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Things are looking spooky in San Diego! Join us on Saturday Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. for the Mask-O-Raid presented by Funko and the Comic-Con Museum with an exhibit of vintage Halloween masks and costumes from Funmaker Mike's collection, original Funko art and merch for sale, and a costume contest. Proceeds go to support the Museum’s Education Center and School Access Fund. Tickets on sale now! Comic-Con Museum on Facebook / Instagram / @ComicConMuseum on Twitter

The time period for the Spanish Baroque begins roughly in the 1580s and ends in the early 1700s. The art from this region is characterized by visual realism which was consistent with the rest of Europe. Spanish painters also frequently used dark colors and incorporated tenebrism, or strong light sources against primarily black backgrounds. Perhaps the more sombre style that evolved in Spain at this time was a result of Spain's war defeats at the hands of the Netherlands and England, which greatly affected their finances. Spanish Baroque painters were often sponsored by the Catholic Church. They were also heavily supported by the devout Hapsburg emperors who responded well to the severe and noble style of Catholic Counter-Reformation art, which brought religious themes to the masses. It was also the Spanish school in combination with the Dutch Baroque artist who importantly guided European painting toward more naturalism in painting. Spanish masters such as Diego Velasquez, Franciso de Zurbaran, and Juan Sanchez Cotan, and others will be highlighted in this docent-led talk. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

From San Diego weekend arts preview (KPBS): "A Tiny Upward Shove" is the debut novel from LA-based writer Melissa Chadburn, and it feels like a must-read. The story is inspired by Chadburn's own Filipino heritage and background in the foster care system, and one of the characters is the real-life serial killer Willie Pickton. The story promises supernatural magic, grisly crime and artfully crafted writing just from the first page. Chadburn will be in conversation with San Diego-based writer Jac Jemc (author of "The Grip of It," "False Bingo") at The Book Catapult. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS From the organizer: The Book Catapult is pleased to host debut novelist Melissa Chadburn on Friday, April 15 at 7 p.m. for a discussion of her new novel, "A Tiny Upward Shove." Melissa will be in-conversation with local author Jaclyn Jemc. Marina Salles’s life does not end the day she wakes up dead. Instead, in the course of a moment, she is transformed into the stuff of myth, the stuff of her grandmother’s old Filipino stories—an aswang, a creature of mystery and vengeance. She spent her time on earth on the margins; shot like a pinball through a childhood of loss, she was a veteran of Child Protective Services and a survivor, but always reacting, watching from a distance, understanding very little of her own life, let alone the lives of others. Death brings her into the hearts and minds of those she has known—even her killer—as she accesses their memories and sees anew the meaning of her own. In her nine days as an aswang, while she considers whether to exact vengeance on her killer, she also traces back, finally able to see what led these two lost souls to a crushingly inevitable conclusion. In "A Tiny Upward Shove," the debut novelist Melissa Chadburn charts the heartbreaking journeys of two of society’s castoffs as they make their way to each other and their roles as criminal and victim. What does it mean to be on the brink? When are those moments that change not only our lives but our very selves? And how, in this impossible world, full of cruelty and negligence, can we rouse ourselves toward mercy? Melissa Chadburn’s writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review Daily, The Best American Food Writing, and many other publications. Her extensive reporting on the child welfare system appears in the Netflix docuseries "The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez." Melissa is a worker lover and through her own labor and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she's basically been doing that ever since. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and lives in greater Los Angeles.

British composer Martin Phipps discusses how he used an 1808 French piano that once belonged to Napoleon in the score for Ridley Scott's biopic of the one-time emperor.

Small group Halloween-themed 1-hour class (9-10 a.m. or 10:30-11:30 a.m.) Ticket includes: goodie bag, sensory play, and arts & crafts! Classes will be set up on the grass area at the Allied Gardens Community Park. Dress is clothes you can get messy and come play with us!

"Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s" opens April 9 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla.

Christie's auctioned off hundreds of items belonging to the late fashion icon this week. Top-selling items included Andy Warhol paintings and some of Talley's signature custom coats.

Oh, to be talented. Oh, to be inspired. To find purpose in place for posterity. To live among the blossoms and breeze of this world, capturing scenes in painting is love. It is a gift. It is humanity communicating to future generations. Welcome to Blossoms and Breeze, an art show that does more than introducing paintings. It lauds the humanity of the talented. La Playa Gallery is proud to introduce painters Rebecca Noelle, Cate Dudley, Cathy Carey, and sculptor Jon Koehler. Each of these artists comes to us with a powerful worldview. A wine and cheese reception will be held Friday, September 16, 2022, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our artists. Mark your calendar today for this important show. Get inspired, grasp the imagination, or just stop by for a glass of wine and a taste of aspirational thought. Follow La Playa Art Gallery on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Three artists are accusing the e-commerce giant of selling exact copies of their designs on its website. Shein has faced similar accusations before.

Travel the Globe and Back Through an Artist’s Sketchbooks and Paintings Gallery Open & Events: Where: St James Gallery By-The-Sea: 743 Prospect Ave, La Jolla, CA. When: November 6-27, Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. & Sunday 12-4 p.m. December 10-18, Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. & Sunday 12-4 p.m. Reception 1: November 12, Saturday 5-7 p.m. & Reception 2: December 10, Saturday 6-8 p.m. Special Event Following: The Festival of Lessons & Carols, December 18, Saturday 6-8 p.m. The prolific artworks of Cherry Sweig will be blended into a solo exhibition at ‘Gallery By-The-Sea’. Guided by seven renowned collections and descriptive commentaries, participants will travel around the world and back. Sweig’s first international trip was an Art History Tour with The Bishop’s School in 1984. Since then, she broadened her techniques to draw the viewer in for their own imaginary and sensory experience. Sweig will present four themed demonstrations during assigned gallery hours: ‘En plein air’ inside and out at St James Church, Greek Skyrian equine watercolors, travel sketchbooks and an in-progress oil painting of Meteora, Greece. (See websites for demo schedules.) 1) Around the World in 80 Paintings: 2012. Eighty watercolors and oils represented the journeys encompassing the world by Sweig including California, Hawaii, South America, Europe and Egypt. 2) Gyotaku: 1988-2010. Over these years, Sweig focused on the legendary Japanese art (gyo = fish, taku = hand imprint). Ink is applied to the subject, rice paper laid and pressed by hand. A mirrored image reveals art from sea horses, Garibaldi, octopuses, flying fish to a Great White Shark. 3) Touch the Ancient Skyrian Horse: from 2006- Life-sized works revere these small horses with a monumental past. As the Parthenon’s frieze portrays Alexander the Great using them in battle, she fused stone pigments and oils on canvases. Viewers are welcomed to feel the texture! Her current project, a watercolor book, is dedicated to The Sylva Project, an equine breeding program in Corfu, Greece. 4) In Bloom: 2011- 21. Inspired by ‘plein air’ venues, garden gems come to life from Monet’s wisteria French lavender, California poppies, tropical birds of paradise to the hollyhocks of Santa Fe, New Mexico. 5) Finding Venetian Angels: 2020. Twenty oil paintings depict angels in human form, Byzantine mosaics and spirited imagery collected by Sweig during a 25 day quest in Venice, Italy. 6) In the Air: from 2018. Look up! This uplifting collection includes hummingbirds, the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, a village in the clouds of Provence and central Greece’s Meteora, six Eastern Orthodox Monasteries built on immense natural pillars called Meteoras. (suspended in air). 7) La Jolla Treasures, 2014- present: Featuring Sweig’s hometown, return to admired scenes captured in oil paintings from the La Jolla Cove, The Shores, Windansea Shack, Goldfish Point, Shell Beach, The Bishop’s School and St James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church.