by Christina Waters | Mar 20, 2007 | Art, Home |
Annieglass always knocks me out. The sensory thrill is total at this temple of artful glass tableware, accessories and jewelry. Just looking in the window makes me feel good. Well Ann Morhauser not only makes art, she supports the arts. For many years now she’s been hosting visiting musicians each season who come to play in the Cabrillo Festival. In fact Morhauser likes the summer celebration of fine contemporary music so much that she’s throwing a party at the Annieglass store, 110 Cooper Street in Santa Cruz, next Saturday March 31 from 10am – 5pm. It’s free and will offer a chance to inspect two new patterns of tableware, like the ultramarine glass “boats” pictured here, as well as all those unbelievable earrings. Ten percent of the store proceeds that day will go to the Cabrillo Fest — so this is the day to snap up some of the beautiful gift items you’ve been drooling over.
by Christina Waters | Feb 27, 2007 | Art, Home |
Merrily Kerr — art writer, tour guide and intrepid Manhattanite — led 20 of us on a whirlwind (and very snowy) tour of top Chelsea art galleries a few weeks ago. It’s part of her amazingly focused, insider New York Art Tours, which she likes to call “the fastest route to the world’s finest art.”
Kerr offers bouncy and informative tour packages to Chelsea— arguably the center of gallery action in New York — Soho, Brooklyn’s edgy outpost of Williamsburg, and even a select round of Opening Night shows. She’ll even design a custom tour based on your specific coordinates and interests. Kerr’s narrative never bogs down and always informs. Our group (here’s some of us fighting sub-zero wind chill) rode the subway, slogged through the Valentine’s Day snow storm that had most of the East Coast on lock-down, and got an up-close viewing of some only-in-New-York gallery action. As lots of people know, joining a small, single-focus tour while you’re visiting a major city, can be the quickest way into the heart of a non-tourist experience.
Highly recommended. See Kerr’s website for details.
by Christina Waters | Feb 22, 2007 | Art, Home |
Erin V. Sotak: Squeeze – A cunning and curious installation dealing with pomegranates — lots of them — fills the Sesnon Gallery up at Porter College, now through March 17, 2007. Open Tues – Sat, noon to 5pm, the Sesnon continues to offer sensory-cerebral treats for those who like their artworks more edgy than not. Sotak’s work explores loss, decay and the passage of time in ways that often border on the playful and delicious. Not for those who like it tame. Sesnon Gallery – the link gives ample info to help you get on up to the UCSC campus and dive into this juicy installation.
by Christina Waters | Feb 8, 2007 | Art |
Martha Mayer Erlebacher is a leading Philadelphia-based
babe in the arts.
Currently showing at New York’s
Forum Gallery, Erlebacher specializes in ultra-realistic nudes and still-life paintings. Monumental and mythic in mood, these are works by an astonishing artist, in the tradition of Renaissance masters. (Erlebacher also makes a mean Bolognese when she’s not out on the tennis courts.) Take a look at what tenacity and breathtaking ability can create.
by Christina Waters | Feb 8, 2007 | Art, Home, Travel |
I’ve never met a museum cafe I didn’t like, and the Art Museum Cafe, run by Giuseppe Restaurants at La Jolla’s lustrous Museum of Contemporary Art, is no exception. Housed in a corner wing of the Robert Venturi-revamped, seaside mansion, the Cafe offers glamorous al fresco dining under the wisteria-draped pergola, or in the frescoed dining room. So completely Italian is this setting, watched over by the drop-dead handsome Giuseppe himself, (more…)
by Christina Waters | Feb 1, 2007 | Art, Home |
Jenny Morten is an English beauty who now graces the central coast with her astonishing ceramic sculptures. But don’t just take my word for it. (Or Bruce‘s either.) Check out her current show — opening tomorrow evening, February 2, 5-7 pm — at the County Building, at Ocean & Water streets in downtown Santa Cruz. Morten’s uncanny work is on exhibit through the end of March.
Http://www.marmontestudios.com/.
