Peace Concert with Diego Carneiro
Brazilian cellist, conductor, composer, and peace advocate Diego Carneiro talks about his Instruments of Peace Concert on Sunday, September 13, 6 pm at First United Methodist Church in Santa Barbara, …
1970s Art Nouveau Reflected In A Lamp
Along the Art Nouveau lines of the 1970s, DD sent me a floor lamp with a 1979 Tiffany-style blown-glass shade in the Quezal tradition. The attached shade hangs on a …
South African Doll A Sacred Object
In the last three weeks I’ve received two calls for two major doll collections of hundreds of dolls each. Readers know I’m frightened of dolls. When I attend an appraisal …
Play: Bronze Sculptures and Other Stuff
Executive Director Dean Noble joins artist Susan Read Cronin to discuss her new exhibit Play: Bronze Sculptures and Other Stuff at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum through November 29. Watch …
Boehm Art Middle Class “Classy”
EG sent me a photo of a magnificent seventeen and a half inch porcelain Blue Jay perched on raspberry branches. Its brilliant plumage modeled in hard-paste porcelain and hand-painted with …
Gale McNeeley My Life In Song
Actor and clown Gale McNeeley joins guest host Richard Dugan to talk about his new show, My Life In Song, which he will perform Sunday, August. 23, 3 pm at Unitarian …
French Circus Poster A Memorial Of Time
This week FF sent me a French advertising poster with the narrative theme of enjoyment at the circus. Well-dressed 1930s crowds enjoy a carnival, (buy your tickets!) signed Émile Finot. …
Elijah Rock: Memories Unleashed
Elijah Rock talks about his one-night-only show at Ensemble Theatre Company on Saturday, August 22 at 8 pm. Watch Video
Fashionable Singerie Monkeys
Singerie, you say? Yes. DD owns a delightful group of color lithographs ‘after’ Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin‘s celebrated Le Singe peintre and Le Singe antiquaire. One monkey is an artist, the other …
Ensemble Theater Company’s 48th Season
Executive Artistic Director Scott DeVine talks about the play lineup for Ensemble Theater Company‘s 48th Season — “California: Here and Now.” Watch Video