Over 2,000 works by Robert Mapplethorpe and an extensive collection of negatives, personal letters, and other documentation has been jointly acquired by LACMA and the J. Paul Getty Trust from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The partners were chosen for several reasons, including the emergence of Los Angeles as a major cultural center, and the Getty…
Google has collaborated with art museums in the US and Europe to offer Art Project. The viewer navigates each participating museum with the same technology as Google’s Street View and can zoom in to view specific works of art in high resolution. With a Google account, you can create a personalized Art Collection to view…
For anyone following the breaking news out of Egypt, Reuters is reporting that the Army has secured the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. The blog Hyperallergic has been trying to verify stories about threats of fire and/or looting to the museum, whose website is down (internet service has been cut off nationwide), and post…
One way to put your art where your mouth is: The Milwaukee Art Museum and Carnegie Museum of Art have agreed to wager a loan of a major work of Impressionist art on the outcome of Super Bowl XLV. The bet continues a tradition begun last year between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the…
ARTstor Digital Library now contains these collections: Renzo Piano Building Workshop: 299 images of Piano’s early works (1965-1969) and his major projects to date, including plans and preparatory drawings NEW! Themed collection: Judith and Holofernes, sponsored by a grant from the Jessica E. Smith and Kevin R. Brine Charitable Trust, of 332 images added to…
Yale University now hosts the James J. Ross Archive of African Images, 1590-1920 (RAAI), which contains approximately 5,000 illustrations of African art published before 1921. The archive represents an eight-year collaboration between African art collector James Ross and filmmaker Susan Vogel, a former director of the Museum for African Art, and is facilitated by Yale…