News Archive 2017

UC Davis News: The Icing on the Cake: Manetti Shrem Museum Uncrates its First Thiebaud for Upcoming Exhibition

Registrar examining a Wayne Thiebaud painting of a bakery counter.
Registrar Susana Macarron-Bice, of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, inspects a painting for possible shipping damage during the uncrating of "Bakery Counter" by Wayne Thiebaud. UC Davis Photo/Gregory Urquiaga

December 2017: Preparators uncrated the first of more than 60 works that will eventually be part of Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968. The exhibition presents rarely exhibited works and new scholarship on this formative decade, a pivotal period of Thiebaud’s practice during which the artist worked his way from obscurity to national prominence. On display Jan. 16 through May 13, it is the first museum exhibition devoted to the emergence of Thiebaud’s mature works. Read more...

 

 

 

 

 

Interior of an auditorium under construction.
A state-of-the-art space is something that Buck Busfield (pictured), producing artistic director of B Street Theatre, has been dreaming of for over 25 years. Local architecture firm VGA designed the space, which will be completed in December with the season starting in February 2018.

Comstock's Magazine: A Sense of Place

November 2017: Faced with a number of ageing cultural facilities in dire need of renovation, the City of Sacramento is spearheading the Transformation Project, which includes planned facelifts for all three facilities as part of revitalizing the urban core. With some heavy design work needed to bring these landmarks into the modern era, what role are Sacramento-based architecture firms playing in updating these longstanding institutions and winning other significant, local projects? In many cases, very little. Read more...