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Local artists Dane Goodman and Dug Uyesaka will speak about their works in the current exhibition on Monday, Dec. 15, from 4-5 pm in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. The event, which includes refreshments, is free and open to the public. “As accomplished artists across a breadth of media, Goodman and Uyesaka will share […]
Someone unwisely humblebrags about their artistic skills and you take the bait. When they obligingly doodle a horse on the back of an envelope, it looks like a spider scrawled with the wrong hand by a tilt-a-whirl drunk wearing a blindfold. You nod and fail to sound convincing, which you later regret. “Wow. Now that […]
On a very rainy Monday evening, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art saw its celebratory event for the SBMA Circles of Leadership, benefactors, directors, and curators with special guests become its latest nouvelle vague. I was invited to attend and report for our readers by Lindsey Garrison SBMA director of marketing and communications, and SBMA’s […]
About 70 art lovers braved the wet weather for the opening of Between Planes: Exploring Sculpture Through Print on Nov. 13 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. The unique show examines prints made by sculptors, offering a glimpse into artistic thought process of an artist prior to creating a sculpture. A highlight of the […]
This Saturday night at the Arlington, Jeff and Susan Bridges are introducing a screening of Heaven’s Gate, the 1980 epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, whose The Deer Hunter won five Academy Awards less than two years earlier, including Best Picture and Best Director. But this isn’t just some random revival of […]
The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art explores artistic vision across two-dimensional and three-dimensional media in Between Planes: Exploring Sculpture Through Print from Nov. 13 to Dec. 20. There will be a free public opening reception on Thursday, Nov. 13, from 4-6 pm at the museum. “A sculpture and a print exist in two different planes; […]
The Mesa Artist Studio Tour reaches of-age status with its 21st annual event, a much more compact and community-focused little sibling to the Santa Barbara Studio Artists Tour every Labor Day weekend. Just eight studios encompass the tour around the neighborhood, although two are the site of two artists, meaning a more intimate and personal […]
Art Deco clocks are special to me. As I write this, my mom has just passed “out of human time” and into the next realm at the age of 96. She was a great collector of clocks, especially those that reminded her of the city in which we were born: Chicago – acknowledged cradle of […]
This week’s Society Edit is full-on-art! Are you watching Paris Fashion Week’s SS26 and pining for the Impressionism that came out of SS25? Are you recalling Women’s Wear Daily and Artnet presenting Impressionist artists Monet, Manet, Vincent van Gogh, and Pissaro in the couture designer fashion books, and that art literally printed on the fabrics? […]
Dance has always felt like the truest artistic expression of the soul… an untamed yet measured outburst of our innate and most intimate instrument – our body. Similarly, fashion feels like the truest artistic expression of the body… a chance to show the world the hues, textures, and lines – framed by the canvas of […]
2019: what a year that was. The art and design world CHANGED. More of us want to forget 2019 than want to remember it, but it marked a watershed moment in the art world, especially at the end of 2019 as we learned of the impending lockdown of our world. The dust has still not […]
The SCAPE artist group, aka Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment, held its annual juried exhibit in Lehman Hall at the Music Academy of the West Montecito (MAW) on Friday, September 12 – Saturday, September 13. The artists participating in the show render original works depicting the Central Coast of California, local landscapes created […]
Chaos meets curation at CAW, as the exhibition Little Shop of Hoarders opens this weekend. The show brings together 10 local assemblage artists whose work will be on view from opening night on September 12 through the 21st. But the first Saturday morning (September 13) is what gives the show its extra oomph, as CAW […]
Hello Loves! Welcome to my new column, The Society Edit. This week it is filled with your c’est une must list on fashion, art, and the latest café opening. It’s Labor Day Weekend as I write this; when I follow my NYC roots immersed in changing out my wardrobe for the new season, and lining […]
Twenty-eight fine artists will once again throw open the doors to their home studios over Labor Day Weekend for the Santa Barbara Studio Artists’ 24th annual Open Studios Tour. The tour, a much-anticipated event on the yearly art calendar, allows art lovers across the spectrum to step inside the normally private workspaces, offering visitors a […]
If all 30-plus shows that make up Ventura LIVE ‘25 at the Rubicon Theatre sold out the venue’s 110 seats, the total audience wouldn’t even reach the capacity of a single concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl. But the breadth and depth of talent coming to the intimate theater in downtown Ventura from August 20 […]
To all my art-society followers, in the words of Hunter S. Thompson, it is time to buy that golden ticket and take the ride to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s 2nd Annual Gilded Gala scheduled for February 28, 2026, which as you read this, is close to selling out (say no to #fomo). Do […]
The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art is keeping the celebration alive. While the party to honor Judy L. Larson – who retired after 17 years of directing the museum – has concluded, the sizable exhibition, Building A Collection: 2008-2025, continues through Saturday, August 2. Interim Director Chris Rupp has scoured through the 2,500 art objects […]
As aftershocks of the June 29, 1925, 6.3 earthquake continued to rock the town and the waters from the broken Sheffield Reservoir still muddied the waterfront, representatives from the Community Arts Association met to discuss Recreational Activities that would, according to CAA member Mrs. Charles W. (Lucy Russell) Dabney, “have a beneficial psychological effect upon […]
Coast Village Road is home to artists, merchants, and creatives alike who strive to uphold the spirit of our community. Coast Village Association’s own Beth Sullivan is determined to capture this energy and use it as inspiration for the heartbeat of Coast Village Association’s events. At the start of 2023, Beth was hired as a […]
