Category: exhibitions

  • Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz online exhibitions

    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”…

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  • Magic Lantern show at the Hammer tonight

    If you’re in Los Angeles tonight, don’t miss The American Magic Lantern Theater‘s show at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 7pm.  The show, inspired by the Hammer exhibition The Darker Side of Light,  is a “Victorian era Magic-Lantern show, replete with flying ghosts, macabre goblins, and a petrifying rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.  Using…

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  • Banksy in Bristol — or on BBC

    If you find yourself in England this summer, check out the new Banksy exhibition at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery. The show, “Banksy Versus Bristol Museum”, runs through 31 August and features the elusive artist’s wry take on traditional art interspersed throughout the museum (the installation was performed under tight security and reportedly in 36…

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  • Current SoCal Exhibitions

    Some current or soon-to-open shows for your weekend viewing: Santa Barbara Museum of Art:  The Yinka Shonibare show closes on June 21; also on is ” Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow” The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana:  “Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt’s Etchings” (also “ Art of the Samurai: Selections from the…

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  • Venice Biennale opens

    La Biennale di Venezia’s 53rd International Art Exhibition — with the theme “Making Worlds” — opened on 7 June with around 90 participating artists in the main exhibition (and a record number of participating countries: 77).  The show runs through 22 November 2009.

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  • Prison Photography blog

    Just came across this blog with an unusual focus: Prison Photography (The Practice of Photography in Sites of Incarceration).  It contains some striking historic and current photographs, of and about prisons, and interesting commentary and posts.

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