Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 5, when Southern California museums from Long Beach to Santa Barbara will band together for their annual “Museums Free-For-All” Free Admission Day. The event will have over thirty museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, natural history, and science—opening their doors to visitors to explore their permanent collections (note that this offer…
The painting below, “The Republican Club” by Andy Thomas, hangs in the White House, in the Oval Office in fact. It depicts several living and dead Republican presidents. This article in the Guardian breaks down each individual portrait very nicely. Discuss! Points for identification of the fellow in the background on the right.
An article in today’s New York Times looks at how companies like Museum Hack are presenting the museum experience in new (and sometimes irreverent) ways. Lead by informed and lively guides (many are performers), Museum Hack offers tours in New York, LA, Chicago, and a growing number of other major US cities. Offerings such as…
A beautiful feat of animation by artist and educator Cao Shu, One-minute art history incorporates an astonishing range of styles in this short narrative.
The Library of Congress has added two new born-digital collections to their archives. The Webcomics Web Archive focuses on comics created specifically for the web and supplements the Library’s extensive holdings in comic books, graphic novels and original comic art. It has award-winning comics as well as webcomics that are significant for their longevity, reputation…
After they were digitized, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s massive library of 35-millimeter slides might have ended up as landfill. Instead they are the materials for an exhibition, Institutional Memory: 35mm Slides from the Met’s Collection, at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs’s reuse center, Material for the Arts (MFTA). Five artists have transformed the…