The Magnum Photos library of more than 180,000 press prints, recently purchased by Michael S. Dell (of Dell Inc.), has moved from New York City to its new home at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin. The sale of the archive will help fund to scan the archive digitally and the move to the Ransom…
The Guardian is reporting that a UK National Trust land agent has traced the actual location for John Constable’s painting Stour Valley and Dedham Church. The agent, speaking here in this brief video, compares the group of trees on the right side of the painting to those in the valley.
ARTstor has announced the following are available in the Digital Library: Brooklyn Museum Costumes (The Metropolitan Museum of Art): 5,883 high resolution images of highlights from the Brooklyn Museum now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute (keywords: brooklyn costume) The Samuel H. Kress Collection and National Gallery of Art: 1,757 images from…
Italian anthropologists have been searching for the remains of the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio–who, after a contentious life, died in 1610–and have narrowed the search to an underground crypt in Porto Ercole. After sorting through roughly 40 sets of remains, and by means of carbon dating, CAT scans and DNA analysis, scientists believe they have…
Larry Sultan, the photographer who focused on Southern California, has died. His work frequently examined suburban life in San Fernando Valley, particularly the adult film industry there. Mr. Sultan received his BA (in Political Science) from UCSB. Read the LA Times obituary here.
Jeanne-Claude, artist and wife of Christo, has died. Their creative collaboration produced over 50 years of “wrapping” projects, such as the Reichstag in Berlin (1995) and more recently “The Gates” in Central Park in New York (2005). The couple had been working toward completing “Over The River” and “The Mastaba“. via the LA Times