Photos from the In Search of Tiki museum exhibition at the Forest Lawn Glendale Museum. The exhibition was curated by Doug Nason and Barracuda publisher Jeff Fox. The exhibit was on display from August 8th to January 4th. It featured traditional oceanic art, post-modern Polynesian pop and current tiki...

In the early 1930s, New Zealand-born artist Eric Askew found himself unable to get work as a commercial artist because of the depression. So, he took up sign painting and pictorial art painting in New Zealand. Around this time, he began surfing and became a member of the Piha Surf Life Saving Club. Askew...

Palm Springs has received a lot of attention lately for its wealth of modern and post-modern architecture. One architecture firm was largely responsible for a changing the face of Palm Springs from a sleepy desert town into a jet-setting community of the future. The firm was the Alexander Construction...

Edgar Leeteg was in his 20s when he first visited Tahiti. While working as a billboard painter for an advertising agency in Sacramento, he had decided to take a six-week vacation to Tahiti 1930. He chose the Tahitian vacation simply because it was the only one he could afford out of the travel brochures...