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January 2020
In Focus: Platinum Photographs
In Focus: Platinum Photographs features more than two dozen striking prints made with platinum and the closely related palladium photographic process. Drawn from the museum’s collection, the exhibition explores the wide variety of visual characteristics that have come to define the allure and beauty of this medium, which include a velvety matte surface, wide tonal range, and neutral palette. Introduced in 1873 by scientist William Willis Jr. (British, 1841-1923), the use of platinum was quickly embraced by both professional and amateur photographers…
Find out more »Sunset Jazz Supper Club Edition in Newport
Joe Rothman and John McClure, premier their winter/spring 5 concert series inside the Newport Beach Marriott’s Hook & Spear restaurant, a venue perfectly designed for intimate concerts. All concerts will be held on a Wednesday night - one each month.
Find out more »February 2020
August Sander: New Women, New Men, and New Identities
Tracking the journalistic, scientific, activist roots and the stunning imagery of the Weimar era's feminist and queer movements, the exhibition showcases more than 20 of August Sander’s most iconic portraits of the new women, new men and new gender relations of the 1920s. Images of artists, bohemians, and intellectuals demonstrate the social shifts taking place in this era of unprecedented democratic freedom. Sander’s works are shown alongside groundbreaking gay and lesbian magazines like Die Insel, pamphlets, scientific studies, books, and other…
Find out more »Open Fist Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Season Opens
Open Fist Theatre Company opens its 30th anniversary season with three evenings of short works, performed in rotating repertory, by playwrights renowned for pushing the boundaries of theatrical invention. Inkblot A: Ghosts, an evocation of the afterlife written and directed by legendary new theater-maker/playwright/monologist John O'Keefe; Inkblot B: Never Swim Alone, a slyly witty, unexpectedly suspenseful landmark of the Canadian theater written by Daniel MacIvor and directed by Amanda Weier — coupled with Landscape, Harold Pinter’s hypnotic portrait of loneliness…
Find out more »Human Interest Story
Human Interest Story is a timely drama about homelessness, celebrity worship and the assault on American journalism. Newspaper columnist Andy Kramer (Rob Nagle) is laid off when a corporate takeover downsizes the City Chronicle. In retaliation, Andy fabricates a letter to his column from an imaginary homeless woman named “Jane Doe” who announces she will kill herself on the 4th of July because of the heartless state of the world. When the letter goes viral, Andy is forced to hire a homeless…
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