Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
NY Times Arts Dwell ARTstor Blog
The AIA Historical Directory helps you locate information about U.S. architects from the 19th and 20th centuries. The site also connects you to other resources including digitized files from the AIA Archives and links to other archives with relevant collections.
The Royal Ontario Museum’s online image collection, ROM, incorporates images of world cultures and natural history from its collection. In addition, ROM includes an extensive collection of images of the built environment and continues to grow through a wide range of new acquisitions. Images located on ROM can be used privately and licensing can be facilitated for all other uses.
Visual Complexity is a unified resource for the visualization of complex networks from topics as diverse as biology, economics, social organizations, and transportation. The site contains over 700 innovative and compelling projects.
Developed through an alliance between George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the International Center of Photography (ICP), Photomuse is devoted to promoting and facilitating the study of photography at work in the world. Photomuse content is derived from the combined resources available through ICP and the George Eastman House resulting in a comprehesive and illustrated chronology of the history of photography accompanied by a number of exhibits that explore various geographical, political, stylistic, and urban themes in both film and photography.
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Yoshio Taniguchi, Toyota, Japan, 1995, Photograph by Lawrence Speck
Come celebrate the opening this Thursday, February 4th, 3-5 p.m. in Sutton 3.128, of the VRC’s spring exhibit, Rigorous Vision: Capturing Contemporary Architecture, Photographs by Lawrence Speck.
The exhibit is on view until August 13th, Monday-Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Catalogue Room at the Thomas J Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, courtesy of the Watson Library
Archivists and researchers at the archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have published an invaluable new reference: “Museum Exhibitions 1870-2010,” a chronological list of every special exhibition held at the Met.
Cover exhibition catalog, Late Fifites at the Ferus by James Monte, from LACMA
LACMA’s new reading room includes full text, digital versions of ten of the museum’s out-of-print catalogs from the 1960s that document the rise of the Los Angeles art scene.
Walking can improve one’s health, reduce greenhouse gasses, and create vibrant local businesses. Walkscore helps you find a walkable a place to live or measure the walkability of your current neigborhood.
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation website has created an image database that allows the user to browse Lichtenstein works chronologically. In addition, the Foundation has documented Lichtenstein’s public work including sculpture and murals, catalogued all Lichtenstein exhibits both past and present, and created a number of virtual tours intended to recreate the experience of various Lichtenstein exhibits staged in the past 15 years.
Completed in 1895, the Marquette Building employs a number of Chicago School innovations and epitomizes an emerging aesthetic integral to the economic and cultural redefinition of America’s second city. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has created a website that integrates text (from diaries, letters, news articles, etc.), photography, drawings and video in an effort to communicate the architectural, cultural, and preservation histories of the Marquette Building. Based on a permanent exhibit in the Marquette Building lobby, the website offers a multimedia learning experience that focuses on topics including design and construction, design innovations, culture, socioeconomics, and marketing.
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