UPDATE (28 June): After searching, saving and downloading tests in ARTstor, it appears that they have fixed the compatibility issue with Firefox 5. If you are a PC user with Firefox as your default browser, you may be prompted (sometimes rather urgently) to upgrade to Firefox 5. Unfortunately, at this time ARTstor is not compatible…
We reported in December here and here that a dispute had developed over a collection of works by Pablo Picasso that had been discovered with the artist’s former electrician. The latest news is that seventy-one-year-old Pierre Le Guennec and his wife have been formally charged with stashing the 271 “stolen” Picasso artworks at their home.…
A terrific new iPhone/iPad app called Zeitag marries Geotagging, Google Maps and Toronto City Archives to show sites and buildings as they have looked like in the past. The creator has included archival info in the captions, and images from several eras of given sites when available. This app is the first in…
For those of you with an iPad, check out the British Library‘s new 19th Century Historical Collection app with access to classic novels, works of philosophy, history and science in the library’s collection. Currently the free app features over a thousand titles, but by summer it will have more than 60,000 works, all in the…
Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback eliminated all state funded arts programs this past weekend when he signed the state’s budget. In numbers, Kansas “nonprofit arts and culture organizations support 4,612 full-time equivalent jobs. Together they generate $95.1 million in household income to local residents and deliver $15.6 million in local and state government revenue.” What…
Whether or not a small easel painting in Tonawanda, NY is a Michelangelo preparatory painting for the Pietà is the basis for a very contentious discussion. Its current owner, Martin Kober, claims that it is the painting that Michelangelo gave to Vittoria Colonna, referenced in one of her letters. His claim has been dismissed by…