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East African photo collection now online
The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, housed in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University, is now online and accessible to the public. This rare collection includes roughly 7,610 photographs, 230 glass lantern slides, and various additional materials from 1860 to 1960.
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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz online exhibitions
The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz announced a new online exhibition on The Cloister of Monreale. The exhibition offers general views of the cloister but it’s the extensive details of the capitals that make it worth seeing. Clicking on each detail opens a bit bigger image, but to get an even better view, follow the “full-size”…
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Long Beach Museum of Art forced to sell art?
The LA Times reported last Friday that the Long Beach Museum of Art appears to be in dire financial straits due to a $3-million bond debt due to the city in September. The city is threatening a takeover of the museum and to sell works of art to cover the debt. To address this issue,…