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The Art Palette January 26, 2007
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January wraps up in Santa Monica with two of the biggest art shows in the nation — the 12th Annual Los Angeles Art Show and Art LA. Visual art lovers from around the world will be converging on our hometown this weekend to look at and buy works that include contemporary and modern art, as well as historic works from the old masters. You’ll also find new theatre openings and a retrospective of classic Japanese cinema.
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The Art Palette
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On this third weekend in January, Santa Monica’s cultural scene continues its build to a spectacular crescendo. We’ve got a few old friends back in town, Photo LA at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, local artist Daniel Alonzo goes back to high school and “Pericles” returns to the Miles Playhouse, as do the Los Angeles Chamber Players.
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Home is where the art is
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BARKER HANGER Now in its 12th year, the Los Angeles Art Show promises to bring a visual overload of artworks to the Santa Monica area next week. The show, presented by the Fine Arts Dealers Association, serves as an opportunity for art collectors and the general public to view and purchase works from more than 80 domestic and international galleries.
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Santa Monica Art Palette January 12, 2007
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With the holidays finally finished, it’s time to start off a whole new year of exciting art and cultural happenings in Santa Monica. And if this month is anything like what the rest of the year will bring us, it’s going to be a great one. January starts off with a Santa Monica Museum of Art opening that will take you on an art trek to Tijuana; the 18th Street Arts Center will serve up a hot dish of Brazilian samba; Highways, the Santa Monica Symphony and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Westside Coalition remind us of the importance of the American Civil Rights Movement; local teens give us a look at their world at the Santa Monica Library and the galleries at Bergamot Station debut their new winter exhibitions.
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Art down the street
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18th Street — In the wake of the rush and chaos of the holidays, a calm, relaxing night of art and culture is what the 18th Street Arts Center has planned for this Saturday. The “ArtNight at 18th Street” event is a free festival held four times a year featuring group art shows, music, food and drinks.
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Santa Monica Art Palette January 5, 2007
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It’s a brand new year, so get out your calendars and start marking dates. Next week, once everyone is back from vacation, we’ll go back to our traditional format of weekend events, but this week’s Palette will let you in on a few upcoming events that you may not want to miss.
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Santa Monica Art Palette December 15, 2006
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Most people look at Santa Monica and see a quiet, gentle seaside community, but not this week. This edition of the Palette rips open the curtains to reveal the Santa Monica you never knew. And lies beneath that calm exterior? Art! We’ll show you what happens when an arrogant fairy queen gets a taste of her own medicine and while other publications dig through celebrity dirty laundry, we’ve got Robert Rauschenberg’s clean shirts. And for the more daring readers, you can explore the underside of our city up close and personal at the Santa Monica Scramble Scavenger Hunt.
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Santa Monica Art Palette December 8, 2006
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In this magical time of the year, Santa Monica offers you the delightful fantasies of The Magic Flute, seductive tones of Sibelius, surreal adventures in forestry and theatrical minuets. We’ve got gallery exhibitions featuring many of Southern California’s most emblematic artists, and even if you’re just out shopping, there’s art to be found in the most commercial (and chic) environs.
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Presenting an ‘Overview’ in photographs
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Capitalizing on its unique location at Santa Monica Airport, the Ruskin Group Theatre is proud to present “Overview” — an exhibit of aerial photographs by pilot-photographers Scott Tucker and Griff Hoerner.
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Santa Monica Art Palette December 1, 2006
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This is one of those extra special weekends in Santa Monica, where we’ve got something for everyone. It starts Friday night with singing animated sea creatures and continues on with Christmas carols, mad musicians, sacrificial lambs, gallery openings and memorial musings, before finishing off on Sunday with a community gathering around a gingerbread city.
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Santa Monica Art Palette November 24, 2006
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I hope everyone had a terrific Turkey or Tofu Day! As we all know, the three days after Thanksgiving are the busiest shopping days of the entire year. You probably don’t want to, but inevitably, someone is going to drag you shopping with them this weekend. But don’t despair! If you can manage to keep them in Santa Monica, there are quite a few quiet respites available to calm your nerves and help you refrain from strangling that person at the cash register who has just had two credit cards declined and is searching for a third while loudly discussing intimate family secrets with their Aunt Agnes on a cell phone.
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Santa Monica Art Palette November 17, 2006
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It’s almost Thanksgiving, which means the Christmas and Chanukah decorations have been up for the past two months, but if you’re like me, you’ve still got lots of shopping to do. I’ve got a great idea for this year, though. Instead of giving people holiday presents, I’ll just jot them a little note telling them that, given the fact that the arts are always in serious need of funding, and they’re doing just fine, I decided to support the arts this year and attended a play or a concert or gallery exhibition in their honor. Do you think that’ll work?
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Santa Monica Art Palette November 10, 2006
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I’ll bet Clive Barker never expected to see his name in a headline right next to Dancing Penguins, but this is Santa Monica and the unexpected is only to be expected. Last weekend was an arts and culture marathon and I’m still tired, but as you see, there’s more on the horizon. Janis Ian is coming to town. The Virginia Avenue Project kids are doing improv. Laraine Newman and Melanie Chartoff are revealing secrets. And tap dancing penguins.
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Santa Monica Art Palette November 3, 2006
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After duly honoring the dead with all of the Dias de los Muertos events this week, I’m ready to go out this weekend and spend some quality time with the living! And there are some really great ways to do that this weekend.
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Santa Monica Art Palette October 27, 2006
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It’s the weekend before Halloween. Witches and ghouls everywhere are busy crafting frightening costumes, erecting horrifying haunted houses, robbing fresh graves and stopping by Trader Joe’s for that great deal they’ve got on eye of newt. Around Santa Monica, along with jack-o-lanterns and spider webs, you’ll be seeing altars laden with gifts of sweets and other food and graves decorated with marigolds in preparation for Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 — los Dias de los Muertos (“the Days of the Dead”). In the meantime, we’ve got plenty of things to keep you entertained, stimulated, provoked and occupied while the spirits prepare for their big day.
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Santa Monica Art Palette October 20,2006
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Didn’t it feel good to get out of the house last weekend? I don’t know about you, but between the Pico Art Walk, all those openings at Bergamot and the shopping I did at Gracie, I think I walked about 20 miles. Maybe I burnt enough calories that I can eat some Halloween candy next weekend.
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For international art’s sake
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SM AIRPORT — Fine art that’s certain to cross all language and cultural barriers is on display at Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hanger this weekend. “Art International: A Fine Art Affair” features the works of American, European, Asian and Latin American artists.
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Santa Monica Art Palette October 13, 2006
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It’s the weekend, but what to do? There’s contemporary dance with a generous dose of physical science at the Miles Playhouse. Or there’s paper-making at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, where you can also start your holiday shopping in the new Gracie gift store. Bergamot Station has so many outstanding exhibitions up right now that you could easily overdose on visual art while you’re there. And if you’re musically inclined and under 18, you can join the new youth orchestra. Or you could just stay at home and watch TV. But you don’t want to stay at home and watch TV, do you? Face it, it’s 467 channels and nothing to watch. I’d suggest dance ... and Bergamot ... and shopping at Gracie ... and ...
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Santa Monica Art Palette October 6, 2006
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It’s a good weekend to live in Santa Monica — not that there’s ever a bad weekend to live in Santa Monica — but this one is definitely above average. Why? That’s simple, in only three short days, we’ve got smart and sophisticated British comedy, insightful yet raucous forays into the life of a thoroughly modern Latina, youth dance workshops that will stretch the boundaries of space and time, wondrous paintings, free classical music and the absolute best, most effective Saturday morning alarm clock on the planet.
Trust me, you won’t want to sleep through this weekend.
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Beauty behind Bergamot’s walls
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The simple, rustic exterior of Bergamot Station oftentimes belies what’s inside — a complex maze of vibrant art galleries containing everything from high-end works to sculptures to home décor.
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Santa Monica Art Palette September 29, 2006
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This weekend, we’ve got a terrific new dance performance at Highways showcasing new work developed at UCLA’s second annual Hothouse Program, opening weekend of Santa Monica Theatre Guild’s production of a contemporary classic, more music on the Pier, a free day at the California Heritage and animated folk tales at the Aero.
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Santa Monica Art Palette September 22, 2006
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This week the Palette devotes a special edition to “the kids in the knickerbockers,” as Professor Harold Hill from “The Music Man” would call them.
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Santa Monica Art Palette September 15, 2006
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Welcome to the Art Palette for the weekend of Sept.
15. Summer may be cooling down but arts and culture are still
heating up here in Santa Monica. There’s a flaming hot Latino New Works
Festival at Highways; sizzling skateboards at the MOCA store; a
blistering group show at Bergamot; scorching conversation and drama at
the Powerhouse; sultry new artworks at the Santa Monica Airport and, to
cool you down, a refreshing seaside concert on the Pier.
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Artists hit the festival scene in Santa Monica
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CIVIC CENTER — The first annual Santa Monica Arts Festival opens today, featuring the work of more than 200 artists and contemporary craftspeople from across the country — and three local talents.
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Santa Monica Art Palette September 8, 2006
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Welcome to the Art Palette for Sept. 7. Summer is over and the fall season is starting off with a bang. There's definitely more hot happenings this weekend than any one person could possible attend but choose your entertainment options carefully. The visual art scene is looking great with openings at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and many Bergamot galleries — plan on dedicating Saturday evening to a full-scale gallery crawl that starts at 4 p.m. and lasts until 11 p.m. The theatre scene comes alive with new shows at City Garage and the Powerhouse Theater. And for the younger crowd, the Santa Monica Pier premieres a new concert series for children and families. All in all, another great weekend for culture here in Santa Monica.
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Santa Monica Art Palette September 1, 2006
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Welcome to the Palette for Aug. 31. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette August 25, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for Aug. 25. For those of you who’ve been enjoying our series of Jazz on the Lawn, we’ve got one final treat for you this weekend when The Mad Alsatians take the stage at City Hall. For those of you who’ve missed these concerts, here’s your last chance to experience the cool cats and crazy croquet that’s made Jazz on the Lawn such a terrific success.
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Santa Monica Art Palette August 11, 2006
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This weekend in Santa Monica, we’ve got a new jazz series premiering on the City Hall lawn, a twisted version of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Miles Playhouse and a special free showing of one of a much-beloved children’s film at the Aero. And once again, we have a special prize at the end of this week’s Palette for participating in Creative Santa Monica, the City’s cultural plan currently underway. Sit a spell, read on, sing a song of sixpence and enjoy.
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Santa Monica Art Palette August 4, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette, Aug. 4. Thankfully, it’s cooling off a bit, but it’s going to be a while before anyone in Santa Monica needs a sweater. There’s bilingual Japanese/English theatre on Friday, and the Powerhouse is previewing one of the Fugard’s brilliant plays that exposed the world and helped bring an end to apartheid in South Africa. There are new banners on the Third Street Promenade that will delight and intrigue shoppers and residents alike and a special prize at the end of this week’s palette for participating in Creative Santa Monica, the city’s cultural plan currently underway.
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Santa Monica Art Palette July 21, 2006
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It’s another big week for theatre in Santa Monica. This weekend we’ve got several new theatrical offerings.
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Santa Monica Art Palette July 14, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of July 14. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette July 7, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of July 7. It’s a good weekend to be in Santa Monica. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette June 30, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of June 30. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders. Enjoy your stay.
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Santa Monica Art Palette June 16, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of June 16. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders. It’s Father’s Day on Sunday and what better way to show your dad how great you turned out than to bring him to one of Santa Monica’s cultural events? Do you think he really wants another tie? This also is the weekend of Juneteenth, marking the day the Emancipation Proclamation finally came to Texas and gave freedom to the remaining 250,000 people still living in slavery. It was two years after the end of the Civil War when General Gordon Granger finally declared the end of slavery in Galveston, Tex. on June 16, 1865. So take this weekend to rejoice in your own freedoms, thank your fathers for helping to bring you into this world and have a great time.
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Santa Monica Art Palette June 9, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of June 9. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders. This weekend we’ve got music, dance, theatre, film and visual art events.
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Santa Monica Art Palette June 2, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of June 2. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette May 26, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for Memorial Day weekend. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette May 19, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of May 19. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Shhh! Artists’ work goes on the block
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VENICE — More than 500 emerging and established Southern California artists will donate original works of art and photography for the Venice Art Walk’s silent and live auctions, or will open the doors of their working studios to the public for tours from May 20-21.
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Santa Monica Art Palette May 12, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of May 12. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Hot Tamales!
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Culinary students at The Art Institute of California-Los Angeles in Santa Monica were treated to a guest lecture with celebrity chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, Food Network's “Too Hot Tamales,” this past week.
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Santa Monica Art Palette May 5, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of May 5. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette April 28, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of April 28. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette April 21, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of April 21. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders
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Santa Monica Art Palette April 14, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of April 14. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette April 7, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of April 7. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette March 31, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of March 31. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette March 24, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of March 24. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette March 17, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of March 17. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders
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Santa Monica Art Palette March 10, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, for the weekend of March 10. This week’s palette provides a peek at what a wide assortment of cultural opportunities we have in Santa Monica with an evening of stunning contemporary dance, a traditional theatre opening, and an exhibition of one of our local artists’ work in ceramics. Each of these offerings showcases an aspect of what makes Santa Monica such a great place to live!
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Santa Monica Art Palette March 3, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of March 3. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette February 24, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of February 24, 2006. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette February 17, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of February 17, 2006. The goal of the Art Palette, created by City Hall’s cultural affairs division, is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Santa Monica Art Palette February 10, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of February 10, 2006. The Art Palette’s goal is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders. The palette is produced every week by City Hall’s Cultural Affairs Division.
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Artist’s metamorphosis comes complete with beautiful ending
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“Caterpillar Soup” sounds as though it would be the cutesy title of a children’s fairytale volume. The story Lyena Strelkoff tells in her self-written autobiosolo production at the Santa Monica Playhouse about becoming paralyzed and rehabilitating her mind, body and soul, however, is a dialogue only a mature audience could comprehend and appreciate.
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Santa Monica Art Palette February 3, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of February 3, 2006. The Art Palette’s goal is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders. The Palette is produced every week by the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division.
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Santa Monica Art Palette January 27, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of January 27, 2006. The Art Palette’s goal is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Mortensen, Gudni works are paradox
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Along with all the other pollutants permeating the Southland, the one we most likely turn a deaf ear to is noise pollution. Icelandic artist Georg Gudni and Viggo Mortensen — yes, the actor — present an exhibition at the Track 16 gallery that works in a way to both silence and embrace the noisy tumult of living in urban sprawl.
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Santa Monica Art Palette January 20, 2006
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Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of January 20, 2006. The Art Palette’s goal is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
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Capturing LA River’s natural state
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Often a place where smog taints every breath and the only greenery to be seen comes from the shrubs that grow along the side of the freeway, Los Angeles is largely considered a Shakespearean-sized ecological tragedy.
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