Two wonderful sources for public domain film footage are available online Universal Newsreels: created between 1929 and 1967, these newsreels cover the major topics of the day. They were put into the public domain by University City Studios. (There are also many more recent pieces of news footage in this college.) Prelinger Archives: a…
More than 20,000 works of art were plundered in Germany-occupied France and Belgium from 1940 to 1944. These works, meticulously documented during the war by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), can searched and researched via a new online database. The database combines records from the U.S. National Archives in College Park (MD), the German Bundesarchiv…
Following the model of other micro loan ventures, Kickstarter.com is a site where artists propose projects and everyone can contribute to their funding. Project descriptions are posted on the site, outlining the goals, medium, budget and time frame. Anyone can make a financial contribution, for any amount. According to their website more than half the…
Vanity Fair magazine recently conducted a survey of 52 architects and architecture critics and scholars, asking them to list the five most important structures (including buildings, bridge and monuments) built since 1980, and to name the most significant architectural work of the 21st century. All participants and their choices are listed here. A slideshow…
An album of extremely rare photographs of Tibet and its people, taken during a 1903 British mission, has both been publicized for the first time and auctioned off. The amazing photos were taken by Officer John Claude White and are the first known of their kind. Read or listen to an NPR interview by Renee…
An Italian company, Haltadefinizione, has created what they call “real high resolution” reproductions of six famous paintings from the Florentine museum. If you’re wondering just how high resolution these are, the company photographed the six paintings at 3 to 20 billion pixels (yes, billion). However, while their tagline reads “If you can’t come to them,…