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 [...]
Article: French scientists crack secrets of Mona Lisa
San Francisco Chronicle: Full article here ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press, 07/16/10 The enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the “Mona Lisa.” French researchers studied seven of the Louvre Museum’s Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including the “Mona Lisa,” to analyze the master’s use of successive ultrathin [...]
Review: Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution by Philip Prodger
Reviewed by Amy Ione The idea that context is an important component in both the presentation and nature of empirical studies became popular at the end of the twentieth century and is often considered an outgrowth of Kuhnian paradigms. With the elevation of paradigmatic perspectives, however, came the quandaries of what contextual research “means” in [...]
Visit Diatrope Books
The Diatrope Institute has partnered with Amazon.com to create an online bookstore specializing in art, science and technology titles. Our stock includes both new and used items. We will also search for and special order hard-to-find books in the field. Visit www.diatropebooks.com. Email
Article: Angered UCLA faculty rallies to save arts library
UCLA is considering closing down its arts library and merging the collection with an existing facility because of an overall budget shortfall at the university. Article.
