• Pamela

    Seeing Something that Hasn’t Been Seen for 400 Years

      Sometimes we only see what we’ve been told to see. What if there is something entirely different to see? During 7th grade, Natalie and I enrolled in a magnificent class on the artist Rembrandt with Zhenya Gershman, an artist-educator who was teaching at the Getty Center at the time. She warned us that we might become addicted. To Rembrandt that is. She was right.  That is why I found myself, two weeks ago, snaking up the winding roads above Sunset Boulevard to her studio.  I was sitting in on another Rembrandt class she was teaching (as it was a school day, I had to promise Natalie I would tell her…