Archive for December, 2009
Monday, December 28th, 2009
An excerpt from a post this past holiday weekend by San Diego Union-Tribune's Janet Lavelle. OCEANSIDE — After leading the Oceanside Museum of Art through a dozen years of growth, including the opening last year of a $6 million wing that quadrupled the facility’s size and dramatically expanded its programming possibilities, ...
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Yesterday, we found Museum of Contemporary Art Director Hugh Davies quoted in a short, but interesting, article on the UK site Sideways News.
The role art galleries play in developing visual literacy is an increasingly important one in the context of our media-saturated society where people are constantly subjected to advertising, ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
We were big fans of Dario Robleto's contribution to the MCASD "Artists Respond!" show in 2008, so we're very pleased to congratulate Dario on his 2009 USA Fellowship.
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
TFM found this video pointed out by the Emerging Digital Museum blog , who make a couple of excellent points about the technology involved:The Hard Rock Hotel has created "The Great Wall of Las Vegas." This is the mother of all touch screen video walls -- 72 square feet. Step ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
TFM found this assessment of the current show at the Getty in Los Angeles on Google's blog network.
Before he died 340 years ago, Rembrandt van Rijn lost his house, studio and most of his money. He even sold his wife's grave to pay bills.
Since then, he's also been stripped of ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
From the San Diego Uptown news:
There’s a lot of architectural high-fiving going on in our Uptown communities this month — and at least a little gnashing of teeth as well. It goes with the territory when the San Diego Orchids & Onions awards are announced. This year the 2009 awards ...
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