Architecture & art
A year in an immigrant’s shirt
Garment art.
While crossing the border at San Ysidro, Valentina Forte-Hernandez, an unassuming and petite artist, aroused the suspicion of border agents due to the tangle of wires and circuits in her trunk. She had to submit ...
A San Diego architecture retrospective
La Jolla’s Mormon temple, San Diego stadium, Coronado Cays, Del Mar Plaza, Mission Revival and Irving Gill, Tiki style, Tecate train station
The Eyesore Inventory Thoryk and his partner, a real-estate development company owned by San Diego Gas & Electric, found a co-conspirator in San Diego City Hall, which solicited and approved Thoryk’s remodeling of the historic ...
I heart Hong Kong
Gallery-, lounge- and restaurant-hopping: a day in Asia's World City.
You lazily open your eyes. Life is fuzzed by sleep, and the glare from the snow-white sheets adds to your blindness. A delicious stretch and yawn to get your blood flowing, and you swing your ...
$250,000 immigration art
"The artwork design should be light and airy, and communicate a sense of welcome and embrace."
Public art, $1.2 million worth, is being commissioned by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority to adorn the main airport’s forthcoming Federal Inspection Services facility, says a February 8 call for proposals. “This opportunity ...
Arts in San Diego
Sometimes it’s hidden ... look no further
If You’re Making Art and Getting Paid for It... “People used to say, ‘Oh, I love your music; I put it on when I go to sleep.’ At first, I was insulted: ‘Thanks a lot. ...
Theater moves at human speed
Go see a show!
San Diego has an international reputation for quality theater. And far too many locals aren’t aware of it. In the past 25 years, we’ve sent at least 45 shows to Broadway. We average around two ...
Where art resides
Typically, artists “just want to make work in private.”
“Artist residences are about taking the time to explore your work in a new way,” says Melissa Walter, who is currently the artist-in-residence at Bread & Salt, “a gallery and experimental center for the arts.” ...
If you’re making art and getting paid for it...
You don't do anything when you're comfortable.
Guitarist William Wilson loves his children too much to suggest they follow in his footsteps. “It’s too hard,” he says flatly. Still, “the other day, I was talking to a banker, and when I told ...
Say something
Tijuanese artists use their work to make people think
The story of Coyote begins with a horse. A Trojan horse. The year is 1997. A ten-year-old Daniel Espinosa weaves through traffic at the San Ysidro Port of Entry to get a closer look at ...
Classical music hidden in the city
Pop Quiz: Locate San Diego's classical music halls
To find classical music in this town you’ve got to want to find it. Without consulting Google, can you say where Symphony Hall is? The only people who can answer this are people who already ...
In fair San Diego, we lay our scene
Shakespeare Academy aims to bring the Bard to underserved communities
The great weather. The beaches. The Navy and Marines. The zoo and SeaWorld. Bad to mediocre (and exiting) sports teams. Comic-Con. Free associations on San Diego call up these images. But, “Oh me, the gods,” ...
Artifacts of the cult
The Reformation was heaven for haters.
Tension between Death and the woman is as wiry and volatile as the religious tension of the times.
Costs and dangers of public art
More notable creations include giant chairs next to buildings
The City of San Diego has picked yet another controversy-prone artist from out of town to create a public work of art, this time for downtown’s forthcoming East Village Park. “I think that public art ...
Architecture as covered by Peter Jensen
San Diego’s towers, bridges, courtyards, ranch houses, libraries, alleys and Jack in the Box’s architect
Read about San Diego architecture by Susan Vaughn. Tower Envy San Diego’s least successful tower aesthetically is Sea World’s 320-foot Skytower. Unlike the 984-foot Eiffel or many other towers throughout the world, where you ascend ...
San Diego architecture as covered by Susan Vaughn in the '90s
Bungalows in National City, Rancho Santa Fe mansions. San Diego’s best Craftsman and Victorians, the ugliness of Pardee homes
Read about San Diego architecture by Peter Jensen. When the Bungalows Came to Town I drive down East Plaza Boulevard and at first pass a series of contemporary commercial buildings — a red Monterey-style Boll ...
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2014 Travel Photo Winners
At the top of Rocher de Naye, Switzerland. After a four-hour hike through darkness I was able to capture this image just in time for ...
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