Gender Bending Wedding kimono
Just in the last 4 months, I received many emails asking for values of Japanese Kimonos, emails from all over the world. A great-uncle brought a black kimono back after …
Channing Peake at Casa del Herrero
Cheri Peake and Lesa Raber Fernandez celebrate the opening of “Channing Peake at Casa del Herrero and Highlights from the Santa Barbara County Collection.” All are welcome to the opening …
How a Pro Researches Art Not attributed to a Known Artist
JS sent me a photograph of a large oil portrait of a man with a red umbrella. It’s signed, somewhat illegibly, DeGroot, DeGroat or DeGroote. Those spellings are within reason …
Functional, Grim Looking Medical Etui
J from Santa Barbara has this little box of what appears to contain instruments of torture. Is it some kind of medical thing? He asks. His great great Uncle came …
SB Museum of Art & Ojai Art Center Theater
Curator of Photography and New Media Charles Wylie, talks about the new exhibit titled A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art until May …
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 …