Ever wonder what your personal ‘object’ style is?
For 30 years I’ve visited people’s home environments, and I can tell their ‘material psychology’ by observing their home. Not only that, I can suss out a person’s attachment style …
Portable Typewriter with a Colorful Past
Mechanically minded people, like NS, who collects typewriters, are inclined to the human scale. The typewriter is one of the first machines that allowed for a direct contact between one’s …
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara
Scholarship Foundation President and CEO Victoria Juarez is joined by San Marcos High School senior Camille Lubach and her mother, Lori Cooper. Camille won best of show honors in the …
Israeli Painting with a Rich History
E.D. from the LA area sends me a photo of this paintings by Charuvi Schmuel (1897-1965) from the 1920’s, of what I believe is an image of Kinneret, an archaeological …
Unmasking the value of a traditional Japanese art form
BR sends me two Japanese masks that she picked up outside of a theater in Kyoto in the 1960’s. She wonders where they fit in with the history of traditional …
Jewelry Designer Calla Gold
Santa Barbara jewelry designer Calla Gold talks about her new book Design Your Dream Wedding Rings: From Engagement to Eternity which drops on Valentine’s Day 2019.
How did a Santa Barbara celebrity artist come to paint the Hudson?
L.S. owns this painting of ships on the Hudson in Upstate New York by a local artist of the late 19th to early 20th century, DeWitt Parshall, NA (1864-1956), at …
Couple’s quarrel: Get rid of this mask!
ES sends me a Sepik River mask – very large – from Papua New Guinea. This mask is causing trouble in her marriage, she writes me. Her partner jumped on …
Through-lines exhibit…then new play “how to Transcend a Happy Marriage”
February 1: Photographers Christopher Broughton, Christy Gutzeit, and Ralph Clevenger celebrate a new photo show at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara gallery, Through-line: Brooks Institute, a culture for photographic …
Rembrandt prints: The value may shock you
T.M. has two etchings on paper mounted on a sheet. The bottom of one reads “The Schoolmaster Nr. 190 — 1641 — B.128” and the other reads “Cornelis Claesz Anslo …