The Banana Connection
In November of 2024 a banana duct-taped to a white plaster wall sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction. Conceived as an edition (series) of five, titled Comedian, …
Beautiful Sommerso Glass
FF owns a nice midcentury example of a technically challenging type of glass. Sommerso, or “submerged,” a technique developed in Murano Italy in the 1930s required skill and dexterity. His …
Emily Rapp Black
Author Emily Rapp Black discusses her book, The Still Point of the Turning World, and her talk at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Sunday, December 8. Watch Video
Barye’s Camel Reproduction
PP owns a twenty-inch plaster cast of a dromedary (Arabian) camel ‘after’ (reproduced from) a sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875), the great bronze artist/animalier of the mid-19th century. Sculpture of …
Fashion Fatale: The Human Obsession with Feathers
Director of Exhibits Melinda (Mel) Morgan Stowell and Director of Marketing & Communications Stephanie Evers Armstrong from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History join Adela Lua Lisanti, Collections Manager …
Rejuvenate with Japanese Singing Bowls
Post election we need deep relaxation, pain relief, digestive help, cure for migraines, repaired immune system, elimination of toxins (too much wine), and better concentration. I thought this the time …
Claudia Hoag McGarry’s Original Works Staged Reading Festival and Chella Courington
First Claudia Hoag McGarry, Victoria Charters, Lynelle Paulick, Elizabeth U. Flanagan, Vandana Khare, and Peter Rojas discuss the Original Works Staged Reading Festival at Center Stage Theater on Sunday, November …
Tradition, history, power, and beauty of Kifwebe Mask
The word Kifwebe means “mask” for the people of the Congo River basin, the Luba and Songye tribes. High-ranking, ruling elite men in a tribal secret brotherhood called Bwadi Bwa …
Off Register: Santa Barbara Art Book & Print Fair
Kestrel Tseng, Garrett Gerstenberger, Owen Jenkins, and Des Alaniz discuss the first Off Register: Santa Barbara Art Book & Print Fair Saturday, Nov 16, 11am–6pm at Community Arts Workshop. Watch …
Basket in the Wounaan Tradition
HH owns a lovely ten inch tall Panamanian basket made by indigenous Darien Rainforest artists in the Wounaan tradition. You see a lifelike bat design woven into the fibers. I …