Generation: 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland

National Galleries of Scotland launches ambitious survey of Scottish art, with exhibitions all over Scotland: http://generationartscotland.org/

GENERATION is a major, nation-wide exhibition programme showcasing some of the best and most significant artists to have emerged from Scotland over the last 25 years.

The programme traces the developments in art in Scotland since 1989. It shows the generation of ideas, of experiences, and of world-class art on an unparalleled scale by over 100 artists in more than 60 venues. The artists within GENERATION came to attention whilst working in Scotland, helping to create the vibrant and internationally recognised contemporary art scene that exists here today.

The art that has emerged from Scotland during this period is characterised by its diversity, rather than by one particular style or dominant trend. GENERATION offers an opportunity to see art that is innovative, thought- provoking, imaginative, at times beautiful, at others challenging, but always inspiring.

GENERATION is delivered as a partnership between the National Galleries of Scotland, Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland and is part of Culture 2014, the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.

Te Papa releases over 30,000 high resolution images for free

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has announced they have released over 30,000 images downloadable, for free, in high resolution. 

You can search for and download them at Te Papa's Collections Online: http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/

17,000 images have no known copyright restrictions so are downloadable for any use, free of charge. Another 14,000 images are available under a Creative Commons licence:

CC BY-NC-ND http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

"We hope that by making these images available for re-use, we are empowering people to use images of the collection in teaching and learning, research, innovation and new forms of creativity."

 

Read more at Te Papa's blog:

http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/05/30/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections 

Programmes from the Royal Albert Hall go online

A selection of programme covers from the Royal Albert Hall Archive in London have been made available online via VADS for free use in learning, teaching and research at: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/RAH

The Royal Albert Hall has been host to some of the most famous names in history - from The Beatles to the Rolling Stones, and from Einstein to the Suffragettes. The Archive is the guardian of the Hall’s collective memory and is responsible for managing collections, which include posters, handbills, posters, photographs, plans, prints, art works, administrative records, and ephemeral items such as tickets, leaflets and merchandising. Last year, the Royal Albert Hall had its most successful year yet with 390 performances and 1.7 million visitors – the Hall’s incredible time-lapse film reveals its busiest and most successful year ever (see it on YouTube at: http://tinyurl.com/p56hklm).

The Royal Albert Hall Programme Collection consists of over 40,000 Programmes, from the very first Programme of the Opening ceremony in front of Queen Victoria in March 1871 to last night’s event! It covers a huge range of events, including not only the most obvious classical music concerts but sporting events, political rallies, trade shows, dance events and balls.

The Royal Albert Hall is currently cataloguing its archive collections to make them publicly available for the first time later this year, and further images will be added to the VADS image collection in due course.

VADS has been hosted online for over 15 years by the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), a specialist art and design university in the south of England. VADS provides online access to a growing collection of over 120,000 art and design images contributed by universities, libraries, museums and archives from across the UK, which can be used freely for educational purposes. To explore all the VADS collections, visit: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections

Win an i-Pad mini!

Would you like to be in with a chance to win an i-Pad mini? Do you use Jisc MediaHub? If so, a new survey has just gone live to gather views on Jisc MediaHub:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FKMQKVL

As part of Project Enriched Playlists, a new Jisc-funded project, Jisc is looking into how audio-visual collections in Jisc MediaHub might be developed for Higher Education (HE) into ‘enriched playlists’:
http://bufvc.ac.uk/projects-research/project-enriched-playlists

This project will help Jisc understand and document how HE would like to use and get the most out of Jisc MediaHub’s moving image, audio and stills collections.

EDINA would be grateful for your help: please do complete the survey by 13th June 2014.

All participants who submit a completed survey will be entered into a prize draw to win an iPad mini 16GB (Wi-Fi).

To find out more about the project or this survey, please contact Hetty Malcolm-Smith, Jisc Project Manager (Content), Project Enriched Playlists (020 7393 1520 /  hetty@bufvc.ac.uk).

Met Museum releases thousands of digital images for non commercial use

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has announced that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may 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 digital files are added on a regular basis.

For more information see http://metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/news/2014/oasc-access