‘Calle Color,’ one of the new attractions at the 23rd Annual La Jolla Festival of the Arts, will transform asphalt into a colorful canvas. Courtesy The La Jolla Festival of the Arts, now in its 23rd year, will host more than 190 artists and thousands of visitors from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 20-21 at the UCSD East Campus. The event, which has raised nearly $1 million in proceeds for programs that …

Walk through The Granary Gallery courtyard on any sunny day and find antique wrought iron tables and chairs, flowers growing everywhere, and art lining the rustic wooden outdoor walls.

Sandy Applegate, a pillar of the art community in Pagosa Springs, will attend the second Art in the Garden Festival on Aug. 15 at Rancho El Pinoso, and display her work at the event.

Diego Rivera, Zapatista Landscape — The Guerrilla, 1915. Oil on canvas, 57 3/32 x 49 1/4 in. Museo Nacional de Arte, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. CENCROPAM-INBA SIGROA 11948. Photo: © Francisco Kochen.

A familiar local artist is featuring a new look in an exhibit now on display in the rotunda gallery of the Grace Mellman Library in Temecula. Ingrid Wright, a past president of the Temecula Valley Art League, has unveiled 10 new paintings that represent a shift from the style she exhibited in the same place two years earlier. Im really proud of it. The library staff says its been really well …

1. “Judith Leyster 1609-1660″ : Dutch painter Judith Leyster’s reputation has survived for four centuries on the strength of an ouvre of only about 20 works. Besides superb technique, Leyster had a gift for storytelling within her paintings, capturing intimate, fleeting, human moments.