Bryan Barcena

“Where did George Lucas get this chip on his shoulder?” View of “The History of Narrative Art: Heroes, Myths, the Sacred” at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, 2026. Photo: Paul Salveson AMONG THE PAINTINGS of wholesome, Americana-defining scenes on display in the gallery devoted to works by Norman Rockwell at the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles is The Connoisseur, 1962.

Our West Coast editor visits exhibitions at Timothy Hawkins, Sea View, and Château Shatto. View of “Rick Bartow: All of these things have happened” 2026, Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo: ofphotostudio. WHEREAS THE REST of the Northern Hemisphere sees June as the point where summer bright and true arrives, Angelenos typically spend these months under a blanket of gray clouds that stifle our photon-addled brains.

Jack Malotte, The End, 1983. Watercolor and ink on paper, 22 x 29 ¾ in. (55.9 x 75.6 cm). Nevada Museum of Art, gift of William and Janet Abernathy. 1988.02.02. © Jack Malotte. Image courtesy Nevada Museum of Art. There is a phenomenon in the realm of industrial design known as alarm fatigue. The term describes a condition in which people in high-risk occupations (medical staff, airline pilots, industrial-machine operators) become desensitized to the visual or audio cues that indicate danger.