As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the report on changing research practices in art history, this article in the Wall Street Journal is timely. The president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, James Cuno, is making a strong push for advancing the use of tools such as face recognition, digital mapping, and…
A study examining changing research practices of art historians was released today. The study, by Ithaka S&R and funded by the Getty and Kress foundations, looks at the impact of “digital art history” and the “interconnected scholarly communities that support art history”. The report also looks at changes to graduate student training in art history.…
Artsy was named Best Art Website at the 18th Annual Webby Awards. Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection and is powered by The Art Genome Project. The New York Times has dubbed the award the “internet’s highest honor.” “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York…
The Tate announced the online availability of Audio Arts, an “audio cassette-magazine” established by artist Bill Furlong in 1972, that contains interviews, soundworks, readings, lectures and other events with and about modern and contemporary artists. The online resource features all the published versions of Audio Arts — which was in publication for 33 years in 24 volumes,…
In 2011, we reported that The Israeli Museum launched The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls, an online resource for beautiful images and scholarly translations of the scrolls. Now, the Israel Antiquities Authority just debuted an upgraded version of its Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. It includes 10,000 new multispectral images as well as improved…
Getty Publications is now offering users (free of charge!) digital copies of 235 Getty backlist titles, including many that are now out of print, from the Museum, the Conservation Institute, and the Research Institute. For additional information on digital publication resources offered by the Getty, click here.