Matthew Vest

Unity Temple and Frank Lloyd Wright tour (Chicago)
Chicago River Architecture Tour
Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began exhibition at LACMA
Just Letters, letter press exhibition and workshop with David Wolski (Saint Paul)
Sky Rose Chapel
Gamble House

Pasta at Antico Nuovo
Robert Altman’s Short Cuts in 70mm at the Aero Theater
Climbing my first 14er: Gray’s Peak in Colorado
Pork and green chile stew at Dunsmoor
Framing and hanging my 12 small paintings

Cathedral Grove (Vancouver Island)
Ferry ride up the inside passage in Canada
Salmon and Bear Glaciers in Canada and Alaska
Faser Canyon scenic highway and walking across the Alexandra Bridge
The chilled okra at iDen & Quan Ju De Beijing Duck House (Vancouver)

Bruce Goff’s Boston Ave. Church and the Riverside Studio (Tulsa)
Antoine Predock's McNamara Alumni Center and Frank Gehry's Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis)
Bean dip with smoked whitefish at Owamni and the duck at Khâluna (Minneapolis)
Nadya Tolokonnikova's (Pussy Riot) "Police State"

Blackouts by Justin Torres
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushnew
Taliesin West (Scottsdale Arizona)
Louis Kahn's Salk Institute and Rudolf Schindler's El Pueblo Ribera Court (San Diego)
Sweet potatoes with Peruvian ground cherries at Roberta’s

The past few years I have made a list of good things for the past year. This year, the themes are: food, architecture, art and hiking.

25 good things from 2025 (presented in chronological order):

A painting of the Grand Canyon with the river in the foreground and the canyon walls behind the river

Update! I touched up the stone. I think I'll leave it alone now

Small painting of the Grand Canyon, with water in the foreground and canyon walls behind the river

Another small painting of the Grand Canyon. This one is inspired by the Phantom Ranch Boat Beach, just after the Black Bridge on the South Kaibab trail.

Little painting of the Grand Canyon, with a blue sky and cliffs in the distance.

My first little painting of the Grand Canyon.

I'm excited to share this milestone. Half a million views!

Bunche Hall, home to the UCLA International Institute.

Matthew Vest, a music inquiry and research librarian at the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library, has received a UCLA Global Research Award for Resonate 2026, a global open access musical score project.

Read more about Resonate 2026 and other winning projects: ucla.in/4p9w9o1

... a study ON composer approaches... Shakes fist in typo!

I'm excited to announce that I've been awarded a Global Research Award at UCLA to continue work with open access music scores and conduct a study composer approaches to publishing with @deloebrenti.bsky.social. Read more about the winning projects here: newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/educ...

Forbidden Music Regained Review

My review of the Forbidden Music Regained score series by Donemus Publishing is out in Notes! You can read it there or the version I contributed to Knowledge Commons here: works.hcommons.org/records/2na4...

Twelve small paintings of landscapes framed in natural wood frames

My twelve little paintings, all framed. I'll need to find their order, but for now, they are presented in the order I painted them

Inspired by @katiereedwrites.bsky.social, here are 10 horror movies to get to know me:
1. Nope
2. Children of Men
3. The Shining
4. Don't Look Now
5. The Ascent (1977)
6. The Thing (1982)
7. The Descent
8. Alien
9. Suspiria (1977)
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Last week, I climbed my first 14er: Gray's Peak at 14,275 feet.

From The Garden : For Sa Choir and Piano With program and biographical notes. Text by Anne Sexton. Duration: approximately 4-4.5 minutes.1 choral score (10 pages); 27 cmLanguage: EnglishEdition Number: CP 002Distributor Number: CP002

Choral directors, if you need a new piece for SA choir and piano, check out my "From the Garden," which sets a poem by Anne Sexton. Available from Theodore Front and Ficks. www.tfront.com/p-546972-fro.... and www.ficksmusic.com/products/fro...

UPDATE: Federal database of historical education documents ceasing operations The latest education news updates from EdSource.

I'm sad to hear that they will stop adding resources to ERIC. edsource.org/updates/fede...

I was first introduced to scholarly research when I was in grade school. My mom, completing a graduate degree in education, would have me search for relevant articles using ERIC on microform. I might not have graduate degrees or be a librarian if I hadn't had this experience. (1)

YouTube video by Anna Christin Sayn - Topic Osterblüte Op. 10, II.

For your listening pleasure: Osterblüte (Easter Flower) by Ernst Bachrich.
youtu.be/wChDAH5y9Zw?...

Hopefully more brutalist than brutality

A hallway with exhibition cases on the left and right

An exhibition case with a large portrait of Arnold Schoenberg

An exhibition case with a large portrait of Arnold Schoenberg

An exhibition case with a screen and a large portrait of Arnold Schoenberg

The exhibition, Arnold Schönberg 150 Years, is nearly complete

Asparagus and egg on toast

Asparagus and egg toast! It is spring on a plate

Library workers taking down an exhibit.

A new exhibition, partially installed

Today, we took down my favorite exhibit and started installing a new one. The new exhibit is primarily on loan from Vienna and focuses on Arnold Schoenberg

12 small landscape paintings on a table

A year (and 3 months) of tiny paintings. Presented in the order I completed them, top left to bottom right

Small painting of the sun rising over the ocean, with a rocky shore in the foreground

Tiny painting #12, inspired by a scene in Spain, the Punta de Espiela outside of Ribadeo. I set a goal of 12 paintings in 2024, but it took a little extra time

I can't wait to read it! Can I add my contact to a list?

Is #severance the best tv show since Mary Tyler Moore? Yes Kier!

Check out what we are doing at the UCLA Rubsamen Music Library!