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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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