Riviera Parking and Beauty Out Of Ashes
First Niko Chodor and Alex Heilbron talk about their project, Riviera Parking, a temporary exhibition space in a two-car garage on the Lower Riviera. Then Sophia Beccue discusses her exhibit, …
Two Porcelain Collectables
Anne sent me a photo of a highly decorated porcelain nut dish, signed “Wight.” Historically this came with at least four, possibly six, matching little nut dishes. Nuts at each …
Woodcut Tells Important Stories
TR sent me a huge German Expressionist type woodcut in the Medieval style. It tells two important stories in the Faust Play by Goethe. Bernd Kroeber (1942), a teacher of …
I Madonnari Chalk Festival
First Kathy Koury and Bryan Kerner from the Children’s Creative Project, and artist Ann Hefferman discuss the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival. Then Jack Friel talks about Jack’s Furniture …
The inro and the Japanese seal
Nina sent me a funny little box her parents acquired when they lived in Japan before World War II. Nina said people used it to carry medicine, but she’s only …
Wrought Iron Very Right
CG owns a pair of gorgeous tall, three-foot candelabras. She kept them for thirty years on her back porch on an old stone garden table in Santa Barbara. I saw …
Critical Writing About Art
Debra Herrick, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Lum Art Magazine; artist Nathan Hayden; and James Glisson, Curator of Contemporary Art at Santa Barbara Museum of Art discuss critical writing about art.
Tips for Making a Fireproof Inventory
The dry wind blew in my bedroom as the clock radio (yes I still have one of those) spoke to me this morning. The Santa Barbara County Fire department today …
Gypsy Pot: Brilliant Piece of Engineering
JF sent me a heavy cast iron gypsy pot for cooking, a saucepan, with a VERY long hollow handle. Black, with a slight curve to the inside of the vessel, …
On a Quest for Sanity During the Pandemic
Three visual artists, Elisa Ortega Montilla, Madeleine Eve Ignon, and Alex Lukas talk about how they found sanity during the pandemic.