Lanky and unshaven, documentary filmmaker Steve Elkins navigates a fork through the potatoes on his plate as we talk about Werner... More >>

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Walking through "Gronk Un-Secret," the artist's mini-retrospective at Fullerton College's Art Gallery, is like taking a tour through the abstract... More >>

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With the economy tightening its musty, thick-fingered hands around the throat of an already undernourished arts community, it's a small joy to... More >>

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In his 1910 essay "The New Laokoön," modernist critic Irving Babbitt decried the literary Romantics for what he termed their... More >>

As we walked out of the "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World" exhibition at the Bowers Museum, my pal Melita turned to me and said,... More >>

Reinvigorating the past by bringing outmoded forms and systems into the present is the weighty theme of UC Irvine's University Art Gallery's... More >>