Category: art news

  • Leonardo da Vinci in Los Angeles

    The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles will host a short-run exhibition that features a rare showing of Leonardo’s drawing Angel in the Flesh (c. 1513-1515). Also included will be selections from Leonardo’s The Theatre Sheet (c. 1506-1508, from the Atlanticus Codex) and video artist Bill Viola’s installation The Last Angel (2002). Opening night, scholar…

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  • New Museum Exhibitions in SoCal

    Lots of new things opening  – a few highlights: New exhibitions at the Huntington include “The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection”, “Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles”,  “Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock”, and continuing  “British Watercolors…

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  • ARTMargins Journal on East European Visual Culture

    ARTMargins is an online journal devoted to Contemporary  Central and East European Visual Culture.  Founded in 1999 and published three times a year, it is managed by staff at The Hungarian University of Fine Arts and University of California, Santa Barbara –  our own Sven Spieker is the Editor.  There are wonderfully diverse articles on…

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  • Art Historians of Southern California Annual meeting on Nov. 7

    THE ART HISTORIANS of  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (AHSC) November 7, 2009 at 9:00 am Occidental College, Weingart Hall Program includes lunch and reception.   RSVP for further information to Rachel Pinto at eaurae@gmail.com Full program is available here. Directions to Occidental College here.

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  • Photographer Irving Penn dies at 92

    Irving Penn,  who started as fashion photography contributor at Vogue in 1943 and successfully crossed over to art photography, has died.  A full obituary is here at the LA Times. The exhibition Irving Penn: Small Trades is on at the Getty Museum until January 10, 2010.

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  • Bluestonehenge, a sister site to Stonehenge, found

    Archaeologists in England have uncovered a site thought to be linked to the famous Stonehenge. This “little sister” henge, located just 2.8km away along the River Avon, was dubbed Bluestonehenge since it was originally constructed of 25 blue Preseli stones. It is believed this riverain connection marked a funerary processional route from Bluestonehenge toward Stonehenge.…

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