If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, then Tiffany & Co. must be a girl’s favorite store. That is because upon stepping into Tiffany, one enters a dazzling world of glimmering jewelry offered in both classic and modern styles. Yours truly attended the reopening of the Tiffany store in Old Town Pasadena last Thursday when, […]
Loving Vincent is a 2017 animated biographical drama film about the life of painter Vincent Van Gogh, and in particular, the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film. The film, written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is a Polish production, funded by the Polish Film Institute, […]
. There are three new exhibits at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. We think you’ll want to experience them after reading about them below. Charlton Fortune: The Colorful Spirit California artist E. Charlton Fortune (1885–1969) came of age during a time when women began to challenge the status quo and redefine their expected roles […]
Photographic and installation artist Christophe Piallat brought his organic, delightfully strange artwork to Pasadena in his solo exhibition, What Lies Inside, Stays Inside. Christophe has created an evolving gallery (that doubles as his studio) that captures light in fantastical and experiential ways. Using foil, paper, plastic, and water to manipulate light, Christophe constructs installations that reflect […]
I say Picasso and you probably think Cubism, but what is currently on display at the Norton Simon Museum is something quite different – it’s over 80 prints exemplifying the prolific work in the medium of lithography that Picasso developed from the 1940s to 1960. The exhibit is called States of Mind: Picasso Lithographs 1945-1960, […]
The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) has announced a series of special educational programs in conjunction with its upcoming exhibition entitled “Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent.” Sister Corita Kent was a pioneering artist, designer, and educator who for over thirty years experimented in printmaking, producing a groundbreaking body of work that […]
Pasadena-born and based artist Walter Askin has accomplished many things in his expansive career, including publishing six books, countless acclaimed museum and gallery openings, and he’s archived in The Smithsonian Institution. His most recent project, True Fictions, is a paperback book full of his art and insightful musings. “[True Fictions]’s about the foibles of the […]