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Thursday 24 April 2014

Visual arts open content news


77,000 new images released by the Getty via its Open Content Program:


The Getty Research Institute has just added more than 77,000 high-resolution images to the Open Content Program from two of its most often-used collections.

The largest part of the new open content release—more than 72,000 photographs—comes from the collection Foto Arte Minore: Max Hutzel photographs of art and architecture in Italy.  Foto Arte Minore represents the life’s work of photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911–1988), who photographed the art and architecture of Italy for 30 years. 
Also added to the Open Content Program are 4,930 images representing tapestries dating from the late 15th to the late 18th century that are in European and American collections.  
Learn more at: http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/77000-images-of-tapestries-and-italian-monuments-join-open-content-program/ 
 
PLUS!


A new resource for History of Science and Natural Sciences:

Digital Special Collections, the image database of the Research Library at the American Museum of Natural History, New York:


On April 28, the American Museum of Natural History’s Research Library will open a rare window into the 145-year history of the Museum with the official launch of an online image database for Digital Special Collections featuring more than 7,000 archival images at http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/. Many have never before been seen by the public, including archival photographs, rare book illustrations, drawings, notes, letters, art, and Museum memorabilia documenting a wide variety of Museum efforts in New York and around the globe, including the creation and installation of exhibitions and far-flung scientific expeditions dating back to the 19th century




Thursday 10 April 2014

Audio Arts archive launched by Tate



Tate announced today the release of 30 years worth of audio content: Audio Arts, established by Bill Furlong in 1972: captured recorded interviews with world famous artists, available here digitally for the first time:



Wednesday 2 April 2014

SVAG celebrates its twentieth birthday!

2014 marks twenty years of the Scottish Visual Arts Group! 

This may be a good moment to reflect on our purpose and aims:
 

"As a group of information professionals working in the visual arts area, we are committed to the dissemination of art information in its various forms, and also to the exchange of ideas. Co-operation and collaboration are key to our activities, together with the promotion of our collections and services." - Kerry Watson, Convenor of SVAG. 

At our next meeting on 29th May, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, we will be sure to celebrate this occasion! 

Watch this space for more news soon.