Tango Euphoria by Quartet San Francisco
Music by Piazzolla and others quickens the pulse (click photo to see entire image)
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Abby Wasserman has published hundreds of articles on visual artists during her writing career. These are a few of her favorites, many written for The Museum of California magazine, the Oakland Museum's quarterly, either freelance or as the magazine's editor. Her specialty was interviewing artists in their studios surrounded by their work, making connections between their art and their lives. Posted below are ten features on California artists written between 1985 and 2003, as well as more recent published Articles and Reviews.
(Note: Publication Year is shown in the titles; the full dates below are posting dates on this website)
Music by Piazzolla and others quickens the pulse (click photo to see entire image)
Read moreA pandemic-postponed conert wows its capacity audience
Read moreDynamic Trios in Mill Valley Concert (click to see entire photo)
Read moreA return to the author's Peace Corps site after 45 years
Read moreEight months into the Covid-19 pandemic, a small group of music lovers were treated to a rare live performance.
Read moreIn 1934, Ann Rice O'Hanlon painted a fresco mural at the University of Kentucky. Today, it is a source of controversy.
Read moreThe Aizuri Quartet's intriguing program delighted their Mill Valley audience
Read moreBeethoven, Berg and Bartók by the Telegraph Quartet
Read moreProgram features music by Ferranc, Rachmaninoff, Gordon-Canosa and Schubert
Read moreAn art historian's take on Abby's recent exhibit at O'Hanlon Center for the Arts.
Read moreRumor-mongering about the Peace Corps has a long history in Colombia. Friends of Colombia challenge fiction of new movie and popular novel.
Read morePiano quartets are relatively rare in the classical literature, and there are only about 40 compositions for the combination of piano, violin, viola and cello, mostly from the Romantic period of the mid to late 1800s.
Read moreA big portion of the capacity audience in Weill Hall February 8th came to hear violinist Joshua Bell’s virtuosity, and were treated as well to splendid playing from Sam Haywood, Mr. Bell’s regular pianist since 2010. (classicalsonoma.org review)
Read more50 years after a cultural turning point, a look at how two rural communes drove the county’s very own psychedelic rise and fall. (Sonoma Magazine)
Read moreIf a single work by David Ireland can puzzle, provoke and fascinate, what is the likely impact of a whole retrospective?
Read moreIn 1967 Fred Martin noted in his studio journal, "You can work from the world within, you can work from the world without. But to work from the free passing between worlds, that is the difficulty."
Read moreArriving at Garry Knox Bennett's Oakland loft, I am welcomed with a big hug by Geraldo Bennucci. "Ambrose is making lunch," he says, referring to Ambrose Pillphister, the painter, "and Garry's debating a fine point with a band saw. Vino?"
Read moreRobert Bechtle's sparkling California light and dense shadows, his gleaming American cars parked on empty streets, and his neat pastel row houses are like a reflection in someone's dark glasses. You see more of yourself than the wearer.
Read moreThe painter Joan Brown died in an accident in India at such a moment of grace, when she was happy, at peace, and doing what she wanted to do--installing an obelisk of her design at the ashram of her Indian spiritual guru.
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