“It’s important to portray Latinos as normal, middle class Americans because that’s what we are,” says the actor.
In GALA’s production, the gentrification in Miranda’s Washington Heights echos similar changes in Columbia Heights.
From documentaries about my mother, the guerlilla, to relationship thrillers, there’s something for everyone.
As GALA director José Luis Arellano sees it, Cervantes invented the modern world.
>> Dataklysmos an exhibition of new multimedia sculptures and digital video works by [dNASAb], opens at Irvine Contemporary on Saturday. [dNASAb] (or “Disney”) exploits and explodes technology to explore the “Disneyfication” of our post-digital imagination. At the opening reception see the artist’s take on the region’s Internet architecture and major connecting nodes for global Internet data traffic. 6 to 8 p.m.
You may have noticed five pop-up art spaces interspersed throughout the metro area recently. Sponsored by the Cultural Development Corporation, the concept showcases five separate pieces as part of a whole. Each location shows off the work of three-person teams consisting of a developer, an architect and an artist. The teams were given a specific word at random, including restrictions they needed to work within, to build their art space. The individual spaces could only…
Kenny Hunter – 2009, Like Water in Water, courtesy Connor Contemporary Art Big news in the art world this week is the opening of the ginormous art event that is Artomatic on Friday. Back for another landmark year, Artomatic promises more of what you’ve come to expect from this come one come all art extravaganza. We’ll have more Artomatic coverage for you soon, so check back in with us tomorrow for a run down…
As momentum builds in Hollywood for the Academy Awards, Tracy’s Kids, a local charitable program for children with cancer, held their own movie-themed gala on Tuesday night. Politicos, corporate honchos, and other benevolent Washington types filled Lucky Strike for a reception before taking the escalator upstairs to the Regal Gallery Place cinemas to see one of six Oscar nominated films….
