Just came across this blog with an unusual focus: Prison Photography (The Practice of Photography in Sites of Incarceration). It contains some striking historic and current photographs, of and about prisons, and interesting commentary and posts.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has introduced Artscope, a new way to browse 3,500-plus works from their collection. It employs a magnifying- glass feature that allows you to zoom in on a work from a large mosaic, or grid, of images. Or you can type in or select terms to focus your search. …
Just a reminder that the California Digital Library still supports Luna Insight, the image hosting and search tool that was tested by the UC campuses a few years ago. There are several terrific collections which are not available through ARTstor or other means at this time, for example: The National Palace Museum of Taipei (over…
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University has posted on its website that its last curated exhibition closed this month and the university will “repurpose” the space in late June. Also on the chopping block: some of its permanent collection. As you can imagine, the closure of this institution (with the possible sale of its…
Filmmaker (The Fog of War) and essayist Errol Morris has begun the first of what will be a seven-part essay on the power of fakes and forgeries. Here Morris explores the story of Han van Meegeren, a painter and art dealer who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis in the Netherlands, including selling a…
The British Museum has a free image service that delivers high quality* digital scans of many works of art in their collection. To use this service, which allows you to receive 100 images per month for non-commercial use: Click the Use digital image button on any image page (located beneath the image thumbnail; if this…