If art is a metaphor for life, this photographic display is an exploration of humanity’s creative energy, along with the search for meaning and identity.

Celebrity photographer Matthew Rolston, known for lush portraits of actors and musicians, took a different approach in ‘Art People,’ his exhibition of 2016 Pageant photographs.

Wayne Thiebaud’s exhibition at The Laguna Art Museum, simply entitled ‘Clowns,’ is a delightful surprise, revealing the centenarian painter to be at the top of his form.

Rolston’s portraits are on view through September 19 in the exhibition “Matthew Rolston, Art People: The Pageant Portraits” at Laguna Art Museum.

Hymns to the Silence represents the distillation of decades of work that’s come before it.

A portion of funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts have reached Orange County once again.

Each summer, on a stage in Laguna Beach, California, performers assemble themselves into “tableaux vivant” — living pictures.

Two dozen black and white photographs — all portraying the pared down exteriors of Southern California buildings — are expressions of Jacques Garnier’s passion for architecture, art history and poetry.

Through the decades, people have flocked to Laguna Beach to witness for themselves the alluring tableaux vivants of the Pageant of the Masters.

There couldn’t be a more fitting exhibition to celebrate the opening of the Pageant of the Masters – and the city’s reemergence.

Postponed a year due to COVID-19, Matthew Rolston’s “Art People: The Pageant Portraits” is finally open, and it was truly worth the wait.

Laguna Art Museum receives a Curatorial Research Fellowship for Sharrissa Iqbal and Michael Duncan.

“Art People” is scheduled to open at the Laguna Art Museum on Sunday, June 27 – a week and a half before the tableaux vivant Pageant begins on July 7.

Art Walk at the Laguna Art Museum will be online with a docent-led virtual tour of the “Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns” exhibit at 5:30 p.m.

The Laguna College of Art + Design graduate students’ artwork: thought-provoking and beautifully executed.

The compelling background to this show is that these portraits were created by 100-year-old Wayne Thiebaud, a California native who has been called the quintessential American painter.

The Laguna Art Museum has chosen Julie Perlin Lee as its next executive director. A national search to fill the position was conducted by the museum.

Clowns pique our imaginations and memories. They also reflect the panoply of human emotions, from despair to pathos, to delight, to jubilation. Indeed, clown portraits pervade art history.

Laguna Art Museum has tapped Julie Perlin Lee, outgoing executive director of Catalina Island Museum, to lead the storied organization amid a pandemic that has devastated art institutions across the country.

The Laguna Art Museum (LAM) has selected Julie Perlin Lee, the executive director of the Catalina Island Museum, as its new executive director.

Laguna Art Museum has reopened with a treasure of a show – “Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns.” It is a treat. There is something extraordinary in the final works of great artists.

Laguna Art Museum is planning to reopen on Friday, March 26, and is extending its exhibition, “Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns,” through October 24.

Three OC visual arts organizations will receive a total of $300,000 in grants from the Getty Foundation as part of the newest Pacific Standard Time (PST) initiative.

A trio of Orange County museums have been awarded $100,000 each by the Getty Foundation to participate in the Getty’s next Pacific Standard Time (PST).

With works by more than 100 of California’s most coveted artists, the museum-curated auction is conducted online via Artsy and features special virtual content.

The third edition of PST will visit how art and science, both past and present, can address 21st century challenges, ranging from climate change to artificial intelligence.

Laguna Art Museum will present its 39th annual California Cool Art Auction and the new exhibition “Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns.”

The colorful, rainbow-like installation — a “skynet” in the artist’s view — flutters and undulates with the wind and seems to have a life of its own.

The museum hopes the piece will serve the community in a number of ways including shedding light on environmental issues and celebrating the area’s unique connection with art and nature.

The 650-foot-long exhibit is the featured installation for Laguna Art Museum’s Art and Nature, an annual event that is now in its eighth year.