They will be coming to a town near you, but in the meantime check out The Mourners Photography Project website, hosted by FRAME (French Regional & American Museum Exchange). The website offers new digital high-resolution, 360° multi-perspective, and stereo 3D (anaglyph glasses required) views of the alabaster sculptures of monks and clerics that surround the…
The ACRL IRIG (Association of College & Research Libraries Image Resources Interest Group) Visual Literacy Standards Task Force is working on Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. To foster discussion about visual literacy, the Task Force has started a blog as a communication tool to provide information about the standards development process and progress…
Construction workers at the World Trade Center have uncovered the remains of a ship buried in the site’s mud. The vessel, whose hull measures roughly 32 feet, appears to be from the 18th century but archeologists plan to study the ship and an anchor found nearby to determine its age and place of origin. Both…
Two Russian curators have been found guilty of “inciting hatred” with their 2007 contemporary art exhibition Forbidden Art — 2006. The exhibition had angered the Russian Orthodox Church, which condemned several works that depicted Jesus Christ in non-traditional ways and supported the charges against the curators. This in turn worried artists, who countered with a…
Photography Now is a website that offers high-quality portfolios of contemporary and “master” photographers. The photographs are displayed via Flash in a page-turning format. The image quality is very good, but there are unfortunately no captions or other information with the images, nor are the images downloadable. Still, it’s a very nice way to peruse…
In 1993 the California Arts Council teamed up with state government officials for the first “specialty plate” in California: a sunset and palm tree motif, titled Coastline, designed by Pop artist Wayne Thiebaud. Now Governor Schwarzenegger is launching a Million Plates Campaign for the Arts to aggressively help the CAC raise at least $40 million…