My mother was a fashionista decades before the term was first used. She trolled the aisles of Lord & Taylor department store in New Jersey, looking at the l...
Clowns pique our imaginations and memories. They also reflect the panoply of human emotions, from despair to pathos, to delight, to jubilation. Indeed, clown po...
As a recent Irvine resident (who moved here from Laguna Beach), I often feel as though I am driving through an imaginary village. I marvel at the flawlessness o...
Memories and recollections of live exhibitions can provide solace to art lovers, as we wait for the pandemic to abate and for life to return to a semblance of n...
In our SoCal art scene, where contemporary work proliferates, a classically trained sculptor has labored tirelessly for three decades, creating in his Irvine st...
I met Gerald Buck in 2012 at a Laguna Art Museum panel discussion for its exhibition, "Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern...
“Performance is the golden thread of connection among living bodies,” said Stephen Barker Ph.D., dean of UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA), duri...
Masterful paintings can transport us to places we’ve never seen, and to times we haven’t lived in. Artworks can also evoke fond memories, or nostalgia for pleas...
While visiting a museum in Bern, Switzerland several years ago, I saw an exhibition of work created during the Bubonic Plague, a pandemic occurring in Europe in...
Orange Coast College has been known for decades as a major center for the study of photography. This reputation has been forged to a significant degree by the p...