Category: blogs & websites

  • New finding aids and inventories from Dumbarton Oaks

    The Dumbarton Oaks’ Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) has published several new finding aids for collections in their online inventory of archival and photographic holdings, AtoM@DO. These holdings include a wide range of topics, including Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art and architecture, prehistoric sites in eastern Turkey and gardens in the United Kingdom. via ICFA

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  • Architecture books now free online

    Statistics show that an ever increasing number of people are choosing to read books on a device rather than in print form. In that vein, you can now read these classic works of architectural literature for free online from sources like Internet Archive and Google Books. via ArchDaily

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  • Creating anamorphosis, and other optical illusions

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHPKf_Hj1GA] This artist, “Vamos”, and his YouTube channel, are a recent discovery.  Vamos specializes in drawing and painting illusions, and he films the process in time-lapse.  The one linked above showing the creation of anamorphosis using a Rubik’s Cube is especially clever.   If you are intrigued and want to see more, visit his YouTube…

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  • Artsy named Best Art Website

    Artsy was named Best Art Website at the 18th Annual Webby Awards. Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection and is powered by The Art Genome Project. The New York Times has dubbed the award the “internet’s highest honor.” “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York…

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  • New Open Content at the GRI

    Last year we reported on the Open Content project at the Getty Research Institute.  In an exciting update the GRI just announced the addition of 77,000 new images.  The bulk of these are  from the Foto Arte Minore collection: photographs of art and architecture in Italy by Max Hutzel.  These photos, shot in the 1950s…

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  • Tate announces online access to Audio Arts

    The Tate announced the online availability of Audio Arts, an “audio cassette-magazine” established by artist Bill Furlong in 1972, that contains interviews, soundworks, readings, lectures and other events with and about modern and contemporary artists. The online resource features all the published versions of Audio Arts — which was in publication for 33 years in 24 volumes,…

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