Playground swings are for kids—or so we thought. In fact, these urban amenities are a surprisingly popular trend for "kids" ...

On the eve of his 100th birthday, Wayne Thiebaud—the Sacramento painter best known for his evocative portrayals of desserts that look good enough to eat—talks about the new pieces he’s working on (yes ...

This spring, a troupe of newcomers to the City of Trees is set to put on what you might call a “dress rehearsal” for a colorful annual outdoor pageant. For one to two weeks over the next month or two ...

“I think we have a misconception about where painting comes from,” the late, great painter Wayne Thiebaud told Artweek in 1998. “It’s not a hermetic activity. It doesn’t come from an individual. It is ...

March 15 Did you ever return home from military service to find your former fiancée married to someone else, so you pursue a rebound relationship, but then your ex gets jealous and starts an affair ...

A new museum retrospective spotlights the late Sacramento painter and professor Wayne Thiebaud as a master student of art history. From da Vinci to Picasso, great artists have always studied and ...

March 4-8 “I hope my story touches a new generation of women. I want to pass the baton,” wrote Tina Turner in a Rolling Stone essay about the eponymous Tony Award-winning 2018 jukebox musical ...

Garden at the Line boasts a striking “living” wall inspired by aerial views of Sacramento’s farm patches. The massive artwork beckons from blocks away: A 2-story-tall, mazelike assortment of greenery ...

Painter. Bluesman. Filmmaker. Educator. After retiring in 2012 from UC Davis, where he was an art professor for 43 years—and on the eve of a solo show at the Manetti Shrem Museum—Mike Henderson ...

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