San Diego Museum of Art Eleanor Antin pulls from art history for her elaborate photographic tableaux like “The Judgment of Paris (After Rubens),” featured in two versions in her current exhibition.

In our culture, which seems to live for the future most of all, history is mostly seen as a subject for the classroom. But, that's a false concept. History may be a field of study, but it's much more than that.

Early in her career, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho asked a cellist she admired if he would record one of her pieces for Finnish radio. Greatly amused by the thought of a woman composer, the cellist laughed so hard that he nearly choked. But nobody's laughing now.

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