Beautiful Public Data, is a curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state and federal government agencies by Jon Keegana. From his About page: I’m an investigative data reporter with a background in visuals. While digging through government agencies’ websites looking for data, I’ve always loved coming across data sets that are collections…
Photographer Angelo Antonio Rizzuto – or Anthony Angel, as he called himself – captured a variety of people, structures, and places in Manhattan over the eighteen-year period from 1949 through 1967. Collectively, the thousands of images by Angel in the Prints & Photographs Division offer a window into life and the built environment in a…
by Maria-Cristina Florian The Transportation Alternatives and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have initiated a new digital tool, Spatial Equity NYC, to help users understand how space is distributed and restricted across the neighborhoods of New York City. The tool asses the use of streets, sidewalks, and public spaces, as they are key factors that…
The online database “Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” is available in open access. “Antiquitatum Thesaurus” investigates prints and drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on artifacts from antiquity, and links them with the ancient objects that they document as well as with other evidence of…
The Library of Congress has appointed Rhode Island artist, educator and community-focused researcher Jeffrey Yoo Warren as 2023 Innovator in Residence. With his project, Seeing Lost Enclaves: Relational Reconstructions of Erased Historic Neighborhoods of Color, Yoo Warren will use photographs, maps, film and audio recordings from Library collections to build an immersive digital 3D model…
Have you checked out the latest English-language issue of International Journal for Digital Art History, no. 7 (2021): Zonas de Contacto: Art History in a Global Network? They collaborated on this project with H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte to present digital art historical research from the Spanish-speaking world, broadly defined. The issue…