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Roll 'Em
Art In the Park is near; the annual event takes place in San Ramon's Central Park the weekend of October 5-6, at the corner of Bollinger Canyon Road and Alcosta Blvd. The even...
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Car'z Longa, Ars Brevis
What do Times Square and the Carquinez Scenic Drive Trail have in common? The former has been Disneyfied, and the latter is about to be. A fairly well-kept secret, a two-m...
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'Another One Bites the Dust'
"Another Danville gallery bites the dust," remarked an artist as he removed his work from what was once the Tate Gallery in Iron Horse Plaza. Indeed, the list of art venue...
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Downbeat on The Corner
Seoul-born Stephanie Chang has the credentials to teach music: a bachelor's degree from the Eastman School; a master's from Yale; and six years of study at the Mozarteum in Sa...
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New Gallery in the San Ramon Valley
By John Barry and Bill Carmel
A few weeks ago, I (John) was walking past what had been Pegasus Bicycles, on Railroad Avenue in Danville, and saw a sign in the window: Tate ...
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Kinkade, Breath Mint of the Passion Painters
So-called painter of light Thomas Kinkade died recently. I'd always thought of Kinkade as a kitschmeister and con artist. I still do. But millions of people do not share that ...
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"Skaint" Ain't in the Dictionary
The portmanteau neologism "skaint" (verb) means "to apply paint to a canvas or other flat surface with the wheels of quad or inline skates."
Skainting: nominal, gerundi...
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Turbanism Makes Slow Headway
The Turbanism movement, about which I wrote back in April, has not exactly taken the art world by storm. As an iconic image, however, this exotic headwear has. Throughout ...
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Danville Artist Exhibits in Madrid
The exhibit Arte + Fe is being held at the Pons Foundation in Madrid on the occasion of World Youth Day and offers a look at Christian contemporary works of artists from a...
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Fair Attendance Down Again
Attendance at the Danville Fine Arts Faire [sic for the past three years appears to be a reflection of the sour economy that continues to grip the state and country. Four...
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hARTz Studios
Remember the Pioneer Gallery? If so, you will recall that it was located on the first floor of 524 Hartz Avenue, a venue now occupied by Rakestraw Books. A membership gallery,...
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Masks and the Universal Themes of Art
I'm about to do some traveling. Artist Bill Carmel offered to write a guest column in my absence. He plans to do follow-ups in the future, expanding on the theme of masks....
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B.B in Benicia
Brigitte Bize is an artist who lives in Danville. But at least three days a week, she pays the toll to drive to Benicia in order to paint from 9:00 a.m. till 7:00 or 8:00 in...
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The Brewing Company at Peace Lutheran
Clifford Brown III is the grandson of legendary jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown and son of Clifford Brown, Jr., who has a show on the KSCM-FM (91.1) jazz station. On April 30,...
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Turbanism
Turbanism is an art and fashion movement that was born in Danville in late 2010/early 2011. Turbanistic works can be expressed in visual, written, or millinerist media. Their ...
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Local Landscapes
Landscape painting has historically ranked low in the genre hierarchy in the post-Renaissance Western world (landscape painting was already well established in China by the fo...
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Images of Saint Nick
I�m about to head off for the holidays and contemplate prospects for the coming year and columns. When I return, I plan to start a culinary/visual arts tour of some local rest...
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'Bollywood' On Bollinger
The term �Bollywood� (a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood) tends to evoke images of �Slumdog Millionaire� or lush, extravagant musical productions. On November 21, local res...
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Strong Artistic Views
San Ramon artist Kevin Davidson (whom I profiled in a past column) recently acted on a whim. He decided to contact the Vatican to determine how to submit his spiritual paint...
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Art About Art
From the Greek comes the word ekphrasis, meaning description. A synesthetic art form, ekphrasis is a poem written about another form of art�most often a painting. Keats� �Ode ...
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Art-Full Weekend
By John A. Barry
The weekend of August 21 in Danville was an artful one that actually started on Thursday with the annual Art and Wine Stroll. Three art venues featured rec...
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Art Icon Turns '39'
Beth Bachelor is a legend in local art circles. A cofounder of the Alamo Danville Artists� Society (ADAS) in 1977 and the Contra Costa Academy of Fine Art in 2001, she still k...
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Eyesore or Art?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; art is anything you can get away with. These two truisms came to mind as a I read recently in the �Contra Costa Times� about the temporar...
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