There was a good article in the New York Times last week on the many facets of repatriation of looted artifacts. Some cases involve pressure from countries of origin and lengthy legal battles, such as that surrounding the Euphronius Krater, left, which spent many years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before travelling back to…
We all know not to touch works of art in museums. Or, at least most of us know this. A student on a quest for a fabulous selfie, however, seems to have missed that lesson: the student, who was visiting the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, climbed onto a sculpture of the “Drunken Satyr,”…
Tim’s Vermeer recently played in Santa Barbara at the film festival. It’s a documentary about Tim Jenison, a Texas optics engineer who long wondered how Vermeer managed to achieve such a “photographic” and light-infused effect in his paintings. He develops an interesting theory, and sets about recreating The Music Lesson using a method he thinks…
Almost two years ago, the University of Iowa Museum of Art sent Jackson Pollock’s Mural (1943) — a large 8 x 20 foot canvas — to the Getty for technical study and conservation. This extensive study has yielded “much new and significant information about the painting and its role in a transitional moment in Pollock’s…
The Library is currently accepting applications from student artists for the relaunch of their Wireless Art Network (WAN), a network created by two UCSB graduates, Chris Silva (MFA, New Media, 2013) and Raymond Douglas (BA, Art Studio, 2013), to display art through wireless 802.11 technologies in public spaces. This wireless network, not connected to the…
In case you’re dying of curiousity about who bought the Francis Bacon triptych for a record-breaking $142.4 million at the Christie’s auction in November (as reported here at the Red Dot), it has been revealed. The New York Times reported that is was Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of casino owner Steve Wynn. And in case you’d…