Because my co-authors and I spent so many hours looking at black and white photos while we were working on Hollywood Arensberg, encounters “in the wild” with the color-filled artworks that were once part of the Arensberg collection always manage to surprise…

On April 29, 2022, Hollywood Arensberg co-author Ellen Hoobler will be among the speakers at the second international symposium of the Getty Research Institute's Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative.

Perhaps the most frustrating part of writing Hollywood Arensberg was living with the nagging idea that there were people alive but unknown to us who had met Louise and Walter Arensberg and/or who had seen their collection in situ—flyers, you might say, beneath our radar. Indeed, though we looked for many years, we were only able to find and speak with two people who had been inside the Arensberg home at the time when it was filled with art.