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Moholy-Nagy at LACMA

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Art Review

BEYOND THE 805

Moholy-Nagy at LACMA

Every so often a person is able to see the consequences of their current time so clearly, to see the lines of development play out ahead of them, it is as if they can see the future. In such a case it doesn’t seem so much as if they influence those who come after, so much as that they seem to almost live and work in the future. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was such an artist. Working well over a half-century ago, there are few areas of our visual culture today that have not been touched or anticipated in some way by Moholy-Nagy. God knows what might have happened had he lived long enough to use a computer.

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Artist Opening: Sterling Ruby and Catherine Opie

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Visual Arts

BEYOND THE 805

Sterling Ruby & Catherine Opie

April 2 to June 12, 2017

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

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Artist Opening: Carl Andre

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Visual Arts

BEYOND THE 805

Carl Andre

April 2 to July 24, 2017

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

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Artists Opening: Arthur Jafa

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Visual Arts

BEYOND THE 805

Arthur Jafa

April 2 to June 12, 2017

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

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MAR

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Artist Opening: Margy Gates

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Margy Gates

March 18 to May 14, 2017

Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA

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Artist Opening:Joe Cibere

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Joe Cibere

March 18 to May 14, 2017

Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA

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MAR

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Review: Agnes of God at the Elite

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

A well-worth seeing production of Agnes of God is currently playing at the Elite theatre in Oxnard. It is the first play in a season of challenging and important plays by the Elite this year. Season tickets are highly recommended.

As the play opens, we are given to believe that Agnes is a young woman who has evidently murdered her newborn child while living in a Catholic convent. She seems remarkably and a bit uncannily unhinged and it is up to a court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr Martha Livingstone, with her own Catholic demons to fight, to try and unravel the situation or even decide whether Agnes is sane enough to stand trial. Set as a murder mystery, the play completely upends that genre as it unfolds as a three-way psychological wrestling match between Dr. Livingstone, Agnes, and Agnes’s Mother Superior, who is herself not all she at first appears to be.

Photo credit:Joe Orrego

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MAR

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Review: Devil’s Music That Saves Your Soul

By Arts & Culture Staff Writer

Miche Braden stars as Bessie Smith in the Rubicon Theatre Company's premiere production of "THE DEVIL'S MUSIC: THE LIFE AND BLUES OF BESSIE SMITH"

Photo Credit: Ronnie Slavin

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The Rubicon Theatre Company of Ventura is currently showing the West Coast Premier of a very special project. Not really a play as such, or even what used to be called a “review”, The Devil’s Music: the Life and Blues of Bessie Smith is an extremely well-done hybrid whereby we, the audience are brought into a live speak-easy performance by Bessie Smith, the early pre-war Blues legend whose influence has shaped so much music since, from post-war small-band jazz to rock and roll.

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“Four Star Theater Alliance honors six Ventura County theaters

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Cecil Sutton Taylor Kasch The Night Alive Photo by Brian Stethem

It may be an increasingly electronic world, but the eclectic world of live theater is proving it has staying power in Ventura County, culminating in a gala Tony-like affair of awards on February 26th.

Offering over 1,000 seats on any given weekend, the County’s six community theaters – part of the unique Four Star Theater Alliance -- tap into local talents presenting comedies, dramas, musicals and dramedies.

The gala affair is at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 at the High Streets Art Center, 45 E. High Street in Moorpark. A limited amount of tickets ($15 in advance, $20 at the door) are available for the public at:www.HighStreetArtsCenter.com.

Veteran Ventura County actors Cecil Sutton and Taylor Kasch in a poignant scene from "The Night Alive," which won the most Oustanding Production Award for Santa Paula Theater Center from the Four Star Theater Alliance. Photo Credit: Brian Stethem

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Review:The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at ETC

By Daniel Kepl

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Russian American Jews composing an opera about racism in the Deep South circa 1935 featuring a virtually all-black cast? George and Ira Gershwin were considered out of their minds if not outright un-American at the time for such boundary-bending audacity. Their masterpiece, Porgy and Bess, from a libretto by Dubose Heyward based on his novel Porgy was shunned after its initial debut and all but forgotten for decades. In recent years, though, especially since the civil rights movement of the 60’s, the opera has been revived and re-spirited on several occasions using diverse media and genres; recognized at last, as a major American folk opera of unparalleled genius and universal humanitarian message and appeal.

Photo Credit: David Bazemore

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