ART WALK Join more than 40 galleries...

ART WALK

Join more than 40 galleries throughout Laguna Beach on Thursday

for a festive cultural evening from 6 to 9 p.m. Free shuttle service

starts from the Laguna Art Museum at 6:15 and runs until 9.

Information: www.firstthursdaysartwalk.com or (949) 683-6871. The

next Art Walk will be Oct. 6.

First Thursday’s Art Walk and CaDance Festival present two

performances that combine art and dance:

* Francisco Gella and Miho Morinoue perform improvisational

movement and music at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. in the garden at Richard

MacDonald Gallery/Dawson Cole Fine Art, 326 Glenneyre St.

* Beth Bartholomew, Lynn Barre and Francisco Gella perform with

video projection of a 23-minute dance film, “Kamera 1/Kamera 2,”

directed by Talal Al-Muhanna, at 8 p.m. at Contemporary Chinese Fine

Art, 1099 S. Coast Highway.

LAGUNA ART MUSEUM

* “While Pollock Was Sleeping: Bay Area Abstract Expressionism

from the Blair Collection” runs through Oct. 2.

The Blair Collection provides a rich view of California Abstract

Expressionist painting from 1948 to 1964. Many paintings in the

collection have not been displayed for more than 40 years. *

“California Art from the Permanent Collection: Part I, The Beginning,

1832-1925” is the first of three exhibits that focus on art from the

museum’s permanent collection, which holds works ranging from the

early 19th century to today. It runs through Oct. 2. * “Surf Culture

Redux” is on exhibit through Oct. 5. “Surf Culture Redux” is a

reconfiguration of the iconic works from the museum’s most

well-attended show in its history, “Surf Culture -- The Art History

of Surfing.” * “Greetings from Laguna Beach: Our Town in the Early

1900s,” is on view indefinitely in the Stein-Brief Gallery. Laguna

Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive. Information: (949) 494-8971