Blog Posts about MUSEUMS

Discovering A Profile of Alton Bowman

Last Friday I returned home to the San Francisco Bay Area from a conference in Las Vegas. The cool, moist air off the Pacific felt good after the dryness of the desert. An errand sent me to Berkeley and on the way back I detoured to 4th street for a coffee at Bette’s Cafe and a…

Marquetry Art Juxtaposed

How the Studiolo from Gubbio inspired Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s “Room” Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s remarkable story Taylor was born in 1974 in Selma, Alabama and grew up in Las Vegas. She earned a BFA in 2001 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and an MFA in 2005 from Columbia University. While in…

Silas Kopf – A Marquetry Odyssey

“Demystifying marquetry and bringing it into the 21st century is welcome and timely. It’s wonderful that the person who is ‘best at it’ is open to sharing his uncommon vision.” Wendell Castle*     From the review on Amazon: “Neatly interwoven with chapters on the evolutionary history of inlay and marquetry, Silas Kopf takes us…