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Reel to Real: Ethnomusicology and Sound at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford has recently released Reel to Real, a digital collection pertaining to sound and video from ethnomusicology research. “The content of the recordings...
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The Art of the Sublime at the Tate
The Art of the Sublime is a research module that explores the concept of the sublime during several artistic movements, including the Baroque, the Romantic, the Victorian, and the modern. The project...
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ARTstor Introduces Saved Searches
ARTstor recently added a feature to save searches within the ARTstor Digital Library. The theory behind this feature is that with ARTstor’s growing collections of content, it’s highly likely that...
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A Van Gogh Research Round-Up
With the conclusion of an eight-year long research project, Vincent van Gogh has been in the news quite a bit recently. In 2005, the van Gogh museum teamed up with Shell and the Netherland’s Cultural...
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Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms
In 2009, the Tate published The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms and followed it with an iPad and iPhone app released in March 2012. The app defines more than 300 terms pertaining to modern art themes,...
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Map of Overpass Art in Chicago
Just in time for this great weather, Curbed Chicago and the Chicago Public Art Group have created a Google Map identifying great examples of public art underneath Chicago’s overpasses. The map includes...
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Balboa Park Online Commons
The Balboa Park Online Commons features more than 20,000 images of unique materials from 7 San Diego museums: the Mingei International Museum, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the San Diego Air and...
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ICFA’s 16mm Film Collection Online
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. recently digitized fourteen 16mm films from its collection. The 14 films include...
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Round-Up of Fashion and Textile Resources
The Museum at FIT has a comprehensive list of Costume and Textile Collections Online, with annotations about what you’ll expect to find in the database and other information about each particular...
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New CLIR/Mellon Report on Museum Policies for Open Access to Images
In June 2013, the Council of Library and Information Resources in conjunction with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation published the report Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of...
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University of Chicago Photographic Archive
The University of Chicago Photographic Archive has a digital collection that contains images from five series encompassing the University’s history, including individuals and groups, buildings and...
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Italian Renaissance Learning Resources
Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, have created a new web module called Italian Renaissance Learning Resources with the support of the Samuel H....
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Hand-Colored De Bry Engravings of 1590
Picturing the New World: The Hand-Colored De Bry Engravings of 1590 is a resource from UNC Libraries that presents the digitized engravings Theodore De Bry (1528–98) illustrated for A Briefe and True...
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Penn Museum’s Digital Resources for Archaeology and Anthropology
The Penn Museum in Philadelphia, the University of Pennslyvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, recently launched two new digital endeavors for researchers. The newly revamped Collections...
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Luminous Lint
Luminous Lint is an expansive photography resource that includes images and text about historic and contemporary photographic practice, as well as artist biographies, styles and movements, thematic...
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Contemporary Artists Index
The Cleveland Institute of Art recently redesigned and improved the functionality of the Contemporary Artists Index, a fantastic resource that documents artists, artist groups, photographers,...
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Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Makes Gift of Shunk and Kender Archives
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation recently announced that it is donating nearly 200,000 items from the Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender Archives to five international institutions. The archival materials...
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Hundreds of Images of Historic London Published for First Time
The archives manager at Bishopsgate Institute recently discovered boxes containing more than 3,000 slides depicting London’s landmarks including churches, statues, buildings, and social scenes from...
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Stanford and the BNF Release 14,000 Images of the French Revolution
Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France have partnered on the French Revolution Digital Archive, a collection of more than 14,000 high-resolution images. The archive has two areas...
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Digitized Manuscripts from the Vatican Apostolic Library
The Vatican Apolostic Library has been working on a project to digitize more than 80,000 documents in its collection. Currently there are nearly 4,500 manuscripts online and there is hope that...
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