ARTS & CULTURE
Society805’s Art & Culture section keeps your finger on the pulse on the arts and the cultural moves inside the 805. We get around the noise and beneath the hype to give you the real issues inside the 805 arts scene and the people in them. We bring you the key events shaping the 805 cultural landscape so you do not miss out on what is important and the direction of the 805 culture in art, theater, music, and film. Remember, you can’t live in style without art and culture.
#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 8/2/10)
Has the process of making a photograph become completely obsolete in the contemporary art world? Not for Jacqueline Woods. In fact, the process of developing and printing the photo is an essential facet to her work as a whole. The process, coupled with themes of memory and identity is what makes Woods' photographs so enticing.
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Artist Interviews
Art Review
BEYOND THE 805
Jean Dubuffet Drawings at the Hammer
The current exhibition of Jean Dubuffet’s drawings at UCLA’s Hammer Museum is the first exhibition of Dubuffet’s drawings of this depth and scope. Consisting of almost 100 works created between 1935 and 1962 it spans Dubuffet’s most creative years, curated by Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum. The Hammer presentation is curated by Connie Butler, chief curator, with Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, curatorial assistant. Dubuffet is in some ways the most influential and perhaps best French artists since WW II , so this show represents an important addition to the understanding of his work and post-war art history scholarship.
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Visual Arts
Rima Muna
April 7 - April30, 2017
Working Artists Ventura (WAV), Ventura, CA
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Visual Arts
Rodger Klein
April 7- April 30, 2017
Tool Room Gallery @ Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA
Tool Room Gallery @ Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA
"Wings" 53"x36"
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Visual Arts
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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Visual Arts
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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Visual Arts
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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Visual Arts
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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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Visual Arts
Margy Gates
March 18 to May 14, 2017
Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA
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Visual Arts
Joe Cibere
March 18 to May 14, 2017
Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA
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Visual Arts
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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Performing Arts