Sacramento Mayor Johnson shifts focus of arts funding group
Mayor Kevin Johnson shared the latest evolution of his 3-year-old For Arts' Sake initiative Wednesday, vowing to keep the arts a priority of his administration.
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Victoria Dalkey: Skinner-Howard to close; La Raza Galeria expands
First the bad news. The Skinner-Howard Gallery, which began as Excentrique 17 years ago, will close at the end of the month. Christopher Stott's realistic portrayals of nostalgic objects hang at the...
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What's up: Bulls, brews and "mushing" in Folsom
What: As a walk-up to the rodeo, the annual Folsom Cattle Drive is adding a new component to the fun this year with an event called the Bulls and Brews Urban Iditarod (formerly a fun run). This year's...
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La Raza Galeria Posada celebrates new home near Miller Park
La Raza Galeria Posada introduced the public Saturday to its latest incarnation in its 40-year history a new location on an unassuming 2-acre lot on Front Street next to Sacramento's Miller Park....
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Victoria Dalkey:'Women Under the Influence' a lush showing of painting
"Women Under the Influence" sounds like a show about alcoholics, but the influence these women are under is the seductive qualities of paint, a lush and sensuous medium. Mary Warner's "Wilt" is one of...
View ArticleCrocker exhibit starting Nov. 10 will feature Norman Rockwell's art
During much of his lifetime, prolific American artist Norman Rockwell was shunned by art critics for portraying idealized images of American life.
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Victoria Dalkey: Funky figures inhabit 'World of Woof'
Close to the entrance to Maija Peeples-Bright's retrospective exhibit at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville sits a small crate. It held all of the worldly goods of Maija Gergeris' family when they...
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What's up: Stone Iris to mix it up at Fox & Goose
So the website's description of the band known as Stone Iris goes like this: "If James Brown had love children and they made a super-cool blues, soul, rock and reggae-inspired collective, it would...
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Dixon paintings to be sold at Reno auction
After a bitter divorce, Maynard Dixon was turned down by the New York woman with whom he'd fallen in love. Seeking solace, the American painter and his 7-year-old daughter Constance left San Francisco...
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Victoria Dalkey: Strong shows at Alex Bult Gallery, b. sakato garo
Two strong shows up in midtown are as different as night and day. Matt Bult's show of abstract landscapes at Alex Bult Gallery is a cut-loose explosion of bold paintings and sculptures. David Linger's...
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UC Davis Nelson Gallery hosts show based on funky 'slant step'
The legendary slant step, first discovered in a salvage store by William T. Wiley in 1965, is the subject of a show of works by 50 Sacramento Valley artists at the Nelson Gallery on the University of...
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Son finds some of late mother's artwork buried in her yard
Warren Strong was weeding in the backyard of his deceased mother's home in Fair Oaks this month when he found a small, brightly colored torso poking out of the ground. A few feet away, he found the...
View ArticleExpansion will close SFMoMA for a time
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will close next summer for a large-scale expansion project to accommodate its continued growth.
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SFMoMA exhibits Cindy Sherman's evocative photos of ... Cindy Sherman
Even though Cindy Sherman appears as the sole model in almost all the photographs in her new retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, you'll never see her. Cindy Sherman, whose photos...
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Second Saturday: Highlights of the art walk
The Capitol Artists Studio Tour features 150 artists who open their studios to visitors Saturday, Sunday and next weekend. A selection of their work is up at the Center for Contemporary Art,...
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Elk Grove gallery owner's works include bouts with city
They say good art makes people talk. If that's the case, Michael Dinova Dean is creating art and making heads turn in Elk Grove. XXXXX xxxxx"Some people don't like art. What can I do about that?"...
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Printmakers with local connections featured at Kondos Gallery
The world of printmaking can be mysterious to those who don't make prints. While some prints mimic drawings and paintings, they are done by an elaborate process which most typically involves stones,...
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Painting by Tim Collom earns prime spot in KVIE Art Auction
Tim Collom maneuvers his way around Facebook and Instagram as ably as he does around his collection of vividly hued oil paints and canvases. Tim Collom paints in his east Sacramento home. "Martin's...
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Victoria Dalkey: Glass art retrospective in Roseville
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Contemporary American Studio Glass Movement. The colorful "Freeform Vessel" is by Tim Lazer of Sacramento. "Un-Real-time" is by Patrick Collentine and Susan...
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Victoria Dalkey: Highlights among Sacramento gallery offerings
Eccentric artist/mad scientist Clayton Bailey shows new copper sculptures along with Betty Bailey's charming narrative drawings at b. sakata garo "Four-Toed Bird" by Clayton Bailey at b sakata garo...
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