John Blankenship On George Washington
LT. John Blankenship USN (former) from the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation talks about George Washington. Watch Video
Dimes Settee Presents Intriguing Reproduction Exception
KL owns a triple bow-back Windsor settee. At first glance it struck me as an example of 18th or 19th century Americana from the Mid-Atlantic states. This form didn’t especially …
Unscripted Voyages: Improv at SBMM
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Executive Director Dean Noble joins Jess Morten from California Marine Sanctuary Foundation, and performers IMPROVology Founder Dan O’Connor, Paul Rogan, and Kari Coleman to talk about …
Reading a Tapestry
This tapestry serves as a mirror of contemporary 17th-century Renaissance diplomacy, and the often tragic misuse of power. 21st-century people find it difficult to understand a world, in the deep …
Hot ART Topics October 2026
Santa Barbara appraiser Elizabeth Stewart PhD discusses Warhol’s Index Book, an artist who paints only with poison, a dog named Botox, news at the Smithsonian on Divisive History, and …
1880s Silver Gelatin Lumberjack Photograph
KK sent me a fantastic 1880s silver gelatin photograph of two young men. They’re friends or brothers, we do not know. They’re dressed in oversized fur flap-eared caps and long …
Weird Happenings In The Art Market
Santa Barbara appraiser Elizabeth Stewart PhD discusses weird happenings in the art market September 2026. Watch Video
Folk-Art Gathering Basket
My grandmother lived in a small house under the shadow of the BEVO Mill, a reproduction windmill housing a famous brewery on Gravois in Saint Louis. I grew up there …
REH Contemporary Studio & Gallery
Curator Bonnie Rubinstein joins 3D abstract artist Chenhung Chen of LA and local Valori Fussel to discuss the October exhibit at Ruth Ellen Hoag’s gallery at 12 W Anapamu Street. …
18th Century Interactive Visual Media
The concept of interactive media is familiar. We interact with our phones visually. The concept of a picture in three dimensions is ordinary, mundane, part of our visual vocabulary. However, …