Thursday, June 6, 2013

ARTSTOR: 51,000 new images from 15 contributors


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ARTstor Welcomes New Subscribing Institutions
As of June 1, 2013, there were 1,506 institutions participating in the ARTstor Digital Library. During May, ARTstor welcomed Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil), China Central Academy of Fine Arts (China), Glendale Community College (CA), Berkshire School (MA), The Glenholme School (CT), and The Menil Collection (TX).

51,000 new images from 15 contributors
Sedefkâr Mehmed Ağa | Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque); column and ceiling detail, 1609 to 1616 | Istanbul, Turkey | Image and original data provided by ART on FILE; artonfile.com
51,000 new images from 15 contributors
Great end of the semester news: This May, ARTstor released 51,000 new images from 15 contributors in the Digital Library! We'll be releasing more detailed individual announcements in the next few months, but we wanted to offer a peek before school closes. The contributors include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Rijksmuseum, the state museum of the Netherlands; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (exhibition installation photographs); Lukas-Art in Flanders, an archival repository for Flemish museums and cultural heritage institutions; The Phillips Collection; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (exhibition installation photographs); the Romare Bearden Foundation; Classical Sculptures from Berlin State Museums; ART on FILE Collection (photographs of architecture in Istanbul); the Museum of the City of New York; the Ackland Art Museum; the Flint Institute of Arts; Smith College Museum of Art; Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; and abstract painter Cedric Van Eenoo. Enjoy your summer!

 
Installation images from the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
The ARTstor Digital Library and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation have collaborated to share 5,443 installation views spanning from 1990's to the present from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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Images of paintings from the Rijksmuseum's permanent collection
ARTstor is making available nearly 3,500 images of paintings from the Rijksmuseum's permanent collection in the Digital Library.
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Images from Flemish museums and cultural institutions from Lukas - Art in Flanders
ARTstor is collaborating with Lukas - Art in Flanders to share approximately 5,000 images of art from more than 30 important Flemish museums and cultural institutions.
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Images from The Phillips Collection
ARTstor and the Phillips Collection have collaborated to release nearly 1,000 additional images in the Digital Library.
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Photographs of art from Mexico by Bob Schalkwijk
ARTstor and Bob Schalkwijk are collaborating to share approximately 2,000 images selected from the photographer's archives of Mexican art in the Digital Library.
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Fashion from the Great Gatsby's Roaring Twenties
The recent movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby has turned attention back to the styles of the Jazz Age. What happened in the 1920s to bring about such radical changes in fashion?
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About Shared Shelf
A Shared Shelf success story from Wright State University
Shannon Michalak, the Visual Resources Curator at Wright State University, discusses the benefits of Shared Shelf and explains how it's funded with a nominal student Technology Fee.
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Meet ARTstor and Shared Shelf staff at upcoming conferences
ARTstor and Shared Shelf will be taking part in several upcoming conferences and holding special events at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Victoria, Canada (June 5-7); NASIG in Buffalo, NY (June 6-9); and ALA in Chicago (June 27-July 2).
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ARTstor is a nonprofit organization that makes available a Digital Library of more than 1.5 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to use images for teaching and learning.
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We invite you to explore the Digital Library during a 30-day trial to determine if the content and tools provide a solution for your institution's image needs.
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Currently over 1,500 institutions from the higher education, museum, K-12, and public library communities subscribe to ARTstor. We invite nonprofit institutions to license ARTstor for research and teaching needs.
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Image credit: a) Sedefkâr Mehmed Ağa | Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque); column and ceiling detail, 1609 to 1616 | Istanbul, Turkey | Image and original data provided by ART on FILE; artonfile.com; b) David Heald, photographer | Frank Gehry: Architect | May 18 - September 4, 2001 | Photograph: © 2012 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York; c) In manner of Hieronymus Bosch | Temptation of Saint Antony Abbot, ca. 1550 - ca. 1600 | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | Image and original data provided by Rijksmuseum; rijksmuseum.nl; d) Hans Memling | Saint Ursula Shrine; Side view: tondo of an angel to the left of the tondo of the Coronation of the Virgin with the Holy Trinity; 1489 | Musea Brugge-Sint-Janshospitaal | Image and original data provided by Lukas - Art in Flanders; lukasweb.be; e) Paul Klee | Printed Sheet with Picture; 1937 | Image and original data provided by The Phillips Collection | © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; f) Jeanne Lanvin | Ensemble, Evening; Summer 1923 | Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 
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