Check out Karen Winters’s painting of Pasadena City Hall.

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She Cows

My friend Alyssa Sherwood is a Pasadena artist who blogs at Movingarden. She’s been painting She Cows lately, and posting them on her blog and on Flickr. I especially love the animation she posted yesterday looping through the cows she’s painted so far.

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Terri Lloyd opening at The Majestical Roof

Terri Lloyd’s show, Form and Disfunction, opened tonight at The Majestical Roof. Gavin and I stopped by and met Terri Lloyd herself.

Terri Lloyd at The Majestical Roof

Chris Burgan (sound) played in the courtyard.

Terri Lloyd video installation, 1

Terri Lloyd video installation, 2

Art wall
(We especially liked Pook.)
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Terri Lloyd: Hairy Carrion Arts
Local singer and songwriter Chris Burgan (sound)
The [...]

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Busby Ward Museum of Art

Pasadena has quite a few museums, and this week Gavin and I were introduced to yet another one: The Busby Ward Museum of Art.
“The BWMA is a private gallery opened in 2003 on Roosevelt Ave in Pasadena, CA. Its small collection features works by young American artists. The museum is different from other museums as [...]

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Art Night Pasadena

Last night we visited Pasadena Jazz Institute and The Armory Center for the Arts.

Walking into the Pasadena Jazz Institute

Paul Lines greeted us at the door and showed us around
There was a large performance space with lots of cozy little tables, and there were separate bar, pool and patio areas where you could hear the music [...]

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Art Night Pasadena is tonight

Come on out and ride free shuttles around town to Pasadena’s art museums and other art and music venues, where admission will be free from 6-10 p.m. For shuttle routes and a list of venues, check out http://www.artnightpasadena.org/.

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What could these mean?

Mysterious skull sculpture on the right

Mysterious hand and book sculpture on the left
These are on either side of a walkway that opens into a trash dumpster area behind a couple of buildings at Caltech.

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Pasadena Art Night

Pasadena Art Night is Friday, March 9 from 6-10 p.m.
Every six months in March and October, Pasadena’s museums and art schools open their doors to the public for free, and free shuttles take people from venue to venue. It’s a pretty neighborly feeling event. It’s fun to ride around in buses with people from all [...]

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Vanesa Martinelli opening at The Majestical Roof

Vanesa Martinelli
Oh, how I love The Majestical Roof. Last night they had an opening for one of their artists, Vanesa Martinelli, so Gavin and I stopped by and had wine in the hidden away courtyard and listened to live music and met Vanesa (who has been painting since she was four and who grew [...]

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Irving Norman opening at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

Irving Norman opening at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
Pasadena Museum of California Art
490 East Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-568-3665
Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman’s Social Surrealism, January 21 – April 15, 2007

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