The Traveling Gallery - LGG

05/23/2026

🤞June

Oil on canvas. circa 1635-37. Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

05/17/2026

Once is definitely not enough to visit this gallery, nearby park and grab lunch. Often trips to Italy do not have space for the Borghese.

In 1605, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the pope’s nephew, set out to build the most magnificent dwelling to have graced the heart of Rome. The result was the Villa Borghese, a temple to art built on former vineyards, where vaulted halls boasting mythological frescoes came to house some of the world....

05/16/2026

Not sure about this list. May have to check out the one in LA.

05/13/2026

Online websites and media going through a reboot.

04/24/2026

I love JSX.

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04/12/2026

Rodin’s Egypt presents the master French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s (1840–1917) fascination with ancient Egypt through the Egyptian artifacts he collected and his own sculptures inspired by them. Celebrated as one of the founders of modern European sculpture, Rodin crafted expressive bodies that...

04/08/2026

03/31/2026

At first glance, it looks like a construction site. But what was happening here was something very different.

This was a major archaeological excavation—one that would reveal layers of Paris’s past hidden beneath the square.

• Workers uncovered remains dating back to the Gallo-Roman period
• Parts of ancient Lutetia, the Roman city that existed before Paris
• Medieval structures that had disappeared over time

The ground in front of Notre-Dame had always been symbolic.

But until this moment, no one fully realized how much history was buried just below it.

What they found changed that.

• Foundations of old buildings
• Fragments of streets and walls
• Evidence of how the city evolved over centuries

Today, this site is known as the Crypte Archéologique de l'Île de la Cité.

And it’s still there—right beneath the square.

Most people walk across it without knowing.

But under their feet lies nearly 2,000 years of history.