First Thursdays Art Walk happens Oct. 4, featuring a self-guided tour of gallery openings but also artist demonstrations, receptions and cultural energy. The event is free to the public and so is the trolley service. Start out for a 5:30 p.m. happy hour in the lobby at the Inn at Laguna Beach located at 211 [...]
Enjoy Art Slowly For the International Slow Art Day, Laguna Beach artist Hedy Buzan will lead a group viewing of “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series,” at Newport Beach’s Orange County Museum of Art, 850 San Clemente Dr., Saturday, April 28 from 3-5 p.m. Four pieces will be examined: a large painting; a miniature painting [...]
Stepping Out for Art Walk Enjoy an art-filled evening in Laguna Beach Thursday, April 5, featuring a self-guided tour of member galleries, with artist demonstrations and receptions, a special pre-event at City Hall and dance performances. The event is free to the public and so is the trolley service. At 5 p.m., [...]
Artist Jeffrey Gillette stood before his painting depicting Calcutta’s slums, cardboard lean-tos wedged between tin-roofed shacks as high-rises ascend in the background alongside images of Mickey Mouse on advertising placards. Gillette’s 2010 “Slum” series chronicles the urban blight he witnessed traveling through Asia and a two-year stint in the Peace Corps. He keeps revisiting the [...]
Every first Thursday of the month, Laguna Beach celebrates its art scene on First Thursdays Art Walk with a self-guided tour of gallery openings, artist demonstrations and receptions, live music and other entertainment.
Art Walk Dances With New Tunes, Game Maker’s Art Takes Wing, Sandstone Gallery Features Two Exhibits, Show Samples Summer Exhibitors,
After five years in what has become one of the city’s most vibrant commercial sections outside of downtown, the Studio Arts Gallery will close its doors on Sept. 30, a victim of a poor economy. Owned and operated by one of Laguna’s best known artists, John Barber, and his wife Rebecca, the gallery, housed in [...]
Dance, Emerging Artists and New Works at April’s Art Walk A jam-packed First Thursday Art Walk on April will feature the usual self-guided tour of gallery openings but also an exhibit by youthful photographers, dancers and a reception and award ceremony at City Hall. Participants move around town at their own pace, speeded by [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
