Kevin and Allyson Seconds, Grub Dog, and Jackson Griffith at Fox and Goose This will be the only April Fool’s Day event transpiring that doesn’t involve someone jumping out at people, unless Kevin Seconds gets some smart ideas. On Friday, April 1, starting at 9 PM, Kevin and Allyson Seconds, Grub Dog, and Jackson Griffith … Continue reading
We had a blast bringing our “freaky” friends to perform at the Crocker Museum for the ArtMix on March 10, 2016. We run around with some of the most crazy talented folks around. Be sure to learn more about our “freaky friends” in our latest print issue (pick one up at Phono Select Records or … Continue reading
Sex is such a pervasive force in our culture it is rendered all but invisible. A quick experiment: next time during a trip downtown, make a tally of how many times a sexual image presents itself. The number will be surprisingly high. Sex is ubiquitous and used so prominently in advertising it is rendered unrecognizable. Napa-based artist Porous … Continue reading
Celebrating this year’s Sacramento Fashion Week at Beatnik Studios on Wednesday was truly something to behold. As the line grew, so did the excitement and chatter. People were milling about, talking, looking at the booths, and trying to find a good seat to view the event. It was packed. As the MC announced that … Continue reading
Cane Morto’s film Amo-Te Lisboa: An Ignominious Street Art Movie is now available online! A somewhat surrealist take on the Italian street art collective’s unauthorized painting activities in Lisbon, the film follows them through a two month period of rediscovering their street art roots with the help of other artists like Borondo and RUN as well as a“cruel dead-dog deity … Continue reading
We absolutely fell in love with the Art Hotel. It goes to prove that Sacramento is full of talented, driven creatives, who work hard at making our city one of the coolest places around. Incase you were not one of the 12,000+ people who made it through the Art Hotel during its temporary run of February … Continue reading
Solo artist Bibio, (also known as Stephen Wilkinson) is releasing his seventh album, A Mineral Love. Along with the announcement he’s sharing the album’s first official single, ‘Feeling,’ with an accompanying video directed by Bibio himself. ‘Feeling’ is buoyed up by a bouncy 70’s throwback riff and the video looks like a light show out of the same … Continue reading
Life On Mars was released in 1971 on David Bowie’s album Hunky Dory. Prior to Bowie’s death in early January, we curated an art show inspired by that song. Originally, 40 artists were randomly assigned a line from the song Life On Mars to create into artwork. After Bowie’s passing we added an additional twenty artists to … Continue reading
Los Angeles artist Robert Steven Connett’s detailed depictions of aquatic, terrestrial and other-worldly environments will have the viewer squirming with curiosity. Connett’s intricate and vivid dreamlike paintings hold the viewer captive and fascinated, staring for minutes, moving from one element to another as if stuck in a trance. Connett’s paintings can make a viewer feel as if they … Continue reading
What I’m Listening To is a new series where we talk to exciting artists and musicians and get a five song slice of their current playlist. – “Music is my first love.” – Shannan Robertson grew up in a house filled with music: her mother’s beautiful soprano, her grandmother’s Glenn Miller records which she taught Robertson … Continue reading
Youth Lagoon’s new video, ‘Rotten Human’ is a beautiful hypnotic art piece. Slow and strange, it makes fantastic use of the natural beauty of Iceland and is nearly impossible to stop watching once you start. The video was directed by Patrick Blades and stars model Daytona Williams. It melds wonderfully with the aching melancholy of … Continue reading
This is an art show inspired by David Bowie. Life On Mars was released on 1971 on Bowie’s album Hunky Dory. Originally 40 artists were randomly assigned a line to create from the song Life On Mars. We have now added on 20 additional artists who will create a piece inspired by the song in … Continue reading
Black Lives Matter! at Sol Collective As we enter Black History Month, it’s important to remember history is still being made today. Police brutality against black people has been going on too long, and on February 10 at Sol Collective (2574 21st St.), starting at 7 PM, there is an opportunity to learn more about … Continue reading
Art Hotel 916 Art Hotel 916 is an art exhibit that will be available from February 5-February 13 at an abandoned hotel at 1122 7th Street. The hotel is scheduled to be demolished mid-2016, and over 60 artists from around the world stepped up to make its final days memorable. Each room, including kitchens, … Continue reading
For decades, the neighboring Jade and Marshall hotels in downtown Sacramento were home to many of the city’s low-income residents. Unfortunately, the Jade and most of the Marshall building will soon be demolished to make way for a new Hyatt Place Hotel. Since it closed, the Jade has been empty and quiet, awaiting its imminent … Continue reading
By the green facade of the Peace Market sits a restored hundred year-old treasure chest. The chest has been painted a little more recently and now sports the monopoly man among other exciting designs and the hashtag #SacFreeArtDrop. The Sacramento Free Art Drop is exactly what it sounds like: a safe place for artists to … Continue reading
It seems unlikely that art gallery visitors would press themselves against gallery walls and attach handwritten wishes to a tree. Yet these are the exact activities that attendees took part in at Verge Center for the Arts opening night reception of do it, a traveling exhibition of artist instructions conceived and compiled by the internationally … Continue reading
This is a call to artists for a show inspired by David Bowie. Life On Mars was released on 1971 on Bowie’s album Hunky Dory. Each artist will be assigned a line from the song Life On Mars. Lyrics received will be picked randomly from a hat. You may interpret the lyric received anyway you … Continue reading
“Get 180 lbs. of local wrapped candy and drop it in a corner.” – Felix Gonzalez-Torres While 180 pounds is a lot of candy, Felix Gonzalez Torres’s odd command is just one of the hundreds of artist instructions that form Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Do It. This project has assumed many forms, such as manuals, websites, … Continue reading
Raise your hand if you have ever pledged to be more appreciative of the little things in life in the new year. Yeah, me too. And it’s an admirable goal. When we make space for life’s sweet momentary treasures – little Easter eggs you get to find each day – our lives become richer. This … Continue reading
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