"Venice? No, I won't go to Venice," Monet had boldly declared in front of his friend and French novelist, Octave Mirbeau.

(Courtesy photo) Fifteen more colorful murals on utility boxes along Broadway have been completed, the Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department has announced. The boxes were painted by local ...

Is there a tension between the flat one-dimensionality of drawing and architecture in three dimensions? RITCHIE: Initially the project was to take this idea of drawing, which I was experimenting with ...

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The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has put many vintage photos of people with their dogs, cats, horses, parrots and more on display in its new exhibit “Howl: The Art & History of Pets ...

Its political systems, philosophies, arts and architecture affect us all, for good and bad. Europe is culture with the comfort and joy: great cafes, beer halls, sunny alpine terraces, live music ...

City’s Public Art Walk program seeks up to 10 outdoor installations, which will be displayed for two years. Artists have an opportunity to have their work become part of Santa Rosa’s landscape ...

Orange County School of the Arts leaders say the charter school could be looking at bankruptcy if it has to pay $16 million the Santa Ana Unified School District says is owed for special education ...

By Penelope Green Pilar Viladas, a veteran writer and editor whose human touch and encyclopedic knowledge of architecture, design and art history ... some good teeth.” Maria Pilar Viladas ...

I had no expectations — I only decided to visit the Cultural Center after googling “cool architecture to see in Chicago” and finding it on a random tourism website. I hardly even looked at any ...

Between that and her role as art program manager at Corazón del Pueblo in Santa Maria, Yanez’s life is wall-to-wall art, so to speak. As for literal wall space, the interior of Corazón Café in ...

It’s the April-foolish B9: Charles Pasternak (left) and Allie Pratt from last fall’s Santa Cruz Shakespeare production of ... titles that served as the first encounter with legitimate art for so many ...