October Arroyo 2018
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EDITOR’S NOTE<br />
Pacifica<br />
No doubt you’ve heard the phrase<br />
“Year of the Woman” used to describe<br />
the marked increase in women<br />
candidates in the midterm elections.<br />
While women are expected to have<br />
a greater impact next month than<br />
they have previously, their infl uence is<br />
being felt outside the world of politics<br />
as well. In the art world, Pasadena art<br />
conservator and historian Maurine St.<br />
Gaudens has spent the past decade<br />
unearthing the accomplished works<br />
of hundreds of overlooked women<br />
artists in California. Her project has<br />
resulted in a four-volume set titled<br />
Emerging from the Shadows: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California,<br />
1860–1960 (Schiffer Publishing; 2015) and a new Pasadena Museum<br />
of History exhibition based on the books. Run, don’t walk there before the<br />
show closes on March 31, 2019. (Actually, you might want to run twice —<br />
the artworks will be switched out halfway through.)<br />
Another museum show with a distaff perspective is Notorious RBG:<br />
The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which opens Oct. 19 and runs<br />
through March 10, 2019, at the Skirball Cultural Center. The exhibition of<br />
documents, photographs, videos and artifacts was inspired by the Supreme<br />
Court justice’s surprising splash on the Internet, which spawned an<br />
eye-opening book and documentary. Until recently, many people didn’t<br />
include her among the famous names driving feminism in the ’70s; the<br />
exhibition explores how she spent that period successfully arguing cases<br />
before the high court that secured important rights for women.<br />
Finally, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens<br />
has two particularly interesting offerings this fall. One is Project Blue Boy,<br />
which takes visitors behind the scenes of a major conservation effort to<br />
restore and stabilize one of the museum’s most iconic works: The Blue Boy<br />
by Sir Thomas Gainsborough. The other is Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden,<br />
a new commissioned play marrying East and West by the acclaimed playwright<br />
Stan Lai. Time to break out your comfortable fl ats!<br />
—Irene Lacher<br />
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Irene Lacher<br />
ART DIRECTOR Stephanie Torres<br />
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Richard Garcia<br />
PRODUCTION DESIGNERS Rochelle Bassarear<br />
EDITOR-AT-LARGE Bettijane Levine<br />
COPY EDITOR John Seeley<br />
CONTRIBUTORS Denise Abbott, Leslie Bilderback,<br />
Léon Bing, Martin Booe, Michael Cervin, Scarlet<br />
Cheng, Richard Cunningham, Noela Hueso,<br />
Kathleen Kelleher, Jana Monji, Brenda Rees, Ilsa<br />
Setziol, John Sollenberger, Nancy Spiller<br />
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Brenda Clarke,<br />
Mari Carmen Martinez, Lisa Chase,<br />
Alexandra Valdes<br />
ADVERTORIAL CONTRIBUTING EDITOR<br />
Bruce Haring<br />
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER Andrea Baker<br />
PAYROLL Linda Lam<br />
ACCOUNTING Perla Castillo, Yiyang Wang,<br />
Quinton Wright<br />
OFFICE MANAGER Ann Turrietta<br />
PUBLISHER Dina Stegon<br />
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