Now’s your chance to own a bit of California architectural history right here in Santa Barbara. A 1919 house by Wallace Neff, designed for his mother and thought to be his first house, is on the market on the lower Riviera for $1.48 million (left). If you’re an admirer of George Washington Smith you’re in…
We now have over 500 images relating to Santa Barbara in our VRC image database (MDID), and continue to add more images regularly. These include historic and contemporary images of architecture, historic sites, murals, UCSB buildings, and architectural plans and drawings. To search, select “Records with Images” under Search Options, and in the Title Field…
Lots of new things opening – a few highlights: New exhibitions at the Huntington include “The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection”, “Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles”, “Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock”, and continuing “British Watercolors…
ART from the ashes, an LA-based non-profit organization that creates art to help raise funds for communities devastated by fire, has set its sights on Santa Barbara. A new exhibition and art sale on October 10, to benefit the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, will showcase works of art made from materials gathered from the Garden…
Santa Barbara’s Contemporary Arts Forum, along with the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition and the Wheelhouse, is co-sponsoring Jessica Findley’s Aeolian Ride, “a mass participatory bicycling performance piece with a sense of humor.” The piece, consisting of 52 people in wind-inflated suits riding bicycles through cities around the world, is scheduled to pass through Santa Barbara…
A few new shows have opened in the last two weeks in case you’re heading to the LA area: At LACMA: Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea At the Getty: Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution and In Focus: Making a Scene (Note: the Getty is closed on July 4)…