The Orange County Register | Jonathan Horwitz
Sixty Holocaust-era violins from the “Violins of Hope” collection are on display in Orange County through June 10.
Diedra Lukoff went to the Hilbert Art Museum in Orange last week for lack of any other plans on a sweltering afternoon.
She expected a good time, a respite from the heat amid the gallery’s cheerful contemporary Californian art.
The museum’s permanent collection is jovial — a portrait of an In-N-Out-style cheeseburger welcomes visitors to the main entrance. Behind the burger, bright watercolors and vivid landscapes of the California Scene Painting movement, as well as uplifting and familiar Disney animation art, adorn the hallways.
To her surprise, Lukoff left the museum in tears, moved by a sorrowful temporary exhibition on display through the end of the month — the Violins of Hope.
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