The Ham Presents Photography And Fine Art

09/05/2026

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It was a s*x scandal for the ages.

08/24/2026

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RECOVERED: A signed Picasso etching stolen from a Milwaukee art gallery in 2018 turns up in a dusty vacant apartment years later.

A landlord found the 1949 print titled "Torero" — one of only 30 known signed copies — while cleaning out a unit after an eviction.

The artwork, appraised at up to $50,000, was authenticated within a day of being turned in to police and returned to the gallery owner who had given up hope of ever seeing it again.

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08/24/2026

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08/23/2026

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The Warner-Carrillo Ranch House has served as a stage coach stop, a trading post and a post office. Nearly 170 years later, its story is still being written.

08/16/2026

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In April 1970, a community planted a park under a freeway and then covered its concrete pillars with the largest outdoor mural program in the United States — and fifty years later, the park is a National Historic Landmark. 🎨

Chicano Park sits beneath the Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan, on land that had been promised to the community for years while the state built freeway infrastructure directly over the neighborhood. When bulldozers arrived in April 1970 to break ground for a California Highway Patrol substation on the promised park site, residents and students occupied the land and held it for eleven days until the city agreed to deed it over. The first murals went up the same year — painted directly on the concrete pylons of the bridge's support structure, on surfaces that had been purely industrial.

Fifty years on, the park holds more than 80 murals covering nearly every paintable surface under the bridge. The images range from pre-Columbian deities and Mexican revolutionary heroes to Chicano civil rights leaders and portraits of Barrio Logan residents. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2016, it is the only landmark in San Diego to emerge from a community land takeover — proof that a neighborhood can claim its own history by painting it on concrete.

What does it mean that one of San Diego's most powerful places started with people standing in front of bulldozers?

08/05/2026