Among the Getty Conservation Institute‘s current projects is the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI), “a comprehensive, long-term, and international program…to advance the practice of conserving twentieth-century heritage, with a focus on modern architecture.” This includes the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8; photo above), but the CMAI website includes an image gallery and related…
Public and educational access to the National Gallery of Art’s collection just got a whole lot easier – all of its images believed to be in the public domain are now available for educational use, publication, and “personal enrichment”. NGA Images contains more than 20,000 open access images, searchable and browsable through a very clean…
The 10-day journey begins tonight for the huge boulder from a Riverside quarry destined as the centerpiece of Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass at LACMA. It is so huge it has to travel on a custom-built transporter that requires road and utility accommodations throughout the trip (it’s nearly 3 traffic lanes wide!), and must take a…
UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum has been going through an inside-and-out renovation and is ready to open its doors with Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House. The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the designer who popularized the ranch house and made it an icon of casual California…
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will open an exhibition to celebrate the work and legacy of Mike Kelley, who died this month. The exhibition will showcase Kelley’s work in the museum’s permanent collection along with other artists’ works donated by Kelley. The show, A Tribute to Mike Kelley, opens this Saturday at MOCA…
The Tate Gallery in Britain has an app for their Guide to Modern Art Terms. The app, designed for both iPhone and iPad, contains over 300 art terms defining and describing art movements, styles, schools, techniques and theory. Search by keyword or browse by different categories or through the image gallery. This is the first…