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Premieres Monday, Feb. 5, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2. Old Sturbridge Village brings in new remarkable finds, including a 1977 Pele-signed soccer ball, a 1933 RKO King Kong Bachrach photo, and Winfred Rembert's Moonshiners painting, CA. 2001. Guess the top $ 100,000 to $125,000 find.

Talleres Caracol is a series of workshops in collaboration with El Centro Cultural De La Raza in Balboa Park. The workshop is geared towards everyone within the community who would like to explore culture through art. Registration is required to accommodate sufficient supplies for the workshop. Please register at tallerescaracol@outlook.com, thank you.

San Diego's Playwrights Project holds a public premiere on Saturday in the annual Plays by Young Writers Festival.

Linda Blair, popular local lecturer, is back by popular demand at the Athenaeum in La Jolla. If you like Cezanne, Matisse, and Van Gogh, this is her lecture series for you. This new generation of artists emerged in the 1880s. Like runners in a relay race, the Impressionists handed off the baton of artistic innovation to this these artists today viewed as giants of European art history. Each Post-Impressionist artist pursued his own unique artistic vision, but all were united in adopting the Impressionists’ conviction that art should not be filtered through ideology, intellect or “schools of art.” Thus liberated from constraint, art, they contended, should be independent, the exclusive product of the artist’s imagination and skill. Matisse and Picasso both claimed that Cezanne was “the father of us all,” and he does stand at the cusp between traditional, realistic art and 20th century abstraction. When Cezanne and Van Gogh met in Paris in 1886, they despised each other, a contempt that spilled over in their opinions of each other’s work. Cezanne’s forms are solid and immutable; Vincent’s inanimate objects dance with a kinetic energy. We can’t find Cezanne, the man, in his paintings; in Van Gogh’s canvases we can’t avoid him. Unlike the very conventional Matisse, Van Gogh’s life was one of alienation. Keenly aware of the isolation his odd behavior caused, he poured his longing for relationships, for human communion, into his paintings. Of his friend and archrival, Picasso said, “All things considered, there is only Matisse.” In his own words, Matisse sought to create “an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.” Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

This art class is designed for children ages 5-10 at any level and of all backgrounds. The objective is to engage participants in the culture and heritage of Yiddishland through art. Activities include: - creating and composing art with Yiddish concepts - exploring the life and work of artists featured at the gallery. Please note that phones and tablets will not be allowed in the classroom. Information about classes cost will be available on our website! Stay Connected with Yiddishland! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Only seven states have legalized human composting as a burial practice. That's why 29 percent of the bodies brought to Recompose, a composting facility in Seattle, come from out of state.

Join the Women's Museum of California on June 23 for an engaging conversation with Lambda Archives, She Fest, and SDSU LGBTQ+ Studies department. Learn how women in the LGBTQ+ community continue to use art and activism to organize, educate, and lobby for their rights. Event Schedule: 5:00 p.m. - Doors of the Women's Museum of California open. Enjoy light refreshments and explore our "Women of Pride" pop-up exhibit. 6:00 p.m. - Panel Discussion with Dr. Marie Draz, Director of LGBTQ+ Studies at SDSU; Cassie Harris from the She Fest planning committee; and Nicole Verdes from Lambda Archives.

From the gallery: Wendell Kling transforms the Athenaeum's gallery and windows with light, color, and cut paper silhouetted imagery to create a peaceful, contemplative retreat. Taking inspiration from temples of various belief systems, A Coruscating Sanctuary provides a platform for the activities that take place within. Kineto-luminescent furnishings and lights orient participants to the central “altar” and matching lectern. Here, the sanctuary invites visitors to participate in quiet reflection, readings, and occasional activations in the exchange of philosophies through poetry, sound, movement, and performance. Wendell M. Kling is a Southern California based interdisciplinary artist and educator. Kling's work is grounded in contemporary interdisciplinary practice that often incorporates sculptural objects with two-dimensional media, installation, performance, and film. The artist received a BA and MFA in studio art from UCSD in 1989 and 2000 respectively and has exhibited locally and nationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Ship in the Woods, Bread & Salt, Art Basel Miami (2005), Thrust Projects in New York, and MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Kling is currently professor of sculpture and new genres at San Diego Mesa College. Events: Opening Reception: Friday, May 12, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Gallery Walk-through: Saturday, June 3, 11 a.m.; free admission Artist Talk: Thursday, June 15, 6:30 p.m.; Tickets: $15/$20/$5 Exhibition activations: Poetry Reading on Friday, May 19, at 6 PM, with poet Adrian Arancibia Poetry and Contrabass on Saturday, May 27, at 2 PM, with poet Jerome Rothenberg and poet and bassist Mark Dresser Musical Performance on Friday, June 2, at 6 PM, with musician Sam Lopez Related links: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram | Facebook

New albums by Don Toliver and LUCKI take opposite paths to the same calling, an understanding of rap as texture rather than text.

“The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom” comes out Sept. 26. Nintendo just dropped a surprise trailer.