At last! ARTstor has entered into an agreement with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, to distribute approximately 35,000 images of European and American paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs, dating from the 13th-21st centuries. Previously the Gallery’s presence in ARTstor was limited to 700 images of European… Continue reading »
The Wellcome Collection in London explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. Wellcome Images provides access to over 100,000 images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements. All images from the historical collections are available for any use free of charge. Continue reading »
In addition to downloading image groups to PowerPoint, ARTstor’s latest feature now allows for bulk downloading of up to 150 images in a group to a zip file. See the short how-to video. Continue reading »
The ARTstor Digital Library now contains every painting in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, London. More than 2,300 works of Western European painting are represented dating from the 13th-20th centuries. Read more in the ARTstor blog or view the collection in the ARTstor… Continue reading »
Approximately 4,600 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum are now available in high resolution on the Getty's website free of charge to be used for any purpose. Future plans are to make available all content to which the Getty holds all rights or that are in the public domain. Continue reading »
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, Yale University Press has released an app for the iPad with 60 interactive studies, the full text of the book in the original typeface and columns, and two hours of video footage. See the review. Continue reading »
How does one begin to replicate the accidental discovery of new images in the slide drawer when using ARTstor? If one does not have a specific image in mind, how does one even begin to tackle a daunting 1.6 million images? Check out this post on the ARTstor… Continue reading »
Looking for an alternative to PowerPoint? Most of us are aware of the nearly perfect fit of the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) for art history presentations. Want to work mobile? Take a more experimental less linear approach? Prezi along with four other PowerPoint alternatives are reviewed in this… Continue reading »
Did you see the groundbreaking Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity exhibition at the Met? The Williams VRC Collection now contains 50 images from the exhibition, including little-known works by Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot and installation views. Search “fashion modernity” for the complete set. Continue reading »
Would you like your students to explore a new method for presenting their writing, images, artwork, or ideas? Does an alternative to Microsoft Word and/or PowerPoint sound appealing? Are you looking for a new way to combine text and images? Omeka is a web-publishing platform that builds digital exhibitions. More… Continue reading »
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