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Images of Saint NickI'm about to head off for the holidays and contemplate prospects for the coming year and columns. When I return, I plan to start a culinary/visual arts tour of some...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Nov. 29, 2010There are no comments yet. 6659 Views
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Local LandscapesLandscape painting has historically ranked low in the genre hierarchy in the post-Renaissance Western world (landscape painting was already well established in China...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Apr. 1, 2011There are no comments yet. 6515 Views
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TurbanismTurbanism is an art and fashion movement that was born in Danville in late 2010/early 2011. Turbanistic works can be expressed in visual, written, or millinerist...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Apr. 15, 2011There are no comments yet. 6180 Views
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Masks and the Universal Themes of ArtI'm about to do some traveling. Artist Bill Carmel offered to write a guest column in my absence. He plans to do follow-ups in the future, expanding on the theme...
Original post made by John A. Barry on May. 26, 2011There are no comments yet. 6925 Views
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"The Miracle of Turban Boy," a performance piece by Turban BillIn terms of a Hollywood movie pitch: it's Bollywood meets director Philip Kaufman meets "Beach Blanket Babylon." The following scenario was written by guest contributor...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Aug. 5, 2011There are no comments yet. 8521 Views
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Turbanism Makes Slow HeadwayThe Turbanism movement, about which I wrote back in April, has not exactly taken the art world by storm. As an iconic image, however, this exotic headwear has....
Original post made by John A. Barry on Oct. 5, 2011There are no comments yet. 5923 Views
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"Skaint" Ain't in the DictionaryThe portmanteau neologism "skaint" (verb) means "to apply paint to a canvas or other flat surface with the wheels of quad or inline skates." Skainting: nominal,...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Dec. 13, 2011There are no comments yet. 7827 Views
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Three Generations of Artists Together (from Shanghai to Danville)Danville artist Leslie Ruth comes to painting by way of her mother and grandmother, both artists in their own right. "I'm the third generation of artists in...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Jan. 30, 2012There are no comments yet. 6300 Views
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Pedal-Propelled PaintingI had the best intentions about blogging during my trAction Painting performances at San Ramon's Art in the Park last weekend. But with preparation, performance,...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Oct. 7, 2013There are no comments yet. 6497 Views
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Wheels for Meals on WheelsIt's refreshing and invigorating to find people who support your artistic efforts. I have found such a person in Jennifer Perlmutter, owner of the Jennifer Perlmutter...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Sep. 15, 2014There are no comments yet. 5489 Views
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International Premiere Comes to DanvilleThis year marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations' founding. And the birthplace of the organization was San Francisco, where the organization's charter...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Jun. 17, 2015There are no comments yet. 5419 Views
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Millennia of DesireArtist Bill Carmel was a panelist during this year's Eugene O'Neill Festival. His report follows.
Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the...
Original post made by John A. Barry on Sep. 26, 2015There are no comments yet. 5560 Views
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Theater in the Time of CoronaBy John A. Barry If all the world’s a stage, 2020 has presented a series of tragedies: plague, infernos, Beijing-plus air…. Amid all this,...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Sep. 15, 2020There are no comments yet. 3034 Views
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Alice Neel: Triumph of a Visionary HumanistBy Bill Carmel, MFA Alice Neel: People Come First de Young Museum, March 12–July 10, 2022 ==I "For me, people come first. I have tried to...
Original post made by John A. Barry and Bill Carmel on Jul. 15, 2022There are no comments yet. 2228 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
An Interlude of GratitudeIt’s a busy time of year so this post will be short and sweet. Since it also happens to be the 50th post, a mini milestone, I thought I’d take the opportunity...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Dec. 22, 2019There are no comments yet. 14463 Views
AROUND THE VALLEY
A hat tip and (re)introductionThe name of this column is a hat tip to two journalists who had columns in this space for many years. Jeb Bing, the founding editor of the Pleasanton Weekly,...
Original post made by Gina Channell Wilcox on Mar. 8, 2022There are no comments yet. 375 Views
AROUND THE VALLEY
Training 'empowers' volunteers to help"It could be a domestic violence issue. It could be a sexual assault issue. Sometimes it's a life-functioning issue. Sometimes it's someone feeling suicidal....
Original post made by Gina Channell Wilcox on Jul. 5, 2022There are no comments yet. 1931 Views
AROUND THE VALLEY
Kreycik search revealed ‘best of humanity’While most think of a community as a group of people living in the same area, the community that came together last year to search for a missing runner transcended...
Original post made by Gina Channell Wilcox on Jul. 14, 2022There are no comments yet. 2848 Views
AROUND THE VALLEY
Gun violence shatters sense of safetyThe sense of safety is as fragile as glass. I realized this when I made a trip to Stoneridge Mall recently, by myself, at dusk. As I parked, I thought of all...
Original post made by Gina Channell Wilcox on Aug. 4, 2022There are no comments yet. 0 Views
NOTES ON THE VALLEY
Relationship with faithOver the past year, I’ve been working with various religious and secular institutions on making sure their values are reflected in local public policy. I myself...
Original post made by Monith Ilavarasan on Mar. 23, 2022There are no comments yet. 4492 Views
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