Category: Santa Barbara news

  • SB Contemporary Arts Forum needs a home

    The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum would like you to temporarily donate your home for The Home Art, Revisited exhibition (May 21-July 17, 2011). This show reprises two previous CAF Home Shows (1988 and 1996) with ten Los Angeles-based artists creating site-specific installations in ten Santa Barbara area residences. One house is still needed: a…

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  • UCSB Grad symposium – Call for Papers

    The graduate students in the department of the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB are holding their 36th Annual Symposium on April 29-30, 2011, devoted to the theme “Moralities in the Visual Arts.”  They invite proposals for papers on any aspect of this theme from graduate students and recent PhDs in all areas of…

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  • Even more Santa Barbara and UCSB images available

    We have recently added many more Santa Barbara and UCSB images and records to our online image database (MDID), making the total over 600, and with more on the way.   The most recent content we’ve added includes archival images of the UCSB campus and building (including the aerial view at left ca. 1941, long before…

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  • Nov. 2 lecture: “Velazquez in the Basement: Connoisseurship and the Politics of Art History”

    Dr. John Marciari, Curator of Italian and Spanish Painting at the San Diego Museum of Art, will deliver a lecture at UCSB entitled “Velazquez in the Basement: Connoisseurship and the Politics of Art History.” Co-sponsored by the departments of the History of Art and Architecture, Art, and Spanish and Portuguese, the lecture is part of…

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  • Photography raffle to benefit Louisiana

    Santa Barbara-based photographer Nell Campbell has organized a fundraiser to benefit The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (read more about CRCL here).  She has donated the photograph pictured below, which she took in 2004 on Little Chenier Road in SW Louisiana.  It is 8″x19″, framed in maple wood, with a white rag mat and UV…

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  • Museum Day: Saturday, September 25

    Smithsonian Magazine is celebrating their 6th Annual Museum Day. On Saturday, September 25, museums all over the country will offer free admission to those with special Museum Day tickets. Locally, this includes the Presidio and Casa de la Guerra but you can search for all participating venues here. Once you’ve found your choice, print your…

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