Category: blogs & websites
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Does art still have the ability to shock us?
There’s an interesting multi-part discussion going on in the New York Times about whether art (visual, performance, theater, film, writing, music) can still shock us. Articles revisit some historic events such as the premiere of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” and the public funding battles in the 1990s over controversial art (such as Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs…
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Walters Art Museum images via Wikimedia
Last year we reported that the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore offers thousands of images from its collection on its website, free to download and use for educational purposes (under a Creative Commons license). More recently, the museum teamed up with Wikimedia Commons to donate more than 19,000 freely-licensed images from its permanent collection that…
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More digital resources for British history
In honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, two sites have launched with images from Britain’s past. Queen Victoria’s Journals, through the efforts of the Royal Archives and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, is an interactive site with online digital images of every page in the entire sequence of Queen Victoria’s diaries from 1832-1840.…