Jim Hornung makes dinosaurs the way they should have been

There’s always an installation in the front room at 2nd City Council Gallery, and it’s usually overshadowed by whatever’s on view in the rest of the room. Not this time. Encinitas artist Jim Hornung’s “Archeo-Art” is the wow show this small room needs.
With a coat of [...]

What’s good at ‘California Visual Artists’? Decide for yourself

PAUL PITSKER’S “SUCKER”
Juried exhibitions are great if they don’t make a big deal about who won—and “California Visual Artists: An Open Exhibition” doesn’t. Comprising an open call for art, there’s something here to offend or appease almost anyone.
It’s an election year, so let’s quickly consider Tamara Carlin’s [...]

Ron Wilkins documents black villagers in Mexico

PHOTO by RON WILKINS
Some of Ron Wilkins’ photographs in “Journey to Black Mexico” are untitled, and the names of others—Grandma and Me; Village Elder—only hint at their story.
This is an odd problem, particularly if you’re seeing the show as I did, when it first went up and everything was [...]

That’s fair, right? No, it’s not
A group of young cads and layabouts was busy downtown as the Christmas holiday approached,

Our Top 25 picks for the best arts events of the season (Trust us, it’s just easier if you take our advice this year)
By Miles Clements, Ellen Griley, Dave Wielenga and Chris Ziegler
Travel back with us to a time before America entertained itself into the media equivalent of a diabetic coma, before diversion was linked [...]

And the periodic emergence of reality makes us care about ‘Art & Science’

LINDA FROST’S “LATERAL VISION”
At the intersection of, well, art and science, you get “Art & Science,” the new 2nd City Council Gallery show—juried by a real live rocket scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Corby Waste. Sadly, Waste isn’t actually a rocket scientist; he’s a [...]

An art exhibition of the news, some of it obvious

RONI FELDMAN, “FRONT OF THE LINE”
Obama says, “The day that this president steps down, the entire world will breathe a sigh of relief,” and he sounds as natural as Bush sounded embarrassing a couple years ago when he talked about “putting food on your family.” [...]