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.
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Friday, 6 June 2014
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
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:
"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:
Monday, 2 June 2014
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.
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