Don’t miss the 100th running of Ray at Night starting right now in San Diego’s North Park. Founded by Gustaf Rooth of Planet Rooth Studios and recently written up in the New York Times, this monthly event defines urban San Diego’s homegrown arts scene. Check out their website for more info at rayatnight.com, even if it does still show November’s featured artist.

Local art hero Gustaf Anders Rooth makes the New York Times’ latest write-up on San Diego.

Begun in 2001, Ray at Night (www.rayatnight.com), a monthly art walk, is now San Diego’s largest event of its kind, drawing as many as 1,500 patrons the first Saturday of each month.

“It happened really quickly,” said Gustaf Rooth, an artist who is the founder of Ray at Night and the owner of Planet Rooth Studios Gallery (3811 Ray Street; 619-297-9663; www.planetrooth.com). “North Park went from being negative and dilapidated to suddenly this high-energy major destination point.”

Read the whole article here:Pulsing With Eclec-tricity in San Diego

See San Diego furniture maker Joseph Bedford’s latest as he hosts award winning illustrator and painter Blair Thornley (New York Times,
Forbes, Vanity Fair, Raygun) in the Coalesce gallery space in the in the north end of Little Italy.

The gallery is attached to Joe’s excellent small woodworking shop Bedford Built, so if you’re interested in unique, artisan furniture from an emerging master of the art, visit Joe tonight and ask for the tour!

Blair Thornley at Joe Bedford's Coalesce Gallery

This is a great article by Jon Pareles in New York Times with a lot of excellent resources and links to Woodstock stuff including this lead picture of Jimi Hendrix:

Woodstock pics of Jimi Hendrix in NYTimes

with a lot of inFor baby boomers, the rock happening remains a community in the consciousness.

See the original post:
Woodstock: A Moment of Muddy Grace

Mr. Schulberg wrote the award-winning screenplay for “On the Waterfront” and created an archetype of naked ambition in his novel “What Makes Sammy Run?”

from New York Times Arts

Read the rest here:
Budd Schulberg, Screenwriter, Dies at 95

Check out this incredible slideshow of pictures from the New York Times Arts archives of the life and times of seminal modern dance choreographer Merce Cuningham.

From the NYT/Arts Merce Cunningham slideshow:

Merce Cunningham And John Cage- photo by Jack Mitchell

Read the original article here:
Merce Cunningham, Influential Choreographer, Dies