Arts & Culture
Body of artwork
Sailors famously love ’em; nowadays, so do soccer moms. Walk into a coffee-house, and you’re likely to find a barista with more art on one arm than the average biker gang. You might even find […]
Museum of Northern California Art
Arts & Culture
‘Sisko Lives!’
This feature is part of the Chico News & Review’s 2022 Arts & Music special issue. When family and friends of David Sisk put out a call for work created by the Chico artist to […]
Arts & Culture
Art speaks
A closeup of an eye is projected large onto one of the gallery’s white walls as two fingers enter the video’s frame to pinch then pull the long eyelashes from their lids. It’s part of […]
Art
Exhibiting resilience
The Museum of Northern California Art is one of the main hubs for art in Butte County, and one of the traits that has made it so central is how committed its board and volunteers […]
Arts & Culture
Where are you?
As we get close the end of this trying year, how would you answer these questions? “Have you changed physically? Mentally? Is your mind going in another direction?” For its current juried exhibition, Selfie 2020, […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Push play
Is Chico on pause? It might feel like nothing is happening, and that there’s nothing new to report beyond infection rates (1,321 confirmed coronavirus cases in Butte County as of Aug. 14) and the tally […]
Arts DEVO
Save me, art scene!
Arts DEVO is a slave to the internet right now. I’m just trying to stay connected to people as I shelter in place, but with that comes being connected to all the anti-science, anti-mask, anti-human-decency […]
Arts DEVO
C’mere, Chico
“Socially distant” is not how Arts DEVO rolls. When I greet Chico, I go in for the hug. I am, of course, following the COVID-19 stay-at-home guidelines by removing myself from the public sphere and […]