Pico Boulevard Explodes With Art!

Arts For All Annual Auction

Time Flies -20 Years Later

Music in Honor of Daniel Pearl @ the Miles

Comedy Tonight!

New Work by Charles Arnoldi

No Longer Under the Bed!

Do You See A Noise?

Pico Artist at Work
12:00 – 5:00 pm
Sunday, October 14
Pico Boulevard
From Centinella to SAMOHI
Free Parking & Shuttle at Virginia Avenue Park
26^th & Pico

Many people still don’t know that Pico Boulevard is a hotbed of creativity. Find out for yourself on Sunday when over thirty businesses located along this thoroughfare will participate in Pico Artists at Work.  You’ll find galleries, frame shops, designers, classrooms and individual artists covering the gamut from painting to glass blowing to ceramics, photography and much more.   Start your walk at Virginia Avenue Park where you'll enjoy live music, outdoor pavilions displaying the work of local artists, and the savory temptations of Cha Cha Chicken.  A free shuttle will take you up and/or down Pico to see this burgeoning arts community come to life.

Participants include:
Art Journeys for Learning, Blue 7 Gallery, DCA Fine Art, Eames Office, Farthingales, Jennifer Joyce Ceramic Studio, La Foto, L.A. Creativity Center, L.A. Marler, Memento, Oaxaca Art, Santa Monica College Photo Gallery,  Santa Monica High School Roberts Art Gallery, Shampoo Lounge, Sixteen to One, The Art Colony, T. Heritage Gallery, Trader Joes, Un-urban Coffee House, Virginia Ave. Park and many others.

For The Arts has been doing important work in Santa Monica to keep the vital arts programs in Santa Monica's schools.  Tonight is your chance to join them and also an opportunity to begin or add to your own art collection.  It is so much fun to watch Robert Berman take bids from the more than 300 guests at this event - the excitement building as each bid rises to a climax until BAM goes the gavel and some lucky person is the proud new owner of an work by Laddie John Dill, Charles Anoldi, Ed Ruscha or Tony Berlant - and that's is just a handful of the many prominent artists whose work will be available. I’d list them all but it’d go over the size of your mailbox!  Bring your checkbooks and I’ll see you there!

Paul Linke
Time Flies When You're Alive

One Performance Only
7:00 pm
Sunday, October 14
Ruskin Group Theatre
3000 Airport Drive
310/397.3244

Twenty years ago this groundbreaking performance premiered and immediately made Paul Linke one of the most important voices of solo performance.  Since that time many one-person shows have come and gone, Linke himself has become a renown actor in film and television.  Yet this work stands as one of the most successful one person shows in the history of LA theatre.  Sunday night offers us a rare opportunity to step back in time and see what made this show so special.

Local high school musicians will share their passion for music with the community in honor of slain journalist Daniel Pearl.  Coordinated by students in the Crossroads School Music Program, this afternoon’s free concert was created to remind the world of the need for tolerance and respect. 

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum
8:00 pm Fridays & Saturdays
2:00 pm Sundays
October 12 – 21
Main Stage
1900 Pico Boulevard
Santa Monica College 
310/434.3000 

You’ll see plenty that’s familiar, a lot that's peculiar, a few things that are bawdy and loads of things that are naughty when Pseudolus and company take the stage with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.  It’s madcap mayhem, frenzied farce and scintillating satire all sung to a magnificent Stephen Sondheim score.  It’s definitely one of the best plays ever!

Charles Arnoldi’s latest works are vibrantly colored compositions composed of modules of smaller canvasses adding a new chapter to this renown painter’s body of work currently included in museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago; Guggenheim Bilbao; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art and many more.

Explore the tender side of monsters -- both as martyrs who did not choose their own tragic existence or as regular folks who enjoy their hobbies as much as the next guy.  This delightful exhibition has just a hint of mischief while lending a sympathetic eye towards monsters of all kinds.  If you’re anything like me, you’ll feel a tiny tear trickling down your check as you gaze upon Count Dracula lounging in the moonlight or Frankenstein tending his roses.  And for the child in all of us, they offer amazing limited edition puzzles of the collection’s most charming images!

Local artist and former member of the Santa Monica Arts Commission, Ronn Davis contemplates noise in his exhibition opening this weekend.  Whether audio, visual or psychic, frantic or soothing, it’s an experience that touches us all and Davis captures it beautifully in this new collection of paintings.