Posts by Bondo Wyszpolski
Getting Near to Vermeer
With Vermeer, as with Raphael and Mozart, we are inches closer to the Divine when in the presence of his work. Perhaps it’s our eternal sunshine that draws them, but periodically a Vermeer painting will vacation in California; a few of them live in New York and Washington, D.C., also Boston and Philadelphia, but pretty…
Read MoreRosa Blasi stars in Hermosa Beach’s ‘Sound of Music’
Television actress Rosa Blasi is a true beauty – sensuously radiant and voluptuous. So let me see now, says the journalist as he wipes his fogged-up glasses, You’re playing the part of Maria in “The Sound of Music” this weekend at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse? In this musical you’re appearing as a nun, right? Isn’t…
Read MoreNew gallery for Old Torrance
In the entire state, is there a more prestigious-sounding name for an art venue than the California Museum of Fine Art? Hearing it, one may imagine a sprawling complex in Balboa Park, Golden Gate Park, or even adjacent to Disney Hall on Grand Avenue. But this new home for the visual arts is located here…
Read MoreDead Ball Era comes to life at Suzy’s in Hermosa Beach
Dead Ball Era – and we’ll get to the origins of that name shortly – is a three-piece band that’s been together longer than they’ve been on this planet. How did Alex Strahle, Jack Strahle, and Blake Russell pull that off? Well, as Blake explains, “We’ve known each other all our lives – and our…
Read MoreHermosa’s indie film company Rogue Arts heads for higher ground
With the Academy Awards just around the corner, this is a good week to talk about movies. Everyone likes the glamorous stars and the glamorous stars enjoy the red carpet ride, but there’s a heavily competitive business aspect to the film industry with huge amounts of bartering and investment involved just to get films made…
Read More‘Anti-Ark’ installation art in El Segundo
A polar bear has been sited in the South Bay.
Read More‘Backbeat’ recreates early Beatles
A play with music about the pre-Fab Four is at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Read MoreSouth Bay art shows [PHOTOS]
[scrollGallery id = 561] We’ve been standing on the rim and surveying some near-monumental art shows around the South Bay. All of the work is still on view, but hurry. Photos
Read More‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
Experimental and obscure operas have been finding a port of refuge with Long Beach Opera for nearly 35 years. At times the company barely scrapes by, but thankfully there are enough – although always barely enough – fierce supporters who recognize how much poorer we’d be without its reassuring presence. There was a decent turnout…
Read MoreMuseum on Main to open Sunday in El Segundo
The El Segundo Museum of Art premieres with “Desire.”
Read MoreAlways Looking, by John Updike
(Alfred A. Knopf, 204 pp., $45)
Read MorePennywise reconciles – Jim Lindberg and Fletcher Dragge mend fences
Jim Lindberg and Fletcher Dragge mend fences and make music.
Read MoreIn tune with Hermosa Beach jazz saxophonist Ray Zepeda
Saxophonist Ray Zepeda lets the cat out of the bag.
Read MoreCaravaggio: The Artist and His Work
Largely due to “Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy,” on view through Feb. 10 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is enjoying unprecedented attention.
Read MoreArt of Carol Hungerford at The Loft in San Pedro
When Carol Hungerford was in sixth grade, her teacher drove a stake through the heart of her artistic ambitions.
Read MoreBeach art scene upbeat [2012 Newsmaker]
From the looks of it, art appears to be thriving in the South Bay.
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