Speed of Life

Exploring the Garden of Earthly Delights will introduce the practice of drawing and painting in Santa Monica’s hidden green spaces. Soon to be a Great Park, the asphalt and concrete of the Santa Monica Airport will in the not-too-distant future give way to green fields, flowers, and foliage. Even now, magical places exist at the airport where nature expresses itself alongside hangars and workspaces.   During the workshop, we will venture into the garden area behind the City of Santa Monica Airport Arts Center Studios and engage with the natural forms that fill the space. In this urban oasis of lush green foliage and blooming flowers, workshop participants can draw or paint living botanicals on the spot, or draw or paint portraits of two costumed models. We will step out of our homes and workspaces, and bathed in Southern California light, will be inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Frida Kahlo, and John Singer Sargent.   We will respond to this intimate garden by making...

  Nezza performs The Star Spangled Banner in Spanish at Dodger Stadium 

  ICE Out Of L.A.! In acts of cruelty and cowardice, the current administration sends masked ICE cosplay goons into our streets to abduct our friends, neighbors, and loved ones to please dear leader. Props to so many of you who are standing for Humanity and against this tyrannical attack. Thank You  @chirla_org ,  @boyleheightsbt ,  @aclu_socal ,  @lataco  , @lindseyphorvath  ,  @ted.lieu  ,  @mayorofla  bass and so many more. Please Join in and Fight Back! ACT NOW! POST NOW!! SHOW UP TODAY AND EVERYDAY!!!! You too CAN make a difference. Showing up en masse will send a message. #fightfascism   #stopice   #protectvulnerablecommunities   #iceoutofla   #chirla   #familiesbelongtogether ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾 This was about an hour ago… [image or embed] — Christopher Webb ( @cwebbonline.com ) June 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM A mu...

  My Buddhist inspired artwork “Steps of Time” begins its journey today to a new home in Enns, Austria. Enns is a picturesque city along the Danube in Upper Austria. Enns began as the Roman outpost Lauriacum and became Austria’s first chartered town in 1212. Currently Enns is part of the Cittàslow network, which promotes a slower pace of life and a focus on quality of life. In our spinning world, there is a parallel universe that asks us to pause, to appreciate, and to reconnect. The monk in “Steps of Time” evokes the passage of time and the accumulated wisdom inherent in a spiritual journey. Thank you  @singulartofficial  for arranging the sale! #peace #hope #beauty #Austria #art #contemporaryart #travel #buddhism

Join Elaine Sciolino, author of Adventures in the Louvre ,  on a virtual visit to the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, and to the people who are the museum’s lifeblood: the curators selecting and arranging the works, the artisans producing frames and engravings, the builders overseeing restorations, the firefighters protecting the aging structure.

Gregg Chadwick Connoisseurs (Getty Museum)  24"x22"   acrylic, watercolor, pastel, and Conté on paper   2025 My artwork Connoisseurs (Getty Museum)  was inspired by my love of museums and the beautiful folks that spend contemplative time engaging in the life affirming creations housed in these treasure houses. In the past four months, I have visited the Getty Museum in Los Angeles multiple times to bask in the collected works of Gustave Caillebotte in the marvelous exhibition "Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men" which closed on Sunday, May 25, 2025. I was at the Getty, on both opening and closing days for this inspiring show.  In my view museums are wonderfully equipped to inspire human connections and mutual understanding through art. "Connoisseurs (Getty Museum)" is richly painted in layers of acrylic colors imported from Australia, Schminke watercolors from Germany, and Sennelier pastels & Conté crayons from France on 100% cotton deckled paper from S...

Thank You Bruce for Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Rocking All Night!

Eddie Vedder Supports Bruce Springsteen and Denounces Trump's Insults and his administration's policies such as withholding Funding for Universities and not giving due process to Immigrants -  Rockin in the Free World, Pearl Jam, PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, May 18th, 2025; Dark Matter World Tour, Final Night of Dark Matter World Tour Video by Jim Powers

Thank You Eddie!

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” and “My City of Ruins.” Below are the transcripts of all three spoken segments. Introduction to Land of Hope and Dreams "Good Evening! It’s great to be in Manchester and back in the U.K. Welcome to the Land of Hope & Dreams Tour! The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices ag...

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” and “My City of Ruins.” Below are the transcripts of all three spoken segments. Introduction to Land of Hope and Dreams "Good Evening! It’s great to be in Manchester and back in the U.K. Welcome to the Land of Hope & Dreams Tour! The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voi...

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” and “My City of Ruins.” Below are the transcripts of all three spoken segments. Introduction to Land of Hope and Dreams "Good Evening! It’s great to be in Manchester and back in the U.K. Welcome to the Land of Hope & Dreams Tour! The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices...

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” and “My City of Ruins.” Below are the transcripts of all three spoken segments. Introduction to Land of Hope and Dreams "Good Evening! It’s great to be in Manchester and back in the U.K. Welcome to the Land of Hope & Dreams Tour! The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices...

"I wrote all these country songs at the same time I wrote 'The Ghost of Tom Joad,' Those sessions completely overlap each other. I’m singing 'Repo Man' in the afternoon and 'The Line' at night. So the country record got made right along with 'The Ghost of Tom Joad.' Very similar to 'Born in the U.S.A.' and 'Nebraska'..." — Bruce Springsteen

Jack White's Sonic Attack Last Night at the Hollywood Palladium! Jack White at the Hollywood Palladium 5/13/2025 photos by Gregg Chadwick

A moment of reflection 🍃 Today marks the start of #MentalHealthAwareness week. Join us for a slow look at Meindert Hobbema's most famous work, 'Avenue at Middelharnis', guided by mindfulness practitioner Lucia van der Drift. pic.twitter.com/G6d7JWrTnQ — National Gallery (@NationalGallery) May 12, 2025

A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History Angelus Novus by Paul Klee Bode-Museum, Berlin The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, photo by Elie Posner   Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus , which inspired Walter Benjamin, Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders, will go on show to commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end. gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/arts/design/paul-klee-angelus-novus-walter-benjamin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F08.YDgI.4hTiOpkbEFIv&smid=tw-share From the article: " The German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, who owned Angelus Novus for nearly two decades, wrote one of his final texts about the angel, just before he died by suicide in 1940. He saw the angel as a witness to an imminent cataclysm. “This is how one pictures the angel of history,” Benjamin wrote in notes that would later be published as Theses on the Philosophy of History . “His face is turned towards the past,” he wrote of the angel. “Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees ...