When Thomas Penniston wrote to ask if Agnes Pelton might have painted the painting he’d found online, of a fisherman in an Eastern stream, I doubted that she did. Would Hilma af Klint have painted a bear hunt in the…
Editor’s note: In a chapter from her forthcoming book, Sharman Apt Russell visits the Coso Rock Art Site near Ridgecrest. “Petroglyphs are something I travel toward,” she writes, describing the images as animate and full of Being. The Desert Dreams…
The 22-year-old traveling the stagecoach road from San Diego into the backcountry seemed destined to be a lady. Born Hazel Marguerite Finch, she was trained in piano and art in South Pasadena schools and was on her way to a…
When the City of Indian Wells bulldozed Carl Bray’s home and gallery in 2010, an epic David versus Goliath story ended. The City had tried to evict Bray for decades because his hand-built home on Hwy 111 clashed with their…
Larry Hughes’ new book Rings of Fire tells the story of a little-known mining camp that doubled as an art camp during WWII. The calcite crystals mined there were used to make gunsights for ships and aircraft. At the center…
Just after midnight on January 1st, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson pressed a telegraph button in Washington D.C.; the signal shot across the country to launch the start of the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. In the harbor, the USS San…
