FERNBERGER

Saturday morning in Pasadena, a group of us walked off our hangovers along a trail in the Arroyo Seco, where the artist Phil Davis hosted an outdoor open studio, showing a series of paintings he had made and installed on wooden posts along the path. Afterward, we sat at picnic tables drinking coffee while local kids performed archery on cardboard targets. Painter Andy Giannakakis remarked that this was the “antithesis of the week’s festivalization,” which made him feel optimistic about Los Angeles.