San Diego weekend arts events: 'La Jolla Reading Room,' California Fibers, Roman de Salvo, Mara Kaye, All Peoples Celebration and immersive takes on old masters
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By JULIA DIXON EVANS
This weekend in the arts: Bookish sound art at the Athenaeum, fiber art at CCAE, Roman de Salvo at Quint ONE, blues at Panama 66, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Michelangelo and Van Gogh get immersive.
"La Jolla Reading Room," a sweetly named new exhibition at the Athenaeum Music and Art Library in La Jolla, is a collaboration between artist Matthew Hebert and writer Jared Stanley, but also with artists and community members they roped in to being part of the project. It's a series of large-scale sculptures (part reading desk, part maze) plus sound recordings. The recordings are stitched together from a variety of voices as they thumb through select books in the Athenaeum's vast library. Expect something curious and possibly a bit unsettling — at the very least, a bit noisier than your average library.