Category: Museums
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John Singer Sargent on Met Museum website
Today is John Singer Sargent’s birthday. A search for his work on the wonderful, recently redesigned website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art brings up over 600 images. Yes, the iconic and astonishingly accomplished society portraits are well represented, and if you want to focus on those, you can limit your search to show only…
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Oldenberg’s Paint Torch at PAFA
When I was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the 1970’s there were two factions in the school, traditionalists and modernists. Those of us, both faculty and students, who were in the traditionalist faction thought the Academy, of all places, should be bastion of academic art tradition, steeped in the…
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New Metropolitan Museum of Art website
The websites of the world’s great art museums, as well as those for numerous smaller museums, serve as a resource both for visitors to the institution and for those who are interested in viewing and accessing online information about the artworks in the museum’s collections. As someone who routinely scours the web in search of…
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Museum Day 2011
Museum Day, a day each year on which hundreds of participating museums around the US offer free admission (for those who have gotten tickets in advance), is tomorrow, Saturday, September 24, 2011. The event is sponsored and coordinated by Smithsonian magazine. From the website description: In the spirit of Smithsonian Museums, who offer free admission…
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High-res art images from LACMA Image Library
I’m always delighted to bring news of sources for high-resolution art images, like The Google Art Project, my recent post on Hi-res images on Rijksmuseum website, and the full screen Zoomable images of auction items, past and present, from Sotheby’s. The latest in this list of high resolution image resources is the Image Library of…
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Hi-res images on Rijksmuseum website
One thing I can never seem to get enough of is high resolution images of great art, and it seems like more and more are cropping up each day — one of the little gifts bestowed upon us by the globe spanning lattice of zooming bits we affectionately call the web. Peacay, author of the…