The Art and Entertainment news, photos, and reviews from The Silicon Valley Voice in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.
Santa Clara artist and resident Margaret Luo not only left her heart in San Francisco. She sold it at auction in February to the highest bidder at a gala that raised $1.4 million to benefit Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. “Harmony”— Luo’s table-top heart sculpture—was one of 22 fiberglass hearts of three … Read more
Miss California 2024 Kimberly Vernon, a Santa Clara native, experienced firsthand the evolving truth about competing in the Miss America Pageant. “The Miss America Pageant of the 21st century looks a lot different than it did 100 years ago,” said Vernon, who competed for the 2025 title in January in Orlando, FL. “Yet people still … Read more
A long-standing arts program is featuring a slew of Sunnyvale and Santa Clara artists, allowing the public to view their studios and highlighting local art. Put on by the nonprofit Silicon Valley Visual Arts, Silicon Valley Open Studio is now in its 39th year. The behind-the-scenes art show takes place across the Bay Area, the … Read more
Proving its versatility, the Santa Clara Players (SCP) switches from comedy to drama for the close of its 2024 – 2025 season, staging two provocative one-act dramas by British playwrights. The world premiere (yes, in Santa Clara!) of “The Seventh Suitcase” by Phil Mansell and “Heaven’s Paradise” by Derek Webb run for eight performances, May … Read more
Music lovers, if you’re free on Thursday, May 1, you might want to take in the last concert of the 2024-2025 season at the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies in San José. These free noon concerts are just one example of how the Beethoven Center, part of San José State University and located … Read more
Bay Area artist Nathan Oliveira (1928-2010) described himself as an abstract artist whose work had to be “about something.” For the prolific Oliveira, the “something” is a point of departure for the viewer, not the point of arrival — “evocative” and “intangible” are often used in describing his work. Solitary figures in vague and open … Read more
“Maya Gurantz: The Plague Archives,” at the de Saisset Museum on the campus of Santa Clara University (SCU) through June 14, is not a traditional art exhibition of original paintings, photography, sculptures, or artifacts. Rather, “The Plague Archives” comprises researched, copied and assembled historical records, music, original murals and videos that reveal the world’s shifting … Read more
The Triton Museum of Art is thrilled to present Unlimited Imagination (May 3 – Aug. 10, 2025) by Gabriel Coke and his students. Gabriel Coke, a fine artist who has honed his craft at art ateliers around the globe, currently operates an atelier in downtown Saratoga. Passionate about teaching and nurturing artistic talent, Coke is … Read more
The former headquarters of Sunnyvale Community Services was transformed Feb. 8 into a temporary art gallery for the unveiling of “Sun Flair”—26 public art sun sculptures commissioned by the Sunnyvale Arts Commission. Each sun face was decorated by a different Bay Area artist (nine from Sunnyvale) to reflect the history, values, and characteristics of the … Read more
Conductor Elena Sharkova will be back at the Santa Clara Mission Church on April 12, 2025 with another annual Serenade to Music concert with the Symphony San José Chorale and Symphony San José, featuring music by two contemporary composers from the Americas. This year’s concert takes the audience on an ocean voyage, with The Secret … Read more