Back in the 1950s in the Bay Area, the center for creatives a little off the trail in experimental art was a Victorian house packed to its wooden walls with books. As the home of Jess and Robert ...
The most famous event in Beat history in California is Allen Ginsberg's 1955 reading of his epic poem "Howl." The part that everyone forgets is that not only did five other strong poets read that ...
Art collectors can bid on some of California’s coolest artwork Saturday during Laguna Art Museum’s California Cool art auction. The museum’s annual event will feature ’50s-style creations by more than ...
Toward the end of her ego-shredding new memoir, Art and Madness, Anne Roiphe tells the jaw-dropping story of the day her first child was born. It was 1960, and a snowstorm was raging in New York City.
A selection of 79 drawings from the collection recasts the most celebrated decade in American art as less American. By Roberta Smith As exhibitions go, “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury” at the ...
Below are archived updates for Art & Art History alumni graduating between 1950 and 1959. Visit the main Alumni Updates page for updates received this year. Mary Curro, ’57 (Studio Art) Molly writes: ...
After the Rupture: New Directions in Mexican Art 1960s–1980s features a selection of 32 paintings, prints and drawings by 15 artists associated with the Rupture Generation. From the 1920s to the 1950s ...
February in the foyer of the Newport Beach Central Library. Mezzotint engraving involves burnishing images onto plates. Admission is free. The library is at 1000 Avocado Ave., Newport Beach. For ...
Destruction has played a wide range of roles in contemporary art—as rebellion or protest, as spectacle and release, or as an essential component of re-creation and restoration. “Damage Control: Art ...