New website for SVAG blog

The Scottish Visual Arts Group blog is on the move! As of this post, this blogger blog will be retired. Our new wordpress blog can be found at:

https://scottishvisualartsgroup.wordpress.com/

Thanks to everyone involved in getting the new improved blog up and running. We think you'll agree it looks great and provides some useful new functionality such as the Members Directory and the link to our new Artists' Books in Scotland information site. 

GSA announces launch of new website and online catalogue for GSA’s Archives and Collections

Glasgow School of Art have announced the launch of a new website and online catalogue for GSA’s Archives and Collections.

To visit the new website go to: http://www.gsaarchives.net/

Michelle Kaye, GSA Archives and Collections Project Officer said: 

"This is an exciting step for the Archives and Collections. By making our collections more accessible online, we hope to promote our magnificent holdings and facilitate the use of our archives and museum objects by both GSA staff and students as well as external users for the purposes of learning, teaching and research. This project has been kindly supported by Museums Galleries Scotland.

As a result of the fire which occurred in the Mackintosh Building earlier this year, physical access to our collections is limited and we are sadly currently unable to welcome researchers to our searchroom, so providing virtual access to our collections has become even more vital at this time."

You can sign up to the new blog at: http://www.gsaarchives.net/blog/

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.