Chinese Chinoiserie Style, Love it or Hate it
RH owns a Chinese Chinoiserie style coffee table. The top shows a startling scene of ancient Chinese Court life composed of six applied carved semi-precious stone figures. One figure wields …
Barnaby Conrad: A Friend to Writers
OS asked for a dollar estimate for her Barnaby Conrad signed lithograph. When an artist is a huge personality with a legendary past, “comparable sales,” prices paid for past work, …
Nomad Tango goes to the Artwalk
Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo talk about their Tango Show Troupe at the Art Walk in La Cumbre Plaza on Friday, March 15 at 6 pm. They’re joined by Mike …
The ORANGE: Perception, Color, and Language
The color orange, a newer color term, is based upon the 14th century European discovery of the fruit. In the foothills of the Himalayas in the 13th century, Persian traders …
Hodge’s Hats
PP confessed to a weakness for vintage hats. For the past ten years she paid $300 a month to store her collection of 1950s hats. She sent me a picture …
Judith Mann and Comic Potential
First, Senior Curator of European Art to 1800, Saint Louis Art Museum, Judith Mann talks about her lecture, Artemisia Gentileschi: New Understandings, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Thursday, …
William Caxton Facsimile Edition of The Canterbury Tales
GG sent me a beautiful leather-bound book, The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), The William Caxton Facsimile Edition. Cambridge University Press published only 500 of these in 1973. She …
Larry Iwerks and the Oceans All Star Band
Environmental Defense Center Executive Director Alex Katz joins artist and musician Larry Iwerks to talk about the Oceans All Star Band benefit show at Rincon Brewery in Carpinteria on Wednesday, …
A Morning with Janna Ireland
Artist Janna Ireland discusses the talks she will give about her exhibition Janna Ireland: True Story Index at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Sunday, February 25 at 11 …
Bust of Vigée Le Brun
LM sent me a photo of a thirty inch tall terra cotta bust of a gorgeous young French female of the late 18th century. Her beauty is classic even today: …