Sailing to the South Pacific in the 1700s and 1800s must have seemed like riding a bicycle to the moon, but the Maritime Museum of San Diego shows how three adventurers did just that. Three connected narratives thread together the adventures of explorer Captain James Cook, author and merchant seaman Herman Melville, and post-impressionist artist […]
High Fidelity Summer at MCASD, La Jolla
The Museum of Contemporary Art takes a breath this summer with the exhibition High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and 1970s and you can, too, through September 5. Presenting mostly formalist selections from the museum’s permanent collection, the survey’s consistency emits minimal distortion, contrasted with the intensity of its predecessors Mexico: Expected/Unexpected and Here Not There: San Diego Art Now. […]
Viva la Revolución in Barrio Logan
Written by Bruna and Candice Barrio Logan might not seem revolutionary as you approach it from the freeway or downtown. Trolleys rattle by, a marine saunters back to base, children’s voices echo down the block. Yet the neighborhood is known for its legacy of perseverance and protest, as art studios and cafes set up shop in color-washed […]
La Jolla’s Cottage Industry
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon than to occupy the most splendid post.” —Thomas Jefferson Jefferson preceded the settlement of La Jolla by a hundred years, but he would’ve been at home in the Village with […]