A startlingly clear day - one would never think that the air in Los Angeles was polluted, ever ... a view straight out to sea, and to Catalina Island, over the more-or-less resting gardens of the Getty Museum. The wisteria is still dormant. And yet - by the time I left, the temperatures were in the low 80s. I was there, however, not to admire the view, but for the West Coast Art History graduate symposium - which was a terrific event, with excellent speakers, including our very own Ambra Spinelli, talking about the decoration of tablina - the tablinum was an inner room of a villa opposite the entrance, and since Ambra's been researching them I've learned a huge amount about their usage, and appearance - and how it was tied to broader popular/public visual culture in Pompeii. She did us proud (as we knew she would).
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