The Red Dot is an informational and ongoing list about visual and material news and resources, aimed at the University of California, Santa Barbara community, but open to all.
In case you don’t get the reference, it’s the little red dot in the corners of our legacy 35mm slides that helps you with orientation. And that’s what we’re here for – orientation, information, hot tips, and more. We’ll be posting regularly on Digital Humanities – and specifically Digital Art and Architectural History, new image and data resources, copyright, and events of interest.
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Kimbell Art Museum acquires Michelangelo painting
The museum, located in Fort Worth, announced on 13 May that it has purchased what is believed to be not only the earliest painting executed by the artist, but also the first to belong to an American collection. via Kimbell Art Museum website. Read more
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A full-figured find
A six-centimeter ivory figurine of a woman, found in a cave in southwestern Germany and dubbed the Venus of Hohle Fels, is dated to 35,000 BCE and considered “one of the oldest known examples of figurative art” in the world. Article via New York Times. Or, if you want a less dignified headline, try Huffington… Read more
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Free and easy image editing tools
This Sitepoint article is a very helpful review of 19 image editing tools. Most are free, some have a very modest fee. They allow you to do simple image edits such as resizing, sharpening, adding text, and brightening. Try them out, and send in your feedback. Read more
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NY Public Libraries Digital Collections
The NY Public Libraries Digital Gallery has expanded and now includes a vast array (more than 30,000 images) of maps, early advertisements and photographs, posters, scientific illustrations, and much more. This link goes to the main NYPL Picture Collection page. Read more
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Newly added ARTstor images
ARTstor just announced new images added to the following collections: Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations [Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University] (final release completed, with a collection of now 44,300 images, learn more) University of Michigan Asian Art Photographic Distribution [AAPD] (first release of 4,700 of 9,600 total, learn more)… Read more
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Recent additions to the VRC image database
Here are some recent image orders that have been added to the VRC image database – we will be posting periodic updates of new content: Russian posters and painting, 1920-2000 (Stalinism, propaganda, realism, recent conceptual art, etc.) (90 images) Selections from “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution” (catalogue) (110 images) The architecture of Frank Lloyd… Read more