Yale University announced it now allows free access to its ever-growing database of digital images of objects housed in the university’s museums, archives, and libraries. Discover Yale Digital Commons already hosts almost 260,000 digital images and records, with the goal of adding over 1.5 million. The interface allows cross-collection searching of Yale’s vast respositories, including the…
An agreement was signed today by several organizations devoted to the research and recovery of art and artifacts looted by the Nazis. Records and documents will be available via a single web portal, providing access to the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the US National Archives and Records Administration, Germany’s Bundesarchiv, and the Commission…
Culture Monster has posted a video someone took during Friday’s earthquake while braving it out under a desk in Mediatheque cultural center in Sendai. As Christopher Hawthorne points out, both the length of the quake and the sway of the building are amazing to watch, especially since the structure seems to survive roughly intact.
Art historian Leo Steinberg died on Sunday. A scholar and art critic specializing in artists of the Italian Renaissance, he also wrote extensively on 20th century art. Read the full New York Times obituary here.
Over 2,000 works by Robert Mapplethorpe and an extensive collection of negatives, personal letters, and other documentation has been jointly acquired by LACMA and the J. Paul Getty Trust from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The partners were chosen for several reasons, including the emergence of Los Angeles as a major cultural center, and the Getty…
Google has collaborated with art museums in the US and Europe to offer Art Project. The viewer navigates each participating museum with the same technology as Google’s Street View and can zoom in to view specific works of art in high resolution. With a Google account, you can create a personalized Art Collection to view…