As of right now, the San Jose Museum of Art launches a new collective exhibit, Around the Table: Food, Creativity and Community. It arrives in three courses and extends far beyond the confines of Downtown San Jose.
Articles by Gary Singh
For the first time in San Jose history, a Nepalese tea visionary will set foot in a British-style tea atelier with a Japanese name, Satori.
Leave it to a legendary cartoonist to collect the stories of San Jose’s historical heroes and package the whole shebang into 40 pages of wonderment. Jim Hummel, a longtime fixture at the Mercury News, has now supplied the youth of the valley with an easy-to-grasp mechanism for retaining historical tidbits.
To composer Guillermo Galindo, these are voices from the desert, Voces del Desierto, a work MACLA commissioned him to write for Quinteto Latino, a not-so-conventional wind ensemble. The piece will be debuted this weekend. Galindo, an established electro-acoustic composer based in the East Bay, drew inspiration for the project when he, along with Quinteto Latino director Armando Castellano and videographer Marvin Barrera, traveled to the U.S./Mexico border at Laredo one year ago.
A fascinating new show at the Tech Museum charts the scientific achievements of Muslim scholars and inventors.
No subject is beyond the philosophical investigations of Erik Davis, whose new collection of essays, ‘Nomad Codes,’ fuses tech ideas with mystical impulses and philosophy.
‘Old Technology,’ a 45-year retrospective of Tony May’s career opening Friday Nov. 12 at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, includes works in a variety of media.
The 2010 01SJ Biennial rightly cements San Jose and Silicon Valley among the destinations for global contemporary art gatherings. For more than 20 years now, new-media art fests have emerged on several continents, addressing key issues in the overlapping fields of art, science, critical theory, digital media and cultural studies. But there has never been a definitive equivalent in the United States, which is why everyone involved with 01SJ says it will become the North American model.
