Ann: Turning the Pages: Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
The National Library of Medicine is proud to announce its next online Turning the Pages project featuring the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, the oldest surviving surgical text: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html . The Smith Papyrus was written in Egyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. This collaborative [...]
Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci’s Science, Technology, and Art
The Getty Center | Harold M. Williams Auditorium | Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010 | Time: 3:00 p.m. | Admission: Free; reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300 or “Make Reservation” here. Jonathan Pevsner, professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and scientific consultant to the Discovery Channel’s Doing DaVinci series, explores Leonardo’s wide-ranging [...]
Article: Artist Ai Weiwei makes rare U.S. appearance to talk about digital activism
The Los Angeles Times has an article on a visit to the US by Ai Weiwei, a visual artist who has carved out a second career as a digital activist is a prominent online voice against censorship and other forms of oppression in China. Here
Follow the Restoration of a Van Gogh Artwork Online
The Van Gogh museum has set up a blog that will allow the public to follow the restoration of Vincent van Gogh’s famous “The Bedroom.” Available at www.vangoghmuseum.com/bedroomsecrets, the blog will have weekly updates of the restoration work with pictures and video, the museum said.
Ann: ‘A History of Early Film’ – ‘A History of Pre Cinema’ – ‘A History of Television’ and much more
Early Visual Media is pleased to announce the important three volume set ‘A History of Early Film’ selected by Stephen Herbert. See http://www.visual-media.eu/publications_books_cinema.html
William T. Wiley shows open in the SF Bay Area this week
I’ve been looking forward to the William T. Wiley retrospective (What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley In Retrospect) that opens at the Berkeley Art Museum on March 17th. When I read Kenneth Baker’s review on the retrospective this morning it occurred to me that I fall into the category of those who can’t think [...]
Article: Rights battle over Polaroid sale
LONDON. A group led by a former US magistrate judge has launched an 11th hour campaign to prevent the auction of photographs from the Polaroid collection. Judge Sam Joyner and others are working towards filing a motion for a rehearing at the Minnesota bankruptcy court that awarded sale rights to Sotheby’s last August. A selection [...]
