Painting Inside the Outside Box
Veteran Oak Group landscape coalition stretches out in Westmont College exhibition.
Author: Josef Woodard
Review | A Kinder, Gentler Modern Touch
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers returned to town, between Grammy moments, with a mostly contemporary but friendly program.
Art Pop-Up Lights Up the Funk Zone
“L’image” pop-up art show in Santa Barbara brings together a gallery exhibition and a music and dance celebration.
Early and Late-Breaking Music Mastery Comes to Santa Barbara
JACK Quartet, a premier contemporary-minded string quartet, returns as part of Music Academy’s Mariposa Series, with new and early works.
ON the Beat | Big Band Jazz, Big Pipe Organ News
SBCC Jazz Ensemble blowout wows, as does a rare organ recital in town.
Film Review | Exotic Cinematic Dance
Sean Baker’s “Anora,” winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a bawdy, genre-tweaking bedazzler.
Bright Colors, Ideas, and Latin American Artistic Rethinking
“Accretion: Works by Latin American Women” exhibition enlivens and reflects an inclusive perspective at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Review | French and Jazz Manners and Matters
Santa Barbara Symphony delivers a highlight of its season, with the Baroque-to-Modern programming of “French Connections.”
Review | Venetian Musical Venturing
Famed Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra returns with an enticing blend of Vivaldi’s ever-popular “Four Seasons,” mixed with gondola songs.
Color and Form Take and Make a Holiday
Danish-American Roland Petersen, the veteran Bay Area painter, brings bursts of color and artistic complexity to the Elverhøj Museum in Solvang.
