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Davis paint-out event is big as all outdoors
Visitors to downtown Davis will be seeing double or maybe even quintuple as they walk the streets Saturday, but it won't have anything to do with the Wicky Wacky Woos served at Bar Bernardo. Beth...
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Weekend gallery preview: Art critic Victoria Dalkey picks five must-see exhibits
For the last year, Michael Bishop, who is known for public art works at Sacramento's Central Library and Alhambra water tower, has been living and working in Istanbul as a Fulbright Fellow.
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Longtime Sacramento collector prepares to say goodbye to her art
Dolores Dietler is putting her collection of works by renowned artists Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Maija Peeples and others up for auction at Sacramento's Jay Jay Gallery. Dolores...
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Pieces from a puzzling world
Michael Bishop's exhibition "Istanbul and California" is, as the title suggests, really two shows. Michael Bishop cast "Incommensurable Floating Exchange" from bronze, aluminum and iron. Industrial...
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An exhibit said to offer new insights into the Holocaust will be on display beginning today at California State University, Sacramento.
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'Shrek' director keeps tinkering with fairy tale
For a guy who has spent most of this decade working on and off a project, you'd think Stephen Sposito might be tired of it by now. He insists he's not. Merritt David Janes plays Lord Farquaad in the...
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Sculptures from a hardened world
In the 1980s, ceramic sculptor Joe Mariscal taught at Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, where he developed relationships with inmates that formed the basis of a powerful body of work. Joe Mariscal...
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Woven in tradition
The rich diversity and stunning beauty of North American Indian baskets is celebrated in "The Spirit of the Basket," a show of 85 intricately woven utilitarian and decorative containers in the Library...
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Five must-see exhibitions
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Museum and Italian center team to celebrate Titian masterpiece
The Nevada Museum of Art touted its rare U.S. exhibition of Raphael's "Lady With the Veil" with the slogan: "Reno's Got the Girl." "La Bella: Woman in a Blue Dress" by the Italian painter Titian is on...
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Latino arts gallery in Sacramento faces closure
La Raza Galeria Posada, one of the Sacramento's oldest Latino arts nonprofits, will likely lay off its staff and close doors if it does not raise $50,000 by the end of the year. Tere Romo, a former...
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Clayton Bailey retrospective opens at Crocker Art Museum
Clayton Bailey is a mischievous satirist with counterculture sources such as Mad magazine, Zap Comix and items found in the back of funny books, such as whoopee cushions and hot pepper gum. Clayton...
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Sacramento council members, supervisors to help serve up arts fundraiser
Public servants will step into the role of servers this Sunday at Ella Dining Room & Bar as Sacramento City Council members and county supervisors try a fresh approach to raising funds for the...
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Ceramic artists' show honors teacher
One of the most beloved figures in Sacramento art, ceramist Ruth Rippon, is being celebrated with a show of works by former students at Alpha Fired Arts. Biblical words wrap around this ceramic work by...
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'People' reflects Pissarro's politics
With his long white beard and somber expression, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) looks like a biblical patriarch. Camille Pissarro often painted his family. In this 1899 oil painting, he shows his...
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Glories of Venice at the de Young
"Sensual" and "opulent" are words that come to mind when describing the 50 magnificent paintings in "Masters of Venice" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Andrea Mantegna's "Saint Sebastian,"...
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Peruse these exhibitions for Second Saturday
The brand-new Alex Bult Gallery has its grand opening Saturday with a show of works by prominent Northern California artist, Mike Henderson, who teaches at the University of California, Davis. Archival...
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3 pioneering Chicanos
This month Beatnik Studios presents its largest show ever, a three-person exhibit by prominent Chicano artists who first appeared on the Sacramento scene during the late 1950s and early 1960s. "Corazón...
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Obituary: Edward Rivera, leader in Sacramento Chicano art movement, dies at 68
Edward Rivera, a noted Sacramento painter and leader in the Chicano art movement who was a police officer for almost 30 years, died Oct. 31 of liver disease, his family said. He was 68. Edward Rivera...
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Alex Bult, 18, opens midtown Sacramento gallery
Alex Bult was a difficult child, his mother, Maria, confides. Alex Bult sits in his new midtown gallery surrounded by canvases by featured artist Mike Henderson. Manny Cristosomo mcristosomo@ sacbee.com
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