Arts And Entertainment
The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson at the de Young
By Peter Selz, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 08, 2008
Few sculptors worked in wood in the late 1950s and ‘60s when Louise Nevelson made her great wooden walls. By the time she produced her Sky Cathedral in 1958, which was shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, she was 60 years old.
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Benny Green Brings Monterey Jazz All-Stars to Zellerbach Hall
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 08, 2008
“I grew up in Berkeley in the 1970s,” said jazz pianist and composer Benny Green, who leads the acclaimed Monterey Jazz Festival All-Star Band this Saturday at Zellerbach Auditorium, after playing the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz Thursday. “It was a wonderful time to be in Berkeley—which looks a little different these days, but whenever I think of it, I go back in my mind to those days of the post-Flower Child generation.”
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