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, …
The Lost Champion
Director and chief curator of California State University Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center John D. Spiak joins GCAC artist-in-residence Ben Kinsley to discuss The Lost Champion – Measuring (Activation #2 …
Eight Immortals and a Chinese Chest
KG owns an early 20th century forty-one-inch long Chinese Qing Dynasty carved camphor chest of little value—$350-400. These are relatively common, but it bears priceless symbolism. Should KG keep this …
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 …