May 2008

El Chicano
Ozomatli

San Diego Symphony

Keeping Score
- San Francisco Symphony

New Music Works
Celebrating the Life and Music
of Lou Harrison

Santa Cruz - June 8, 2008

Repertory Opera Company
Wonderful Women of Opera

Los Angeles - May 6

Sonoma City Opera Presents: San Francisco Opera
Adler Fellows

In Concert - May 18, 2008

Mark Guerrero
Mariachi Divas
Sol de Mexico
Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles

Strawberry Music Festival
Emmy lou Harris, Laurie Lewis,
Tony Furtado, Del Castillo,
Mountain Laurel and more

Yosemite - May 22-25, 2008

La Peña - Berkeley

Yoshi's
- Oakland, San Francisco

South Side Records
- Los Angeles - featuring:
South Side Slim, Mary Dukes,
Hollis Gilmore, J.T. Ross,
Harmonica Shah,
Smokey Wilson,
Terrence Howard, and more

Ventura Music Festival
April 30 - May 10, 2008


International Art

El Consejo Nacional para
la Cultura y las Artes

- Mexico

El Ballet Nacional
de España

Hellenic Ministry of Culture
- Greece

All About Jewish Theatre

New Zealand Theatre Archive

Singapore Dance Theatre

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo

The Bronte Family

Electronic Literature Organization

Canadian Writers
- Library and Archives Canada

This is Music From Norway

California Dance; Los Angeles Area;
Santa Barbara; San Diego; Silicon Valley,
South Bay, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo
;
San Francisco; East Bay, Contra Costa;
Marin, Wine Country; Sacramento,
Davis
; Central Valley, Desert; North Coast

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
- May 1-8, 2008

Telling Pictures
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman - San Francisco

Electric Apricot - A Les Claypool Film

geechee Girl Multimedia
Julie Dash - Los Angeles

Farallon Films - Steven Okazaki, Berkeley


Los Angeles Ballet
World Premiere by Jennifer Backhaus
- through May 24

California Stage
Rick Foster: Love Isadora
A tribute to the founder of Modern Dance

Sacramento - May 16 to June 15

Lambda Players
Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey

Sacramento - May 9 - June 28, 2008

AXIS Dance Company - Oakland


Books and Media

KVIE Public Television - Sacramento area

Other Minds - radiOM.org

James D. Houston
Where Light Takes Its Color from the Sea:
A California Notebook

Heyday

Bruce King
Evening at the Warbonnet and Other Plays
Introduction by Hanay Geiogamah

UCLA American Indian Studies Center

Isabel Allende
Zorro
HarperCollins

Zorro the Gay Blade
Directed by Peter Medak
starring George Hamilton and Lauren Hutton

available from Amazon.com

The KSON Bluegrass Special with Wayne Rice


American Art

New York Foundation for the Arts

Indian Arts and Crafts Association
- Albuquerque, NM

White Mountain Art and Artists

Amy Beach - UNH Library

Center for the Advancement and Study
of Early Texas Art

Mountain Stage
- West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Las Vegas Diaspora
Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Beach, CA - through June 1, 2008

The Loft Literary Center - Minneapolis, MN

American Dance Legacy Institute
- Providence, RI

Nam June Paik



Arts Portals America

Arts Portals - International

The Art California Web Directory


About Art California



Cody's Books - New Location in Downtown Berkeley

Marin Poetry Festival 2008
Dominican University - May 18, 2008

California Video
Eleanor Antin, Chris Burden, Suzanne Lacy,
Stephen Beck, John Baldesari, Ilene Segalove,
Bill Viola, Nancy Buchanan, Paul Kos,
Jennifer Steinkamp and more
Getty Center, Los Angeles - through June 8

Alan Kaprow - Art as Life
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Los Angeles - through June 30

You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Art Faculty
Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri,
Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley
Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College

Moraga, May 3 - June 22, 2008

Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture
Clayton Bailey, David Best, Squeak Carnwath,
Viola Frey, Robert Hudson, Marilyn Levine,
Jim Melchert, Peter Voulkos and more
di Rosa Preserve, Napa - through May 17, 2008

WEB DIRECTORY
access to the work of the artists and
arts organizations of California

Contemporary California Painters;
Los Angeles Area; Santa Barbara, Ventura; San Diego;
South Bay, Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, Monterey Peninsula, Big Sur;
San Francisco; East Bay, Contra Costa;
North Bay, Marin, Wine Country, Russian River, North;
Solano, Sacramento, Davis, Central Valley, Gold Country, Sierras, Desert

A Breath of Plein Air
History San Jose

Scenes of San Jose, Santa Clara or Silicon Valley
by 25 local artists, from Saratoga,
Campbell and San Jose to Los Altos Hills,
Palo Alto and Woodside
May 2 - September 21, 2008

Contemporary California Landscape

Contra Costa County Library Reading Festival
May 16-18, 2008
Robert L. Allen, Joey Altman, Anita Amirrezvani,
Gary Bogue, Kelly Corrigan, Drew Dellinger,
Karen Joy Fowler, Susan Griffin, Elizabeth Rosner,
Robert and Daniel San Souci and much more

"Lights! Camera! Glamour!
The Photography of George Hurrell"

California Heritage Museum
Santa Monica - through June 29

Phantom Sightings
Art After the Chicano Movement

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

through September 1, 2008


California Art History - Crafts

Allan Adler

Elsie Allen (Pomo)

Laura Andreson
- Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Robert Arneson
- John Natsoulas Center for the Arts

Viola Frey - Rena Bransten Gallery

Edith Heath - Heath Ceramics

Marilyn Levine

Peter Macchiarini - Modern Silver

Frederick Meyer - CCA

Ed Rossbach - UC Berkeley

Italo Scanga

Lucy Parker Telles
- Yosemite Basketmakers

Peter Voulkos


Art California Archives

April 2008
March 2008
Feb 2008
Jan 2008
Dec 2007
Nov 2007
Oct 2007
Aug 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
Feb 2007
Jan 2007:2
Jan 2007:1
Dec 2006