The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz announced a new online exhibition on The Cloister of Monreale. The exhibition offers general views of the cloister but it’s the extensive details of the capitals that make it worth seeing. Clicking on each detail opens a bit bigger image, but to get an even better view, follow the “full-size”…
The LA Times reported last Friday that the Long Beach Museum of Art appears to be in dire financial straits due to a $3-million bond debt due to the city in September. The city is threatening a takeover of the museum and to sell works of art to cover the debt. To address this issue,…
Eastman Kodak’s Blog 1000words posted an announcement today that they will “retire” Kodachrome slide film. Additional information can be found here. For those who love slide photography, or are old enough to have memories of family vacation slide shows (embarrassing or otherwise), this is a sad end of an era. To put a bit of…
Here’s a HubPage that shows examples of a love of art on a completely other level (even if some of the facts are incorrect): Tattoos of works of art. If you think this is a great idea but balk at the permanence of it, you could try something like these instead…
Culture Monster, a LA Times.com arts blog, is reporting that the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach sold 18 of 20 California Impressionist paintings from its collection to an unidentified Laguna Beach private collector rather than send them to auction. The sale, which took place in late March, recently came to the attention…
This is breathtaking – a 360 degree nighttime view of Paris from the Eiffel Tower in Quicktime. It’s just one of the beautiful panoramas by Eric Rougier – you can see all of them at his website “Panoramas from Paris”, which includes instructions to maximize viewing of these QTVR gems. Rougier is one of the…