Friday, June 22, 2018
I've long been a fan of Jack Alvarez's artwork so I was pleased to see an announcement of his current show at artspace1616. Titled "Fragmented," this exhibition of poetic and … Click t…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 08:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
The city of Sacramento has released architectural drawings of a renovated Sacramento Convention Center before a key City Council vote Tuesday night. … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 02:39PMThe city of Sacramento has released architectural drawings of a renovated Sacramento Convention Center before a key City Council vote Tuesday night. The drawings by architectural firm Populo…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 01:00PMSaturday, June 16, 2018
Sculptor John McAbery lives here in a one-room cabin about as far off the grid as one can imagine – on a rugged stretch of the Lost Coast with no … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:30AMFriday, June 15, 2018
After 30 years directing the Sacramento Ballet, husband-wife duo Carinne Binda and Ron Cunningham will watch the curtain descend on their last show this Sunday. They've received countless co…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:00AMSacramento Ballet artistic directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda direct their final production, "The Genius of Balanchine." … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 01:04AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Polemics in art, like polemics in literature, often result in well-meaning works that fail to move us as deeply as art that speaks directly from the artist's subconscious to the … Clic…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 11:00AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Smartphones produce great pictures, some even good enough to win awards at the California State Fair. Over the last four years, Sutter Middle School's photography class won 111 collective aw…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 08:38PMFriday, June 8, 2018
Sacramento art critic Victoria Dalkey recommends five exhibits to see on the Second Saturday art walk on June 9, 2018. Tim Collom Gallery Patricia Tool McHugh's vibrant watercolor, "Gerbera …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 09:00AMSunday, June 3, 2018
Two years after the death of singer-songwriter Prince, a Citrus Heights artist's front-yard tribute made the rounds on social media and in headlines worldwide. Now, after more than a monthlo…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:11PMFriday, June 1, 2018
In many ways, thoughts about the role of women in society in 18th century France resemble debates that arose in this country with the Women’s Movement of the 1960s and … Click to Con…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:00AMWednesday, May 23, 2018
The Sacramento Ballet announces the 2018-19 season “Roots and Wings” under new Artistic Director Amy Seiwert on May 23, 2018 at Sacramento City Hall. … Click to Continue »
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 07:19PMThe City Council approved an $11 million renovation of Sacramento Memorial Auditorium so it can host Broadway plays, ballet performances and other events while the Community Center Theater u…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:42PMSacramento’s historic Memorial Auditorium is about to get another run in the spotlight. The City Council on Tuesday approved an $11 million renovation of the theater so it can host ……
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:16PMPlaywright Luigi Pirandello’s celebrated and controversial “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” written and first performed in 1921, was a drama within a drama and chock full of ex…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00PMThe Sacramento Ballet introduced new artistic director Amy Seiwert to the public at a windy event outside city hall Wednesday afternoon. Seiwert, who was a Sacramento Ballet dancer for eight…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:00AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Workers demolish temporary murals surrounding the former Sacramento Bee parking garage on Q and 21st streets in May 2018 as they prepare the site for a new apartment complex called the Press…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 09:00AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
Public schools in California have "largely starved the arts" for the past 40 years, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Wednesday. Now he's got a plan to change that situation. Steinberg…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:50PMSacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and local educators announced an initiative on Wednesday, May 18, 2018 to raise money for arts, music and theater in public schools in the region. … …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:47PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Sacramento courtroom artist Vicki Behringer sketches Joseph James DeAngelo’s appearance in court on Monday, May 14. DeAngelo, the suspected East Area Rapist, faces 12 murder counts. He is …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:01PMFor decades, a muscular sculpture of three leaping, gape-mouthed trout has perched at the entrance to Lake Tahoe's west shore in Tahoe City, offering homage to the alpine basin’s wildlife …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:55AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
The Capital Stage Company’s newest drama, “Marjorie Prime,” just might be its darkest, most powerful production of the season, and that’s really saying something. Capital Stage — w…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Since the 1960’s “ceramics” and “Bay Area” are forever linked in the history of modern ceramic sculpture. In a time of political, social, and cultural restlessness, consciousness r…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:01AMBefore he said his prayers, Raul Mejia would write the word 'love' in the condensation on his shower window. He had grown depressed over the state of his country when … Click to Contin…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:01AMWhen it comes to opera, Giacomo Puccini is one of the genre’s most successful composers. And when it comes to Puccini, Tosca ranks as one of his most popular. On … Click to Continue …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, April 27, 2018
Ray Tatar knows his Shakespeare. At least, he thought he did. Producing artistic director at California Stage Theater, Tatar has read many works by William Shakespeare, or as he notes ……
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Long before people like Norman Vincent Peale, Tony Robbins and Deepak Chopra were preaching the power of positive thinking, there was Don Quixote. The chivalrous “mad knight" first appeare…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 09:00AMFriday, April 20, 2018
I’ll be very surprised if Jack Ogden’s superb show of new paintings and sculptures at b. sakata garo doesn’t wind up at the top of my list of favorite shows … Click to Continue &…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWelcome to Baker Street West, where all things Sherlock Holmes seem possible. Over lunch, Mrs. Hudson and Irene Adler (a.k.a. "the woman") concocted this idea to give their old friend ……
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThursday, April 19, 2018
For a 37-year-old guy from South Carolina, comedian JP Sears seems to have some parts of Sacramento figured out pretty well. Sears released a video skewering Sacramento this week ahead ̷…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:27PMFriday, April 13, 2018
The late developer-turned-gallery owner Michael Himovitz was honored Friday as the city dedicated a small park within McKinley Village in his name. Himovitz, who died in 1994, is credited wi…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 08:34PM 
