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Jean Isaacs’ Dances of Love, Laughter & Loss at UCSD Mandell Weiss Theatre
By Joe Nalven A dance inspired by “The Atlantic Man.” What better way to restart the new year than to visit with Jean Isaacs Dance Theater. The performances are always delightful and create a sense of...
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Balboa Park Centennial: Art in 1915, Art in 2015
In the year of Balboa Park’s Centennial, the many museums and activity centers located there are finding ways to reflect on the park’s past and wonder about its future.A Point of Departure: Visual Fine...
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Finding the Sublime: Leah Hochman - Scholar-in-Residence Program at Beth...
Some might think that regional and ethnic studies are too narrowly focused, but without such specific area and demographic focal points, we run the risk of studying generalities that lack application...
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Ever think about art law? How about mastering it?
Discussions about art and copyright infringement become the topic du jour from time to time. One often hears the rule of thumb, 'if you take less than 10% of another person's image, that's OK.' But is...
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Picturing a San Diego Dream: Exhibits at L Street Fine Art and the Oceanside...
The danger of blissful dreams is that they invite others to dream those dreams as well.And so, we have San Diego Dreaming at the L Street Fine Art in downtown San Diego and a collaborative location at...
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Rethinking the Garden of Eden as a Dance Video: The Conversation between Eve...
As far back as we can trace our cultural memory, there has always been a question and a story. How did we get here? Why? A question and a story about the creation of man and woman. I was intrigued by...
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Rethinking Soviet Posters: Exhibit at San Diego City College Visual Arts Gallery
The Soviet Union? Yes, that was a country and one worth remembering. The Soviet Poster Show at the San Diego City Art Gallery provides both answers and questions to why it is worth remembering the...
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Latin American Arts Festival Comes to San Diego
It is worth celebrating San Diego's First Latin American Art Festival, hosted at Liberty Station.There have been other noteworthy exhibits of Latin American artists in San Diego; still, this framing of...
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The Son Reflects the Father: Mario Torero talks about Guillermo Acevedo's Art...
It is not uncommon to find parents who were painters and their children likewise: N.C. Wyeth - Andrew Wyeth – Jamie Wyeth (U.S.); Orazio Gentileschi - Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian); Jean Cousin the...
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Contours of Thinking: A Show at the Museum of Art - Black on White
Author's note: A recently published article on the BRAIN Initiative (April 2, 2015) listed seven goals for the ambitious brain project. The goals emphasize STEM (science and engineering,) rather than...
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Buhm Hong Awarded Digital Art Guild Prize at SDAI 2015 International Exhibit
The 53rd San Diego Art International Exhibition for 2015 awarded Buhm Hong the Digital Art Guild Prize. As one walks into the SDAI entryway, about to descend to the lower level gallery, one senses the...
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100 Artists, 100 Years: Celebrating San Diego Art at OMA
The Oceanside Museum of Art is exhibiting works from artists who belong(ed) to The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild. The time span is 100 years and 100 artists have been honored.One of those...
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Oddities and Attractions: A Museum Travelogue at the Whitney, Met, Neue,...
At a question and answer session, the visiting juror said - with emphasis - that her venue would rarely curate a travelogue exhibit. You can guess why: too many 'I was here,' too many places rather...
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Approaching the new semester: Teaching style, the cost of books and online...
The semester begins in several weeks. Several questions top instructors concerns: the cost of textbooks; engaging students; being fair to different viewpoints.Here is my approach in a highly diverse...
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Commentary on the San Diego Art Institute: When media distort events and...
Ben Sutton of Hyperallergic recently penned an essay, Rebirth of Stagnant San Diego Art Institute Riles Some of Its Members. (I confess to being one of the riled.)Much of what Sutton says has been...
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7 billion Others: The dreams and fears of humanity plus an agenda
The selected stories of thousands of individuals in 7 billion Others illustrate themes such as Being at home, Family, Fears as well as Nature and Climate voices.These stories from across the world...
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Embracing the Centennial in Balboa Park: Trolley Dances and the Digital Art...
The San Diego Union Tribune featured 100 stories about Balboa Park to illustrate the 100 years (and memories) of the Park. I'm not sure whether other media have chimed in on what makes this Centennial...
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What would I have recommended President Obama to have seen when he visited...
Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi)is a modern city with a symbolic mission.I recently visited this modern Hiroshima, perhaps two weeks shy of President Obama’s visit on May 27, 2016. His visit was the...
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Comics, Comic Con and Political Satire: A path to enlightened discourse?
Going to the San Diego Comic-Con is more about superheroes, intergalactic warfare and fantasy rather than snarkiness about day-to-day political partisanship. But the comic phenomenon is generally a...
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Trolley Dancin' from Barrio Logan to Fault Line Park
This year's Trolley Dances returned to Barrio Logan but with new twists and outbound visits to the Museum of Contemporary Art downtown and then on to Fault Line Park. The Trolley Dances continues the...
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The Art of the Shortest Novel: How we connect and disconnect from each other
Umberto Eco anointed Augusto Monterroso as the author of the shortest novel.El Dinosaurio ('The Dinosaur')Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí. "When he awoke, the dinosaur was still...
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Adding texture to 2D images: A fused glass overstrate approach
Taking a photograph is easy - unless, of course, you haven't taken a photograph before or cameras haven't been invented. Other difficulties that could be encountered in learning a new craft are...
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Why isn't Lady Science marching for science? The view from San Diego
There were many, many marches on April 22, 2017. All for science. And yet, Lady Science was not present, nor was Mother Nature - despite the hopes and wishes splashed on the posters that the marchers...
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Comic Con: Thy Name is Diversity
Having grown up in a Brooklyn housing project, having been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, having become a cultural anthropologist and doing research on the US-Mexico border, and now teaching a...
View ArticleSomes notes on Chicano Music as a Pathway to Community Identity
This article was published in 1975 in The New Scholar, V:1 73-93. Due to the difficulties of transferring the text from a OCR PDF, only pages 73-78.Some notes on Chicano music as a pathway to community...
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