The Red Dot is an informational and ongoing list about visual and material news and resources, aimed at the University of California, Santa Barbara community, but open to all.
In case you don’t get the reference, it’s the little red dot in the corners of our legacy 35mm slides that helps you with orientation. And that’s what we’re here for – orientation, information, hot tips, and more. We’ll be posting regularly on Digital Humanities – and specifically Digital Art and Architectural History, new image and data resources, copyright, and events of interest.
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Magic Lantern show at the Hammer tonight
If you’re in Los Angeles tonight, don’t miss The American Magic Lantern Theater‘s show at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 7pm. The show, inspired by the Hammer exhibition The Darker Side of Light, is a “Victorian era Magic-Lantern show, replete with flying ghosts, macabre goblins, and a petrifying rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. Using… Read more
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ARTstor, Archivision and CDL deliver a payload!
With some end of the year money available, the California Digital Library has licensed three huge segments of the vendor Archivision‘s fantastic images of architecture and public art for all UC campuses. The Archivision Base Collection has 16,370 images “representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites”. Archivision Module… Read more
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Congratulations to our graduates!
Three of our wonderful VRC workers have graduated this year – Una, Shelby and John. Good luck to all of you, and stay in touch!! Read more
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Now that’s artistic devotion
Here’s a HubPage that shows examples of a love of art on a completely other level (even if some of the facts are incorrect): Tattoos of works of art. If you think this is a great idea but balk at the permanence of it, you could try something like these instead… Read more
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Banksy in Bristol — or on BBC
If you find yourself in England this summer, check out the new Banksy exhibition at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery. The show, “Banksy Versus Bristol Museum”, runs through 31 August and features the elusive artist’s wry take on traditional art interspersed throughout the museum (the installation was performed under tight security and reportedly in 36… Read more
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Orange Co. Museum of Art sells paintings to private collector
Culture Monster, a LA Times.com arts blog, is reporting that the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach sold 18 of 20 California Impressionist paintings from its collection to an unidentified Laguna Beach private collector rather than send them to auction. The sale, which took place in late March, recently came to the attention… Read more