Recent Stories
Eclectic Offerings
Flamenco dancers, Nutcracker spin-offs and visual delights.
Monterey County is vast, but the art world is very small indeed, criss-crossing the county’s miles of lettuce fields, acres of redwood forest and blocks of waterfront luxury homes with a network of relationships that ...
Picture This
Local galleries, museums mount interesting exhibitions despite economic pressures.
Tough economic times have hit the visual arts world, but dedicated artists keep working, and dealers, gallerists, curators and collectors who share a passionate belief in the value of art and artists continue to support ...
Scotch Tapes
Visiting fiddlers revive tradition with new spirit.
My grandpa was a rascal and a fiddler. Now, it’s not absolutely necessary to be a rascal in order to play the Scottish fiddle, but “attitude” is definitely required. That’s what more than a hundred ...
Photo Finish?
The rise, fall – and revival – of the Center for Photographic Art.
It was a rich old time by all accounts, when genius walked afoot on the Big Sur Coast, when the dining tables of Carmel Highlands homes were pounded during passionate speeches by talented inebriates of ...
Men, Considered
CPA photography show by Tobin Keller is a triumph of technique and subject matter.
The crisp white-on-white space is all clean angles and shadowed planes interacting formally as in an early Cubist painting. Here at the Center for Photographic Arts exhibition, Tobin Keller: Six Decades of Men and Other ...
Ruhl of the Road
Western Stage constructs a droll portrait of emotional family clutter.
At one point in The Clean House at The Western Stage, a perfect, poised, pristine, professional woman in white and usually in control breaks down in front of the audience, crying and laughing at the ...
Added Dimensions
Christel Dillbohner’s Topographies installation transforms the Carl Cherry with texture and depth.
The architecture of the Carl Cherry Center is satisfying just by itself: light, shadow, volume, materials, history, ideas– a harmony that activates each gallery. In this space all the arts are offered thoughtfully. Topographies, an ...
Bard to Be Wild
PacRep’s The Comedy of Errors delivers a deliciously ridiculous work befitting one of Shakespeare’s wackiest comedies.
A cornrow-coiffed Solinus, Duke of Ephesus, rolls onstage high atop a yellow airline staircase, leering, playing sax, sipping a toxic-green cocktail and wearing glam rock gold lamé and platform heels. This vision takes the edge ...
Good Sh*t, Sherlock
Western Stage’s version of the detective legend is high grade.
What 21st century citizen has not pondered the fate of the most famous Victorian detective, the greatest detective of all? You haven’t? Funny, nor have I. But no matter if you give not a whit, ...
Of Steinbeck and Mexico
Annual festival celebrates Salinas’ native son, and, this year, his love of Mexico, its people and culture.
Today and for the next few days, a man is being remembered and celebrated by the national institution created around his life, ideas and legacy. John Steinbeck was a writer and thinker, born in Salinas, ...
