Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society Nov. 6 2019 meeting

Billy Goodnick on Life After Lawns: Ideas and Actions

Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society Nov. 6 2019 meeting

Billy Goodnick on Life After Lawns: Ideas and Actions

Celebrate 50 years of Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH), a singular presence in the dance world presenting a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century. Founded in 1969 in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the beloved, multiethnic company of 17 dancers performs a forward-thinking repertoire that includes treasured classics, neoclassical works as well as innovative contemporary works that use the language of ballet to celebrate African-American culture. A multicultural institution with an extraordinary legacy, DTH brings bold new forms of artistic expression to audiences in New York City, across the country and around the world, carrying forward DTH’s message of empowerment through the arts for all.

“The occasion is major.” The New York Times

“One of ballet’s most exciting undertakings.” The New York Times

As part of the UCSB World Music Series, the SBLASLO Trio will perform on Wednesday, November 6th at 12 pm at the UCSB Music Bowl. UCSB Jazz Ensemble director Jon Nathan will be joined by UCSB alumnus Miller Wrenn (bass) and Cuesta College Jazz Faculty Ron McCarley (tenor saxophone) for a set of adventurous contemporary improvised music both original and from the jazz repertoire. Ron McCarley and Miller Wrenn are both graduates of CalArts' graduate music program, having studied with some of the world’s most famous improvising musicians, including Joe LaBarbara, Larry Koonse, and Vinnie Golia, among others.

Virtual info session on undergraduate programs at Antioch University Santa Barbara.

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is excited to announce its upcoming fall art exhibit, Fishing with Paper & Ink, featuring the work of two outstanding nature printing artists—Eric Hochberg and Dwight Hwang—and West Coast species of fishes and other marine animals.
When: Thursday, November 7, 2019, 5:00-6:00 pm Artists’ Reception, Members only.
6:00-7:00 pm, Open and free to the public.

CELEBRATION OF STARS • A Fine Art Exhibition Featuring celebrity and V.I.P. portraits by Metrov

Art at the JCC will host its third season of EXPOSED, a juried photography exhibition at the Jewish Federation’s Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street, opening Thursday, November 7

Art at the JCC will host its third season of EXPOSED, a juried photography exhibition at the Jewish Federation’s Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street, opening Thursday, November 7

Art at the JCC will host its third season of EXPOSED, a juried photography exhibition at the Jewish Federation’s Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street, opening Thursday, November 7

In the summer of 1966, the May Company’s store on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax held a sale of approximately 4,000 items of pre-Columbian art. The sale, sponsored by Morton D. May, president of the company and a well-known art collector himself, was part of a larger trend when pre-Columbian art experienced a moment in the collecting spotlight across the country, particularly in urban centers like Los Angeles. Dealers like Earl Stendahl had established the viability of collecting such objects as art in the 1930s. They had also developed a roster of clients that included Hollywood luminaries like Vincent Price, whose cultural cachet extended to the objects they owned, promoted, and sold. Price – like May, a native of Saint Louis – shared May’s conviction that art of all kinds should be accessible to and even buyable by a broad swath of the public. These personalities moved along a spectrum of mass media that included print advertisements, television appearances, and movies where pre-Columbian art objects featured as primitivist MacGuffins that completed the backdrops of modernist homes.

Image: Still from "North by Northwest" (dir. Alfred Hitchcock), 136 min., 1959

Opera Santa Barbara returns to present crowd-pleasing pop-up performances in the Museum galleries.