ART / SNEAK PEEK : IF ANYONE CAN CAPTURE THAT IMAGE, KENNA CAN.Like all good photographers, Michael Kenna Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna (1858-1946) was First Ward Alderman in Chicago from 1897-1923. When Kenna was 10, he left schol and began to sell newspapers. When he was 12, he borrowed fifty dollars from a barkeeper and purchased a newsstand at Monroe and Dearborn Streets. knows that images needn't be beautiful to be poetic. Whether depicting English farmlands or the monstrous River Rouge River Rouge (r  zh), city (1990 pop. 11,314), Wayne co., SE Mich., an industrial suburb of Detroit, on the Detroit and Rouge rivers; settled c.1817, inc. 1899. auto plant outside Detroit, Kenna's photos radiate ra·di·atev. 1. To spread out in all directions from a center. 2. To emit or be emitted as radiation. ra a kind of timeless serenity, untouched by faddish fad·dish adj. 1. Having the nature of a fad. 2. Given to fads. fad  dish·ly adv. theories or the style of the week. So it goes with a new exhibition of Kenna's pictures of classical French gardens, opening Feb. 18 at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. Viewed through Kenna's tranquil lens, this collection of mostly 17th-century formal landscapes clues us into the mind-set of Louis IV, ``the Sun King,'' and the values of logic and geometric precision that were prized by his court. ``Le Notre's Gardens: Photographs by Michael Kenna'' is being shown through April 20 in the Huntington's Virginia Steele Gallery, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. The Huntington is open noon to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $7.50 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4 for students, free to children under 12. Members are admitted free; admission is free to all visitors on the first Thursday of every month. For information, call (818) 405-2141. Picking up the tab: Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a generous benefactor to subsidize your career as an artist? If so, we have a bridge on Terminal Island we're willing to sell you. Meanwhile, you may want to attend ``Trailblazing trail·blaz·ing adj. Suggestive of one that blazes a trail; setting out in a promising new direction; pioneering or innovative: trailblazing research; a trailblazing new technique. the Economies for Art,'' a talk show aimed at helping starving (and non-starving) artists beat their money woes. It takes place at 6 p.m. Saturday at - what better spot? - the Gallery Theatre of Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., a legendary incubator of once-impoverished talent. Panelists will include working artists, representatives of arts-funding organizations and sundry graduates of the School of Hard Knocks The School of Hard Knocks is an idiomatic phrase meaning the (sometimes painful) education one gets from life, often contrasted with formal education. It is a phrase which is most typically used by a person to claim a level of wisdom imparted by life experience, which they consider . Admission is free. For information, call (213) 485-2116. Mind over matter: At the 4760 Club, a Los Angeles-based adult day treatment program, the arts aren't regarded as busy work or a handy distraction. Organized to help mentally ill people who might otherwise be hospitalized, 4760 Club uses the arts as a way to tap its clients' hopes and dreams, and to set those dreams down on paper. Some of those inner visions will appear in ``Brainstorms,'' an exhibition of paintings and drawings by members of the Didi DIDI Digital Image Design Incorporated (New York) Hirsch Community Mental Health Center. Look for it through March 28 at the always-surprising Community Focus Gallery at Santa Monica Place Santa Monica Place is a three-story, 570,000 square-foot shopping mall in Santa Monica, California. The mall is located at the south end of the famous Third Street Promenade, and is also two blocks from the Santa Monica Pier and the beach. , two blocks from the beach in downtown Santa Monica between Second and Fourth streets. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. For information call (310) 394-5451. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) ``Le Notre's Gardens: Photographs by Michael Kenna'' at the Huntington Library's Virginia Steele Gallery includes ``Chariot of Apollo.'' (2) ``Unclipped Bush'' is also part of the Kenna exhibit, which will be on display Feb. 18 through April 20. (3) ``Brainstorms'' is at Community Focus Gallery at Santa Monica Place. |
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