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
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
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
On February 5th, Low Cut High Tops, Seattle’s own digital punk, one-man band, released his 10-track album, Eh, Whatever. David Burns shaped the entire album, allowing him to totally immerse himself into every lyric, beat, and growl. This musician’s style has given him wide recognition for his unique, computerized arrangements. A series of music videos, … 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
Cross Record, also known as Emily Cross, is starting off 2016 with a new album and three new singles. The latest single, ‘Basket,’ is an eerie soft-spoken song that crawls along the listener’s spine and digs its claws in. The track is built around a series of repeated lyrics and the instrumentation is sparse. The initial vocals were intended to … Continue reading
Post-punk band SKATERS have gone DIY. They recently left Warner Bros, struck out on their own, and emerged from the studio with more than sixty new tracks. “There was a true sense of freedom knowing that the record couldn’t be rejected,” says SKATERS frontman Michael Ian Cummings in a recent interview. The band’s latest single, ‘Head … 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
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. ” Vixens of Vinyl are kinda Sex, Drugs, and Rock’ n Roll …only without the Sex, and the Drugs.” – The Vixens of Vinyl is “a bad ass group … 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
Similar to the way children collect natural objects such as rocks, leaves, and shells to keep as treasure, Amy Chan is constantly on the lookout for unique specimens to use as inspiration for her paintings. While the separate components of Chan’s paintings are derived from real-life objects, her saturated colors, graphic backgrounds, and patterns reminiscent … Continue reading
When an artist embraces an activist message, their work can cultivate courage within people and communities. The results of such art can be inspiring and, ultimately, empowering. On Nov. 19, four artists from Northern California and beyond presented their work and stories of activism at the Crocker Art Museum’s second Art Beyond Fear panel discussion. … Continue reading
This month’s edition of Five To Watch brings you on a tour of the spooky, the lightly airy, the quirky, and the sublime. Put on your walking shoes and let’s go! Maldición– As Día de los Muertos approaches, there is no better time to follow Maldición on Instagram. Explore the intricate vibrancy the Sac-based apparel brand … Continue reading
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