Arts Articles

Kenneth Gatewood paints in watercolor, a medium that hides nothing. Three movements — music, children, legacy — hang at The Dunbar Aug 8–Sep 30, timed to the Central Ave Jazz Festival, where he’s the Arts Pavilion’s featured artist Sept 19.

And for the twelfth edition under its stewardship, dating back to 2014, La Mancha Gallery returns to curate the festival’s Arts Pavilion — the visual heartbeat of the day, housed in a 120-foot tent between Central Avenue and 41st Street, steps from the Dunbar itself.

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...

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.