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PRESS RELEASE
Breakthrough in Art Heist: Nearly 100 Drawings and Paintings Returned to Artist Montalvo Arts Center is pleased to announce after five days of intense search, the Los Banos Police Department have recovered the majority of 268 paintings and drawings of trees that had been stolen in Los Banos a week ago. The stolen artwork represents six years of work for Argentinian artist Máximo González, a Lucas Artists Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center. Read More >> |
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MEDIA ALERT
Search is on for 268 Missing Trees Residents of Los Banos and the surrounding cities are urged to join the search for 268 missing trees. Their disappearance took place the night of Friday, October 27, from the parking lot of the Maple Inn in Los Banos. They could be anywhere. Their kidnapper may have disposed of them in a dumpster or some other remote location. Read More >> |
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PRESS RELEASE
Now Hear This! An Exercise in Listening Montalvo Arts Center is proud to announce the opening of Now Hear This! An Exercise in Listening, which features five newly commissioned site-specific works of sound-based art by distinguished national and local artists. Participating artists will present immersive soundscapes and interactive sound sculptures that invite visitors to experience Montalvo’s grounds in new ways and listen more attentively to the world and one another. Read More >> |
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Announcing Rolling Counterpoint: A Community Conversation Project Montalvo is pleased to announce the debut of its Lucas Artist Program's newest commission: Rolling Counterpoint, a project by artist Taro Hattori. The work, which draws on the tradition of the Japanese teahouse, is envisioned as a physical and virtual space for encounter and dialogue about belonging and division in contemporary society. Rolling Counterpoint will travel to three Bay Area cities in early 2017: Santa Clara County in February; San Francisco in March; and Berkeley in April. Read More >> |
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Montalvo Announces New Partnership with Art Practical Montalvo Arts Center is pleased to announce that beginning this summer, it has entered into a new collaborative relationship with the Bay Area online arts publication Art Practical. As part of this partnership, Art Practical writers will create a series of articles that go behind the scenes at Montalvo’s Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program to highlight the creative work of Montalvo’s Lucas Artist Fellows. Read More >> |
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A Space Odyssey Above and Below Ground Blending space science, planet-poking, and bluegrass-playing spacecraft operators, the world’s first orchestra composed of space scientists – Lucas Artist Fellow Nelly Ben Hayoun's International Space Orchestra (ISO) – will open for Icelandic band Sigur Rós at the Hollywood Bowl on 24th September 2016. Read More >> |
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Announcing Far East of Eden Montalvo Arts Center is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 it will present the world premiere of an experimental short film by internationally recognized artists Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto: Far East of Eden. The work, which was developed by Finley and Yonemoto during their tenure as visiting artists at Montalvo's Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency earlier this year, was commissioned by Montalvo. Read More >> |
