My colleague Louis Sahagun of the Los Angeles Times takes a look at an effort to revive the Santa Catalina Island Museum with an exhibit of photos by Pattie Boyd, the former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton.

Since the arrival of Executive Director Michael De Marsche, “The museum, which is on the ground floor of the island’s landmark ‘casino’ building, has added gallery space, installed a digital theater and expanded its gift shop. The museum’s first exhibit under his watch featured photographs and memorabilia chronicling three decades of spring training by the Wrigley family’s major league team, the Chicago Cubs.

“De Marsche is now in charge of developing a 20,000-square-foot museum on a downtown parcel valued at $2 million.”

Louis has also written a biography of Manly Hall.

Also worth reading: Alice Rawsthorn’s profile of Elizabeth Templetown, a designer for Josiah Wedgwood, who in the 1780s commissioned designs by women.

Rawsthorn writes: “Templetown’s role as a designer consisted of drawing her touching scenes in pencil or cutting them out of India paper. Those images were then faithfully replicated in fine white stoneware by William Hackwood, Wedgwood’s most skillful modeler, and the results used to embellish ceramic objects. Often her subjects were inspired by classical mythology, though she also drew on 18th-century writers like Goethe and Laurence Sterne. Many of Templetown’s pieces now belong to museum collections and her most successful designs remained in production until recently.” NYT

NEW YORK

Christopher Gray has an interesting story about Jane Teller, who revived all things Colonial out of her headquarters in what is now the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden.

Gray writes: “She was born Jane Crosby around 1881 in Kingston, N.Y., to a merchant family that had lived in the Hudson River Valley since the Revolution. Her college training, if any, is unknown, but in 1902 she married Myron Teller, an architect who restored houses and was interested in things antiquarian.

“By 1920 she was established in New York, running an antiques shop in one of the store spaces at the Yale Club at Vanderbilt Avenue and East 44th Street. Her wares, The Kingston Daily Freeman said, were for ‘those gentle folk fond of the simple types of early American furnishings’: boot scrapers, brasses, china and door latches. Mrs. Teller informed The Freeman that she was having ironwork ‘of old Colonial design’ made by a smithy in the Catskills.” NYT

PURCHASE, NY

Holland Carter reviews an exhibit of art from Cameroon at the Neuberger Museum of Art. NYT

ISTANBUL

The Sakip Sabanci Museum has an unusual exhibit titled “Across the Cyclades and Western Anatolia During the 3rd Millennium B.C.,” a project that involves cooperation between Greece and Turkey. NYT

LONDON

A recent exhibit at the Freud Museum featured Marcel Odenbach. Writing of his 2009 video “Turning Circles,” Emma Crichton-Miller says: “It bears all the hallmarks of this most thoughtful video artist, who, born in Cologne in 1953, repeatedly mines the veins of memory and memorial, trauma and forgetting. ” The exhibit was only on display from June 8 to June 26, but the article is still worth reading. WSJ