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.
The Red Dot © 2024 is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
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New ARTstor collection releases
ARTstor announced the following collections are now available: The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (approximately 800 images, learn more) The Roy Lichtenstein Collection (800 images, learn more) MoMA Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection [The Museum of Modern Art Archives] (last release completed and totals roughly 16,700 images, learn more) Larry Qualls Archive of Contemporary Art… Read more
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New ARTstor feature: Associated Image Clusters
There are two new icons in ARTstor that help you efficiently find and use images. When applicable, the icons are located beneath a thumbnail image on the search results screen and help you act on special features related to that image. The two new icons are: Duplicates & Details: This identifies groups of image duplicates… Read more
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Searching with diacritics on VRC-MDID:
While searching on the VRC’s image database is very flexible and user-friendly, there is one flaw which came up again this week. If a word is entered in our catalogue with diacritics or accents (e.g. the umlaut in DÜRER) you will need to include those in your search – in other words, DÜRER will work,… Read more
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Image resources available to all UCSB users
We keep a growing list of resources here – there are links to our collection database (VRC-MDID), ARTstor, plus many other image resources, organized and annotated. Some of these are open to the public, some are licensed for UCSB use. Please visit, and let us know if you find something great to add, or notice… Read more
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Get oriented at The Red Dot
Welcome to the new blog of the Visual Resources Collection at UCSB, The Red Dot. In case you don’t get that reference, it’s the little red dot in the corner of our 35mm slides that help you with orientation. And that’s what we’re here for – orientation, information, hot tips, and more. We’ll be posting… Read more