Posted in Image Collections, News, Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2014
More than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art may now be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use – including in scholarly publications in any media – without permission from the Museum and without a fee. The number of available images will increase as new […]
Posted in Image Collections, Local Resources, Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2014
Who says slides are dead? Not the students in Marc Ganzglass’ Sculpture I class, who have been visiting the Visual Resources Center this semester to explore the slide collection. Each week, two students pull 80 slides (a full carousel tray) and project the images side by side for a Friday morning “slide slam” which serves […]
Posted in Apps, Image Collections, Just for Fun on Sep 7th, 2012
The Magic Tate Ball is a new location-based mobile app from the Tate. It knows where you are, what the weather is and supposedly what type of artwork you might be in the mood to see. When you shake your phone, this app presents you with an artwork from the Tate’s collection that is linked […]
Posted in Events, Image Collections on Aug 8th, 2012
This summer, I attended a one-day conference entitled The Digital World of Art History, which was organized by the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. The papers dealt with a variety of relevant topics including copyright, bibliographic standards, and digital best practices. The Index of Christian Art is the largest archive of medieval art in […]
Posted in Image Collections, News on Mar 29th, 2012
The National Gallery of Art has implemented an open access policy for digital images of works of art that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. More than 20,000 high resolution digital images are now available free of charge for download and use through the NGA Images website. For classroom presentation use, click […]
Posted in Drawing, Image Collections on Mar 14th, 2012
The Picture Collection of the New York Public Library and the Special Collections & FIT Archives of the Fashion Institute of Technology Library have recently started a digital archive of fashion drawings and sketches by André Fashion Studios. The collection includes more than 5,000 original drawings from the 1930’s to the early 1940’s.
Posted in Image Collections on Nov 22nd, 2011
The New York Art Resources Consortium has announced the completion of the digitization project “Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century”. A collaboration between the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives and the Frick Art Reference Library, the project showcases their collections of the late 19th and early […]
Posted in Apps, Image Collections on Jun 20th, 2011
The New York Public Library recently announced the availability of Biblion, a new app for Apple’s iPad. Biblion, which takes its name from the Library’s old collections magazine, showcases items from the Library’s extensive research collections and gives unprecedented access to items that would otherwise not be readily available to the public. The first edition […]
Posted in Image Collections on Apr 8th, 2011
The MAIA project documents works of art from the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad that have been lost, stolen or destroyed during the US invasion of Iraq. Because there is very little surviving documentation on these artworks, MAIA was built as an open access database that allows scholars and other interested individuals to […]
Posted in Image Collections, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture on Feb 7th, 2011
Art Project by Google offers some new methods for viewing and experiencing museum collections online, as well as a single portal to access multiple collections from one location. While certainly not comprehensive in scope, it allows users to access over 1,000 images from seventeen major art museums and collections including the Met, Uffizi, Hermitage and the Tate. For those of […]
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