Mark your calendars for Saturday, January 31, when Southern California museums will band together for their tenth annual “Museums Free-For-All” Free Admission Day. The event will have over twenty museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, natural history, and science—opening their doors to visitors to explore their permanent collections (note that this offer will not apply to specially…
If you’ve ever come across items in UCSB’s Libraries that are visually arresting or would encourage engaging discussions, the UCSB Library Exhibitions Committee urges you to propose an exhibition. The Committee reviews submissions from UCSB students, faculty, employees, and affiliated organizations, especially proposals that support UCSB’s teaching and research mission or highlights the University’s curriculum, research,…
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles has posted their advanced schedule for 2015-2016 exhibitions at all three MOCA venues (MOCA Grand Avenue, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and MOCA Pacific Design Center), including: When Fashion Shows The Danger Then Fashion Is The Danger. Bernhard Willhelm and Jutta Kraus. 3000. (February 7 – May 17,…
Images of Africa, curated by David C. Tambo (retired Head of Special Collections) and Edward Fields (Special Collections Reading Room Manager and IS Supervisor), is on view in Davidson Library’s Special Collections (Third Floor) through January 2015. The exhibition showcases maps from as early as the 17th century, photograph collections dating to the latter 19th…
Artsy was named Best Art Website at the 18th Annual Webby Awards. Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection and is powered by The Art Genome Project. The New York Times has dubbed the award the “internet’s highest honor.” “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York…
In 2011, we reported that The Israeli Museum launched The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls, an online resource for beautiful images and scholarly translations of the scrolls. Now, the Israel Antiquities Authority just debuted an upgraded version of its Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. It includes 10,000 new multispectral images as well as improved…