South Bay arts calendar May 30 – June 2
Thursday, May 30 Chinese dissident “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” is being screened for free from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Torrance Art Museum at the Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance. Alison Klayman’s film is a portrait of an international artist who was hounded and harassed by his government for his outspoken […]
Larry Bell, still ringing in an art gallery near you
With one flourish of his pen, Peter Plagens summed him up nicely in Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970:
“(I)t was Larry Bell who stood, in the mid-sixties, as the embodiment of the L.A. Look, both in its initial phase and as it developed.”
Night Train Surfboards
Joining the Surfboard Design page is Night Train Surfboards shaped and glassed by Jack Sabala. With a board ethos rooted in heavy single fin design, his big emphasis is function rather than fashion. Disregarding the so-called latest advances in hydrodynamics or innovations in new materials, Night Train Surfboards incorporates with individual panache proven theories that […]
Interim services available during Manhattan Beach library construction
The Manhattan Beach library is closing for construction to make way for a state-of-the-art, two-storied glass building in its place, anticipated to be unveiled in the spring of 2015. Beginning Saturday, library services will continue through the Manhattan Beach Express Library, to be stationed in the Manhattan Beach construction site parking lot at 1320 Highland […]