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…
Rembrandt in Southern California is a virtual exhibition, with printable guide and audio by museum curators, of paintings by the Dutch artist from five regional museums. This area is the third-largest assemblage of Rembrandt paintings in the United States. This show also anticipates Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference, an unprecedented exhibition…
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”…
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…
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…