Public art is a grand collaboration between developers, politicians, arts administrators, selection committees and artists, and sometimes it really works.
The $358 million County Operations Center in Kearny Mesa is a bold step forward, resuscitating an old “artwork allowance” policy that allows for .05 percent of the estimated building costs of certain county projects to be spent on original works of art.
The newest in the Murals of La Jolla collection, “House,” by Robert Ginder, is up to view on the right side of the Salazar Gallery at 1162 Prospect St. The seventh in the series, the mural was unveiled on Oct. 22.
The fourth annual La Jolla Art & Wine Festival was held Oct. 13-14, 2012 along Girard Avenue in the Village. The event raised supplemental funds for education programs at Torrey Pines, La Jolla and Bird Rock Elementary Schools and Muirlands Middle School.
UC San Diego officially and suddenly closed its Crafts Center at 9500 Gilman Drive on Sept. 26, canceling the workshops, non-credit classes and exhibits typically held there.
When you were a school-kid, did your parents ever tell you: Don’t play with your food? Debby and Larry Kline started doing just that in art school, back in the 1980s, and it led them into a very successful career. An exhibit of some of the pieces they’ve created extemporaneously on restaurant tabletops is on display in the forms of photographs, videos and books from Sept. 22-Nov. 3, 2012 at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla. “The Klines: Dinner and a Movie” may be the most fun you’ll have at an art show this year.
The La Jolla Art & Wine Festival (LJAWF) is back this weekend (Oct. 13-14), with organizers promising that the annual fundraiser for La Jolla schools will be bigger and better than ever. To accommodate the event — where 30,000 people are expected — the Village streets of Girard Avenue between Prospect and Kline streets will be closed to vehicle traffic both days, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday.
The La Jolla Library Art Gallery has finally come of age! On Sunday, Sept. 23, its Art Committee reached way down into its pockets and pulled out something extra special for what had to be its best-ever reception.
The party celebrated, “Fresh Paint: Impressions of California Plein-Air Artists,” the new exhibit that will run through Nov. 16.
Now that it’s fall, here’s something to fall for: two fascinating shows featuring the work of Marianela de la Hoz, a Mexican artist who has been living in North County for the past decade. South of the border, her style might be called “magic realism.” Here, we’d call it “surreal.”
Things are rarely black and white, they are usually shades of gray, as philosophers like to say … except, of course, at the annual Black & White Juried Art Competition, showing daily from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Oct. 7 at the La Jolla Art Association gallery, 8100 Paseo Del Ocaso in La Jolla Shores. Here everything, including paintings, prints and photographs, are composed of black or white hues exclusively.
The VIP preview of this year’s art fair, held Sept. 6, was hot, hot, hot! Inside the Balboa Park Activity Center, electric fans were going full blast as hundreds of art fans and collectors explored the booth-lined lanes of New Art City.
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