Old Masters

Food for Thought

Wayne Thiebaud’s tasty-looking paintings have often been mistaken for Pop Art, but the artist is after something deeper, both in art and in life.

Often misperceived as second banana to a certain famous Spaniard, Georges Braque co-invented Cubism but didn’t stop there.

Jules Tavernier, a legendarily adventurous and versatile 19th-century artist, is paid homage in his adopted state of California.

Modern jewelry giants are being celebrated by art museums on both coasts.

The Leslie Sacks Collection of African tribal art is an encyclopedic microcosm of a continent’s creativity and a connoisseur’s eye.

Exiled in California, the artist Alfredo Ramos Martínez created a Mexico of the mind.

Antique tall case clocks, once the highest of the high-tech, still keep both time and their value.

Graphic Novel pioneer Art Spiegelman gets a career-spanning show at the Jewish Museum.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents a monographic show of the Romantic French master, centering on a recently attributed painting.