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Most of these exhibitions are still on view. Don’t miss them. Photos by Bondo Wyszpolski [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”246″ display=”pro_mosaic” animate_images_enable=”0″ animate_images_style=”wobble” animate_images_duration=”1500″ animate_images_delay=”250″ animate_pagination_enable=”0″ animate_pagination_style=”flipInX” animate_pagination_duration=”1500″ animate_pagination_delay=”250″]
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”194″ display=”pro_mosaic” animate_images_enable=”0″ animate_images_style=”wobble” animate_images_duration=”1500″ animate_images_delay=”250″ animate_pagination_enable=”0″ animate_pagination_style=”flipInX” animate_pagination_duration=”1500″ animate_pagination_delay=”250″]Several curators, some of L.A’s most notable arts writers and publicists, and of course a large heaping of artists, some “famous” and some not… yet. Photos by Bondo Wyszpolski
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”179″ display=”pro_mosaic” animate_images_enable=”0″ animate_images_style=”wobble” animate_images_duration=”1500″ animate_images_delay=”250″ animate_pagination_enable=”0″ animate_pagination_style=”flipInX” animate_pagination_duration=”1500″ animate_pagination_delay=”250″]Photos by Bondo Wyszpolski Several ongoing art shows, with the artists, and those who came by for a little bit of culture. Painting students and music notables, too.
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”171″ display=”pro_mosaic” animate_images_enable=”0″ animate_images_style=”wobble” animate_images_duration=”1500″ animate_images_delay=”250″ animate_pagination_enable=”0″ animate_pagination_style=”flipInX” animate_pagination_duration=”1500″ animate_pagination_delay=”250″]photos by Bondo Wyszpolski South Bay artists, the works they created, and the people who showed up to express their admiration!
by Bondo Wyszpolski (Editor’s note: the following interview with artist Zel Del Rio originally appeared in Peninsula Magazine in August, 2020. Del Rio took his own life last month, at age 68, by leaping from a Peninsula cliff above the ocean where he grew up painting and surfing.) It was my last question of the […]
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”139″ display=”pro_mosaic” animate_images_enable=”0″ animate_images_style=”wobble” animate_images_duration=”1500″ animate_images_delay=”250″ animate_pagination_enable=”0″ animate_pagination_style=”flipInX” animate_pagination_duration=”1500″ animate_pagination_delay=”250″]In and around the South Bay’s galleries and studios! Photos by Bondo Wyszpolski
Brian Wilson in His Room The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson opens up prior to ushering in the 21st Century with a New Year’s Eve performance at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on December 31, 2025 by Bondo Wyszpolski Editor’s note: Brian Wilson rang in the new century on New Year’s eve, 1999, with a […]
VEFA’s “Surreality 101” is on view through May 24 and Gallery of Hermosa’s “The Spirit of Omiode Yokocho (Memory Lane)” is up through May 10 at local galleries. Photos by Bondo Wyszpolski [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”102″ display=”pro_tile” animate_images_enable=”0″ animate_images_style=”wobble” animate_images_duration=”1500″ animate_images_delay=”250″]
by Bondo Wyszpolski It begins with an amuse-bouche, which is an hors d’oeuvre delivered on a single spoon or fork, just one savory bite to arouse the taste buds. It begins also with Claude Debussy, the musical soul of fin de siècle Paris. I’ve come to The Gallery, stepped through the cozy Horizon Lounge, and […]
by Bondo Wyszpolski Is it possible for a talented artist to be too private or withdrawn, and to vanish from public view for years at a time? That might well be the case with Redondo Beach painter Fei Alexander, who went seven years after her solo show at El Camino College before appearing at Ego […]
by Bondo Wyszpolski Earlier this year, director Tamarah Ashton proposed three musicals to the Manhattan Beach Community Church Theater for their spring show. This story is about the one they chose. “Mamma Mia!” and “Into the Woods” will just have to wait. “Newsies,” however, had been Tamarah’s choice all along. “It’s just really energetic and […]
While grieving the loss of her husband, Ellen Cantor composed 100 poems. Many of them appear in her book, “Unfolding Time” by Bondo Wyszpolski If we live long enough, we’ll have to say our final goodbyes to close friends and relatives, and these losses may leave a dark void in our psyche or in our […]