Art History professors John Machado and Denise Johnson launched a visual art and culture podcast on March 27.
You can listen to iconomaniacs at www.iconomaniacs.com.
Iconomaniacs: a podcast for the love of art. Join two intrepid art historians as they do what they do best - gab about visual art and culture in an irreverent, but insightful and (hopefully) interesting banter in about an hour.
The Associated Students of Chaffey College (ASCC) sponsored a free bus trip to the Getty Villa in Malibu on Saturday, March 28. John Machado, Art History Professor and ASCC Faculty Advisor, and Susan Stewart, Director of Student Activities, joined just over 40 students on the museum trip.
The Getty Villa in Malibu is dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. Bordered by coastal mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Getty Villa evokes the classical world in its architecture, landscape, and gardens, which have been planted with species known to have flourished in the ancient Mediterranean. The Getty Villa is modeled after a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy.
In a recent article in the Santa Monica Daily Press, it came to our attention that there is the possibility that the Exposition Construction Authority (MTA) would consider razing Bergamot Station in order to house a maintenance facility for their cars when light rail comes to the West Side.For over a decade, Bergamot Station has been a rich arts and cultural resource for Santa Monica and greater Los Angeles. It has been the perfect model for private/public partnership, transforming an abandoned area into one of the most important arts and culture destinations. Approximately 800,000 people visit Bergamot Station each year in order to experience the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the City of Santa Monica’s premier arts institution, and over 30 galleries.
The decision of where to place a maintenance facility will be decided on Friday, March 27. Please join us in the fight against this maintainance facility at Bergamot Station!
Here are a couple of ways to help:
1. Sign the letter of protest at ArtsForLA.
2. Write a letter protesting the maintainance facility at Bergamot Station and detail reasons for keeping this rich and vital arts center.
Send to: Phase2@exporail.net
And CC to Expo Line staff and Board Members: gcollins@exporail.net, councilmember.perry@lacity.org, councilmember.wesson@lacity.org, councilmember.parks@lacity.org, seconddistrict@lacbos.org, zev@lacbos.org, pam.oconnor@smgov.net, scott.malsin@culvercity.org, Council@SMgov.net
http://www.bergamotstation.com
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A month after he was arrested on the way to his own exhibition opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art for tagging property with graffiti, street artist Shepard Fairey stands to face new charges in the Massachusetts capital.
Fairey went before a clerk magistrate in Brighton District Court on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. The hearing was closed to the public, but his attorney Jeffrey Weisner said police asked for permission to charge Fairey with posting his famed image of Barack Obama in Boston's Allston neighborhood between November 25 and December 25.
Weisner says that Fairey was not in Boston at the time and that the charges are unfounded.
Christopher Alday is conducting a free printmaking workshop on Wednesday, March 25th, 12:30-2:00 PM at the Wignall Museum. Only 12 seats available! RSVP to reserve a seat at misty.burruel@chaffey.edu.
View poster here.
The workshop is sponsored by the Chaffey Art Organization.
Speed Critiquing, on Monday, March 23, 2009, 12:30-1:30 PM at the Wignall. Please be on time an bring your portfolio consisting of 5-15 works!
Sponsored by the Chaffey Art Organization.
See calendar for events.
The artparis modern and contemporary art fair opens today, with 115 French and foreign galleries exhibiting under the glass dome of the Grand Palais.
Open March 19-22, 11 a.m.- 2 a.m. and March 23, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
From All Things Considered on NPR:
Amid the crumbling auto industry, mounting job losses and thousands of foreclosures, there's not a whole lot of good news coming out of Detroit these days. But Mitch Cope and his wife, Gina, are trying to change things — one house at a time.
The Copes, who bought a home on Detroit's north side four years ago, have been recruiting artists from around the world to buy the foreclosed houses in the neighborhood and rebuild.
I finally made it to the California Biennial 2008 at the Orange County Museum of Art on March 14, 2009. I joined art professor Misty Burruel and art history student Taryn Gonzalez for a tour of the exhibition on its closing weekend. I hope some of you had a chance to see it.
In this video we are having a conversation inside Michael Arcega's SAFE, 2008. Yes, we were having a good time and being a bit silly. So, sorry, no groundbreaking observations :)
I stumbled across some interesting news today and I thought it would be great to share. Apparently some 8 or so paintings from the 17th & 19th century were seized by Dutch police, the works that were found were by the 17th-century artists David Teniers, Willem van de Velde and Jan Brueghel (the Younger) & the 19th-century painters Eva Gonzales, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Paul Desiré Trouillebert. I WANT ONE!
The cops were able to locate the paintings when the thieves who stole the paintings were dumb enough to try to sell the art works back to the insurance company that had shelled out the €2.27 million [£2 million] after they first went missing. OH THAT WAS A BRILLIANT MOVE! LOL! The works, some of which disappeared from the Noortman gallery in the southern city of Maastricht in 1987, were damaged after being folded. OUCH!!! ANYONE HAVE A 3 FOOT LONG BAND-AID?
Two men and a woman were arrested and are due to appear in court today, Monday. Prosecutors said investigators are still trying to work out where the paintings had been since their disappearance 22 years ago. Six were found in Valkenburg and two more in the nearby village of Walem, where one of the suspects lived. Both towns are in the Maastricht area.
I hope you all get as excited about this news like I do... Though it may just be me, but I get that warm fuzzy feeling inside when I hear that lost art is found.I received this information from:
