year’s art and poetry contest sponsored by the California Coastal ...

Art Listing for Dec 23, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISANA GALLERY Cheryl Kampe paints watercolor landscapes and studies of local trees in her exhibition “The Trees of Life,” which visually whisper recollections of dreams, wind-swept, romantic and strong, with layers of ...

Art Listing for Dec 16, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK A GREAT PLACE HOME AND GARDEN Julia is a charming woman whose mischievous sense of humor sometimes pokes out of her polite British accent. Having done work for Hanna Barbera on Charlotte’s ...

Patrionize Me

The Pacific Grove Art Center's Patron's Show raffle is over, but the art is not.

The six-week-long build-up to the Pacific Grove Art Center's fundraising Patrons Show saw its culmination 2pm Sunday when buyers--about 60 in total--gathered in the David Henry Gill gallery to participate in the 1-to-1 raffle for ...

Art Listing for Dec 09, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK A GREAT PLACE HOME AND GARDEN Julia is a charming woman whose mischievous sense of humor sometimes pokes out of her polite British accent. Having done work for Hanna Barbera on Charlotte’s ...

Thinking Big

The huge new Titus Gallery debuts with enthusiasm.

Artist Mary Titus says her Titus Contemporary Gallery at the Monterey Marriot is about 600 square feet. She could fit about six of them inside her newly acquired 4,100-square foot space in Carmel. (After she ...

PGAC's ED

Pacific Grove Art Center's outgoing Executive Director announces the incoming Executive Director.

Last July, the Weekly reported that Joan McCleary, Pacific Grove Art Center's Executive Director for eight years—and a volunteer for several years before that—was stepping down this year. Last Monday, McCleary announced the next person ...

True Brubeck

Eastwood-produced documentary on Dave Brubeck airs just in time for his 90th birthday.

Some things you can’t make up. Thirty-nine days after heart surgery that had many worried he was down for the count, Dave Brubeck is alive and swinging. The timeless musician returned to performing on Nov. ...

Art Listing for Dec 02, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISANA GALLERY Cheryl Kampe paints watercolor landscapes and studies of local trees in her exhibition “The Trees of Life,” which visually whisper recollections of dreams, wind-swept, romantic and strong, with layers of ...

Art Listing for Nov 24, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISANA GALLERY Cheryl Kampe paints watercolor landscapes and studies of local trees in her exhibition “The Trees of Life,” which visually whisper recollections of dreams, wind-swept, romantic and strong, with layers of ...

Vowell as a Verb

Author, humorist and observer Sarah Vowell helps us laugh at history and ourselves.

The first thing one might notice about Sarah Vowell is her voice. It’s set – despite her age of 41 – at the slightly lispy register of a bored, underwhelmed middle-school girl. That voice was ...

Art Listing for Nov 18, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK BOONIEZ The folks at Booniez don’t just sell adventure gear, they also celebrate the outdoors. This month’s Down to Earth art show features three nature and extreme sports shutterbugs. Kyle Queener shoots ...

Urban Excellence

SOMOS Media sharpens Salinas’ cultural edge with a parade of uncommon exhibitions.

Last week’s First Friday Art Walk in Oldtown Salinas fragmented into little universes of activity along South Main Street. The action meteored from local cartoonist Bridget Spicer’s colorful studio to Salinas Valley Art Association’s reliable ...

Art Listing for Nov 11, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Beautiful Dreamers: Right on schedule, the Alt Cafe throws up their next show, displaying three artists who work in that underground culture idiom. What that means is that Paul Torres, ...

Pop Fizz

New judges hope to save American Idol from singer-songwriter malaise.

Get ready for a kinder, gentler American Idol. That was the first impression from the new panel of judges that Fox finally made official recently. Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler and pop-music diva/actress Jennifer Lopez ...

Art Listing for Nov 04, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Twilight Journey: Alt Cafe’s newest show of a trio of international artists who mine a dark vein but not without the signature smirk, which pulls back from being just morbid. ...

Boho Redux

Lucas Lamar and his Why I Love Carmel evokes town’s original art scene.

Cymbals crash and a bass line pounds as an impromptu music jam erupts in the loft above Lucas Lamar. A cigarette dangles out of his mouth as he nonchalantly adds more paint to a realistic ...

Shrinking Planet

The United Nations Association Film Festival makes the globe smaller in inspiring ways.

A documentary film crew flies over the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu in a small plane. As they look down into the variegated blues of the ocean, they see a thin strip of sand, at ...

Massive Canvas

MMA’s latest stars Ingrid Calame and packs in enough for four whole shows.

The Monterey Museum of Art refuses to be ignored, setting its sights ever higher as it grows from a more-than-credible regional institution to a facility with legitimate claims to join the national art conversation. On ...

Art Listing for Oct 28, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK AROMAS GRANGE HALL Get artistic juices flowing with a hearty country breakfast then jump into stained glass, beaded jewelry, and drawing. Work with raw materials and take your new creations home. It ...

Art Listing for Oct 21, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK AVERY GALLERY Typical cures for ailments include pills, injections, and therapy sessions, but these treatments only help the body and mind. This exhibit helps the public see how art can be used ...

Art Listing for Oct 14, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK BELLA’S STUDIO GALLERY Jordana Paige Designs: Bella’s Studio hosts the new line of Jordana Paige Designs knitting bags and patterns at this Monterey trunk show. Free instruction is provided and the $18 ...

Art Listing for Oct 07, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK BELLA’S STUDIO GALLERY Jordana Paige Designs: Bella’s Studio hosts the new line of Jordana Paige Designs knitting bags and patterns at this Monterey trunk show. Free instruction is provided and the $18 ...

Art Listing for Sep 30, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTS HABITAT Call for Art: The nonprofit art organization that, among other things, provides a creative outlet for at-risk youth, and also have their heart set on breaking ground on an ambitious ...

Art Listing for Sep 23, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTS HABITAT Call for Art: The nonprofit art organization that, among other things, provides a creative outlet for at-risk youth, and also have their heart set on breaking ground on an ambitious ...

Moving Pictures

The infant ManiFest animation film festival does more with less.

Nothing was going to stop Emily Cohan from getting to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The now-26-year-old Marina resident normally crosses the country on a motorcycle, but this time she traveled in a station wagon ...

Art Listing for Sep 16, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ A Trip Worthwhile: Gene Guynn’s fleshy, messy portraits and Christopher Polentz’s skewed paintings of oddly affecting people share some DNA, Jason Snyder’s ominous paintings of partial people (you’ll see what ...

Art Listing for Sep 09, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTS HABITAT Call for Art: The nonprofit art organization that, among other things, provides a creative outlet for at-risk youth, and also have their heart set on breaking ground on an ambitious ...

Art Listing for Sep 02, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTS HABITAT Call for Art: The nonprofit art organization that, among other things, provides a creative outlet for at-risk youth, and also have their heart set on breaking ground on an ambitious ...

Art Listing for Aug 26, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTS HABITAT Call for Art: The nonprofit art organization that, among other things, provides a creative outlet for at-risk youth, and also have their heart set on breaking ground on an ambitious ...

Art Listing for Aug 19, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISTIC HANGUPS Ron Dias was inspired to become an animator when he saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when he was 6 years old. As a young man, in 1956 he ...

Art Listing for Aug 12, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Garter Belts and Gasoline 3: Hot damn! Hot rods, hot chicks and cool art. Them themes have been so popular at Seaside’s underground art magnet that they’re putting on another ...

Art Listing for Aug 05, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISTIC HANGUPS Ron Dias was inspired to become an animator when he saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when he was 6 years old. As a young man, in 1956 he ...

Art Listing for Jul 29, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK BACK PORCH FABRICS This event will feature quilts by local artist Elizabeth Olney and Heidi Woods. They will be serving refreshments for the reception 1-3pm Sunday, Aug. 1. | 157 Grand Ave., ...

Art Listing for Jul 22, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK CUSTOM FRAMING AND GALLERY Justin Ward: Local artist Justin Ward’s etchings are created in the traditional style and are produced using a small hand etching press. His style reflects the classical renditions ...

Art Listings for Jul 15, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School: Founded in 2005 by artist Molly Crabapple, Dr. Sketchy’s is a drawing movement that asked a simple question: Why can’t drawing naked people be sexy? ...

Art Listing for Jul 08, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Pao Pao Nest: Two of Brooklyn’s lowbrow heavyweights are put on display as Kevin E. Taylor curates the Gallery’s 23rd exhibit. The art of Aya Kakeda and Fumiha Tanaka uses ...

Photo Finish

Ansel Adams show at MMA is an aesthetic – and historic – treasure trove.

There is no way of getting around the work of Ansel Adams in American photography, nor should there be. His reputation stands as steadfast as the iconic rendering of Half Dome in Yosemite, which helped ...

Take a Bow

Joan McCleary to step down as executive director of the Pacific Grove Art Center

Joan McCleary, Pacific Grove Art Center's executive director for nearly eight years, tendered her resignation last month and will step down Dec. 31 this year. The move had been expected by many of the PGAC's ...

Art Listing for Jul 01, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Fables and Follies: The new show by the risk-taking folks of Alt Cafe is curated by Creep Machine, which is a website (and, we’re guessing, some people) who curated the ...

Big Idea

Robert Wyland delivers a Carmel demo to help celebrate a half-century of prolific painting.

Marine artist Wyland’s muse – the ocean – is vast. So are his efforts. His murals bring to life whales that are multiple stories high. His art reaches hundreds of thousands of collectors. His outreach ...

Art Listing for Jun 24, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK CAMALDOLI HERMITAGE Spiritual Awakening: The newest artist to display at this monks’ retreat is Leo Nuefeld, who does post-impressionist oil paintings of the Pacific coast. His work joins that of Dan Cronin, ...

Base in Space

fine art base embeds whimsical installations in the hillsides and redwood branches surrounding Henry Miller Library.

Just inside the gate of the Henry Miller Library, a cloud of miniature worlds dangles from the branches of a massive pair of redwood gatekeepers. Looking from afar like a pleasant throng of native insects, ...

Art Listing for Jun 17, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISTIC HANGUPS Local photographer Pat Thomas is the featured artist for June at the Salinas art gallery, showing her pictures taken in Europe, Washington D.C., Chicago and Omaha. Meet her, over refreshments, ...

Art Listing for Jun 10, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Fables and Follies: The new show by the risk-taking folks of Alt Cafe is curated by Creep Machine, which is a website (and, we’re guessing, some people) who curated the ...

Sports Crazy

ESPN’s Rick Reilly talks Sports From Hell in Pacific Grove.

He braved temperatures at the Sauna World Championships that gave one competitor pus-filled sacs “the size of a $3 pancake.” He chronicled inmates trying to snatch a $500 poker chip from between a 2,000-pound bull’s ...

Art Listing for Jun 03, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK CARMEL Fine Art First Friday: It’s time for Fine Art First Friday, an evening when artist-owned galleries on Dolores Street stay open after hours and often have some form of live art ...

Art Listing for May 27, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK CARL CHERRY CENTER Miriam Hitchock was born in San Francisco, earned an MFA in painting from Yale, has taught at Brown, RISD, Cornell, Stanford and San Jose State, and currently lives in ...

Carmel’s Heart

The Forest Theater launches an ambitious season celebrating 100 years of incomparable culture-by-the-sea.

Any talk about the Peninsula’s bohemian heritage – that turn-of-the-century society of artists, writers, poets and playwrights including George Sterling, Jack London, Mary Austin, Xavier Martinez, Armin Hansen, Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Genthe and Upton Sinclair, ...

Art Listing for May 20, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Low Tech Rebellion: Alt Cafe makes room in the cafe front room for York senior Robin Clark, who curates a show that enlists other students to submit “mail art” (literally, ...

Art Listing for May 13, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ The Dark Between Double Rainbow: Named after Greek philosopher Alexander of Aphrodisias, who “denied the existence of an eternal soul,” this show studies the darker regions of art, with a ...

Large Medium

Belle Yang’s debut graphic novel, Forget Sorrow, is a big breakthrough.

Author and artist Belle Yang’s storybooks are drawn in a Chinese folk art style that’s expressionistic and deceptively childlike. Her latest work uses that foundation as a springboard to reach higher and plumb deeper than ...

Profuse Muses

Collaborating artists present a powerful collection of evocative abstracts at the Pacific Grove Art Center.

While the Pacific Grove Art Center’s Elmarie H. Dyke Gallery is decked out in quaint still lifes of flowers for a typically Monterey Peninsula – that is, typically traditionalist – spring show, a glance into ...

Art Listing for May 06, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK CARMEL ART ASSOCIATION May Art Show: CAA doesn’t do things small. This month they present two shows of multiple artists, and then some. Joe Nordmann and Friends consists of Pacific Grove landscape ...

Weston’s World

Scion of famed photographic clan encourages new generations while continuing his own explorations.

Kim Weston is a steward of a photography legacy passed down through his grandfather Edward, his father Cole and his uncle Brett. Together, they comprise one of the most formidable and influential artistic bloodlines this ...

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Art Listings Around the County

HAPPENING THIS WEEK CAFE 316 Between Two Worlds: Christian Marechal’s photographs grace the clean, modern space of Cafe 316 again, this time devoted to Jade de Palacios, now a neighbor living on the Peninsula and, ...

Art Listing for Apr 22, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK CARMEL VALLEY ART STUDIO TOUR Carmel Valley presents a characteristically upscale yet eccentric studio tour. An abstract garden sculptor, a jazz-inspired contemporary painter, a landscape photographer, a needlepoint designer, an abstract ceramicist ...

Art Listing for Apr 15, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK CARL CHERRY CENTER Hitchock was born in San Francisco, earned an MFA in painting from Yale, has taught at Brown, RISD, Cornell, Stanford and San Jose State, and currently lives in Santa ...

Art Listing for Apr 08, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ New Brow 3: This recurring show is Alt Cafe’s biggest of the year. Rightly so. It features original art from underground luminaries. Anthony Ausgang takes inspiration from grocery store gumball ...

Art Listings for Apr 01, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Transitions: The closing show for the Cafe’s Lucid Dreams exhibit—which, if you haven’t seen, you are cheating yourself—goes out with a bang at roughly 180bpm, with DJ Temo Medina spinning ...

Art Listing for Mar 25, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Transitions: The closing show for the Cafe’s Lucid Dreams exhibit—which, if you haven’t seen, you are cheating yourself—goes out with a bang at roughly 180bpm, with DJ Temo Medina spinning ...

Something Old Something New

Pearl K. McCullough, first time author at age 87, recalls tales of her childhood in the Appalachian mountains.

Among the chatter and the hubub of commerce at Sand City's Borders bookstore on Saturday, March 20, about two dozen people sat rapt to hear stories from Pearl K. McCullough, a first-time author, at age ...

Art Listing for Mar 18, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART-PACIFIC Lo and behold—the YAC turned 10 this year (on MLK’s b-day, no less) and they commemorate their decade of providing a safe, creative environment for budding artists ages ...

Art Listing for Mar 11, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Lucid Dreams: The Alternative Cafe presents another collection of dark visual hallucinations. NorCal artists Ken Keirns and Chrystral Chan offer eery, otherworldly paintings, popping with distorted faces, over-sized eyes, and ...

Art Listing for Mar 04, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Coin Operated: Graffiti artist Man One learned the raw tricks of his trade as a youngster in L.A., but honed them in art school and with key apprenticeships. Now he’s ...

Sarajevo Scenes

Covering the Bosnian war was a wake-up call for a former adman turned photojournalist.

Christian Maréchal left a plush job as creative director of a London advertising agency in November 1992, drove across Europe to Croatia and Bosnia, and into Sarajevo. Founded by the Ottoman empire in the 15th ...

Art Listings for Feb 25, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISANA GALLERY Restructuring: The gallery devotes its space to a solo show of nearly 20 pieces by Tracy Parker. The paintings and reclaimed mixed media works include new geometric paintings informed by ...

Power Trip

Carmel Valley author debuts 'Cuba Rising' with a talk in Monterey.

Carmel Valley resident Jonathan Showe has been to Cuba close to 80 times. He understands the most populated island in the Caribbean, how it has resisted the tides of change – vintage American cars with ...

Art Listing for Feb 18, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK AVERY GALLERY Black History Exhibit: It’s astounding to think that only 46 years ago, the lifetime of many Baby Boomers, African-Americans could not vote in this country. There were heros, big and ...

Hot Burner

Man One helps lead a never-better graffiti art movement.

“There’s no school for graffiti. You learn by doing it on the streets. Usually illegally at first, like me.” Graffiti artist, gallery owner, father, husband and entrepreneur Man One arrives at Seaside’s Alternative Cafe for ...

Art Listings for Feb 11, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Coin Operated: Graffiti artist Man One learned the raw tricks of his trade as a youngster in L.A., but honed them in art school and with key apprenticeships. Now he’s ...

Rare Prize

CSUMB scores Pulitzer-winning Junot Díaz for its President’s Speaker Series.

In 1996, Junot Díaz burst onto the literary scene with Drown, a short story collection set in his native Dominican Republic and New Jersey. It included “Ysrael,” a tale about brothers who form a plan ...

Art Listing for Feb 04, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISANA GALLERY The gallery devotes its space to a solo show of nearly 20 pieces by Tracy Parker. The paintings and reclaimed mixed media works include new geometric paintings informed by architecture ...

Art Listings for Jan 28, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALVARADO GALLERY Bixby Bridge. Underwater worlds. Big Sur. The Monterey Peninsula is home to a plethora of treasures, and the exhibit starting today at Alvarado Gallery is a celebration of the well-known, ...

Art Listings for Jan 21, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK Alternative Café Kunstkammer: This home-grown art opening named after Peter the Great’s chamber of curiosities combines sculptures and prints by ex-Monterey resident Kim Boekbinder with mixed media and pen and ink works ...

Award Winners

A star-studded lineup of local leading lights earn recognition as Arts Council for Monterey County’s Champions of the Arts.

At the 67th Golden Globe awards last Sunday, Mo’Nique clipped Penelope Cruz for best supporting actress; Avatar earned best picture; Michael C. Hall won best actor for Showtime’s Dexter; and Robert Downey Jr. seized not ...

Art Listings for Jan 14, 2010

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