Tag: museums

  • New Museum Exhibitions in SoCal

    Lots of new things opening  – a few highlights: New exhibitions at the Huntington include “The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection”, “Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles”,  “Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock”, and continuing  “British Watercolors…

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  • Ingres at the Norton Simon

    The Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena has announced that Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Comtesse d’Haussonville (1845) has arrived on loan from The Frick Collection in New York. The portrait, the first loan from the Frick in an art exchange program between the two institutions, will be exhibited October 30, 2009–January 25, 2010. The loan is also…

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  • The Virtual Museum of Iraq

    Highlights from the The Iraq Museum in Baghdad can now be viewed online at The Virtual Museum of Iraq. The “halls” are organized by period and offer historical and geographical background as well as sculptures and decorative objects. Objects can be explored both by description and visually via multiple views or a QTVR. Some objects…

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