Jeanne-Claude, artist and wife of Christo, has died. Their creative collaboration produced over 50 years of “wrapping” projects, such as the Reichstag in Berlin (1995) and more recently “The Gates” in Central Park in New York (2005). The couple had been working toward completing “Over The River” and “The Mastaba“. via the LA Times
Steve Tatum, Visual Resources Curator at Virginia Tech, has taken some beautiful and instructional images of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, the president’s personal retreat near Forest, VA, and has uploaded them on Flickr. The estate, begun 1805 or 1806, is being extensively restored in the same order that Jefferson built it. These photos show the…
Over 11,000 visual artists, authors, filmmakers, architects and other artists who are part of the Copyright Alliance have signed a letter sent to the Obama administration asking for stronger copyright policy and support. Read more about the movement at the Copyright Alliance. And you can read the full text of the letter here, which highlights…
ARTstor has announced that 833 images (69% of the roughly 1,200 projected total) from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum are now available in the Digital Library [keyword search: okeeffemuseum]. Additionally, agreements have been reached with the following institutions and should be available by April (all image counts are approximate): Diego Rivera at the Detroit Institute of…
The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles will host a short-run exhibition that features a rare showing of Leonardo’s drawing Angel in the Flesh (c. 1513-1515). Also included will be selections from Leonardo’s The Theatre Sheet (c. 1506-1508, from the Atlanticus Codex) and video artist Bill Viola’s installation The Last Angel (2002). Opening night, scholar…
ARTstor has partnered with SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive) to include SAH members’ photography. While much of this collection has only been available to SAH members, a large selection, called “Editor’s Choice” is now available to all ARTstor licensors. The SAHARA collection in ARTstor now has nearly 9,000 images, and 72 new…