This past turkey day brought me back home, and also to a couple of very good art shows. Who knew? I sandwiched my visit with art at the beginning and end, with turkey in the middle.The night I flew down I was able to drag my sister along with me to the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum to see a gallery opening featuring one of my former professors.
Good work Michael B Miller! It was good to see some old familiar faces, and the artwork was intriguing too. I'm still not sure how I feel about the artist who characterized old people in ink pen sketches.more about it here.
Also, my last full day in California I was able to spend at the Getty Museum! Right now they are showing some of the Lumbourg brother's illuminated manuscripts, notably the Belles Heures du Duc de Bury.
There is no greater joy for a lover of book arts than to see these fantastic illustrations up close and personal. I got a book on their work that actually has full scale prints of each page but the loss of detail in its reproduction is painfully noticeable.
There is nothing like viewing the real thing.
