Holly Myers

A Turkish worker is alone with a shovel on a barren, muddy shore. Not more than 50 yards behind him looms an enormous freighter half submerged in water and mud. Digging his shovel into the mud, the man appears oblivious of both the ship and the camera that takes this......

The Laguna Art Museum’s two current exhibitions — Margaret Keane and Keaneabilia and Sandow Birk’s In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works From the Great War of the Californias — carve a memorable trail through that ambiguous terrain between high art and popular culture. Of course, it’s not a particularly sparse......