Author Lisa See puts her hands in cement at Vroman’s new Authors Walk of Fame in Pasadena
by In celebration of its 120th anniversary the management at Vroman’s bookstore decided to create a new Authors Walk of Fame, similar to the one in …
Category: Art in Los Angeles
Cycling in CicLAvia? See the amazing East L.A. Civic Center.
Until about three years ago I had always thought of East L.A. as an area of small, drab houses and a fair amount of crime. …
See Native Tongva people’s roles at the San Gabriel Mission near Los Angeles
On July 11, 2020 a fire severely damaged the San Gabriel Mission church. The roof was totally destroyed and much of the interior, too. Years …
Farewell to the art fair! They’re vanishing across Los Angeles but I found one in Toluca Lake
10, 15, and 20 years ago there were annual art fairs in neighborhoods across Southern California. Fine artists and accomplished craftspeople–potters, glass artists, painters, sculptors–would …
Ride ponies! Pet bunnies! Listen to flamenco jazz on a Sunday morning in Montrose!
This is part two about the Montrose Harvest Market. (Part 1 is here) The neighborhood of Montrose in Glendale (CA) has earned a reputation as …
See a drone’s eye view of Metropolis II and the Urban Light forest at LACMA
[Note: This was originally published in Feb. 2014] Before David’s Hockney’s new video(s) of the wilds of Yorkshire left town I decided to visit LACMA …
The tamale man, the cactus seller and the murals of Highland Park in Los Angeles
Back in the late 1980s my sons attended Otis Parsons Art Institute in L.A. and lived near Alvarado Street in an old, poor Mexican neighborhood. …
Photos of the murals of Highland Park, a #trending L.A. neighborhood if there ever was one!
Highland Park is two stops further along the Metro Gold line from the station I use, but it might as well been on Mars. Until …
Oh yes–at the Pacific Asia Museum there be dragons! (Like this big black one.)
The Board of Directors for the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena gave the museum and its collection of more than 14,000 pieces of Asian art …
Angels flying over Los Angeles–it’s true! (And it’s art!)
The angels on towering columns at the Southwest Museum Gold Line station are both beautiful and whimsical. And they are not easily visible from within …