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Diehl’s paintings remind us that life is too messy, too complex for every detail to be afforded attention. The power of these paintings pierce like their creator’s pencil, through the (he)art.

The Zmed siblings will perform the songs of the legendary act who inspired decades of music.

The Diablo Symphony performances Sept. 17 will also include two 1899 works of Jean Sibelius.

The sentencing of a Soulsbyville man convicted by a jury in April of sexually abusing a young girl in the early 2000s will remain in limbo until at least November,

The loving send-up of Jazz Age musicals and the genre's tropes in general won five Tony Awards.

For years, Amico has driven around Los Angeles early in the morning and taken photographs in industrial neighborhoods of walls and surfaces.

Rendered with a layered technique of tapping the paint onto the surface to produce roughly hewn, almost scabrous surfaces, these works lovingly transform creases in clothing into topographic landscapes, as in Untitled (undated): “I always compare the wrinkles in clothes to the ridges of mountains,” the artist said.

Historical Society to host western mystery/dinner at Antioch museum.

The genre has often been dismissed as a kind of copying – but at their best, these paintings make us look again at the act of looking

Two collections of California artists are now part of the Archives of American Art