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On the Alternative Venue Exhibition Model

THE CULTURAL THREAD / LA MANCHA GALLERY On the Alternative Venue Exhibition Model Keepers of the Flame Omar Holguin • Founder & Curator, La Mancha Gallery • May 25, 2026 The Historic Dunbar Hotel The historic Dunbar Hotel at 4229 South Central Avenue opened in...

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Bart Ross: “The Art of Seeing What Others Walk Past”

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Bart Ross:“The Art of Seeing What Others Walk Past”   Written by Omar Holguin · Los Angeles, CaliforniaThere is a particular kind of patience required to do what Bart Ross does — to stand before something ordinary and wait for it to become...

Arts at Delicious at The Dunbar: “Where Culture, Cuisine, and Community Come Together”

There are places in a city that hold memory in their walls — not as nostalgia, but as living evidence of what a community has survived, built, and refused to let go. The Dunbar Hotel on South Central Avenue is one of those places. And inside it, something new is being written — in color, in sound, in the quiet ritual of a shared meal. Arts at Delicious at The Dunbar is not simply an art program. It is a declaration that culture belongs at the table.