In a “digital race against IS,” The Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) is working with UNESCO World Heritage and NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World to launch a Million Image Database Project. The hope is to capture one million 3D images of at-risk objects by the end of 2016 by deploying up…
Turkish student Murat Palta has done something very creative for his senior thesis project – he merged the language of Hollywood film posters with Ottoman miniature paintings. He has captured the compositional style, colours and patterns, and general authentic “look” of the miniatures. Capturing a moment of high tension and drama from the films (Goodfellas,…
One of the ways ARTstor helps users find material relevant to their teaching or research is through their subject guides. They have just published an excellent user guide on finding materials relevant to Middle East studies, covering the whole geographic/social/cultural region. In addition to objects from museums and archives, the rich holdings include contemporary and…
ARTstor’s Digital Library now has these collections available: Shangri La, Honolulu, Hawaii (Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art): 400 images of Islamic and South Asian art from the collection at Shangri La, the former home of Doris Duke (1912-1993) [1/2 of the projected 800] Yao Ceremonial Artifacts Collection (Ohio University): 3,714 art works and objects created…
The ARTstor Digital Library has just announced these images are now available: ART on FILE: 1,100 images of contemporary architecture in the United Arab Emirates, which brings the final total to 11,743 views of contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and public art from around the world Islamic Art and Architecture Collection: 250 images of…
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…