I was on the Westside of Santa Cruz to meet a friend for lunch at Avanti’s (yum) and dropped in to Shen’s Gallery on Mission Street since I was nearby. Always fascinating, I enjoy
Poor Brabantio. His protégée, Othello, a victorious general, a man whom Brabantio invited home and introduced as a hero to his family, a man whose tales of impossible odds, trag
Just a word about the Marc Gould fundraiser on Friday the 9th. I had a peek at the show as it was going up on the walls. I met Marc years ago but never knew the scope of his work.
The Institute of Contemporary Art’s on an extended art walkabout all over California. I too just returned from my own long distance meander in the UK and Europe.
One of Shakespeare’s most frivolous fancies weaves a story from sparkling threads, pulls a teensy bit of tension from the slightest possibility that things might go awry, and spins a colorful
With kingdoms and crowns at play and countries poised for war, a family meets for Christmas in a drawing room melodrama played in battle leather, satins and furs: England under the Plantagenets.
In the summertime, Europe comes out of its offices and houses and onto the streets--of Paris for morning café or takes a table in the plaza for lunch in Maussane les Alpilles or rents a deck
I’ve been remiss in blogging and almost everything else at this time while I’m preparing to go to Scotland, England and Europe for six weeks starting in a few days…next week I&rs
SF Fine Art Fair this weekend was bliss from the approach to the goodbyes: I went Sunday, one of those bright glittery windy days that makes San Franciscans happy to be alive and must have th
Who, sound of mind, would name an art gallery The Dead Cow? Granted, the name does trip over the tongue in a pleasant phonetic succession...thu’ ded’ cau. Admittedly, saying
Here is a slightly longer version of the article I wrote as cover story of this week's Santa Cruz Weekly (April 6) at news.santacruz.com/2010/04/06/mah_explores_the_santa_cruz_surf-art_lin
A few hundred pounds of gnarled, rusting, sledgehammered cast iron moves—or seems to—in smooth asymmetrical spirals around a similarly decimated core. The sculptures of Robe
I'd been invited by artist Art Hazelwood and his gallery Warnock Fine Arts to attend the San Francisco Art Fair March 19-21 in the Brennan Street Concourse.
