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
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