Category: art news

  • “ART from the ashes” helping Santa Barbara

    ART from the ashes, an LA-based non-profit organization that creates art to help raise funds for communities devastated by fire, has set its sights on Santa Barbara. A new exhibition and art sale on October 10, to benefit the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, will showcase works of art made from materials gathered from the Garden…

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  • Important Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found

    The largest hoard of gold found in England, approximately 1,500 pieces, was recently discovered on a farm in Staffordshire by a man with a metal detector.  The pieces are in excellent condition, and many are heavily decorated and inscribed.  Read the article on the BBC website which includes slideshows and video, or visit The Staffordshire…

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  • Contemporary Arts Forum and the Aeolian Ride

    Santa Barbara’s Contemporary Arts Forum, along with the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition and the Wheelhouse, is co-sponsoring Jessica Findley’s Aeolian Ride, “a mass participatory bicycling performance piece with a sense of humor.” The piece, consisting of 52 people in wind-inflated suits riding bicycles through cities around the world, is scheduled to pass through Santa Barbara…

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  • National Geographic photos to go on sale

    For the first time the National Geographic Society will be putting photographs from its archives on sale.  As reported in the New York Times a selection from the archives will be offered through the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, beginning September 17.  Several of the photos have never been published or exhibited, and most date…

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  • MAK Center in LA announces fall architecture tour

    MAK Center (The Schindler House) has posted the itinerary (pdf) for its upcoming annual Architecture Tour. Set for October 4, the tour focuses on seven houses in the Los Feliz and Silver Lake areas. The highlight will be Schindler’s How House in Silver Lake, but other featured architects include Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, Harwell Harris…

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  • Architectural photographer Julius Shulman dies

    Julius Shulman, whose images helped shape appreciation for and scholarship of mid-20th-century Modernist architects and their buildings, died at his Los Angeles home Wednesday night. He was 98. obituary via Los Angeles Times

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