Tag: culture watch

In an era when many arts groups have suffered a downturn in funding, Santa Monica’s 18th Street Arts Center has ...

Spring has definitely sprung across the Southern California arts landscape. Here’s a roundup of upcoming and ongoing events that pique ...

Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997), a female artist in her 50s, arrived in Los Angeles during the ‘60s when the mantra was ...

Whenever I visit another country, I seek out church concerts. The acoustics are amazing and the settings are inspiring. Santa ...

BERGAMOT STATION — Incognito, now in its eighth year at Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), is recognized as one ...

  It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime moment. There I was at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday as the 340-ton boulder — ...

THIRD STREET — Michael McCarty is a man on a mission. It’s not enough that he’s one of the leading ...

“If music be the food of love, play on!” — William Shakespeare L.A. Chamber Orchestra (LACO) is always thinking of ...

Richard Diebenkorn put Santa Monica’s Ocean Park on the map the world over. Every major museum owns at least one ...

Maybe it’s because I grew up in the 1960s, but there’s a peace, love and reconciliation theme, though bittersweet, that ...