The Ashmolean Enters the 21st Century

On November 7th, the Ashmolean will reopen after a £61 million redevelopment. Adding 39 new galleries, this renovation focuses on integrating new ways of seeing the past into both the fabric of the building and the experience it enfolds. Architect Rick Mather worked with the museum to create a space that facilitated not only the enjoyment of objects on display but also new and broader understandings of their historical meaning.

For more information read this Gaurdian article.

Tags: archaeology, architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Ashmolean Museum, contemporary architecture, renovation, Rick Mather, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 6, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art | No Comments »

Harvard University VIA

Harvard University Libraries have created VIA (Visual Information Access), a growing online catalog uniting collections from various Harvard libraries and archives including the GSD, Fine Arts Library, Harvard Film Archive, Arnold Arboretum and Horticulture Library, and more. Documenting material culture, and social history, VIA is an excellent research tool, containing descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. New material is added daily.

Tags: ancient, archaeology, architectural history, architecture, archive, art history, arts, books, botany, campus architecture, cultural history, database, decorative arts, film, garden, gender studies, Harvard, illustrations, images, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, manuscripts, modern, neigborhood, photography, planning, postcards, science, textiles, theaters, transportation, urbanism, VIA, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 16, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »

American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology

The AMNH Division of Anthropology has digitized over 170,000 objects representing the peoples of Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Americas. Accessable through the Division of Anthropology website, the collection includes images of textiles, medical paintings, carefully catalgued Mexican and Central American artifacts, and a special selection of images relevant to the study of Bhuddism.

Tags: American Museum of Natural History, anthropology, archaeology, art history, cultural history, culture, image collection, sociology, textiles, visual culture
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 1, 2009 in art, images, photography | No Comments »

ARTstor Increases its Documentation of the Ancient World

Sites and Photos, an archaeology image bank, is contributing 90,000 images to the ARTstor digital library in order to expand its coverage of the ancient world. Extant Megalithic, Greco-Roman, Islamic, and Medieval architecture and decorative arts are included.

Sites and Photos, a great resource in and of itself, includes an Architectural Archive organized both by building type and function. The archive acts as a visual dictionary for ancient architectural motifs, structures and construction methods.

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Tags: ancient architecture, archaeology, ARTstor, Islamic architecture, medieval architecture, Sites and Photos
Posted by Joan Winter on April 3, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture | No Comments »

ARTstor: New Collection Agreements Expand Access to Images of Non-Western Art

ARTstor has recently established collection agreements with Ohio University, and University of Iowa Professor Christopher D. Roy. Combined with new images available through Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives, these collections will add 175,000 images of Pre-Columbian, African, Asian (specifically Northern Vietnamese), Native North American, Middle Eastern, and Oceanic art, culture, archaeological objects and ethnographic artifacts.

In an additional collection agreement, ARTstor is partnering with Heritage Preservation, making available 300 images of public murals in American communities.

Tags: African art, archaeology, architecture, ARTstor, Asian art, Christopher D. Roy, Erich Lessing, ethnography, Harvard, Heritage Preservation, images, Middle Eastern art, murals, Native North American art, Non-Western art, Northern Vietnam, Oceanic art, Ohio University, Peabody Museum, photography, Pre-Columbian art, public art
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 27, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »