The MAK Center (The Schindler House) has posted the date for their 2010 architectural tour: October 10. This year’s tour will commemorate the 100th birthday of architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who died July 15, 2009 at age 98, by featuring homes from his images. Stay tuned for further information.
The “Degenerate Art” Research Center, Art History Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin now hosts a database that documents the fate of over 21,000 works of art deemed “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) and confiscated by the Nazis in 1937. The database is searchable by artist, title, object type, current repository and specific Nazi-era exhibitions. Many…
After an extensive two-year renovation, the Oakland Museum of California will reopen its doors with a Weekend Celebration 1-2 May to show off the museum’s new, brighter galleries. They have also been redesigned so installations can be more conceptual — objects from history and natural science collections share spaces with works of art and design.…