An agreement was signed today by several organizations devoted to the research and recovery of art and artifacts looted by the Nazis. Records and documents will be available via a single web portal, providing access to the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the US National Archives and Records Administration, Germany’s Bundesarchiv, and the Commission…
ARTstor has added these collections to the Digital Library: Fowler Museum, UCLA: 717 images from the permanent collection, with a focus on Africa Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (St. Lawrence University): 196 images of African textiles, contemporary Inuit prints and drawings, and Vietnam War-era photography Colby College Museum: 2,463 images from the permanent collection, especially…
David Wilson, founder of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles (a wunderkamer-like museum), will give a talk at UCSB entitled “Nikolai Federov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the Roots of the Russian Space Program.” This story is told partly through live narration of a poetic documentary made by the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Russia,…
More and more museums are now using social media and other new technology both to engage their existing audience in new ways and to bring in a new audience. Forward-thinking museums are creating iPhone apps and Facebook pages with interactive elements, and posting myriad content on their websites. There are also interesting new partnerships among…
The newly-appointed Curator of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maxwell Hearn, discusses the intimate relationship between object and viewer with a 14th century Chinese handscroll painting in this video from the New York Times. For other videos from the museum, see their YouTube Channel.
Here are the most recent additions to ARTstor’s Digital Library: American Folk Art Museum: 1,659 images from their permanent collection of traditional folk art and contemporary self-taught artists The City College of New York: 1,806 images of objects acquired by The City College, including David and Lenore Levy Collection of Contemporary Photography and Percent for…