LOS ANGELES ART SHOW

John and I have wanted to go to the LA Art Show and this year we finally made it.  I don't know exactly what I thought it would be, but it was sort of different.  Basically, the LA Art Show is a place where a lot of galleries come to show their wares and sell them to the collecting public.  

So, there are famous masterpieces, quite a few Impressionists and a few California Impressionists. Lots of more modern stuff, and a big collection of Asian art.  Pictures don't exactly do it justice, but here are a few.  

This is sort of a quilt/sampler.

This is made of broken soda bottles epoxied together.  

Also, there was, for the first time this year, some glass.  Only one exhibitor.  They had glass from three generations of the same family.  I think the name is Dotter, but I left the information out in the car.  

Anyway, I am lusting for this piece of glass.  It's by the middle generation guy.  

Then we discovered that there is also a jewelry show running with this show.  It was mostly excruciatingly expensive diamonds and gold stuff, though one vendor had some really nice Art Nouveau pieces, but too expensive for me.  

Atone point we thought we'd have something to eat during the show because they had wonderful looking food.  It was a buffet and you could have whatever you wanted from some wonderful things that were available, but it was $26 for a plate of food!  

So we skipped it.  Our hotel is in Chinatown.  John warned me that the food here would spoil me for Chinese food in sacramento.  He was right, and we just ate at a kind of a run of the mill not really fancy restaurant.  But everything was perfectly cooked and seasoned.