Lyn Bishop : Sharing Secrets

Shakespeare Santa Cruz is on the verge of permanent shutdown. The 27 year old company is one of the countries best, and provides Santa Cruz and the community with culturally rich artistic performances to attend and enjoy.

The budget cuts inflicted upon the University of California system have required reductions of 1.1 million to the Arts Division, where Shakespeare Santa Cruz resides. This huge amount is in addition to previous cuts already made this year.

An urgent message posted to their website reads: “Our challenge is simply put – raise $300,000 in a week’s time or cease to exist. Talk about “to be or not to be”? The question is, can you help? Yes you can. Click here to donate immediately, or keep reading to get further energized! Do it NOW or forever hold your peace. (more…)

Artist Josiah McElheny has been collaborating with cosmologist David Weinberg, Ph.D. on a series of objects that reflect cosmological theories such as the Big Bang. Walking into the lobby of the Phoenix Art Museum last night was to come face to face with McElheny’s The Last Scattering Surface, a large glass sculpture that seeks to explore issues of modernism and cosmology.

The work, hung at eye level at the museum entrance,  is a handsome piece that pulls us back to a late 1960’s aesthetic. A central glowing orb made of multiple smaller lights explode outward in space, forming clusters of glass galaxies at each endpoint. (more…)