Over 2,000 works by Robert Mapplethorpe and an extensive collection of negatives, personal letters, and other documentation has been jointly acquired by LACMA and the J. Paul Getty Trust from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The partners were chosen for several reasons, including the emergence of Los Angeles as a major cultural center, and the Getty…
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…
There was a very powerful and disturbing photo essay in the Guardian recently about Detroit as an abandoned city. The photographers, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, visited theaters, libraries, churches, and office buildings that are in varying states of decay. In some cases they appear to have been evacuated in hasty and mysterious ways, as…
Yale University now hosts the James J. Ross Archive of African Images, 1590-1920 (RAAI), which contains approximately 5,000 illustrations of African art published before 1921. The archive represents an eight-year collaboration between African art collector James Ross and filmmaker Susan Vogel, a former director of the Museum for African Art, and is facilitated by Yale…
Mark your calendars for the 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, January 16-23 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. One of this year’s highlights is a never before seen exhibition of photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, courtesy of the Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica. There is also a Symposia Series and a Guest Country Program featuring…