Janna Ireland & Taylor Kasch

Photographer and author Janna Ireland talks about her new book Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View. Then Directed by Taylor Kasch discusses Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike running …

How to JUDGE a Painting

How to JUDGE a Painting

JS owns an oil on canvas with no signature. The back reads “Carmel Art Association.” She wonders if I consider the painting good enough for her to do considerable research …

EYC Scholars and MLKSB

Guy R. Walker talks about the Endowment for Youth Committee, which creates opportunities for  successful outcomes for Black/African American youth in Santa Barbara County. Isaac Garrett discusses the Martin Luther …

Lifelike Soulful Saint Francis Santos

I want to tell you a personal story of an object my partner gifted me this holiday season. This Santos figure of Saint Francis stands thirty-two inches tall. Although I …

Almost Complete Works by Ruskin

GH owns a collection of twenty-three volumes of The Collected Works of John Ruskin, NY: Frank F. Lovell & Co., 1920, bound in tan calfskin with gilt decorated spines. GH …

Santi Visalli at 90: Una Storia

Master photographer Santi Visalli and Curator Charlie Wylie talk about the Santi Visalli at 90: Una Storia exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art through March 13, 2022.

Moving Abraham Lincoln Biography

FG owns the first complete contemporary biography of Abraham Lincoln. The book includes copper plate engravings, and a frontispiece of a bearded Lincoln, by Joseph H Barrett, a close personal …