Latest in: Art and Architecture

This palatial house on the hill is a showcase of William Randolph Hearst's art collection: sculpture, tapestry, furniture, even doors, ceilings and building facades. ...

For this week’s Monday Mural, is an interesting mural from Three Rivers, California. I spotted this mural at the Village Centre in Three Rivers, when we went out to lunch at a Mexican Restaurant in the town. The mural seemed to say, ‘TRUS 2009 with Nadi Spencer’ and I...

This Thousand Lake Wilderness mural was found in Burney, California. Burney is a small town in the Southern Cascades in Northern California. It lies somewhere between Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen, two famous volcanoes of the Cascade Mountain Range.  We were in Burney, CA in the summer, when we’d made a trip...

A few years ago, while we were waiting at the SeaTac International Airport in Washington, I came across an eye-catching installation art near one of the luggage carousels at the airport. It was a line up of vintage suitcases and bags. The luggage seemed to be strung onto a steel...

This countryside mural was found at the Eagle Feather Trading post in Kettleman City, California. The store itself is in a barn-styled building. It made a fun stop. The Trading Post is quite an attraction by itself. It’s in the middle of nowhere, or almost. If you are driving...

Across from Doc’s Lab is a mural I came across just off Cannery Row in Monterey, CA. Look at this picture and you will see what looks like a scene from ‘back in the day.’  Now, if you’re familiar with Cannery Row – the book, chances are that this...

You can’t have not heard about the Golden Gate Bridge. And you’ve probably heard about the Bixby Bridge and Bay Bridge, even the San Mateo and Richmond – San Raphael bridges in California if you are familiar with the state. But there’s a lesser known bridge in Redding that ought...

I found these six men on a wall by the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail in Monterey, California. If you look at it closely, you might see some men from another age. According to John Cerney, ‘cannery workers from the 1930s’ are the subjects of this work of art. But if...

The Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Dublin, California has just the right kind of wall art for a bookstore. That corner of the bookstore where the Starbucks is, is marked with a couple of panels and paintings-on-the-wall. And what might the subject be — the most celebrated authors —...