It’s that time of year again to mark your calendars for the Annual Los Angeles Art Show! This year’s show will be held January 14-28, 2015 at the LA Convention Center, South Hall J and K. This mark’s the Art Show’s 20th Anniversary and they’ve both added dates and scaled down the experience to two…
Yes, you read that right. The Sistine Chapel can be rented out for select corporate charity events as a part of Pope Francis’ “Art for Charity” initiative. The first takers: Porsche. On Saturday, October 18, 2014, forty of the car maker’s enthusiasts paid $5,900 per head to be among the first group of people treated…
Art and Craft is a documentary about prolific art forger Mark Landis, an odd duck in the world of forgery as he is not in it for the money. The film screens on Wed., Oct. 15 only, at 5:00 and 7:30pm at the Plaza de Oro cinema (map). Read about the film here, and the…
The Dallas Museum of Art has begun its digital database redesign for online access to the Museum’s entire collection of more than 22,000 objects. The DMA asserts this ongoing project will create “one of the world’s most sophisticated online art collections” that will offer not only high-resolution images, but “whenever permitted by existing agreements, the…
The Dumbarton Oaks’ Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) has published several new finding aids for collections in their online inventory of archival and photographic holdings, AtoM@DO. These holdings include a wide range of topics, including Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art and architecture, prehistoric sites in eastern Turkey and gardens in the United Kingdom. via ICFA
The Morgan Library & Museum announced they have digitized their collection of Rembrandt etchings — almost five hundred images — and have made them available online. The Morgan holds impressions of most of the three hundred or so known etchings by Rembrandt, as well as multiple, often exceedingly rare impressions of various states. Each etching…