Author: tchabolla

  • Photoshop Disasters!

    Have you ever come across a print advertisement and thought something just wasn’t quite right? Check out PsD: Photoshop Disasters for a collection of unfortunate, atrocious, and what-were-they-thinking examples of when Photoshop use goes horribly, horribly wrong.

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  • Art on the go with ARTstor Mobile

    ARTstor has just unveiled ARTstor Mobile, with access to all 1,000,000+ images from the ARTstor Digital Library through iPad, iPhone, and the iPod Touch to registered ARTstor users. It’s not an app but through the Safari browser you can search, browse, zoom, and view saved image groups (to which you have access). A great feature…

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  • Art History Association Meeting Feb. 8

    UCSB’s Art History Association has organized a Museum Panel, featuring the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Anne Mersmann, Associate Registrar; Patsy Hicks, Director of Education; and Michelle Sullivan, Senior Curatorial Assistant. When: Tuesday, February 8th, 5:30pm Where: Phelps 3526.

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  • Exploring museums and hi-res images with Art Project, by Google

    Google has collaborated with art museums in the US and Europe to offer Art Project. The viewer navigates each participating museum with the same technology as Google’s Street View and can zoom in to view specific works of art in high resolution. With a Google account, you can create a personalized Art Collection to view…

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  • Protests in Egypt and the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities

    For anyone following the breaking news out of Egypt, Reuters is reporting that the Army has secured the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. The blog Hyperallergic has been trying to verify stories about threats of fire and/or looting to the museum, whose website is down (internet service has been cut off nationwide), and post…

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  • Wagering art on the Super Bowl outcome

    One way to put your art where your mouth is: The Milwaukee Art Museum and Carnegie Museum of Art have agreed to wager a loan of a major work of Impressionist art on the outcome of Super Bowl XLV. The bet continues a tradition begun last year between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the…

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