Art

Dance Dance Evolution

Want to ride bikes to the ecstatic dance while listening to free downloaded world music? Or we can just watch a movie. Outside. 

• The Bike Safety Event and Ride at Laguna Grande Park in Seaside is the antithesis of every bike stunt you’ve seen on Jackass. Organized by the city of Seaside and the Monterey County Health ...

ARTIFACTS 05.09.13 – Lifelong Learning

The guy who sang “The more I know/ The less I understand” wasn’t paying attention.

• This Sunday, 4-7pm, the public is invited to the memorial celebration of one Barbara Murphy of Portofino Presents at the Pacific Grove Art Center (568 Lighthouse Ave., P.G., 375-2208). Former PGAC executive director Joan ...

ARTIFACTS: Work and Play

When your 9 to 5 is a pleasure, it doesn’t feel like work.

• Paper Wing Theatre is deft at atypical film-to-stage musicals. Friday and Saturday through May 11, they give a big shout-out to the working woman with a musical homage to ’80s male-chauvinist-boss revenge movie comedy ...

ARTIFACTS: Bird Song

Spring is here, bringing with it peace, jazz and flowers.

First it was Takacs Quartet, who played the third quartet by renowned English composer (and committed pacifist) Benjamin Britten last month. This Friday, Chamber Music Monterey Bay presents Enso String Quartet, who perform Britten’s “String ...

Booked Up

John Steinbeck Library hosts a panel of eight local authors talking about the writing life.

WEB SPECIAL: Full interview with James B. Golden Monterey County is teeming with published authors and poets. They convene in writers’ clubs like the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium and the Central Coast Writers Club. They ...

Myth Boosters

Joseph Campbell’s lifelong exploration of the power of myth gets a month-long festival.

Like DNA, myths – the stories that surround us – inform what we do in and with our lives without us knowing it. In a way, you might say, they are the force. With that ...

See the Music

From Belgium and France and the rest of the world, music is universal.

• There are many steps in getting an art exhibit. From 2-4pm on Saturday, April 20, at the Pacific Grove Art Center (568 Lighthouse Ave., P.G.) Santa Cruz artist Eva Bernstein of the MPC Printmakers ...

Super Seed

A fledgling curator leads the opening of her family’s new contemporary art gallery in Monterey.

There’s a new art gallery in town, a small boxy space that’s not just another boutique for expensive decorative accessories. What they’re selling, as much as contemporary fine art, are ideas. Their opening show, for ...

ARTIFACTS: Roger & Me

Roger Ebert’s prodigious life is lovingly reviewed.

• Bill and Anne Burleigh are hosting singer-songwriter Tracy Newman in their Big Sur home and inviting you to come listen in, according to Kiki Wow. “She’s hilarious!” writes Kiki. Newman’s writing credits back that ...

ARTIFACTS: Generational

From a South County open house to peaceful sounds in Seaside.

• Kids rule! Like the kids of this weekend’s free and awesome Next Generation Jazz Festival or Annual Teen Film Festival in Salinas (see Calendar). Given a chance, they will surprise you. Two groups do ...

Art of the Dealer

In the crowded arena of Carmel art galleries, Winfield is praised above others.

Former Monterey Museum of Art executive director E. Michael Whittington, Pacific Grove gallerist and playwright Steve Hauk, world renowned Carmel-based sculptor Steven Whyte… they all agree: Chris Winfield and his gallery may have the best ...

Revival Theater

Phase 1’s technology is done at PacRep, while MPC Theatre Company nears the end of a major refurbish.

Pacific Repertory Theatre, aka PacRep, managed to raise and use $2 million for Phase 1 of major renovations to their two theaters – the 300-seat Golden Bough Playhouse and the 120-seat Circle Theatre – and ...

Who Jew?

Jewish Film Fest in Carmel reveals comedy, despair in Jewish life, and provides solid schooling on Hava Nagila.

Whether or not you’ve ever been hoisted high in a chair, by four somewhat inebriated men, to the tune of “Hava Nagila,” you’ve at least observed a boisterous dance to the tune at a wedding ...

Cool As Ice

Banff Mountain Film Festival puts grueling survival – and high-flying stunts – on the big screen.

While attempting to be the first people to walk from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole unassisted, Australian adventurers James “Cas” Castrission and Justin “Jonesy” Jones had to deal with whipping wind, white-out ...

The Surge

The National Steinbeck Center has a big couple of months heading this way.

The Steinbeck Center is a nucleus of culture in Salinas, a reflection of its city’s evolving histories and essential values. In the next few months, the Steinbeck Center will host a plethora of events and ...

Show and Tell

CSUMB’s Art Department keeps the conversation about art circulating.

Johanna Poethig, associate professor of Painting and Public Art at CSU Monterey Bay’s Visual and Public Art department, wants to talk about The Lion King as a racially charged play, about public art smothered by ...

Industrial Complex

MPC’s latest exhibit is urban and post-modern and talkative.

Urban Sights/Sites brings the griminess and noise of the city – like a portrait of a grandmother and grandkids discarded with the trash – onto the idyllic Monterey Peninsula College campus. The school’s latest exhibition ...

Victory Dance

Eve Ensler’s latest and most ambitious campaign to end violence against women finds a groove in Monterey.

If action follows thought, then what might follow One Billion Rising, a global dance/awareness campaign to “end violence against women” begun by Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues and coming memoir In the Body ...

I Contact

Bryant Austin finds himself – and a way to help whales – in the eyes of the world’s biggest animals.

Not too long after Carmel Valley resident Bryant Austin looked into the opalescent eye of a humpback whale, Austin’s psychologist looked into his. Then she offered some bad news. “She told me the last thing ...

Master Rework

The Monterey Museum of Art forges a new future without Executive Director E. Michael Whittington.

There’s a new round of art going up on the walls at Monterey Museum of Art/Pacific Street, replacing the best-selling Miniatures and Annette Corcoran’s Monterey NOW exhibits. The new stuff draws prints from Henri Matisse’s ...

The Laugh Factor

Lily Tomlin has obliterated obstacles at every turn in her famed career.

Lily Tomlin has been a iconoclastic performer without even really trying. She just went about her business – comedy, acting, producing and writing, since the late ’60s – as if there were no barriers to ...

First and Foremost

The last and best party of the year, First Night Monterey, celebrates 20 years with a bang.

First Night Monterey is the biggest New Year’s Eve party in the county. Last year it attracted about 22,000 people into its one-day universe of musicians, artists, food vendors, magicians and dancers. This year, its ...

Special Perspective

MPC’s Substance and Shadow reverberates with urban electricity.

The intimate, odd and boxy Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery is a unique piece itself, but that’s only appropriate for a comprehensive community college art program with an aura of its own. The walls of ...

Near and Far

United Nations Association Film Festival bridges the world’s issues with local audiences in surprising ways.

Former Coast Guard Seaman Kori Cioca chokes back tears as she reads aloud a suicide letter. “A mother, brother, sister and husband should never live with knowing the horrible acts upon me,” she says. “Find ...

Close Encounter

Unparalleled massive portrait artist Chuck Close sprawls across MMA La Mirada.

Monterey Museum of Art’s La Mirada exhibition of world-famous portrait artist Chuck Close emerged from an exhibit that opened there almost exactly one year ago. That show – prints and lithographs by pop art stars ...

Big Screening

Carmel Art & Film aims to elevate its movie moxie by focusing more on films.

The Carmel Art & Film Festival, now in its fourth year, has had since its beginning a rollicking, shifting character about it. It’s been a sprawling event, corralling dozens and dozens of films, reams of ...

Day in the Life

California Arts Day touches off weeks of arts activities in Salinas.

California Arts Day, which falls on the first Friday of October, has been celebrated for about a decade, but not many people – or even artists – are aware of it. It was created by ...

History Unfurled

Restored Monterey mural goes on exhibit for first time in 40 years, along with other historic works.

To describe the vast Sacramento storage rooms that contain troves of artifacts, Kris Quist, the Monterey district museum curator for State Parks, invokes the most famous of archaeological heroes. “It’s this Indiana Jones warehouse with ...

Mother of Reinvention

A look back at the reborn Museum of Monterey (aka MoM) suggests it’s cleared the storm that nearly wrecked it.

Just a few years ago the former Monterey Maritime and History Museum, run by the 82-year-old Monterey History and Art Association, was close to becoming Monterey history. It was hosting lectures and exhibits on Hotel ...

Free to Read

A new exhibition at Steinbeck Center fights censorship so readers can decide what to read.

Oakland Artist Woody Johnson admits he was ignorant. “I was fooled into thinking the U.S. was so free and that banning books was something… dictatorial nations did,” he writes. “Until I saw the list.” That ...

Out of the Shadows

Monterey Museum of Art’s new Rodin exhibit defies convention to enlightening effect.

Last week Ted Wells – the guest curator of MMA’s new exhibition Auguste Rodin: Light and Shadow – led some local children on a pre-opening tour of the show. Along the way he found himself ...

Artistic Explosion

CSU Summer Arts unloads a month of improv, animation, art, theater and film on Monterey County.

There’s a flood of arts and culture coming to the Peninsula, and its headwaters are building up at CSU Monterey Bay. The California State University system’s Summer Arts program, which began in 1986 and has ...

Cold Precision

Jack Storms’ very uncommon glass art stars in a big show at Jim Miller Gallery in Carmel.

As one of just three standout “cold glass” craftsmen in the country, Jack Storms is already a rare enough artist. (Most glass is super-heated and blown into shape, or cast in sand.) But he’s the ...

Double Feature

A new Share a Movie with MoM plus the classic Films in the Forest spool superb films.

Two local film series launch within days of each other, and though they seem like similar animals, they have different stripes. Armed with a new projector and stereo sound in their 90-seat theater, the Museum ...

Childs’ Play

Artist Marilee Childs evokes the profound spirit of nature through her colorful still-life paintings.

Marilee Childs paints lush watercolor and acrylic botanical still lifes populated with birds, butterflies and bouquets that are vividly and completely alive. They channel not just the physicality of nature, but the spirit, too; moths ...

Historic Clicks

California Views provides Monterey County with an unparalleled trove of local photos.

The history of a place can be hidden in the open. A faded advertisement painted on a brick facade for a bygone vendor. A building discreetly keeping its secrets. An incongruous tree that’s survived decades ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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