• Art Home Design

    As spring open house season approaches at famed Hubbell art compound in Santa Ysabel, a torch is passed

    SANTA YSABEL —  Almost every April for the past 38 years, activity at artist-sculptor James Hubbell’s famous Ilan-Lael home and art compound in Santa Ysabel has risen to a fever pitch as Hubbell, his wife, Anne, and their onsite crew of artisans prepared for the property’s annual open house. Since 1983, thousands of art and architecture enthusiasts from all over the world have arrived each spring for guided tours of the Hubbells’ fantastical 33-acre compound. The only exception was in 2020, when the pandemic closed the property to the public. Inside the Boys House at James and Ann Hubbells’ Ilan-Lael Foundation property in Santa Ysabel. (Ilan-Lael Foundation ) There’s no place…

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  • Natural Landscape

    A Landscape Photography Contest Rewards Unique Approaches to the Genre

    The genre of landscape photography usually involves cliffs, gorges, mountainous peaks, and other monumental natural formations captured from the panoramic perspective of a wide-angle lens. The inaugural Natural Landscape Photography Awards’ (NLPA) selection for Photograph of the Year is an unexpected and delightful break from tradition. What at first glance looks like an icy snow cap gleaming underneath a rust-tinged, amorphous moon is actually the tip of a miniature iceberg lying atop a black sand beach in Iceland, decorated with an orange pebble nearby. The photograph’s friendly parody of perhaps the most common compositional silhouette in landscape photography makes for a tongue-in-cheek winning entry in an oftentimes self-serious category. “Landscapes…

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