Author: tchabolla

  • Walters Art Museum expands online collection

    The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore currently offers one third of its collection — over 10,000 works — in digital form and without copyright restrictions when used for educational purposes. The high resolution images are perfect for PowerPoint presentations or you can “explore” an object in detail with the site’s zoom feature. In addition, many…

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  • European Film Gateway available online

    European Film Gateway (EFG) is a web portal to selected archival material held in European film archives. EFG contains over 26,500 videos, 500,000 still images and 15,000 texts on filmmaking and film-related issues in Europe from the early days until today. You can browse by collection or search for specific videos or images. Most object…

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  • Frick Art Library Photoarchive digitization project

    The Frick Art Reference Library is continually expanding the online profile of its Photoarchive — a study collection of more than one million photographs and other reproductions. While they are actively seeking digital images from museums and independent researchers, the Photoarchive has contributed almost 25,000 digital images to ARTstor.

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  • Viewing the Dead Sea Scrolls in digital detail

    Partners Google and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem have launched a new website to closely examine the Dead Sea Scrolls. Not to panic if you don’t read Hebrew — the site offers English translations of the Great Isaiah Scroll in two ways: either read a dual translation here or click on a specific passage while…

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  • Eames living room moved to LACMA

    The living room from Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic house has been meticulously taken apart and re-assembled at LACMA, as part of the exhibition  California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way”.  The LA Times has a great back story, plus a timelapse video of the disassembling of the living room.  It had remained preserved…

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  • UCSB Dept. of Art colloquium starts this week

    The Department of Art’s Fall colloquium series begins September 27, with a talk by curator and critic Bruce Ferguson. The full schedule with speaker bios is here.  The program is co-sponsored by Art and the College of Creative Studies, and this quarter has been organized by Dick Hebdige.

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