Art Pottery of the Arts and Crafts Movement
ES owns a eight-and-a-half-inch tall matt blue vase accented with a purple peony design with the “flame” mark for Rookwood pottery. The date stamp reads 1926. ES, your little vase …
Summer Solstice Celebration
Board President Justin Gunn, mask maker and puppetmaster Emma-Jane Huerta, Festival Director Olivia Sorgman, and Executive Director Penny Little talk about Santa Barbara Summer Solstice parade and festival, June 20-22.
Moving Miss Daisy and Chuck Graham
First, owner Glenn Novack share the latest news about Moving Miss Daisy. Then Chuck Graham, author, photographer, and longtime Channel Islands National Park guide, talks about his upcoming presentation, From …
American Stainless and Sterling Flatware Hot Today
DS owns a set of Stanley Roberts International House of Design stainless flatware accented with inserted rosewood running down the handles. Very modern, and hot today, as American modern stainless …
AlloSphere
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Board President Frederick Janka and Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility and Professor of Media Arts and Technology …
Cringeworthy Midcentury Table Lamps
What one object personified KITSCH in a midcentury living room in the 1940s to early 1950’s? Those figural lamps that make us roll our eyes today, those non-politically correct, exotic …
Porcelain Faced Doll Too Lifelike To Stomach
Confession! I have a doll phobia. They call it “paedophobia,” an intense irrational fear of a humanoid form when appearing too realistic, seemingly too close to becoming one of US. …
Jigsaw & Jane: Thirteen Years of Murder and Mayhem with Badge Number One
Award-winning author Jane Howatt talks about her new book Jigsaw & Jane: Thirteen Years of Murder and Mayhem with Badge Number One. Watch Video
Fine Art Print Market A Good Investment
BL, a budding Gen Z art afficionado, asked if the fine art print market is a good investment. A great question. The answer is YES for some types of prints …
Brill Family Foundation Call for Artist
Peter Brill talks about the Brill Family Foundation‘s art show, Symbiosis or Schism: The AI Human Odyssey, which addresses how to help artists and art organizations adapt to this inevitable …