Category: Artstor

  • Image Resource Center Open House

    If you’re in the area today and haven’t seen our new space (or even if you have), please stop for our Open House.  We’re in Ellison Hall on the ground floor – through the red doors beside the elevator.  Refreshments will be served! Thursday, October 14 – 1:00-4:00pm

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  • California architecture news, north and south

    Any thoughts on what Los Angeles could/will look like in 20 years?  Newsweek put the question to three architectural firms who came up with 2030 concepts for both LA and New York in a feature called The Future of Work.  The three firms that participated were Michael Maltzan Architecture, cityLAB UCLA and Gensler. In other…

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  • Cole African collection LIVE in ARTstor

    At long last the collection “Herbert Cole: African Art, Architecture, and Culture (University of California, Santa Barbara)” is live in ARTstor.   We first announced this contribution back in December and have been eagerly anticipating the unveiling.  Visual Resources Collection staff  worked with ARTstor to contribute nearly 1,000 images from “Skip” Cole’s field research in the…

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  • New use for old slides, Part III

    If you have roughly 300 slides and a lot of time on your hands, here’s another nifty project. I bet the light would be beautiful coming through the slides.  Think how nice this will look with your slide curtain. Optional: pink slides.

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  • New use for old slides, Part II

    Who wouldn’t want a curtain of slides? This would be a lot of work, but maybe for the retirement years, or summer break, or a project for the kids?  The results sure are beautiful.

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  • ARTstor Scheduled Maintenance Outage

    Bulletin from ARTstor, just in: Please be advised, ARTstor will be performing temporary maintenance this Saturday evening, February 27th, into Sunday morning, February 28th, between the hours of 7:00 PM and 1:00 AM EST. During this time, service will be intermittently interrupted. We anticipate full service to return by 1:00 AM. If you experience any…

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