The Museum of Broken Relationships is a great concept museum. It is based in Croatia, and is sending a collection on tour. It is currently at an Istanbul shopping mall – read more in this New York Times article. Exhibits include unopened bottles of champagne, cell phones, prosthetic legs, and more, all with great memories…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, through the Thomas J. Watson Library, has announced a new exhibition history resource: a chronological list (PDF) of all special exhibitions held at the Museum from its founding in 1870 to the present. Please note that this is a working document that will be updated periodically. If you have any…
A fantastic exhibit is opening this weekend at the Fowler Museum at UCLA (Jan. 10 to May 30). Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth includes 35 multimedia costumes/soundsuits designed by artist/dancer/costume designer Nick Cave (not the Australian singer!). We saw this show in San Francisco and it’s really terrific. You…
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…
The Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena has announced that Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Comtesse d’Haussonville (1845) has arrived on loan from The Frick Collection in New York. The portrait, the first loan from the Frick in an art exchange program between the two institutions, will be exhibited October 30, 2009–January 25, 2010. The loan is also…
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…