Kneel before the altar
“Nuestra Señora,” Gloria and Walter Burt.
Into altars? Check out the seventh annual Altares del Mundo show, which claims to be the largest site-specific art show in the city. Although the event coincides with Díaz de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), it has a cross-cultural thrust: The theme is remembrance, the focus is on celebration, and there are 60 examples of altars you can contemplate, some erected by school groups, others by individual artists. These include Lita Bell, Stephen Bradford, Gladys Cordray, Lisa Culjis, Larry Fox, Nancy Gotthart, Be Davison-Herrera, Maggie Jimenez, Dan Lorenzo, Cherilyn Naughton, Rhett, Jean Roach, Julia Stagg and Vera Ximenes, not to mention the Mexican Culture Center of Northern California, the Vet House and Women’s Wisdom. The show runs through Sunday, Oct. 29. Hours are noon-6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday; the location is an old cannery warehouse at 424 North Seventh St., at the end of a cul-de-sac that runs north off Richards Boulevard.
