New Haven, Conn. — Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible in [...]
Archive of posts tagged art history
Symposium: Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century
Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century | March 11–13, 2011 | More information
The Google Art Project
Definitely worth checking out The Google Art Project. It offers access to portions of the collections of 17 museums. Roberta Smith of the New York Times wrote a review today, here. The Wired Review is here.
New Leonardo Reviews posted (January 2011)
Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN: 1559-0429) 3D Typography by Jeanette Abbink & Emily CM Anderson Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Art and Justice
As someone who once thought about becoming a lawyer, and turned to art instead, I am always intrigued by conjunctions of the two, so I was fascinated to discover that a book has just come out that examines the iconography of Lady Justice and her blindfold. Randy Kennedy’s review in the New York Times says [...]
Article: Louvre Agrees To Chemical Analysis Of “Mona Lisa”
The Louvre has collaborated with the Laboratoire du Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility to perform a quantitative chemical analysis on the Mona Lisa, 1503-06, and the faces of seven other works by the artist. Using x-ray fluorescence, researchers analysed the composition and thickness of [...]
