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 …
Sisyphean Justice exhibit at The Arts Fund
January 25: Three artists, Toni Scott, Kevin Claiborne, and Elisa Ortega, discuss the Sisyphean Justice exhibit at The Arts Fund through March 1.
The history of Southwest style: From Santa Fe to Jersey?!
M.P. phoned the Appraisers Association of America in New York City, of which I am a member. She asked for advice on a piece and they directed her to call …
Mack W Borgen returns
Author and attorney Mack W Borgen returns to celebrate the publication of the third book in the trilogy Dead Serious and Lighthearted – The Memorable Words of Modern America – …
Preserving history: Photographer donates collection to university
You’re an artist. What will become of your work? As you reach maturity, where will your work be housed so that it can be seen? What does “legacy” entail? I …
IKEA wasn’t the only one hocking affordable Scandinavian furniture in the day
It’s 1956 and your mom and dad are shopping for furniture. They’ve recently been to New York to see the 1954 exhibition “Design in Scandinavia,” curated by Canadian designer John …