By Victoria Dalkey -
Published: Sunday, November 8 2009 - 12:00 am
History, a hint of glamour, and the truth behind Hollywood fantasies are reflected in "Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma, 1775-1950" at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
By Dixie Reid -
Updated: Saturday, October 31 2009 - 10:24 am
The "new" Crocker Art Museum, with its 125,000-square-foot expansion, will open to the public on Oct. 10, 2010, museum officials announced Friday.
By Victoria Dalkey -
Published: Friday, October 23 2009 - 12:00 am
"Geo-Morph: New Currents in Geometric and Biomorphic Abstraction" is the rather forbidding title of a show of works by mostly Northern California artists at the Pence Gallery in Davis.
By Dixie Reid -
Published: Friday, October 9 2009 - 12:00 am
Michael Himovitz, the debonair gallery owner who died in 1994, fancied Sacramento a cosmopolitan artists colony – not just some sleepy cow town on the road to nowhere, as various people had suggested.
By Brandon Trammel -
Updated: Friday, October 9 2009 - 11:07 am
Second Saturday is a phenomenon in Sacramento -- a combination of art galleries, music, dining and street life that has the whole city talking. Here is a guide to this month's Second Saturday art walk.
By Dixie Reid -
Published: Saturday, September 26 2009 - 12:00 am
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will become home to one of the world's finest collections of contemporary art, museum officials announced Friday.
By Victoria Dalkey -
Published: Friday, September 25 2009 - 12:00 am
The sacred and profane mix in Fred Martin's work at the Art Foundry Gallery and in his essay for the catalog accompanying the show.
Published: Friday, September 11 2009 - 12:00 am
In honor of the late art gallery owner and Second Saturday co-founder Michael Himovitz, who died 15 years ago of complications from HIV/AIDS, several galleries will set up donation boxes for CARES (the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services) as part of this week's Second Saturday.
By Dixie Reid -
Published: Sunday, September 6 2009 - 12:00 am
A chat with Sacramento artist Tony Natsoulas, whose sculpture "Lee Counts His Snails Under the Bohdi Tree" won best of show in the fine art competition at this year's California State Fair.
By Ryan Lillis -
Updated: Thursday, August 13 2009 - 7:11 am
The vice chairwoman of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission won't say what she meant by referring to Mayor Kevin Johnson's "behavior and actions" as reasons why she quit.
By Brandon Trammel -
Published: Friday, August 7 2009 - 12:00 am
Second Saturday is a phenomenon in Sacramento -- a combination of art galleries, music, dining and street life that has the whole city talking.
Published: Saturday, June 27 2009 - 12:00 am
Friends of a local wire sculpture artist who is fighting leukemia have organized an event to raise money for his medical and living expenses.
By Edward Ortiz -
Published: Thursday, June 18 2009 - 12:00 am
For now, the local arts community is taking a hopeful wait-and-see approach on Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's commitment to the arts.
Updated: Friday, June 12 2009 - 4:03 pm
Second Saturday is a phenomenon in Sacramento -- a combination of art galleries, music, dining and street life that has the whole city talking. Here is a guide to this month's Second Saturday art walk.
By Dixie Reid -
Updated: Thursday, July 2 2009 - 3:38 pm
Sacramento's largest art gallery is not just in the city, it is the city and surrounding Sacramento County.
By Carlos Alcala -
Updated: Saturday, July 25 2009 - 4:54 pm
Back in February, we noted collectible outsider artist Martin Ramirez -- who was having a show in New York -- spent years in Auburn's DeWitt Center, then a state hospital. As a result, we speculated that there could be more of his work out here.
By Susan Ferriss -
Updated: Saturday, July 25 2009 - 4:59 pm
Diagnosed as schizophrenic, Martin Ramirez ended up institutionalized in 1948 in Auburn's then-DeWitt State Hospital. There he would spend the rest of his days. He never saw his wife and four children again, never returned to work the Mexican rancho he loved. Instead, Ramirez did what mental patients often did: He created art. And he did so obsessively.