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#TBM - Artist Interview: WAV Artist Jacqueline Woods

By Sofia Williams

in Artist Interviews

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#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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APR

10

Jean Dubuffet Drawings at the Hammer

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Visual Arts

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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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APR

06

Artist Opening: Rima Muna

By Arts & Culture Staff Writer

in Past Openings

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Rima Muna

April 7 - April30, 2017

Working Artists Ventura (WAV), Ventura, CA

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03

Artist Opening: Rodger Klein

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Past Openings

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Rodger Klein

April 7- April 30, 2017
Tool Room Gallery @ Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, CA

"Wings" 53"x36"

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MAR

31

Moholy-Nagy at LACMA

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Visual Arts

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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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MAR

20

Artist Opening: Sterling Ruby and Catherine Opie

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Past Openings

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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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20

Artist Opening: Carl Andre

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Past Openings

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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

in Past Openings

Arthur Jafa

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

17

Four Star Theater Alliance Awards Gala for Season 2016

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in SOCIETY PAGES

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The stars were out and shining brightly Sunday February 26 not only in Hollywood at the Kodak Theater for the Oscars, but here in the 805 at the Four Star Theater Alliance Awards Gala for Season 2016. The event was held at Moorpark's historic High Street Arts Center to a full house.

(left to right)Caroline J. Smith, Timorah Brown, Autumn Bodily, Nancy Jane Smeets & Hanna Mitchell

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MAR

14

Artist Opening: Margy Gates

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Past Openings

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Margy Gates

March 18 to May 14, 2017

Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA

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MAR

14

Artist Opening:Joe Cibere

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Past Openings

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Joe Cibere

March 18 to May 14, 2017

Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura, CA

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MAR

14

Review: Agnes of God at the Elite

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Performing Arts

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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

03

Review: Devil’s Music That Saves Your Soul

By Arts & Culture Staff Writer

in ARTS & CULTURE

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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"

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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

in Arts & Culture News

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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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18

Review:The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at ETC

By Daniel Kepl

in Performing Arts

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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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16

Ensemble Theater Company's Porgy & Bess Opening Night Cast Party

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in SOCIETY PAGES

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Last Saturday night the Ensemble Theatre Company at the New Vic kicks off the New Year with a packed house to a bold jazz interpretation of the Tony Award winning musical The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, composed by George Gershwin with a libretto by DeBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, and adapted for the Broadway stage by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.

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13

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in Dance

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Hailed by critics for their transcendent and deeply emotional performances, Noche Flamenca embodies the essence, complexity and mystery of flamenco.

Fronted by the incomparable Soledad Barrio, a Bessie Award-winning dancer acclaimed for her “smoldering, do-or-die flamenco passion” (The New York Times), this group of commanding dancers and musicians have earned accolades the world over. As a leading flamenco touring company, they embody a truly communal spirit, giving all aspects of flamenco – dance, song and music – equal weight as they seamlessly integrate each component into one spell-binding experience. Noche Flamenca’s vitality, energy and passion expresses the very heart and soul of the art form.

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13

Ventura Pop Up Yoga

By Tatiana Wilcox Ha

in Spotlight on Businesses

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Ventura Pop Up Yoga

Business Owner:

Jessy Raspiller/Jen Spencer

Website:

www.venturapopupyoga.com

Type of Business:

Outdoor Yoga Studio

City:

Ventura

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07

Review: Driving Home: Rubicon Concludes Nibroc Trilogy

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Performing Arts

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With the wonderful cast and director of the previous installments reprising their roles, the third and last installment of the Nibroc Trilogy, Gulf View Drive, the conclusion to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed projects in Rubicon Theatre history, opened to an energetic and enthusiastic house last night. The play runs through 12 February 2017, and if you missed any of the two previous parts of the trilogy, no worries, this play stands on its own and offers up some first-rate comedy in the process.

(left) Erik Odom, Faline England, Sharon Sharth and Lily Nicksay star in Gulf View Drive, the final play of the acclaimed Nibroc Trilogy by Arlene Hutton .Performances January 25 – February 12 at Rubicon Theatre Company. Photo credit: Jeanne Tanner

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10 Really Really Really Good Places to Eat Breakfast in the 805

By Society 805 Staff Writer

in FOOD & WINE

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Check out our really really really good list of breakfast spots in the 805.

Let us know what you think of our list in our comments section.

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