Sacred Gold: Pre-Hispanic Art of Colombia from the renowned Museo del Oro in Bogotá, Colombia includes over 200 gold figures and ornaments full of expression and inventiveness inspired by the natural environment and by supernatural visions. A selection of ceramic tomb figures and stone tools accompany the exhibition.

January 12th was both Jack London’s birthday and the opening of the new exhibition Jack London, Photographer at the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

Best known for his novel, The Call of the Wild, London's photojournalist work includes documenting events in the Pacific.

The exhibition focus is on Refugees of the Russo-Japanese War for Hearst Syndicate 1904, ruins of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, adventures in the South Sea Islands 1907-08, and rounding Cape Horn onboard, the barque, DIRIGO in 1912.

The exhibit was inspired by Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Sara S. Hodson, and Philip Adam’s  recent book Jack London, Photographer (University of Georgia Press).

Jack London (1876–1916) remains one of the most widely read American writers, known for his naturalist fiction, socialist novels and essays, journalism, and the many adventures that he shared with the world. London was also an accomplished photographer, producing nearly twelve thousand photographs during his lifetime. Jack London, Photographer, the first book devoted to London’s photography, reveals a vital dimension of his artistry, barely known until now.

London’s subjects included such peoples as the ragged homeless of London’s East End and the freezing refugees of the Russo-Japanese War, the latter photographed on assignment for the Hearst Syndicate.