Melanie Carvantes UCSB Library’s California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives (CEMA), Las Maestras Center for Xican[X] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Praxis; and the Mellichamp Chairs for Racial Environmental Justice Fund are pleased to announce the Artist in Residence: Melanie Cervantes. This collaboration includes the Art Department and Santa Barbara Public Library and will bring the…
The latest RKD Study, written by Prof. Dr. Claus Grimm, comprises a monograph on the life, work and reception of Frans Hals, and a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the artist’s oeuvre. After the three monographic chapters have been published in November 2023, now also the complete catalogue raisonné has been made available online. You can…
Written by Chris Michaels, published on April 1, 2024 on theartnewspaper.com. The 10-year anniversary of a once-controversial new form of digital art, and disruptor of the art market, NFTs (non-fungible tokens), falls on 2 May. In the lead-up to that anniversary, two important new publications combine to provide the first comprehensive history of a form…
Published by the U.S. Copyright Office’s notification system NewsNet, Issue No. 1040 – March 12, 2024. Today, the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (collectively the “Offices”) published the results of their joint study on the intellectual property (IP) law and policy implications of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Offices conducted…
Written by Gareth Harris, published on March 11, 2024 on TheArtNewspaper.com. A Swiss company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to authenticate Old Master paintings says that a portrait of a peasant woman is likely to have been made by one of the greatest artists of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer. The latest claim fuels the…
A study conducted recently in the US suggests artistic depictions of environmental data can help counter climate scepticism. Art may be one tool to help bridge ideological splits over climate change in the United States, a new study in the 31 May issue of the journal Nature finds. Its five authors say that art offers…