The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and Google Earth map Land art

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA has teamed up with Google Earth to provide interactive maps of works in the current exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 by “pinpointing their original locations to demonstrate the global nature of Land art and its relationship to real places and times.” Users can see both aerial photographs and street views of the sites as well as background information and contemporary images of each work as installed.

Hammer Museum: “Made in L.A. 2012″ and new hours

The Hammer Museum will have new hours of operation starting Saturday, June 2. The museum will be open 11:00 am – 8:00 pm Tuesdays through Fridays and 11:00 am – 5:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays (the museum is closed on Mondays). Both admission and parking fees will remain the same.

These new hours begin at the same time as the exhibition Made in L.A. 2012, the museum’s first large-scale biennial survey that features work by 60 artists from the L.A. region and exhibited in three venues (Hammer Museum, LA><ART, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park).

Now in ARTstor: Major works from Guggenheim’s permanent collection

ARTstor announced an addition of more than 750 images from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s permanent collections in New York, Bilbao, Venice, and Berlin. This is the first installment of a projected 7,000 total images from the Guggenheim Foundation, which will include not only works of art but also 5,000 installation views from the 1990s to the present from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

New iPad app celebrates Leonardo as anatomist

Who says you can’t take it with you: The Royal Collection revealed a new iPad app that offers zoomable high-resolution images of, and other nifty toys with, all 268 anatomical studies by Leonardo da Vinci in their collection. The app has been launched in conjunction with its current exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist (4 May-7 October, 2012) at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. Alongside the images are interactive tools like 3D anatomical models, a “magic spyglass” that reverses the artist’s mirror handwriting, and a translation of his notes with just a tap of the finger.

Exhibitions conclude PST with free admission

Nineteen Southern California cultural institutions, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, will bid farewell to Pacific Standard Time with free admission on Saturday, March 31. (Note: The AD&A Museum at UCSB, included on the list, always offers free admission.) Click here for a flyer with links to all participating exhibitions.

AD&A Museum’s Cliff May exhibition opens February 26

UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum has been going through an inside-and-out renovation and is ready to open its doors with Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House. The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the designer who popularized the ranch house and made it an icon of casual California living in the post-war era. The exhibition previews with a “California-cool” Gala on February 25 and opens to the public Sunday, February 26 from 1-5 pm.

In conjunction with Carefree California, check out Catherine Opie Photographs Cliff May and a supplemental online exhibition.

Gothic Past: A visual archive of medieval Ireland

Gothic Past is an open-access resource of over 3000 images for the study of medieval Irish architecture and sculpture. You can search the site or browse by tag, collection or online exhibition. It is part of a research project in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin.

MOCA announces tribute to Mike Kelley

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will open an exhibition to celebrate the work and legacy of Mike Kelley, who died this month. The exhibition will showcase Kelley’s work in the museum’s permanent collection along with other artists’ works donated by Kelley. The show, A Tribute to Mike Kelley, opens this Saturday at MOCA Grand Avenue and will run until April 2, 2012.

Update: Christo’s “Over the River” overcomes a hurdle

A couple of years ago we posted a story about how Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “Over the River,” a project where the artists would drape material over parts of the Arkansas River in Colorado, faced local and potentially national opposition. The New York Times reports that Christo (collaborator and wife Jeanne-Claude has since passed away) received an important green light from the U.S. Department of the Interior (see their statement here). Local permits are still needed and may delay or derail it.

Most recent additions to ARTstor

These collections have been added to ARTstor’s Digital Library:

• Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE Collection): 1,000 of contemporary architecture in Shanghai, including the Expo 2010 Shanghai (this last installment completes the total 13,033 images from ART on FILE)
• Smith College Museum of Art: 1,000 images of works from the museum’s permanent collection (33% of the 3,000 total that will be available)
• Dura Europos and Gerasa Archives (Yale University Art Gallery): 18,205 images of historical documentation of both expeditions as well as the artifacts and structures they uncovered
• Robert Winter Archive (Occidental College): 2,500 images of architecture and sites the architectural historian took throughout California for over 40 years
• Beverly Willis: 57 images of the work by the architect, artist, and author

Also, ARTstor is now collaborating with Rhizome to share approximately 3,000 images from the Rhizome ArtBase, an online archive of new media art.