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# Santa monica art palette making arts and culture come alive in santa monica
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-art-palette-making-arts-and-culture-come-alive-in-santa-monica-20060331/
- Published: 2006-03-31T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T23:47:35.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

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.

This weekend, Highways Performance Space presents “Hideous/Gorgeous.” From The Garden of Eden to the jungles of Vietnam, from stark loneliness to glorious discovery, Hideous/Gorgeous is an outrageous romp where four gorgeous women rise to meet hideous circumstances in revealing ways. Don’t miss Suzie Plakson, Cindy Lu, Mary Stein and Ivonne Coll each performing solo works that will undoubtedly intrigue and delight everyone in the audience.

Hideous/Gorgeous Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1 at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, April 2 at 7 p.m. Highways Performance Space 1651 18th St. Tickets are $20 For reservations call (310) 315–1459 http://www.highwaysperformance.org/ The Santa Monica Library opens its annual Santa Monica Reads programs this year featuring “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Jonathon Safron Foer’s book detailing 9-year-old Oskar’s quest to learn more about the key he finds in his deceased father’s closet following the events of September 11.

Attend one of the many discussion groups hosted by the library and join other members of our community in dialogues about the issues addressed in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and other topics concerning current events and literature. http://www.smpl.org/cwr On display at California Heritage Museum is the work of master craftsman Ernest Batchelder, whose extraordinary tiles brought grace and beauty into the homes of the southland during the California arts and crafts movement. A professor at what is now California Institute of Technology and a resident of Pasadena, Batchelder’s tile were first seen in the Greene and Greene craftsman houses in Pasadena. Examples of his installations are treasured in the Los Angeles Fine Arts Building (1925), the chapel of the College of St. Catherine’s (1923) in St. Paul, Minn. and the Marine Building (1928-30) in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The California Heritage Museum 2612 Main St. (310) 392-8537 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday.

It sometimes feels as if it’s standing still and often flying past so quickly that like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in place. Either way, time is an essential fact of life, setting constraints we all must live within.

With funding from City Hall’s community arts grant program, the Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently exhibiting “Wall Works: Time Zone” on the third floor of the Santa Monica Place Mall. This art installation was created by elementary school students in collaboration with artist Gronk, the famed Southern California painter, performer, and sculptor.

March 15-May 21 For more info, call (310) 586-6488, ext. 32 www.smmoa.org If you would like to subscribe to the Santa Monica Arts Palette via e-mail, please send a blank e-mail with the word “Subscribe” in the subject line to

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 31, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/033106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)