The University Library at the University of Heidelberg, with support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), now hosts complete digital access to nineteen art and satire journals from the 19th to early 20th century. These large scans are just the latest in the efforts by the Library to digitize their holdings of historic literature; for…
Have you ever come across a print advertisement and thought something just wasn’t quite right? Check out PsD: Photoshop Disasters for a collection of unfortunate, atrocious, and what-were-they-thinking examples of when Photoshop use goes horribly, horribly wrong.
For anyone following the breaking news out of Egypt, Reuters is reporting that the Army has secured the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. The blog Hyperallergic has been trying to verify stories about threats of fire and/or looting to the museum, whose website is down (internet service has been cut off nationwide), and post…
There was a very powerful and disturbing photo essay in the Guardian recently about Detroit as an abandoned city. The photographers, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, visited theaters, libraries, churches, and office buildings that are in varying states of decay. In some cases they appear to have been evacuated in hasty and mysterious ways, as…
In honor of finals week, here is a link to the recent Art edition of the Colbert Report. Especially interesting is Colbert’s “Tip of the Hat” to Rep. Eric Cantor (VA) and the censorship of David Wojnarowicz’ video “A Fire in My Belly” at the National Portrait Gallery’s Hide/Seek exhibition. Later in the show Steven…
Wafaa Bilal, a professor of photography at NYU, has had a camera implanted into the back of his head. His project, called “The 3rd I”, was commissioned by the Arab Museum of Modern Art. Photos will be taken every minute, and will be streamed from his website beginning December 15. He will wear the camera…